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| 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 say 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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Threads: @navneetalang and @9six7
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @imyke@myke.social
X: @markgurman, @dannynemer, @paterfamilias, @iupdate, @aught66, @markgurman, @saranbyte, @markgurman, and @keithwhamond
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting users generate playlists using a text prompt — Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.
More: Android Authority, Spotify, Cybernews.com, Neowin, PhoneArena, and NewsBytes
| 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
More: Prime Minister of Canada, CBC News, Cryptopolitan, Android Central, Canadian Press, BetaKit, Reuters, and The Crypto Times
Threads: @hellodavidryan. X: @aidangomez, @cohere, @ethancaballero, @mariekewalsh, @mgeist, @financecanada, @mila_quebec, @muradhem, @turnernovak, @nathanbenaich, @bradwouters, @davidcoletto, @aidangomez, and @fp_champagne
Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/artificial, r/worldnews, and r/canada
| Anthony Boadle / Reuters: |
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts”, and X 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 …
More: Associated Press, CNBC, Reuters, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Reuters, Reclaim The Net, New.blicio.us, Social Media Today, Finbold, Reclaim The Net, and The Information
Threads: @lorakolodny and @lorakolodny
Mastodon: @w7voa@journa.host and @campuscodi@mastodon.social
X: @shellenberger, @elonmusk, @globalaffairs, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @lindayax, @arthurvneto, @shellenberger, @esjesjesj, @ggreenwald, and @elonmusk
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/worldnews, r/news, r/elonmusk, and r/worldnews
| Anthony Boadle / Reuters: |
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice opens an inquiry into Elon Musk for obstruction of justice involving X, and says X faces ~$20K/day in fines over noncompliance — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Sunday opened an inquiry into Elon Musk for obstruction …
| Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review: |
Lawmakers share a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more — WASHINGTON - Since the dawn of the internet age, tech companies have developed increasingly sophisticated ways to collect …
More: Silicon Republic, International Business Times, Wired, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, House Committee on Energy …, PC Gamer, Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, The Hill, PCMag, R Street Institute, Democrats …, CircleID, Axios, and The Verge
Forums: r/neoliberal and r/law
| New York Times: |
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 …
More: The Verge, Business Standard, Business Today, Hindustan Times, International Business Times, Neowin, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Mashable, Music Technology Policy, Interesting Engineering, The Decoder, Cryptopolitan, Axios, Business Insider, Thurrott, and New York Times
Threads: @daveleebbg, @jonathangarelick, @joannastern, @jonkeeganstories, @nevillehobson, @crumbler, and @glenngabe
Mastodon: @brianvastag@sciencemastodon …, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @Dhmspector@mastodon.social, @clive@saturation.social, and @edsu@social.coop. Bluesky: @wxdylan.bsky.social
X: @papapishu, @kashhill, @mikeisaac, @florian4gamers, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @jimprosser, @dm_cooper, @dschatsky, @rosenzweigjane, @jcpxdesigns, @markandrejevic, @_leobriceno, and @gavatron
LinkedIn: Justin E. Lane, Paul Roetzer, Nikunj Mehta, Rob Eleveld, Mary Gray, Timo Kämäräinen, Siri Agrell, Ina Fried, Ali Manning, Milton Pedraza, and Nigel Caplan
Forums: r/technology, r/ChatGPT, r/ArtistHate, r/privacy, r/mlscaling, and Lobsters
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
More: The Hindu, NewsBytes, and Australian Financial Review
| New York Times: |
More: More About Advertising, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Spyglass, Library Journal infoDOCKET, and Cryptopolitan
Threads: @mgsiegler. Mastodon: @fletcher0xff@mastodon.online. Bluesky: @dead.place and @puzzledpeaces.bsky.social
| Joanna S Kao / Financial Times: |
How company websites using unreliable AI accessibility widgets, often for blind users, to comply with regulations has prompted thousands of lawsuits globally — Unreliable software installed to comply with rules to help disabled people navigate online has prompted thousands of lawsuits
Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Towa Corp., which TechInsights says commands two-thirds of the global chip molding equipment market and has seen shares jump ~400% in the past year — - SK Hynix, Samsung need Towa's machines to make high-end memory — Firm is developing tools it says will halve chip molding costs
More: Benzinga and Cryptopolitan
| Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
Cybertech Global and IVC: in 2023, Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% YoY to $7.1B; total tech sector exits were ~$11B, down from $13.5B in 2022 — Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% in 2023 to $7.1 billion, more than half of total tech sector exit deals …
| 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 …
More: Forbes. Mastodon: @stalbaum@mastodon.social. X: @wavesblog and @emollick. LinkedIn: Nicolas Frank
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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