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Sources: with watchOS 10, Apple plans to make widgets a core part of the Watch again; the widget system combines the old Glances and iOS 14's style of widgets — Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources: Meta managers built up “kingdoms” as headcount surged, before layoffs led to an unprecedented morale crisis and lower confidence in Mark Zuckerberg — Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve — Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …
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| Washington Post: |
On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal — The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site
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| Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors — Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk claims that Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per-article basis, with one click, starting in May 2023 — Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.... https://twitter.com/...
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient — - Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter. — Since ex-Oracle exec Thomas … | New York Times: |
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material — As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.
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| Financial Times: |
Carmakers raise concerns over Chinese companies, led by Huawei, filing a deluge of standard essential patents for the tech to access 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi networks — Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet| Reuters: |
Arm confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO; sources: Arm seeks to raise between $8B-$10B on the Nasdaq, which is expected to be 2023's largest IPO — SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing …
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| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
The creator of GPT4free, which lets anyone use GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 for free, says OpenAI threatened to sue if he didn't remove the GitHub repo within five days — GPT4Free uses other sites' connections to OpenAI. — Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview — Microsoft Designer, Microsoft's AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.
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