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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The White House announces plans to address AI's risks, including $140M for new research centers and draft guidelines for government agencies using AI safeguards — Vice President Kamala Harris also plans to meet with the chief executives of tech companies that are developing A.I. later on Thursday.
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| Financial Times: |
The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess the opportunities, guardrails, and principles for protecting competition — CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
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| Lina M. Khan / New York Times: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Shopify sells its logistics unit to supply chain tech company Flexport, after building the operation for years and acquiring Deliverr for $2.1B in May 2022 — - Shopify is selling its logistics unit to supply chain technology company Flexport. — The Canadian e-commerce company …
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| Ilya Banares / Bloomberg: |
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.43B est., GMV up 15% YoY to $49.6B, vs. $47.7B est., and plans to cut ~20% of its staff; SHOP jumps 20%+ — Shopify Inc. cut jobs for the second time in less than a year and agreed to sell the majority of its logistics business …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google releases a brief teaser video showing off the Pixel Fold, confirming that it will be officially revealed on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 event — / This is Google's first foldable phone. More details are coming at Google I/O on May 10th.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens its Bing chatbot to all, removing the waitlist, and announces new features, including image and video results, chat history, and plug-in support — Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Discord plans to drop the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others and force most users to pick a username with an @ prefix — Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Google, a prolific publisher of AI papers, plans to share them only after the research work is turned into products, due to competition with OpenAI — For years the tech giant published scientific research that helped jump-start its competitors. But now it's lurched into defensive mode.
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| Kate Morgan / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Gen Z Americans are buying flip phones like the $75 TCL Classic or the $90 Nokia 2780, seeking a break from endless social media and email notifications — Modern models are a bit smarter than those from the early 2000s, but still offer a needed break from endless notifications
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems like GitHub Copilot, as part of their BigCode project — AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow's R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD's expansion into AI chips and working with the chipmaker on Athena, Microsoft's homegrown processor for AI workloads — Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker's expansion into artificial intelligence processors … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Mozilla expands its Mastodon instance to private beta with strict content moderation rules, saying it is “not building another self-declared ‘neutral’ platform” — If you want to be a member of Mozilla.Social, Mozilla's new Mastodon instance, you're not allowed to harass other users.
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| Alf Wilkinson / Financial Times: |
A Finder.com experiment using ChatGPT to pick 38 stocks finds the portfolio rose 4.9% over eight weeks, compared to an average 0.8% loss for 10 popular UK funds — Theoretical fund of 38 stocks do better than 10 most popular funds on Interactive Investor, finds finder.com — Latest news on ETFs| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces SlackGPT, which will let users and developers build AI-driven experiences on the platform, and plans to incorporate EinsteinGPT into Slack — Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having …
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| CoinDesk: |
Coinbase plans to stop issuing new loans in the US via its Borrow program on May 10 due to low demand; a source says the move is unrelated to US SEC troubles — May 10 is the final day customers will be allowed to take out new loans through Coinbase Borrow. — Coinbase Borrow's days are numbered.| Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: |
Twitter's Community Notes is changing fact-checking by avoiding the term and using a crowdsourced consensus, a model for a fairer and more transparent approach — The strength of the platform's Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus — I think I might have let out an audible groan … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based Novidea, which sells software for every aspect of insurance, raised a $50M Series C led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $90M — Using an open API architecture, Novidea's software platform enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Khan Academy pilots Khanmigo, a chatbot based on GPT-4 to help students with math problems, debugging code, debating, and other topics without enabling cheating — Sal Khan, founder and CEO of online learning nonprofit Khan Academy, wants to turn GPT into a tutor.Sponsor Posts
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