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February 21, 2023, 12:10 AM

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Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police:
Google updates Chrome for Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS with new Memory Saver and Energy Saver features that are on by default  —  Memory Saver and Energy Saver are here  —  Google Chrome is one of the best web browsers for Android, and it also offers feature parity with the desktop version.
Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust:
Exploring likely reasons why the new Bing is reckless, like debuting with not enough training on reinforcement learning with human feedback compared to ChatGPT  —  And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially?  —  A wild story in which I probe what Bing's chatbot …
James West / Mother Jones:
New Bing offers marvelous responses, dangerously convincing falsehoods, direct quotes that appear to be made up, and shocking claims about its own capabilities  —  “You're in!” the email said.  “Welcome to the new Bing!”  Last Sunday, I joined a small wave of users granted early access …
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
A Wharton School professor whose classes required using ChatGPT to write essays says students fact-checked and quickly understood AI's accuracy and bias issues  —  (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)  —  I fully embraced AI for my classes …
Wall Street Journal:
A look at executives, engineers, scientists, and other employees experimenting with ChatGPT and other AI tools to speed up tasks or avoid being left behind  —  ChatGPT's release has sparked a rush of early adopters eager to speed up tasks or avoid being left behind
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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Many Microsoft Outlook users say their inboxes have been flooded with spam for hours, as filters appear broken; Microsoft says issue has been resolved  —  According to reports from an increasing number of Microsoft customers, Outlook inboxes have been flooded with spam emails over the last nine hours …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft has started testing a major new Teams version that uses 50% less memory and taxes the CPU less, and plans to release a preview in March 2023  —  Microsoft is preparing to launch a new version of Microsoft Teams next month that has been rebuilt from the ground …
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Ride-hailing service inDrive, whose gross revenue increased 88% in 2022, raised $150M in debt that links repayment to its performance, from General Catalyst  —  InDrive, the second-most downloaded ride-hailing app in the world, raised $150 million using an unusual debt instrument that links repayment to the company's performance.
More: PYMNTS.com and Forbes
Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
FTX Japan will resume crypto and fiat withdrawals from February 21, 2023 through its crypto exchange Liquid Japan; FTX acquired Liquid in 2022  —  - FTX Japan will begin processing withdrawals for customers from tomorrow.  — The company is also looking to resume other business operations.

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