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Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm — As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …
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LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and some other celebrities with millions of followers say they won't pay for Twitter Blue — April 1 is the dumbest day on the internet, and this year, it's not just because brands will try to prank you by selling “hot iced coffee.”
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials' accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks — 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.
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Q&A with Sundar Pichai on being careful with Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models, regulation, and more — “Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly."
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Jennifer Elias, Sissie Hsiao, Miguel Paredes, PhD, and Sam Sebastian
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Bard by incorporating some of its PaLM models to better answer math and logic questions and promises that coding capabilities are “coming soon” — To date, Bard has used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which is focused on conversational dialogue … | Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global — The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches — General Motors' electric future doesn't include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. — The automaker's upcoming lineup …
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and probes OpenAI, claiming the company has no legal 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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Arun Sundararajan, Mala Ramakrishnan, Ayal Steinberg, Theo Priestley, Daniel Huynh, Stewart Room, Walter Rizzi, and Ryan Carrier
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution — The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia
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Don't Worry About the Vase and New York Times
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@dseetharaman, @gregbensinger, @cityofthetown, @berber_jin1, and @anthony
| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
The UK's CAT said that Apple won an appeal against the CMA's decision to investigate the company's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) won its appeal against the decision by Britain's antitrust regulator to launch an investigation into its mobile browser … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more — At its State of Unreal event last week, Epic Games showed off not only the visual magic of 3D graphics of games in the future.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Filings: BlackRock cut the valuation of India's most valuable startup Byju's from $22B to $11.5B and Invesco cut Swiggy's valuation from $10.7B to ~$8B — Some of the biggest Indian startups are taking a haircut in their valuations, at least in the eyes of their investors …
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