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Sam Altman has “many concerns” about the EU's AI Act coming in 2024 and says that OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating” — ChatGPT chief Sam Altman voices ‘many concerns’ over bloc's planned legislation| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out its LLM-powered Search Generative Experience, with features like a conversational mode and shopping aspects, to Search Labs members — Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program.
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| Akriti Sharma / Reuters: |
Neuralink says it received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants — Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A profile of Microsoft President Brad Smith, a DC veteran testing his well-worn playbook to shape AI regulation, such as by endorsing the creation of an agency — In 2017, Microsoft president Brad Smith made a bold prediction. Speaking on a panel at the Davos World Economic Forum …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, live videos, and its usual content — Stories are over — at least on YouTube, that is. The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting …
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TikTok is testing its chatbot, Tako, in select markets; from the right side of the app, the bot helps users discover new content and ask questions about a video — AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are all the rage, so it's no surprise to learn that TikTok is now testing its own AI chatbot, as well.
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OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law — OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting …
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Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and Web3 mentions from its website's home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI — - VC firm Paradigm is taking its crypto-only focus to include “frontier” technologies such as AI, two sources with knowledge of the situation told The Block.
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Fahrenheit, bidders led by Arrington Capital, wins an auction for Celsius Network's assets, including loans, investments, and $500M in “liquid cryptocurrency” — Failed crypto lender Celsius Network LLC is poised to restart as a new company after Fahrenheit LLC … | Bloomberg: |
DCG is shutting down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023 — Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business …
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OpenAI expands its free ChatGPT iOS app, which launched in the US last week, to 11 more countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Nigeria, and South Korea — The smart chat assistant is at your service in 11 new markets. — OpenAI's ChatGPT app for iOS is available in 11 new markets.| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman to build Worldcoin, raised a $115M Series C led by Blockchain Capital, aiming to scan everyone's eyes to create IDs — A crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has raised new funding to further its mission of providing a digital ID for everyone on the planet.
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Pegasus was used in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict to target a government worker, a UN official, and others in 2021 and 2022, the first documented use in a war — The Armenia spyware victims include a former Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia (the Ombudsperson) …
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Email: Twitter tells researchers to delete all Twitter data stored on their systems within 30 days after their agreement expires, or sign a new contract — EXCLUSIVEMove to hike price of academic access compared to ‘book burning’ amid fears it will harm fight against misinformation online
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs — - JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence …
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| Bloomberg: |
3D printing companies Stratasys and Desktop Metal agree to combine in an all-stock transaction valued at ~$1.8B and expect to generate $1.1B in revenue in 2025 — Stratasys Ltd. agreed to acquire Desktop Metal Inc. in an all-stock deal that will create a leading 3D printer company valued at about $1.8 billion.| WABetaInfo: |
A beta version of WhatsApp suggests the company is working on adding usernames, which may allow users to chat without sharing their phone numbers — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.11.15. — What's new in this update?
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Margrethe Vestager says the EU and the UK disagreeing on Microsoft's Activision deal raises “important questions” and that the remedies offered convinced the EU — The European Union's decision to approve Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion plan to buy Activision Blizzard Inc …
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Twitter launches API Pro, a $5,000/month tier offering access to full archive search endpoints and the ability to fetch 1M tweets and post 300K tweets monthly — Twitter announced a new API tier today called Twitter API Pro for startups that costs $5,000 per month.| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based BenchSci, which uses AI to help pharmaceutical firms accelerate drug discovery, raised a CA$95M Series D led by Generation Investment Management — Toronto-based BenchSci, which helps pharmaceutical firms accelerate research and development (R&D) using artificial intelligence … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Applied Intuition, a provider of autonomous vehicle software, plans to acquire autonomous trucking software company Embark in a ~$71M all-cash deal — Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that recently cut 70% of its workforce, is being acquired by Applied Intuition … Sponsor Posts
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