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| Sasha Luccioni / Wired: |
Instead of halting AI research, an unfeasible task, the industry must improve transparency and accountability by being open to external audits and to regulation — Tech leaders' Open Letter proposed a pause on ChatGPT. But researchers already know how to make artificial intelligence safer.
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William Canestaro, PhD, Dr. Sasha Luccioni, and Daniel Finnigan. Mastodon:
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| Jeff Mason / Reuters: |
Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and whether AI is dangerous remains to be seen — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence is dangerous, but underscored …
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| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Source: Sony is developing a handheld, codenamed Q Lite, which will use Remote Play with the PS5 and feature an 8-inch 1080p touchscreen and adaptive triggers — Following days of speculation, Insider Gaming can report that there's a new PlayStation Handheld in development.
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| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
MobileCoin says Chief Product Officer Bob Lee has died, remembering him as “a force of nature” who helped “birth Android and CashApp” as the first Square CTO — Bob Lee, the chief product officer of crypto startup MobileCoin Inc., has died, the company said.
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data — Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers, used for AI training, are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia's A100 systems — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models … | Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Ofcom says AWS, Azure, and Google may be limiting competition in the UK cloud computing market after a review since October 2022 and refers the case to the CMA — Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country's digital regulator …
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| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
Twitter's new API tiers are useless for researchers; the $100/month plan is much worse than the old free plan, and the $42K-$210K/month plans are too expensive — Access to Twitter's API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade. So how does $210,000 a month sound?
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's efforts to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to solve supply chain weaknesses — In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat compared to fall 2022, and 4% used it daily — - Virtual reality hasn't caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday.
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| Rachel More / Reuters: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt regulator designates Apple as “of paramount significance for competition across markets”, opening the door to antitrust curbs — Germany's antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple (AAPL.O) after deciding that the U.S. tech …
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| Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: |
Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says “mobile apps will not be the primary path of future Mario games” after two moderately successful but dwindling iOS games — As Nintendo takes its shot at the box office with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the first animated film featuring …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says its Weather app “may be slow or unavailable” due to an ongoing issue lasting nearly 24 hours; some users have had data issues for over a week — Apple is currently experiencing issues with its weather data provider, leaving many users unable to see live weather information …
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| Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: |
Canada's privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data — The Canadian privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT.
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception — Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Strivacity, which helps companies build secure customer login flows and identity management, raised a $20M Series A2 led by SignalFire — Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. According to a recent Verizon survey, 61% of all breaches now involve credentials … | Kazuyuki Okudaira / Nikkei Asia: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its generative AI in 2023 and remains at the “very forefront” of the LLM field — Facebook parent expects tech to help clients better reach audiences, reduce costs — TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends …
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@yoda, @gbildson, and @news_by_nick
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese regulators have slowed merger approvals of deals by US firms, asking some to make products that they sell in other countries available in China — The U.S. encouraged China to set up a robust antitrust regime. Now, Beijing is holding back its required green light for mergers …
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Reuters and Ars Technica
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@bobdavis187, @fraghiretti, @jchengwsj, @byron_wan, and @julianklymochko
| Financial Times: |
As AI chatbots explode, Helsinki-based Silo AI and other European startups race to improve responses in languages other than English, like German and Arabic — Companies aim to improve response quality after criticism of reliance on small group of mostly US participants
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@martintisne
| Adnan Bhat / Rest of World: |
How sound boxes, small speakers that read out payment confirmations, have become a lucrative revenue stream for Paytm and other digital payment firms in India — Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
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@adnanmbhat, @anupkaphle, @jasuja, @sammcallister, @hkanji, and @moo9000
| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg's archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more — The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
SimiliarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue web promo page in March, only 116,000 signed up; Blue is used by less than 1% of monthly users — Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report.Sponsor Posts
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