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| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored — Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product. Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
More: The Verge, NBC News, 9to5Google, PCMag, Ars Technica, The Atlantic, Mashable, Android Central, Rolling Stone, Tom's Hardware, Pixel Envy, IFLScience, and Decrypt
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Forums: r/skeptic and Ars OpenForum
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies” — Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
More: BBC, Futurism, CNN, OSnews, Cointelegraph, LADbible, WinBuzzer, Android Police, Wccftech, and TechSpot
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LinkedIn: Martin Ciupa, Shelly DeMotte Kramer, Glenn Gabe, and Alistair Barr
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/inthenews, r/ArtistHate, r/PizzaCrimes, and r/conservatives
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A closer look at Apple's AI strategy: Project Greymatter, local and cloud LLM data processing, Siri, approach to the chatbot partnership with OpenAI, and more — Though Apple's first set of modern AI features won't be as impressive as rival offerings, the company is betting that its massive customer base can give it an edge.
More: iMore, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Wccftech, Supercharged, The Apple Post, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, The Motley Fool, Gizmodo Australia, and Business Insider
Threads: @mergesort, @bzamayo, and @bzamayo
| Washington Post: |
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman — The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, ABC News, Bloomberg Law, PCMag, Mashable, The Daily Caller, New York Times, Diane Ravitch's blog, Engadget, IGN, CBS News, Reuters, Neowin, Politico, Scripps News, GameSpot, Newser, LBC, The Texas Tribune, Game Developer, Forbes, and Blue's News
Mastodon: @heidilifeldman@mastodon …. X: @phil_lewis_, @cbseveningnews, @culturecrave, @washingtonpost, and @charlieintel. LinkedIn: Rafael Brown
Forums: r/technology, r/gunpolitics, r/inthenews, r/gaming, r/law, and Slashdot
| Louise Matsakis / Big Technology: |
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US — In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business …
X: @carnage4life, @joshuaogundu, @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, and @lmatsakis
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties — Despite Meta's promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more — The Signal president is tired of “dorm room” antics, while social media and AI become ever more concentrated
More: Business Insider. Threads: @paul_rietschka. Mastodon: @thegibson@hackers.town. X: @wavesblog and @mattrosoff. Forums: Hacker News
| Financial Times: |
A look at the UK's $5.5B gaming industry, as PE firm EQT makes a ~$2.8B purchase offer for Keyword Studios, and other developers shore up their balance sheets — Developers shore up their balance sheets after a difficult few years — Pass the controller.| TIME: |
LLMs aren't sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can't have subjective experiences of such states — Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human …
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| Bloomberg: |
A significant amount of illicit crypto activity still remains in China, highlighting the continuing use of cryptocurrencies despite Beijing's digital asset ban — - Crypto tied to billions of dollars in underground transactions — Cases are further signs of holes in China's digital-asset ban
More: The Crypto Times
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2 — The landmark decision may be the first time a jury has agreed that a cheat creator violated a gaming company's copyrights.
More: PC Gamer, TorrentFreak, Destructoid, Blue's News, and Dot Esports
| Nikkei Asia: |
IoT Analytics: Nvidia, whose Q1 data center revenue grew 427% YoY to $22.6B, has 90%+ market share for data center GPUs, as Intel and AMD scrap for second place — Chipmakers eye AI ‘inferencing’ and PCs as new battlegrounds — PALO ALTO, California — Nvidia is on a roll … Sponsor Posts
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