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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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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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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Report: Google changed its privacy policy on July 1, 2023, to more broadly cover its use of publicly available content, like in Google Docs, to train AI models — According to The New York Times, the companies may have violated YouTube creators' copyrights.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on Apple's search for a new growth engine, Spatial Personas, and Kevin Lynch's move to the AI group; sources: new iPads may launch the week of May 6 — Apple's search for a bold new product category is back on, and it includes a foray into robots.
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| Orion Donovan Smith / Spokesman.com: |
Lawmakers share a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a registry of data brokers, let consumers opt out of some data collection, more — WASHINGTON - Since the dawn of the internet age, tech companies have developed increasingly sophisticated ways to collect …
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| Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg: |
Canada unveils a CA$2.4B fund to boost its AI sector by giving access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure and creates its AI Safety Institute — - The centerpiece is money for ‘technological infrastructure’ — Canada has yet to pass law regulating artificial intelligence
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Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Anthony Boadle / Reuters: |
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts” and is defying the court's ruling — Elon Musk is challenging a decision by a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who ordered his social media platform X …
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| Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
How some teachers are using AI tools like ChatGPT, Writable, Grammarly, and EssayGrader to help grade papers, make lesson plans, and create assignments — When Diane Gayeski, a professor of strategic communications at Ithaca College, receives an essay from one of her students …
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/hiphopheads
| 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 …
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