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Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text — OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Report: Google changed its privacy policy in June 2022 to more broadly cover its use of publicly available content, including Google Docs, to train AI models — According to The New York Times, the companies may have violated YouTube creators' copyrights. — OpenAI and Google trained … | New York Times: |
Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits — To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here's what to know.
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| Reuters: |
X says it has been “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil” and is barred from giving details of the order — X Corp, formerly Twitter, has been “forced by court decisions” to block certain popular accounts in Brazil and is prohibited from giving details …
More: Finbold, Bloomberg, The Information, and Reclaim The Net
X: @shellenberger, @globalaffairs, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @lindayax, @arthurvneto, @shellenberger, and @elonmusk. Forums: r/worldnews
| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume — Launched in November 2018, Uniswap took 42 months to breach the $1 trillion trading volume milestone. It's now doubled again from that just 24 months later.
More: Dune, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, DL News, The Crypto Times, The Block, CryptoGlobe, CoinGape, and crypto.news
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Email: Galaxy Digital's venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups — Galaxy's prolific venture wing plans to start accepting - and investing - outside capital. — Galaxy Digital's venture team …
More: Bloomberg, BeInCrypto, Seeking Alpha, Unchained, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, and Metaverse Post
| Nikkei Asia: |
A look at Huawei's efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS — Chinese tech giant unveiled new operating system in January — Huawei Technologies may be close to succeeding where Microsoft … | NBC News: |
Experts say the US government and tech companies are failing to mount a clear response to the theft of trade secrets by Chinese corporate and government spies — U.S. officials say some of America's most prominent tech firms have had their virtual pockets picked by Chinese corporate spies and intelligence agencies.
X: @kendilaniannbc, @kendilaniannbc, @rajekanodia, @frankfigliuzzi1, and @frankfigliuzzi1. LinkedIn: Mark Cheng
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, passed away in March at age 41, according to a post on Genius attributed to his family — Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor …
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| Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators' chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling — Hey there, it's tech reporter Alexandra Sternlicht. — OnlyFans creators' careers are underwritten by sexting.
Threads: @iamsternlicht. Mastodon: @Lironah@mstdn.games and @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @iamsternlicht. LinkedIn: Alexandra Sternlicht. Forums: r/technology
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M — Ex-Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg thinks advanced AI can help — By the time Renate Nyborg quit her job in 2022 she had become accustomed …
X: @tobywalsh, @katejopling, @ronivey, @andrewyng, @chloeautio, @tfadell, @madhumita29, and @dannygroner
| Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity: |
Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security — Cloud security provider Wiz found two critical architecture flaws in generative AI models uploaded to Hugging Face, the leading hub for sharing AI models and applications.
More: Wiz Blog, Hugging Face, CTech, SC Media, Hackread, Dark Reading, Cyber Kendra, The Information, Cybernews.com, The Hacker News, and Forbes
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