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Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, adding more short videos, more social media posts, and AI conversations — Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware — Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen.| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Bluesky says the social network can't “accommodate heads of state”, seeking to control its growth during its beta; Bluesky has ~60K users and 1.2M on a waitlist — Bluesky, the buzzy social media platform that's emerging as a Twitter competitor, said on Friday that it will not allow …
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 — - Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run.
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content — From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests — The European Union's fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what's to come for AI services.| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, an undefined metric for measuring Twitter's success, after taking issue with mDAUs during the takeover — Six months into running the social-media company, the billionaire is talking about his own metric of success
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| Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: |
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI's future, and more — The former Yahoo chief says she wishes she had acquired Hulu instead of Tumblr. — After a decades-long career …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits — A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted — The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company
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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series competition, which will also feature Just Dance and Gran Turismo — Five years after the IOC criticised shooters. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-chief — Fortnite has been named as a late addition … | Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
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