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Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data” — The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.
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| New York Times: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models starting this week, regulation, and more — “Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly."
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has updated Bard by incorporating some of its PaLm models to better answer math and logic questions, with coding capabilities coming soon — To date, Bard has used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which is focused on conversational dialogue …
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| New York Times: |
Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per 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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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Email: White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; WH, POTUS, and some top officials will likely continue to be verified with a gray checkmark — The White House will not pay to have its staff's official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by Axios.| BuzzFeed News: |
The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for Blue, but Semafor and other small outlets plan to — BuzzFeed isn't ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense. — Pranav Dixit
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's upcoming EVs won't support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of a system developed with Google, to help capture more data and subscription launches — General Motors' electric future doesn't include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. — The automaker's upcoming lineup of electric vehicles …
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16 — The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary” — Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software …
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| Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022 — The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits
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Erica Johnson, Andreas Bernstrom, Torsten Kolind, Eric-Alan Rapp, and Mimi Billing. Tweets:
@amyrlewin
| Financial Times: |
Sources: India is looking for spyware alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, seeking to spend between ~$16M and $120M — Modi government seeks alternatives to software made by NSO Group following snooping scandals around the world
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@advait_px, @apar1984, @meenakandasamy, @langamahesh, @rezhasan, @yusufdfi, @financialtimes, @digitaldutta, and @muradahmed
| Reuters: |
China plans to conduct a cybersecurity review of memory chips sold in the country by US manufacturer Micron, citing supply chain and national security risks — China's cyberspace regulator will conduct a cybersecurity review on products sold in China by U.S. memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology …
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| Reuters: |
Japan plans to restrict exports of 23 types of chip manufacturing equipment starting in July 2023, amid a US push to curb China's ability to make advanced chips — Japan's government on Friday said it plans to restrict exports of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment …
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