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Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed orgs that have been previously verified from paying $1K/month for a checkmark — Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.
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The Information. Mastodon:
@hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social. Tweets:
@rmac18, @kantrowitz, @matthewstoller, @pkafka, @rmac18, @dmccabe, and @kateconger
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal — The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed.| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
As his companies lag OpenAI, Elon Musk tries to launder his AI “concerns” through the Future of Life Institute, which is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation — Elon Musk signed an open letter on Tuesday calling for a six-month pause in the development of artificial intelligence tools …
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AI Snake Oil and Financial Times
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Zuzanna Warso, Michael Hobbs, and Mike Quate
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@lessin, @sqldba, @idlehandsdev, @aallan, @hetanshah, @paleofuture, @tante, @profkfh, and @paleofuture
| Washington Post: |
Midjourney ends free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral — Midjourney, the year-old firm behind recent fake visuals of Trump and the pope, illustrates the lack …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, Vox, Decrypt, Fortune, PCWorld, SlashGear, Neowin, Insider, BGR, and PetaPixel
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Katerina Cizek. Mastodon:
@drewharwell@mastodon.social. Tweets:
@jjvincent, @drewharwell, @isaacstanbecker, @jjvincent, @sarahemclaugh, @hardmaru, @rdrv3, @eliothiggins, and @carnage4life
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft is exploring new ad experiences in Bing Chat, like citations, and sharing ad revenue with “partners whose content contributed to the chat response” — It was inevitable, but Microsoft has confirmed that more ads are coming to Bing's AI-powered chatbot.
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Shelly Palmer. Tweets:
@debarghya_das, @mark_riedl, @tomwarren, @fieldproducer, @jesselehrich, @rustybrick, @rustybrick, @debarghya_das, @chombabupe, @rustybrick, @shiraovide, @sub8u, and @yoda
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's MR headset may not appear at WWDC 2023, as the company pushed back mass production to Q3 amid doubts about the device creating an “iPhone moment” — Apple has again pushed back mass production of its mixed-reality headset and the device may not appear …
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@emc@mastodon.cloud, @wilkos@mastodon.world, and @carnage4life@mas.to
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta plans to let users opt out of some highly personalized ads via an online form that Meta must review and approve — Facebook, Instagram parent hopes plans to alter a privacy approach that would limit the impact from EU orders
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@ryanbarwick, @samschech, @jason_kint, @noybeu, @jason_kint, @eric_seufert, @jesselehrich, @jason_kint, and @glynmoody
| Financial Times: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say hackers have compromised the VoIP desktop client of 3CX's Phone System, used by 600K+ companies and 12M+ DAUs, in an ongoing supply chain attack — A digitally signed and trojanized version of the 3CX Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) desktop client is reportedly being used …
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LinkedIn:
Eitan Erez, Kyle Hanslovan, and Jason Duerden
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge — Google's Bard hasn't exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested … | Jon Victor / The Information: |
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| The Guardian: |
Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more — Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war — Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare
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Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Hill
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Ian Bremmer. Tweets:
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| Futurism: |
BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment — Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard.
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The Verge, Nieman Lab, and Pixel Envy
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Avram Piltch. Tweets:
@jon_christian, @maxwelltani, @rafat, @rachelmetz, @dcbigjohn, @jimpethokoukis, @awzurcher, @jeff__benjamin, @jbenton, @tomgara, @byrnehobart, @dlberes, @tylercoates, @durvidimel, and @helenkennedy
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group details two “limited and highly targeted” spyware campaigns using several zero-day exploits for Android, iOS, and mobile Chrome — Two targeted spyware campaigns involving several zero-day exploits for Android, iOS and mobile versions of the Chrome browser …
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The Keyword, SC Media, Amnesty International, BleepingComputer, BleepingComputer, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, TechCrunch, HackRead, Metacurity, Android Headlines, gHacks Technology News, SecurityWeek, RestorePrivacy, Infosecurity, Dark Reading, SamMobile, and The Hacker News
Tweets:
@amnestytech, @chaosupdates, @evacide, @cyberscoopnews, @ryanaraine, @royalhansen, @maddiestone, @binitamshah, and @rondeibert
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
An AI tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying its AI text generation tool rollout has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety” — An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI …
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LinkedIn:
Morten Rand-Hendriksen and Oliver Süme
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@lilianedwards, @ibjiyongi, @davidkersten, @carnage4life, @striphas, @jjvincent, and @k8brannen
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Invite-only Twitter alternative T2 plans to let Twitter users who are about to lose their checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its service — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company's previous leadership …
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, MobileSyrup, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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@gabor, @martinsfp, and @epro
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Apple wins a US appeal to uphold a patent tribunal's ruling over two of VirnetX's VPN patents, invalidating a $502.8M patent infringement verdict from 2020 — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) convinced a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to uphold a patent tribunal's ruling that could imperil a $502 million verdict … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter details its new API tiers: Free with 1,500 app level tweets/month, Basic for $100/month, and Enterprise; the old APIs could be deprecated within 30 days — Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Feedbin, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TechCircle
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@twitterdev, @twitterdev, @twitterdev, @chimeracoder, @linuz90, @palettefm_bot, @tdinh_me, @yongfook, @carljackmiller, @transitive_bs, @carljackmiller, @slicedlime, @piccalilli_, @craigsilverman, @marckohlbrugge, @tibo_maker, @galwaygrrl, @chrismessina, @simonw, @igorbrigadir, @acnwala, @nvahnav, @dylanreeve, @kuba_suder, @mattbinder, @chrismessina, @fake_api, and @karissabe
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Fixie, a cloud service for helping developers integrate any LLM into their applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures — The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round.
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SiliconANGLE, Fixie.ai Blog, TechCrunch, Madrona, and SignalFire
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@mdwelsh and @jamescham
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Vinod Khosla on how AI could “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, his OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more — At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he's been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including artificial intelligence.
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Insider. Tweets:
@mvzelenks, @rachaelrad, @sarthakgh, @rmantri, @cwarzel, @semafor, @carnage4life, and @reedalbergotti
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