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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon, showing how AI can “hallucinate” to convey emotions, not facts — This was originally published as a Stratechery Update — Look, this is going to sound crazy.
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The Verge, Simon Willison's Weblog, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, Android Headlines, MobileSyrup, Futurism, ZDNet, The Verge, Metaverse Post, BGR, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Windows Central, and Search Engine Roundtable
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers — System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing
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Gizmodo, VICE, Ars Technica, KnowTechie, Thurrott, Gizchina, PCMag, Fortune, Mashable, and TechRadar
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| Stephen Wolfram Writings: |
An in-depth look at how OpenAI's ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more — It's Just Adding One Word at a Time — That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially …
Tweets: @stephen_wolfram, @friscojosh, @scobleizer, @krishnanrohit, @chr1sa, and @garystager
| Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet outperformed his — After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden's, Twitter's CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
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Ars Technica, iMore, Engadget, Bloomberg, Moneycontrol, Wired UK, Techdirt, MobileSyrup, CoinGape, The Economic Times, Snopes, Quartz, Insider, Android Headlines, Appuals.com, TechSpot, Gizmodo, CNET, Digital Trends, Newser, and Livemint
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| Bloomberg: |
Speaking at a conference, Elon Musk says he is “guessing toward the end” of 2023 will be time for a new Twitter CEO as the company will be in “stable condition” — Elon Musk said he may need the rest of this year to put things right at Twitter Inc. before handing off …
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @business, @elonmusk, @alx, @danahull, @elon_alerts, @parismarx, and @lisafleisher
| The Guardian: |
An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections — - Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
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The Guardian, Haaretz, OCCRP, Forbidden Stories, and The Guardian on YouTube
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| Praveen Seshadri: |
An ex-Google engineer and founder of AppSheet, acquired by Google, reflects on his time at Google, issues with its culture, a lack of urgency and mission, more — What ails Google. And how it can turn things around. … I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded …
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GeekWire and CNBC
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| New York Times: |
Sources: FTX lawyers and hedge fund Modulo are negotiating the return of Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in Modulo, currently sitting in a JPMorgan account — The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US DOJ ramped up work in recent months on a potential antitrust complaint into whether Apple has iOS monopoly power and favors its own products — Justice Department is adding litigators, seeking more data and studying Kanter's possible role in its investigation| Bloomberg: |
ASML reported a breach to authorities after a former employee in China misappropriated proprietary data, resulting in possible export controls violations — ASML Holding NV, a critical cog in the global semiconductor industry, said a former employee in China stole data about its technology …
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South China Morning Post, Data Center Knowledge, The Register, CNBC, Reuters, Silicon Canals, and Financial Times
Tweets: @oliviasolon, @klonkitchen, @cagankoc, @byron_wan, and @mattocko
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC proposes a rule that could bar investment advisers from storing assets at crypto platforms and lenders that are not registered as exchanges or banks — As long as crypto platforms and lenders aren't registered as exchanges or banks, they wouldn't qualify as custodians …
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| Benjamin Robertson / The Block: |
Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius proposes a sale to investment firm NovaWulf, founded in 2021 by Wall Street dealmakers; smaller creditors may regain 70% of funds — - Proposed sale would see smaller creditors get around 70% of their money back — Larger creditors would become shareholders …
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CoinDesk, CoinDesk, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Protos, Cryptonews, Crypto Daily, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, and crypto.news
| Bloomberg: |
Lufthansa returns to normal operations after grounding all flights due to software issues caused by a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables being damaged — Deutsche Lufthansa AG grounded all of its flights on Wednesday after damage to a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables caused widespread IT problems.
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Reuters, Gizmodo, Deutsche Welle, Silicon Republic, New York Times, The Register, and DCD
Tweets: @lufthansanews, @cyb3rops, @spielewert, @cyb3rops, and @flightradar24
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q4 net bookings up 17% YoY to $899.4M, beating estimates, a record 65M DAUs in January, and estimated bookings rose 19% to 21%; RBLX jumps 25%+ — Roblox Corp. shares surged the most in nine months after the online video game platform reported bookings that beat analysts' estimates …
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Roblox, The Block, GamesIndustry.biz, VentureBeat, Game Developer, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Barron's Online, and CNBC
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snap launches ray tracing support for its AR Lens Studio globally, initially partnering with Tiffany & Co to let users try on and purchase bracelets — Snap has introduced ray tracing technology to its AR Lens Studio for developers around the world, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Snap Newsroom, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, AR Insider, Techlusive, and TechCircle
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its holdings of TSMC's American depositary shares by 86% last quarter to 8.29M, valued at $617.7M; TSMC's stock drops 3.5%+ — Warren Buffett slashed his holding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just months after disclosing a major stake …
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Reuters, Tom's Hardware, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Financial Times, Coinspeaker, Patently Apple, DCD, Quartz, Bloomberg, and Latest
Tweets: @schuldensuehner, @unusual_whales, @cfromhertz, @charlotteytyang, @trengriffin, and @dnystedt
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to evaluate Pay Later borrowers based on spending history, the Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more — With Apple Inc. pushing into the lending business with a “buy now, pay later” service, the company is laying out rules for how it will approve transactions.
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Cult of Mac, iMore, TechRadar, Apple Must, MacDailyNews, iThinkDifferent, BGR, Engadget, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @astaniscia86 and @newsynick
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vermont-based Superplastic, which creates “synthetic” influencers and characters, raised $20M led by Amazon's Alexa Fund and plans to work with Amazon Studios — Janky and Guggimon, ‘synthetic’ celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok and Instagram …
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Decrypt, Forbes, Tech Startups, Variety, Fast Company, Deadline, AlleyWatch, and Voicebot.ai
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X75 modem with upgraded software, the latest 5G advances like carrier aggregation, and more, arriving in devices in H2 2023 — Qualcomm is warming up for Mobile World Congress by announcing its newest modem: the Snapdragon X75.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia: consumer interest in Lensa AI and other top AI-powered photo apps fell quickly after hitting peak downloads and in-app purchases in mid-December 2022 — Is the AI photo app trend already over? Over the past several months, AI-powered photo apps have been going viral on the App Store …
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Android Central, Crunchbase News, and 9to5Mac
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Oligo Security, whose security and observability tools detect and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, raised $28M across a seed and a Series A — Oligo Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect …
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CSO, FinSMEs, Forbes, VentureBeat, and Security Boulevard
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
After regulator requests, the European Commission will review Adobe's $20B Figma deal over antitrust concerns, despite being under its revenue review threshold — Adobe Inc.'s proposed $20 billion takeover of design firm Figma Inc. risks a lengthy European Union probe after the bloc's …
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TechCrunch, European Commission, Silicon Republic, San Francisco Business Journal, Reuters, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @eu_competition, @wavesblog, and @mr_james_c
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