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Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped — An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts. — Chloe Xiang| New York Times: |
China's Micron ban could help the government boost its domestic memory chip industry, a sector where China has a toehold in its competition with the US — A Chinese government block on Micron Technology's memory chips marks how far apart the two economic powers are drifting on tech policy.| Wall Street Journal: |
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Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show the majority favor some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an EU-wide E2EE ban — In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence — AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI's leadership believes that the world needs … | Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
TikTok sues Montana over its new law intending to ban the app, citing the First Amendment, the state's lack of authority on national security issues, and more — TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Some users say Twitter is restoring tweets and retweets that they had deleted, in what appears to be a new bug — Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. … This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets … | Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
Google expands its AI flood forecasting tool Flood Hub to 460M people, from 20 countries up to 48 hours in advance to 80 countries up to seven days in advance — Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people.| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta unveils open-source AI models the company says can identify 4,000+ languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, a 40x and 10x increase, respectively — They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now. — Meta has built AI models that can recognize … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Mumbai-based Chalo, which offers bus operators online payments and real-time commute tracking, raised a $45M Series D led by Avataar Ventures and $12M in debt — Indian startup Chalo, which is working to transform bus commutes, has raised $45 million in a new funding round and secured … | Shannon Liao / New York Times: |
April 2023 email: Blizzard's chief design officer told employees to “prepare to be amazed” by the company's AI image generator trained on assets from its games — Generative A.I. is already changing how games are made, with Blizzard Entertainment training an image generator … | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: activist investor TCS Capital, which owns 4%+ of Yelp's common stock, urges the recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives, including a sale — TCS Capital Management has built a stake in Yelp and is calling on the service-recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives.| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Stop Scams UK, a group made up of banks, telcos, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, plans a pilot to gather intelligence on scammers and shut down their tools — Cross-industry body announces pilot after companies warn UK fraud strategy is too weak to tackle problem
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