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Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board — - The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers … | Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's COO says that ChatGPT Enterprise has 600K+ paying customers, up from ~150K in January, and 2024 will be “the year of adoption for AI in the enterprise” — - ChatGPT Enterprise now has more than 600,000 users signed up — COO says this ‘is going to be the year of adoption for AI’
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run — Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas, to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for the US' chip manufacturing plans — South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's next-gen display and car teams were reportedly based — The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
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A look at Marissa Mayer's troubled startup Sunshine, which raised $20M, and its photo-sharing app Shine, which a source says had ~1K downloads on its first day — Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn't ready
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Sources: FTX's estate sold 25M to 30M locked-up SOL coins for $64 apiece, a deeply discounted price, to Galaxy Trading, Pantera, and others, raising up to $1.9B — - Galaxy raised $620 million fund to buy discounted SOL from FTX — Sales were done at big discount to SOL's current market price
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A look at tech giants' AI training data deals; Defined.ai: some are ready to pay $1-$2 per image, $2-$4 per short video, and $100-$300 per hour of long video — At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world's top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services …
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than in previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI — As a devoted NBA fan, I only tune in to college basketball once a year—for March Madness—hoping to see the next big star.
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
How a TikTok whistleblower may have driven congressional concerns about the app despite working at TikTok for just six months and making improbable allegations — Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Archetype, which is building AI models to help humans understand the data from sensors monitoring the physical world, launches with a $13M seed led by Venrock — Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using plain language …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
OnePlus Watch 2 review: runs Wear OS with a big, bright screen and three-day battery life but lacks some health features, the accuracy of results is a mixed bag — A month with the OnePlus Watch 2 has made me wish that every fully-featured smartwatch had this battery life. — Rating: — 7/10
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Developers and US officials weigh the implications of the XZ Utils near-miss as CISA says tech companies should do more to back the open-source ecosystem — German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little known program.| Financial Times: |
Sources say Sundar Pichai is now making day-to-day decisions about adding generative AI to Google products even as some worry about his low-key leadership style — The Silicon Valley group has stumbled in the rollout of generative AI. Insiders say cultural and organisational issues are to blame
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