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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Ukraine's Cyberpolice Department chief Yevhenii Panchenko on his role after Russia's invasion, battling pro-Russian hacking groups, and more — Ukraine's cyber police talks crypto, ransomware and documenting war crimes after Russia's invasion — On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine.| TechCrunch: |
Meta says it is testing its Meta AI chatbot with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa — Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa.
More: Trak.in, The Indian Express, Livemint, TalkAndroid.com, PhoneArena, Pakistan Observer, Engadget, News.ng, Gizchina, Inc42 Media, and GSMArena.com
X: @onthegrapevine, @garymarcus, @brianlfrye, @wadhwa, @wadhwa, and @makosamunyaa
| Anuj Ahooja / augment: |
An experiment to see how a Threads feed would work on Mastodon, using lists and testing third-party clients, which shows the bright future of the fediverse — This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences …
More: Social Media Today, Business Today, CNET, and Engadget
Threads: @nwbrownboi, @jitpal, @mikehos3, @quillmatiq, and @jasongraphix. Mastodon: @Flipboard@flipboard.social
| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years — Many aides say Maria Cantwell, a powerful Democratic leader, has repeatedly upended privacy negotiations.
Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange. X: @wolfejosh, @viacristiano, @michaelsobolik, @realrussbaker, @cat_zakrzewski, @viacristiano, and @nsqe. Forums: r/politics
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Bluesky says it is now allowing heads of state to sign up, and adds features including hashtags in profile bios and the ability to long press a link to share — Bluesky is apparently ready for a bigger challenge. It says it's allowing heads of state to sign up now, a little over two months after it opened for general signups.
More: Engadget. Bluesky: @bsky.app, @marxcobalt.bsky.social, @dranzone.net, @rhcmuts.bsky.social, @libraryvines.bsky.social, @gingermike55.bsky.social, and @araphel.wtf. X: @bluesky
| Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: |
A look at chip design companies like Oppstar that aim to push Malaysia, the world's sixth-largest semiconductor exporter, to the higher end of the value chain — Former Intel engineers attempt to push Penang to higher end of value chain — PENANG, Malaysia — When chip design company Oppstar listed …
X: @tsubasa_nikkei, @nikkeiasia, and @imnormgoh
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Elon Musk's xAI previews Grok-1.5 Vision, its first multimodal model, and says the AI model will be available soon to “early testers and existing Grok users” — Elon Musk's OpenAI rival has introduced its first multimodal model. Not only can it understand text …
More: xAI Blog, Mashable, The Decoder, Financial Express, Engadget, MarkTechPost, Maginative, Neowin, and Analytics India Magazine
| Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: software and services companies have almost $30B of debt that's classed as distressed, the most in any industry apart from real estate — - Software and services nears $30 billion of distressed debt — Percentage of companies defaulting more than once is rising| Pilita Clark / Financial Times: |
An analysis of 200M+ student papers submitted over the past year: ~11% of papers showed signs of AI help and ~3% of papers contained at least 80% AI writing — Students who outsource their thinking to AI tools pose a risk to future employers and more — The other day I met a British academic … | Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: |
A look at the book The Anxious Generation, as some say author Jonathan Haidt falls short in showing that social media is causing a teen mental health crisis — Jonathan Haidt wrote a best-selling book about teens and social media. Not everyone buys its thesis — I.
More: NPR, Vox, and Washington Post
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; it is currently invite-only — Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.” — A previous version of Airchat was released last year …
More: NewsBytes and Benzinga
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X: @padamchopra_, @bndkt, @whyrohitwhy, @_jairath, @yanatweets, @umunbeing, @amandanat, @theethanding, @konrad_it, @vinilvasani, @greghkahn, @concept_central, @martyswant, @wynnlemmons, @luke_metro, @_amangaur__, @bwinterrose, @buildanything, @stevejang, @ryan_waas, @luke_metro, @brettdash_, @businessbarista, @davidjchie, @ladywithsarcasm, @alexdrocca, @iamjasonlevin, @jeremiahprummer, @aerocles, @printfls, @amandanat, @ankit_ck, @umunbeing, @arjunkhemani, and @getairchat
| New York Times: |
Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about AI models costing ~$10B to train, why AI models are close to being “able to replicate and survive in the wild”, more — Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today's episode with Dario Amodei.
More: The Decoder and Constellation Research
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