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Google Wallet rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add IDs from Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia in the coming months — The state-by-state rollout is still a huge mess, but Android is ready, at least. — Google Wallet on Android is finally getting ready …
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The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps — New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog …
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Sources: Zume, which used robots to automate pizza making, shuts down and is undergoing liquidation; the startup had raised $445M, including $375M from SoftBank — Zume, which raised $375 million from SoftBank to automate pizza-making with robots before switching to developing sustainable packaging, has shut down.
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple's MR headset could lure back VCs — Frenzy over iPhone maker's longed-for launch of mixed reality headset has reached ‘fever pitch’
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| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs — A Kenyan court has ruled that Meta is the primary employer of content moderators suing the social media giant and its content review partner …
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ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality — Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections” — In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: telecom ministers from 18 EU countries either rejected or criticized a push by European telcos to force Big Tech to help fund 5G and broadband rollouts — A majority of EU countries have rejected a push by Europe's big telecoms operators to force Big Tech to help fund the rollout … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Rapid7 and Mandiant: hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Progress' MOVEit Transfer file transfer tool to steal data from organizations — Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software, tracked as CVE-2023-34362, to steal data from organizations.
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Nvidia: how Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky started the company at Denny's, bet early on what Huang calls “$0B markets”, and more — AI made Nvidia the world's most valuable chip maker. So did three guys sipping diner coffee and planning to conquer markets that barely existed.
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| Financial Times: |
A look at Berlin-based Rocket Internet, as founder Oliver Samwer transforms one of Europe's most aggressive tech VCs into a more conservative investment house — Oliver Samwer quietly transforms one of Europe's most aggressive VC firms into a more conservative investment house| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers — AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation.
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