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An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more — For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
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The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic; the bank, which is slightly bigger than SVB, had $100B+ outflows — Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country's second-largest bank failure — JPMorgan Chase is to acquire …
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| Forbes: |
Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine — The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, turned over 150K documents to the SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks — The former high-ranking executive of Trump's media company says he's shared 150,000 internal documents with federal investigators.| Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America: |
Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of posting on Truth Social, vs. 300+ times from 2017 to 2021 on Twitter — Former President Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of actively posting … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Despite scary warnings by the FBI, FCC, and more about “juice jacking” at public charging stations, there are no documented cases ever of an attack in the wild — Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?
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| Becky Ferreira / VICE: |
Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from a subject, essentially reading a person's thoughts — An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports.
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| Rebecca Rubin / Variety: |
The Super Mario Bros. Movie box office crosses $1B globally, becoming the most financially successful video game movie ever — “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office.| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
NewsGuard finds 49 websites populated by generative AI posing as news outlets with generic names like News Live 79; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads — The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online …
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| Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire its German rival Flink, which is in talks to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation — Discussions come as consolidation accelerates in one of the pandemic's hottest tech sectors — Grocery delivery app pioneer Getir … | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel earnings were better than Wall Street expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth lags — Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past
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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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