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Hands-on with Google's Bard, available via waitlist in the US and UK: quick and fluid, more constrained than Bing, three responses/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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Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Image Creator to Edge, powered by OpenAI's DALL-E and accessible via Bing Chat, letting users create 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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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI temporarily shut down ChatGPT after a bug let some users see the titles of other users' chat histories; some chat histories are still missing — OpenAI temporarily shut down its popular ChatGPT service on Monday morning after receiving reports of a bug that allowed some users to see the titles of other users' chat histories.
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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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TikTok refreshes its Community Guidelines, expanding a section to cover “synthetic and manipulated media”, or deepfakes, as pressure from the US 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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| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers, who offer anyone info on US citizens, 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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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Roblox rolls out AI tools, including Code Assist to let creators use simple text prompts to create usable 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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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
NVIDIA unveils a cuLitho software library for computational lithography, or creating patterns for silicon wafers, and says TSMC, ASML, and others signed on — Faster masks, less power. — Nvidia announced its new cuLitho software library for speeding up a critical process in the semiconductor manufacturing workflow.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Google suspends Pinduoduo's app on the Play Store over “security concerns” and flags several Pinduoduo 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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| Bloomberg: |
How Elon Musk acquiring and running Twitter, adding to SpaceX and Tesla, became a headache for the Biden administration, which worries over 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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| Mandiant: |
An overview of 55 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2022, mostly in products from Apple, Microsoft, and Google; Chinese groups exploited more than others — - Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that we judge were exploited in 2022. Although this count is lower …
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| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Global premium smartphone sales rose 1% YoY in 2022, taking 50%+ of the smartphone market's revenue for the first time; Apple took 75% of the premium market — Although overall global smartphone sales in 2022 fell 12% YoY due to macroeconomic difficulties, global premium (≥$600 wholesale price) …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Study: GPT models and related technologies could seriously affect ~19% of workers in the US, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure — Researchers examine how OpenAI's GPT technology could affect the workforce, and find 'the influence spans all wage levels … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based eToro raised $250M at a $3.5B valuation via a 2021 Advanced Investment Agreement, after calling off its SPAC plans in 2022 due to slowing growth — After calling off its plans to go public via a SPAC at a $10.4 billion valuation in 2022, trading platform eToro has secured $250 million …
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Grammarly appoints Rahul Roy-Chowdhury as CEO, starting May 1, replacing Brad Hoover; Roy-Chowdhury was previously Grammarly's global head of product — Grammarly, the creator of a popular writing assistant, is replacing its chief executive officer and launching a new artificial intelligence tool … | Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
OP3N, which develops the blockchain chat app Superapp and aims to be the “Web3 version of WhatsApp meets Amazon”, raised a $28M Series A at a $100M valuation — OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared exclusively with TechCrunch.Sponsor Posts
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