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Over 1,000 people, including Elon Musk, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months — We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. — Signatures
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Goldman Sachs research: generative AI could increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period and expose 300M full-time jobs to automation globally — Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’ — The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence …
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Docs: Binance CEO and other execs hid its links to China for several years, including an office until 2019, despite saying in 2017 that Binance left China — Company documents show crypto exchange relied on country long after it said it had left in 2017 — Binance hid substantial links …
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Nansen: Binance saw net outflows of $2.1B over seven days as of 27 March, as it raised fees, suffered software issues, and faced a CFTC lawsuit — In a tumultuous few days, crypto giant raises fees, suffers software issues and faces regulator lawsuit — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Lemon8, ByteDance's Instagram rival launched in March 2020, hits the US App Store's top 10; data.ai: the app never ranked in the top 200 overall charts before — As U.S. lawmakers move forward with their plans for a TikTok ban or forced sale, the app's Chinese parent company ByteDance …
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SEC sues shuttered crypto exchange Beaxy and execs, alleging it was unregistered, and the founder and Beaxy Digital for raising $8M via unregistered token BXY — - The SEC brought charges against crypto platform Beaxy on Wednesday for allegedly not registering as an exchange, broker or a clearing agency.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to roll out extreme heat alerts in Search, including informing users about when to expect a heat wave, being safe, and tips to stay cool — Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves, the company announced on Tuesday.
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The FDIC tells Signature's crypto clients that they have until April 5 to close their accounts, as Flagstar's bid excluded ~$4B in Signature's crypto deposits — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. informed crypto clients with deposits at the failed Signature Bank that they have until April 5 …
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| Christopher M. Matthews / Wall Street Journal: |
Court records and messages from purported hackers reveal a massive hacking campaign targeting thousands of environmental activists, dating back at least to 2017 — Charity of Rockefeller heirs among groups targeted by hackers; oil giant not accused of wrongdoing| Forbes: |
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried is paying his legal fees from a $10M+ gift he gave his father with money borrowed from Alameda — While still CEO of now-collapsed FTX, Bankman-Fried transferred millions of dollars to his father. Some of those funds have since been used to pay for his mounting legal fees … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find a flaw in WiFi protocol IEEE 802.11 that could be exploited to inject malicious content into TCP packets and more; many routers are affected — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard …
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The UK government publishes recommendations for AI and urges regulators to issue practical guidance to organizations on implementing them in their sectors — - The U.K. government has published a white paper for the artificial intelligence industry. — It calls on regulators to come up with …
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Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers — A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on open-source governance, business models, rejecting VC firms, running an instance, ActivityPub, content moderation, more — CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network. … Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches — Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Tracy Wen Liu / Wired: |
TikTok, Amazon, and others struggle to adopt China's livestream ecommerce model in the US, as experts blame differences between US and Chinese consumer behavior — Selling over livestreams is a $40 billion business in China. But Americans just aren't responding.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face — Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models …
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| BBC: |
Clearview AI's CEO says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users' consent from sites like Facebook — Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC
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| Max Goldbart / Deadline: |
The UK releases its draft Media Bill that could see Netflix, Disney+, and other US streamers fined up to £250K for breaking harmful material rules under Ofcom — The UK government has published its long-awaited draft Media Bill to bring the U.S. streamers under its regulatory framework …
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| Indu Bhan / The Economic Times: |
An Indian appellate tribunal upholds the ~$160M fine imposed on Google by the Competition Commission of India in the Android antitrust case — The NCLAT, an appellate authority for orders passed by the CCI, had started its hearing in the Android matter on February 15 following a directive by the Supreme Court.
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