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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 — A new Homeworld game is also in development. — Embracer Group has officially divested Gearbox Entertainment …
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| Álvaro / eXputer: |
Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X console, which Microsoft plans to release in 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X — This in continuation of eXputer's previous report back in February. … Back in February, I reported that Microsoft has plans …
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| Wired: |
Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online — A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations — Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. — On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 …
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| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 — Silicon Valley has found a lucrative trade selling AI-powered weapons — and Palmer Luckey is leading the way
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed …
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| Open Web Advocacy: |
How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy — In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy.
| New York Times: |
Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by “Hey, Meta”, are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong — Brian X. Chen, left, and Mike Isaac, reporters for The New York Times, trying out Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses.Aaron Wojack for The New York Times| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, posts calling trans and gender nonconforming people “satanic”, and more — GLAAD catalogued dozens of instances of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
The US OMB releases new guidance on AI, requiring all federal agencies to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use and submit an annual AI report — All US federal agencies will now be required to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use, as the government wants …
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft rolls out Azure AI Studio tools to stop users from making AI chatbots behave in unintended ways, including “prompt shields” and warning alerts — - Company's Copilot recently generated weird, harmful responses — Defenses are designed to spot and block suspicious activity| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Galaxy Digital, and others invest $75M in crypto fund 1kx, which has raised ~$200M since 2018 and invested in Rarible and more — - 1kx is targeting areas including crypto consumer applications — VC funding has been slower to recover than crypto prices
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Nano is coming to Pixel 8 with the next Pixel Feature Drop, after previously saying the device won't get Nano due to “hardware limitations” — After “hardware limitations” were cited as the reason that the Pixel 8 isn't getting Gemini Nano earlier this month …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China — Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir, is organizing a conference for tech leaders and Washington lawmakers on May 1.Jason Andrew for The New York Times
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Mandiant: Yevgeny Prigozhin-linked online influence operations are active months after his death in August 2023, and underwent subtle shifts in their targeting — Online influence campaigns have remained active since the Wagner Group leader's death in a plane crash, Google says
X: @dnvolz, @emptywheel, @dnvolz, and @dnvolz
| Clara Murray / Financial Times: |
Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal — CEO Sam Altman wants customised chatbots to supercharge its business but data suggests ‘GPTs’ have limited appeal| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Pelago, formerly Quit Genius, which provides virtual therapy sessions for treating addictions, raised a $58M Series C, bringing its total funding to $151M — Pelago Health, Y Combinator-backed telehealth company that uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help treat people with tobacco …
More: Forbes
| Financial Times: |
Trump Media & Technology Group closed up 14% at $66.22 on March 27, for a $13.5B market cap, as small investors boost the stock; Trump's stake is worth ~$5.3B — Heavy trading in company behind Truth Social fuels talk of a new cycle of ‘meme stock mania’
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