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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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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit — A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million …
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the text and photos used to train the company's products, like ChatGPT — Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.| Wall Street Journal: |
Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba use to develop AI systems without the latest chips — Research in China on workarounds, such as using software to leverage less powerful chips, is accelerating
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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.
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Apple says emerging markets like India, where the iPhone has a small market share, are ready to take off, which could add “a lot of switchers” to its ecosystem — Apple is turning its attention to emerging markets at a time when growth is slowing at home.| Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: |
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine, which makes an AI app to organize contacts, 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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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, a metric for Twitter's success that he hasn't defined, after taking issue with mDAUs during his takeover — Six months into running the social-media company, the billionaire is talking about his own metric of success
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| Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to August 13, 2023, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs — Can't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people
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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.
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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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| 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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