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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches quote post controls for all Threads users, who can allow quotes from everyone on Threads, only the people they follow, or disable quote posts — Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. — This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users …
More: Android Police, Engadget, Neowin, and NewsBytes
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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
A profile of ElevenLabs, whose founders seem unprepared for how its impressive AI voice cloning tech can change the internet and unleash political chaos — My voice was ready. I'd been waiting, compulsively checking my inbox. I opened the email and scrolled until I saw a button that said, plainly, “Use voice.”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How role-playing with an AI chatbot can help prepare for difficult conversations with family, friends, and colleagues, such as for terminating an employee — Role-playing with an AI conversationalist can prepare you to handle difficult subjects with family, friends and colleagues| Jessica Lucas / The Verge: |
Some teen users of Character.AI's chatbots say they find the AI companions helpful, entertaining, and supportive but worry they may be addicted to the chatbots — Teens are opening up to AI chatbots as a way to explore friendship. But sometimes, the AI's advice can go too far.| Tara Copp / Associated Press: |
US Air Force plans a fleet of 1,000+ AI-controlled jets, the first of them operating by 2028; some AI versions already beat human pilots in air-to-air combat — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower.
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Tens of thousands of overworked employees have left their jobs at China's largest tech companies in recent years, as the industry lost its growth momentum — - As of the end of 2023, China's BAT - Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent - had a combined total of 364,477 employees, a drop of nearly 25,000 from a year before
X: @jeff4malaysia and @tomorrownook
| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
Some researchers are training AI models on headcam footage from infants and toddlers, to better understand language acquisition by both AI and children — Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models? — We ask a lot of ourselves as babies.
More: Science. X: @altb56073878, @wkvong, @nytscience, @lakebrenden, @lakebrenden, @willknight, and @lakebrenden
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
DEX Screener: the value of decentralized social platform Friend.tech's native token, the Friend, fell ~98% to below $2 after making its trading debut on May 3 — - “No one can figure out the tokenomics,” Delphi's Rinko says — Friend.tech's growth has been driven in part by trading bots| Rina Diane Caballar / IEEE Spectrum: |
As CS students experiment with AI coding tools, professors say courses need to focus less on syntax and more on problem solving, design, testing, and debugging — Professors are shifting away from syntax and emphasizing higher-level skills — Generative AI is transforming the software development industry.
More: Hackread. Bluesky: @chickenpuppet.bsky.social. X: @infornomics, @josecamoessilva, @badlogicgames, and @ieeespectrum
| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Crypto startups embrace open-ended, rolling funding rounds that quickly lift valuations, as crypto funds seek to deploy unspent cash raised in 2021 and 2022 — - Startups are embracing so-called open-ended funding rounds — Venture funds are seeking to deploy previously static cash| Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: |
How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label — “The Hardest Part,” a new song from indie pop artist Washed Out, is all about love lost, among the most human of themes.
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| Julie Tsirkin / NBC News: |
Biden is expected to sign the REPORT Act next week; the bipartisan bill targets child sextortion online through new CSAM reporting requirements and more — Jordan DeMay, a 17-year-old who died by suicide in 2022, is one of a growing number of teens targeted by financial sextortion.
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