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Hands-on with Google's Bard, coming to waitlisted US and UK users: quick, fluid, more constrained than Bing, three responses per query, disclaimers, and more — Today, Google is opening up limited access to Bard, its ChatGPT rival, a major step in the company's attempt to reclaim …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft rolls out Bing Image Creator, powered by OpenAI's “very latest DALL-E models”, to Bing Chat and Edge, letting users generate images from text prompts — Microsoft today announced that its new AI-enabled Bing will now allow users to generate images with Bing Chat.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
TikTok refreshes its Community Guidelines, expanding a section to cover “synthetic and manipulated media”, or deepfakes, as US political pressure increases — As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies.
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: |
An internal TikTok tool can access some personal data of Indian users who used the app before India's 2020 ban; an employee jokingly called the tool “NSA-To-Go” — India's 150 million users were forced to stop using the Chinese-owned app in 2020.| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers who sell info on US citizens to anyone, including China — from the you're-not-actually-fixing-the- problem dept — We've noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral panic of 2023 is largely a distraction.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Adobe announces Firefly, a “family” of creative generative AI models, and releases a DALL-E-like image generator and a WordArt-like stylized text generator — Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator. The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel says Raja Koduri, who joined as Chief Architect in 2017, is leaving to found a startup focused on generative AI for gaming, media, and entertainment — Raja moves on after six years. — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced on Twitter today that Raja Koduri, the company's current Chief Architect …
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| Bill Gates / GatesNotes: |
The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the PC, the Internet, and the mobile phone, and can reduce global inequities if risks are mitigated — In my lifetime, I've seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. — The first time was in 1980 …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI temporarily shut down ChatGPT after a bug in an open-source tool let some users see other users' chat history titles; some chat histories remain missing — OpenAI temporarily shut down its popular ChatGPT service on Monday morning after receiving reports of a bug that allowed some users …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
NVIDIA unveils cuLitho, a software library for computational lithography that TSMC and Synopsys have integrated into their tools and manufacturing processes — Faster masks, less power. — Nvidia announced its new cuLitho software library for speeding up a critical process in the semiconductor manufacturing workflow.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Reykjavik-based Pearl Abyss' CCP Games raised $40M in financing led by a16z to develop a triple-A blockchain game set in the Eve Online universe — CCP Games has raised $40 million in funding to make a new triple-A blockchain game set in the Eve Online universe.
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| Blake Schmidt / Bloomberg: |
Grammarly appoints Global Head of Product Rahul Roy-Chowdhury as its CEO, starting on May 1, replacing Brad Hoover, who will stay on as a board member — Grammarly, the creator of a popular writing assistant, is replacing its chief executive officer and launching a new artificial intelligence tool … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Roblox rolls out AI tools, including Code Assist that lets creators use text prompts to create usable game code and Material Generator for in-game 2D surfaces — New initiative aims to take game development past “the hands of the skilled few.” — SAN FRANCISCO—At the Game Developers Conference Monday …
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| Bloomberg: |
How Elon Musk's unilateral decision making at Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla became a headache for the Biden administration, which worries about foreign influence — Argentina was headed toward its thrilling victory over France at the World Cup in Qatar, and Elon Musk, the Tesla Inc. CEO and Twitter owner …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
An internal Microsoft document instructs Azure salespeople to say that OpenAI's licenses have “limited enterprise-grade capabilities” and fewer privacy features — OpenAI's ChatGPT has enraptured the business world since its November release and OpenAI is signing up customers eager … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Google suspends Pinduoduo's Play Store app “for security concerns” and flags several of the company's apps as malware, alerting users who had installed them — On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware …
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| João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: |
Windows 11's Snipping Tool appears to have a bug similar to Pixel's Markup tool “aCropalypse” bug, which lets anyone reveal info edited out in some screenshots — Recently, we heard of a vulnerability in the screenshot tool of Google's Pixel phones, referred to as aCropalypse … | Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
A US federal judge approves a settlement in the Celsius bankruptcy case that lets the company's custody account holders opt in to receive 72.5% of their crypto — - Celsius custody account holders can receive 72.5% of the crypto in their custody accounts if they opt into a newly-approved settlement.Sponsor Posts
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