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Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to exit the region if the company can't comply with the EU's upcoming AI Act — OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week …
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German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of customer FSD complaint data from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400+ self-acceleration issues — A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints …
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Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook — - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety …
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How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters — First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Bluesky rolls out a “custom feeds” feature that lets users subscribe to different algorithms and make their own for others to use; most are not chronological — A future update will allow users to create their own within the app. — Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized …
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Sources: the US SEC's record $279M whistleblower award in May 2023 stemmed from Ericsson pleading guilty to breaching a $1.1B settlement in a 2019 bribery case — The largest-ever award in the SEC's cash-for-tips program was related to Ericsson's bribery case| The Verge: |
A California jury finds Google's products infringed on a Sonos smart speaker patent and orders Google to pay $32.5M, or $2.30 for each of the 14M+ devices sold — Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on the company's smart speaker patent.| Wired: |
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more — We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.
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France's CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day — Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine.| FinSMEs: |
Germany-based Sastrify, which operates a marketplace for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised a $32M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55.2M — Sastrify, a Cologne, Germany-based provider of a platform for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised $32M in Series B funding.
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Trademark filing: JPMorgan Chase is developing IndexGPT, a ChatGPT-like service that uses AI for “analyzing and selecting securities 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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A survey from March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% tried the tool themselves; 74% say ChatGPT is extremely, very, or somewhat useful — About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) are familiar with ChatGPT, though relatively few have tried it themselves, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March.
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