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X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones' account, after Elon Musk conducted a poll that resulted in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring the account — Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known …
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Mastodon: @lauren@mastodon …, @TodayInTwitter@mastodon …, @LeslieBurns@legal.social, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @I_am_stefan@dembowski.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org, @John@socks.masto.host, @Andy_European@mastodon.online, @ariegoldshlager@mstdn.social, and @davidakin@mstdn.ca
Bluesky: @tommyg.bsky.social, @zitron.bsky.social, @kenwhite.bsky.social, @ogdenprime.bsky.social, @caseynewton.bsky.social, @epro.social, and @adnan.social
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Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/technology, r/Conservative, and r/RealTesla
| Sara Dorn / Forbes: |
In a 2+ hour long talk on X with Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec, others, Elon Musk said X should avoid outright bans unless users “do something illegal” — Elon Musk and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, newly reinstated to X after a five-year ban, launched a live-streamed chat …
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Mastodon: @erosalie@infosec.exchange, @therobburgessshow …, @kevinrns@mstdn.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social, @kbeninato@mstdn.party, and @StefanThinks@beige.party
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at the Effective Accelerationism movement, which favors open-source AI tech and believes that AI's benefits outweigh its harms and shouldn't be regulated — The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies — A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes …
Threads: @richardlawler, @richardlawler, and @ezra. Mastodon: @jay@cuthrell.com
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based SumUp, a startup offering ~4M SMBs payments and other financial services, raised €285M at a valuation that's higher than its $8.5B 2022 valuation — SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
ChatGPT outperforms Gemini-powered Bard overall across factual retrieval, summarization, creative writing, and coding tests, but not as clearly as in April 2023 — We run the models through seven categories to determine an updated champion. — Back in April, we ran a series of useful … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders on generative AI's role in robotics, when to expect true general-purpose robots, the humanoid form factor, and more — For the next few weeks, TechCrunch's robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics.
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| Emily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Annie Jean-Baptiste, Google's first Director of Product Inclusion & Equity, on ensuring Google's products are more accessible — Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company's not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive
X: @elatable, @emilybobrow, and @wsj
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
After Beeper Mini's recent outage, Apple says it took steps “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to gain iMessage access — A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO's first significant moves — - Tether has frozen its coins held in crypto wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the company announced today.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Paris-based Mistral AI has raised €385M, or about $415M, from investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources say the deal values the 22-person startup at ~$2B — The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots.
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| New York Times: |
Sources detail what happened at OpenAI before and after Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other — Split over the leadership of Sam Altman, board members and executives turned on one another. Their brawl exposed the cracks at the heart of the A.I. movement.
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| Bloomberg: |
The European Parliament and the EU's 27 member states will need to approve the AI Act, which seeks fines of up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for violations — - Region couldn't ‘let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ — Negotiators broke coffee machine working late-night deal
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
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