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What to expect at WWDC: Apple XR headset that a source says is part “status symbol” and part “future of the computer”, 15" MacBook Air, iOS 17, watchOS 10, more — Apple Inc.'s most significant product launch event in nearly a decade kicks off Monday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources say Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T to offer low-cost or possibly free mobile phone service to US Prime subscribers — Amazon.com Inc. has been talking with wireless carriers about offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service …
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Twitter's VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company; Irwin joined in June 2022 and took over T&S when Yoel Roth resigned — Twitter's head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters on Thursday that she has resigned from the social media company.
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Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving, the second top safety executive to leave the company this week — A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost its head of brand safety and ad quality …
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| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Current and ex-employees: Meta staff generally aren't using the Quest 3, especially for meetings, and even those in the VR unit don't use it regularly for work — Meta employees don't seem interested in working in the metaverse. But first... Three things you need to know today:
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Voyager, a Minecraft bot created by an Nvidia team using GPT-4, which obtains over 3x as many items and builds tools 15x quicker than other AI bots — The bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills, suggesting that the tech behind ChatGPT could automate many workplace tasks.
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| Ginger Adams Otis / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta updates its policy to require employees assigned to an office to start coming in three days per week starting September 5; remote workers are exempt — Change will take effect Sept. 5 for employees already assigned to an office; remote workers' status won't change
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Microsoft expects to take a charge of ~$425M in Q2 2023 for a potential fine from the Irish DPC over LinkedIn's targeted ads allegedly violating users' privacy — Software major Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday it expected to take a charge of about $425 million in the current quarter …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Artifact, the news app founded by Instagram's co-founders, will use a GPT-4 model to rewrite the headlines of articles marked as clickbait by the Artifact team — Last month, the Artifact news app introduced an option for users to flag an article as clickbait.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
YouTube says it will stop removing content that claims “widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections” — In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud, errors or glitches occurred … | Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
Getty asks London's High Court to stop UK sales of Stable Diffusion, accusing Stability AI of copyright infringement for training its AI model on Getty's images — Stock photo provider Getty Images has asked London's High Court for an injunction to prevent artificial intelligence company Stability AI … | Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: |
Challenger report: US tech companies have announced 136,831 layoffs from January to May 2023, more than in any full year since 2001, when job cuts hit 168,395 — US companies have announced more job cuts this year than during all of 2022, according to executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.
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