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Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations — Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Report: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologizes in an email after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity” — Google told employees Friday it has wrapped up its investigation into the ouster of prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru.
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| Shen Lu / Protocol: |
An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies — This is the story of Li An, a pseudonymous former employee at ByteDance, as told to Protocol's Shen Lu.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second — Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
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| Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg: |
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work — What do Lyft, Facebook, the International Red Cross, the U.N., the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common?| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
Interview with founder of Koo, a microblogging service for regional language speakers in India that recently passed 3M users, fueled in large part by Modi's BJP — Aprameya Radhakrishna made Koo for local-language speakers. Overnight, Hindu nationalists drove its success. — • BANGALORE, INDIA| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Sequoia Capital told its LPs their personal and financial information may have been accessed after a Sequoia employee's email was successfully phished — Sequoia Capital told its investors on Friday that some of their personal and financial information may have been accessed by a third party … | Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
Apple's app tracking transparency pushes publishers like Zynga to build their own ad tech creating closed, first party walled gardens that Apple can't touch — , Apple is diminishing the ability for advertising to be personalized by limiting the use of third-party data for that purpose.| Financial Times: |
US video streaming giants are finding it more challenging to cash in on India, amid outcries over edgy content and difficulties in convincing consumers to pay — Netflix, Amazon and Disney tackle greater scrutiny from censors as they engage in a fierce pricing war
Tweets: @rmantri, @ftopinion, @financialtimes, @amykazmin, @rajit_h, and @b_parkyn
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
AI researchers doubt the efficacy and ethics of emotion recognition tech, as studies show facial expressions match a person's emotions only 20%-30% of the time — People's facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time — OneZero's General Intelligence is a roundup …
Tweets: @robmccargow, @hypervisible, @autsciperson, @autsciperson, @martinwaxman, @ozm, @tante, and @dancharvey
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Kalshi, an online trading startup letting users bet on “yes/no” questions about future events, raises $30M from Sequoia and others ahead of planned March launch — Sequoia, Chuck Schwab are among those backing Kalshi, which plans to launch in March
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1Kosmos, which provides biometrics-based digital identity proofing and passwordless authentication through a blockchain, exits stealth and raises $15M Series A — 1Kosmos, a Somerset, N.J.-based cybersecurity solution to provide digital identity proofing and passwordless authentication, raised $15m in Series A funding.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Promise, which allows US consumers to manage and budget their bill payments online to utilities and government agencies, raises $20M Series A — The last year has been one of financial hardship for billions, and among the specific hardships is the elementary one of paying for utilities …
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