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Elon Musk tweets an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation and baselessly suggests the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization — Elon Musk posted tweets including an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation Saturday that suggested the former Twitter executive …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Experts warn chatbots like ChatGPT and LaMDA pose a “hallucination” problem, reshaping what they have learned without regard for whether the end result is true — Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.
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Some early-adopters are using ChatGPT, GPT-3, and other text generators to write business emails, understand class material, find creative inspiration, and more — The latest AI sensation, ChatGPT, is easy to talk to, bad at math and often deceptively, confidently wrong.
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With the “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk has become an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends — But it is actually a tool of progressive power. While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it is easy to make life-wrecking deepfakes with a few photos of a person from social media — AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. — If you're one of the billions …
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| Kit Rees / Bloomberg: |
Even after recent declines, FAANG stocks account for 10%+ of the S&P 500 weighting, meaning subpar performance in the coming years will be drag on the market — For some investors, this year's rout in high-flying technology stocks is more than a bear market: It's the end of an era …
Tweets: @markets, @andres_leal7, and @scottlincicome
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to acquire Coupa Software, which helps companies manage their spending, after outbidding Vista Equity Partners — Thoma Bravo LLC is in advanced talks to acquire Coupa Software Inc. after outbidding Vista Equity Partners, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tweets: @kwharrison13
| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft acquires a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange, valued at around £1.6B, as part of a 10-year agreement for data and cloud infrastructure — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy a stake in the London Stock Exchange Group Plc that will give the software company a 4% equity holding …
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Meituan and Pinduoduo, pandemic winners in China, are adapting to renewed competition from Douyin, Alibaba, and others, as China sheds its zero-COVID-19 policy — Meituan and Pinduoduo, winners in the pandemic, adapt to renewed competition as curbs are relaxed| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter starts rolling out Community Notes, the crowdsourced feature for fact-checking tweets that debuted in 2021 as Birdwatch, to all its users globally — Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday.
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| Dara Kerr / The Markup: |
Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex data request process leave drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts — An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks
Tweets: @sisiwei, @jonkeegan, @themarkup, @themarkup, @andyjayhawk, @themarkup, @aaschapiro, @gigunionsocal, @darakerr, and @stephenjadler
| New York Times: |
The FTC faces hurdles in blocking Microsoft's Activision deal, as courts are skeptical of vertical merger challenges where two companies don't compete directly — Ms. Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has staked an ambitious trustbusting agenda on a case that may be difficult to win.
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