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Sources: Tesla to clear a key hurdle to introduce its advanced assisted driving features in China by partnering with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions — The US automaker will then be able to deploy its autonomous driving services on the basis of lane-level navigation and mapping provided … | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country's data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared — Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated … | Reuters: |
Elon Musk visits China, a source says to discuss with senior officials the rollout of FSD in the country and permission to transfer data overseas — Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he is expected to meet senior officials to discuss … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback — Apple's top rivals are revamping their strategies for smartphones and headsets in a sign they smell an opportunity.
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Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill — Combination of coordinated efforts by its critics and missteps by the company led to the law forcing a sale or ban of the popular app| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020 — ‘Two years ago, this would have been devastating’ — President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok — for real this time.| Washington Post: |
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Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season — Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic … | Scott Nover / Fast Company: |
AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram — The intended and unintended generative AI flooding Facebook and Instagram. — Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence.
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The second AI summit, a primarily virtual event in Seoul on May 21 and May 22, faces challenges, as sources say far few leaders and ministers are set to attend — Last year, a who's who of world leaders, corporate executives and academic experts gathered at Britain's Bletchley Park … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more — A decade is a long time in tech — A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he's led … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Ethan Mollick, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose early embrace of AI made him a go-to expert for policymakers and corporate leaders — Ethan Mollick at the University of Pennsylvania has become the go-to authority on the new technology
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days — EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models.| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending — The spending that the industry's giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
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