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| Washington Post: |
Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor — The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission cancels Binance Australia's derivatives license, giving the exchange until April 21 to close all positions — The exchange will close all of its customers' open derivatives positions by April 21. — Join the most important conversation …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to restrict personal loan apps from accessing sensitive user data like photos, videos, and contacts from May 31, in response to predatory behavior — Google plans to restrict apps that offer loan to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos and contacts … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Sundar Pichai on plans to add generative AI to Search, why chatbots do not threaten Google's Search ads business, efficiency drive, and more — ‘More work left to do’ in efficiency drive, chief executive says — Google plans to add conversational artificial-intelligence features …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras between 2019 and 2022 on internal messaging apps, including a child being hit by a car — Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”| The Block: |
OPNX, an exchange for trading bankruptcy claims from 3AC founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davie, had just $13.64 in volume in its first 24 hours; OPNX's FLEX drops 27%+ — - OPNX did not start off with a bang. — The exchange's token, FLEX, is down 27%, trading at $1.95.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations — After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.
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@carnage4life, @aggichristiane, @benoitberthelot, and @techwontsaveus
| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
macOS users find a copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper on every Mac running macOS Mojave or newer, as a sample document for a hidden “Virtual Scanner II” app — While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped …
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| Financial Times: |
Sensor Tower: US advertising on TikTok grew by 11% in March despite the threat of a ban, with Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon, and Apple among the top spenders — Digital advertising on the Chinese-owned video app grew by 11% in March — Advertisers are increasing their spending on TikTok … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung announces a multi-year extension with AMD on their IP licensing agreement to bring multiple generations of AMD Radeon graphics to more Exynos SoCs — Samsung said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on their licensing agreement which gives … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its approach to AI safety, including evaluating AI systems, improving safeguards based on real-world use, protecting kids, and respecting privacy — OpenAI is committed to keeping powerful AI safe and broadly beneficial. We know our AI tools provide many benefits to people today.
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Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, and Mashable
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| Jay Caspian Kang / New Yorker: |
Utah's bills restricting kids' social media use have galling civil-liberties concerns and hazy enforcement plans, and will likely face constitutional challenges — Most people seem to agree that something should be done to protect kids from what sure looks like an addictive product.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Lower-income US students feel they are at a disadvantage when pursuing Big Tech internships, as the selection process exhibits longstanding inequities in hiring — Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges.
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Ruthe Farmer, Michael Martin, and Judith Spitz
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@cfiesler, @dealbook, @pinkgrammar, @nytimes, @nytimestech, @edanalyst, and @natashanyt
| Andy Bell: |
A Mastodon user since 2018 details issues with the service despite decentralization's promise, including little diversity, tone policing, and a weird atmosphere — I first joined Mastodon in 2018 (even though my old profile says 2016?), so I'd say I've seen a lot of its evolution.
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@musictraveler@mastodon.online, @andy@bell.bz, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
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@shadeed9, @davezatz, @piccalilli_, and @arielsalminen
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Phil Harrison, the head of defunct cloud gaming service Google Stadia, left the company in January 2023; Harrison joined Google as a VP in January 2018 — When Google launched Stadia, it put gaming industry veteran Phil Harrison at the lead. Now, it's been confirmed Harrison has left the company.
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Insider. More:
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@hughlangley, @henereyg, and @tomwarren
| Semafor: |
Tests show that Twitter's “stay informed” labels, added in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia- or China-controlled media, no longer appear — Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets, violating the social media platform's own stated policies.
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USA Today, Washington Post, Axios, Mediaite, The Guardian, and SiliconANGLE
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@sawyerhackett, @donmoyn, @tomgrundy, @lmatsakis, @urocklive1, @paulachertok, @niketa, @chuckrossdc, @davidclinchnews, and @semafor
| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
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@davidgura, @elonmusk, @lourdesgnavarro, @paleofuture, @dkthomp, @maxwelltani, @petestrzok, @maustermuhle, @isalara, @digiphile, @katanders, @kaivanshroff, @maxblumenthal, @defensebaron, @jeffbradynews, @davidrlurie, @abbydphillip, @kevincollier, @rmac18, @anthony, @lourdesgnavarro, @dfriedman33, @donmoyn, @ichbinilya, @stphnfwlr, @cszabla, @donmoyn, @chenweihua, @melissakchan, @paleofuture, @alx, @stillgray, and @paleofuture
| Masha Borak / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Russia's tech industry decline, accelerated by the country's war against Ukraine, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation — Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family's belongings, canceled the lease …
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@mashaborak, @phuenermund, and @eileenguo
| New York Times: |
Research: Chinese officials and state media pushed back on a US TikTok ban on Twitter, echoing the Huawei defense, showing Beijing's investment in TikTok's fate — The company has tried to distance itself, but the information push shows just how deeply invested Beijing is in its fate.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022, and the FTX deal for a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022 — On Jan. 31, Anthony Scaramucci sat onstage at a hedge fund conference in Miami, answering questions about, among other things …
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@anthony, @anthony, @profileread, @anthony, @inartecarlodoss, @smtuffy, @parrotcapital, @smtuffy, @followtheh, and @smtuffy
| Kevin Varley / Bloomberg: |
US Census data: US chip imports rose 17% YoY to $4.86B in February 2023; Asia accounted for 83%, led by Malaysia at 20%, Taiwan at 15.1%, and Vietnam at 11.6% — Thailand, Vietnam, India and Cambodia have emerged as early winners this year as semiconductor production begins to move away … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India amends its IT law to prohibit social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring them to use its fact-check unit — India amended its IT law on Thursday to prohibit Facebook, Twitter and other social media firms from publishing … Sponsor Posts
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