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OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority” — Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Nvidia opens at a $1T market cap, joining Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon, after raising its Q2 revenue forecast due to AI demand; NVDA is up 180%+ YTD — - Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap at the start of trading Tuesday, before slipping to $990 billion by close of trading.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst Ross Young says Apple's upcoming MR headset will have two 1.41" Micro OLED displays targeting 5,000+ nits of brightness and 4,000 pixels per inch — The tech community is collectively on the edge of our seats as we zoom toward the expected unveiling of Apple's mixed reality headset.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction — “May occasionally generate incorrect information.” — This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT …
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| Aidan Ryan / The Information: |
Source: MoonPay insiders, including CEO Ivan Soto-Wright, cashed out $150M in shares as part of the crypto payment startup's $555M Series A in November 2021 — In November 2021, just as crypto prices were hitting all-time highs, MoonPay—a crypto payments startup that celebrities including Jimmy Fallon …
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on having had “some serious” leadership, people, and methodology issues, the rough turnaround, competitors, and more — Rivals such as Nvidia have left the chip company far behind. CEO Pat Gelsinger aims to reverse firm's fortunes by vastly expanding its factories.
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| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $7B, vs. $7.3B est., HPC & AI revenue up 18% YoY to $840M, and Intelligent Edge revenue up 50% YoY to $1.3B; HPE drops 5%+ — HP CEO expects PC sales to rebound in the second half of the year and notes that AI will ‘redefine what PCs can do’
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 series chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro — We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro …
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Miami-based Transak, which sells payment and onboarding infrastructure for Web3 games and financial apps, raised a $20M Series A led by CE Innovation Capital — The startup offers on- and off-ramps that could make it easier for new users to interact with Web3 projects.
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
A viral Nintendo's Tears of the Kingdom clip that shows Link unfurling a bridge wows game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a full year polishing the game — What looks simple is actually very hard to make — There's a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Marakuguc Shrine, but it's broken.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance is discussing letting some of its institutional clients use bank deposits as collateral for margin trading, to help reduce counterparty risk — Binance is discussing a proposal to let some of its institutional clients keep their trading collateral at a bank instead …
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: |
Sources: TikTok has stored personal and financial data of its biggest stars, including those in its Creator Fund, on servers in China, accessible by staff there — TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — including those in its “Creator Fund” — on servers in China.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon discontinues Alexa's celebrity voices feature, offering Samuel L. Jackson's, Shaquille O'Neal's, and Melissa McCarthy's voices, even for those who paid — Amazon is getting rid of its celebrity voices for Alexa. Not only are the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Shaquille O'Neal …
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