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SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh — Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI's Whisper — App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time. — On Thursday, OpenAI released …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's headset ahead of WWDC: shifting the vision from eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook's product noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more — Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category …
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Binance Australia can no longer offer Australian dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, its “payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions — The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …
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A UK Treasury Committee crypto report recommends that the government regulate trading and investment in unbacked crypto as gambling and not a financial service — Bitcoin , ether and other cryptocurrencies should be regulated as gambling given the significant risks they pose to consumers …
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Meta's unusual move to open source LLaMA stands out from its rivals' approach, driven by the belief that sharing its work will help spread its influence in AI — The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs — At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube unveils 30-second unskippable ads in top-performing videos on TVs and says 150M+ unique US viewers watched YouTube or YouTube TV on TVs in December 2022 — Google's video giant says it reaches more than 150 million U.S. monthly viewers on TV screens
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Sources: Apple plans to get directly involved in microLED display production to reduce its reliance on Samsung, after spending $1B+ on R&D in nearly 10 years — iPhone maker makes billion-dollar bet on micro-LED screens — Apple is taking a hands-on approach to production of micro-LED screens …
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Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users and migrate them to Privacy Sandbox in Q1 2024 and then do so for all Chrome users in H2 2024 — Google's Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage …
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An investigation finds ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the company was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below his claims of $50M and $100M — Years of tax filings give the most complete picture yet of OpenAI's early finances — It's no secret that Elon Musk … | Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
A look at Sightful's Spacetop, a $2,000 laptop that replaces the screen with an AR headset, giving users a 100" display, available to 1,000 early adopters — Sightful's Spacetop AR laptop is brought to you by the chief executive behind the Microsoft Kinect. — Laptops have a problem: their screen.
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| Laura Cole / Wired: |
An investigation finds that hundreds of freelancers hired as customer service staff catfish users into paying for subscriptions on niche dating and hookup sites — Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.
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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase launches its Coinbase One subscription out of beta in the US, the UK, Germany, and Ireland, offering zero-fee trading, 24/7 customer support, and more — Coinbase One will launch in 35 countries, starting with US, UK, Germany and Ireland — Coinbase, the world's second-largest crypto exchange …
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Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024 — Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation — Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Amazon has made just 100 Prime Air drone deliveries so far, after projecting 10K US deliveries for 2023; Wing has made 330K deliveries and Zipline has made 600K — WATCH NOW — Amazon drones make 100th delivery, lagging far behind Alphabet's Wing and Walmart partner Zipline
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| Emmy Lucas / Forbes: |
Instawork, a marketplace matching hourly workers with employers, raised a $60M Series D led by TCV at a valuation of $760M, bringing its total funding to $160M — While some are predicting people will lose jobs due to artificial intelligence, Instawork cofounder and CEO Sumir Meghani wants …
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