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| Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone: |
A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today — Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along — T — IMNIT GEBRU DIDN'T set out to work in AI.
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| Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press: |
Amazon rolls out generative AI summaries of product reviews to a subset of US mobile users across a “broad” range of products after testing them earlier in 2023 — Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews for customers.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A look at publishers' legal fight against the Internet Archive's book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers' “full book catalogs” — In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Source: CoinDesk lays off 20 people, or 45%, of its editorial team as its parent company, Digital Currency Group, pursues the outlet's sale — - Crypto media company CoinDesk has reduced its workforce as parent company DCG's plans to bring in strategic investors.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores — Apple's next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade. Behind the scenes, though …
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn't build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic — With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix begins a “limited beta test” of its cloud-streamed games on TVs, connected TV devices like Roku and Fire TV sticks, and on the web, in Canada and the UK — Netflix is kicking off the first public tests of its cloud-streamed games.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Ford hires former Apple VP of Services Peter Stern, who helped build Apple TV+, to form a team improving customers' software experience, part of the Ford+ plan — / Stern will oversee an effort to ‘create and market innovative customer experiences by integrating hardware, software and services.’
More: Reuters, Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, Apple Must, Insider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and CNBC. LinkedIn: Paul Lienert
| Reuters: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue down 14% YoY to ~$40.9B, net profit down 1% YoY to ~$1B, beating analyst estimates of ~$801M, and retains a cautious H2 2023 outlook — Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) beat estimates for second-quarter earnings on Monday thanks to a booming artificial intelligence sector …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
PayPal names Intuit SVP Alex Chriss as its CEO, replacing longtime CEO Dan Schulman on September 27; the board cited Chriss' work acquiring Mailchimp for $12B — - Alex Chriss, the executive who runs the Small Business and Self-Employed group for Intuit, is the new CEO of PayPal, members of PayPal's board announced Monday.| Prachir Singh / Counterpoint Research: |
“Make in India” mobile phone shipments crossed 2B cumulative units between 2014 and 2022, registering a 23% CAGR, and made up 98%+ of local shipments in 2022 — - India's mobile phone production grew at a CAGR of 23% during 2014-2022 to cross a cumulative 2bn units.
More: OnMSFT.com, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, and ChinaTechNews.com
| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM — South Korea's largest telco SK Telecom (017670.KS) said it will invest $100 million in U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic …
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