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An interview with Character.ai's founders, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with the latest in language AI through chatbots — The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try
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Critics say the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, a digital privacy law for minors, could lead to invasive age verification methods like face-scanning — While the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act was hailed as a victory for digital privacy, critics warn of a litany of unintended consequences.| Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: |
DappRadar: the most daily active users on Decentraland ever was 675 while The Sandbox has had ~4,503; Messari: each metaverse platform has a ~$1.3B market cap — While metaverse platforms Decentraland and The Sandbox both have below 1,000 daily active users, they each have over $1 billion in valuation.
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Web3 is going just great and CryptoSlate
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New York City-based Alkymi, which offers no-code workflow automation tools for business users, raised a $21M Series A led by Intel Capital — Alkymi launched in 2017 with a goal of helping financial services companies automate mundane tasks, a kind of lightweight RPA to grab information … | Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated — The internet's file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.
Tweets: @mcmurrym, @mattnavarra, @mangmangmang, @david_o_bedlam, @marinakoren, @adriennelaf, @dlberes, and @kait_tiffany
| Adele Peters / Fast Company: |
GiveDirectly and Google.org are using AI mapping and satellite imagery to find low-income hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico and Florida and send cash payments — Storms worsen inequality. These $700 cash payments can help lessen the blow. — After a disaster like Hurricane Ian …
Tweets: @themayadecline
| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
A profile of Akili, which makes a US FDA-cleared game designed to treat ADHD in children; Akili raised $160M+ after going public via a SPAC deal in August 2022 — The future of video games is about more than just fun. — On the frosty planet of Frigidus, a virtual world full of icy caverns …
Tweets: @gamingthemind, @hallowelltodaro, and @jcalpickard
| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Blizzard plans to require Overwatch 2 and Modern Warfare 2 players to use 2FA system SMS Protect to combat toxicity, but won't accept prepaid and VoIP numbers — Just like Overwatch 2, you'll need to attach a phone number to your Battle.net account to play Modern Warfare 2—and prepaid phones aren't allowed.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Biden signs an EO to implement Privacy Shield 2.0, the EU-US data transfer framework seeking to address EU concerns of surveillance by US intelligence agencies — - President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement a new framework to protect the privacy of personal data shared between the U.S. and Europe.
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| Natalie Wong / Bloomberg: |
A look at business email compromise scams involving US real estate, and the small Secret Service team that helped recover $244M+ in stolen BEC funds since 2019 — For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area.
Tweets: @amyokruk, @daniellesacks, @natalexisw, @jeneps, @secretservice, and @joelwebershow
| Kyle Alspach / Protocol: |
An interview with CEO George Kurtz as CrowdStrike surpasses $2B in annual revenue and looks to become a bigger player in data observability and IT operations — CrowdStrike is finding massive traction in areas outside its core endpoint security products, setting up the company to become … | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Hong Kong-based About Capital acquires Huobi, a top 10 crypto exchange by trading volume; Huobi says the ownership transfer won't impact trading operations — The terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Crypto exchange Huobi Global, one of the biggest token trading outposts in the Asia markets … | Wall Street Journal: |
How HBO Max, Prime Video, and other streamers are trying to grow in a crowded market, including, sources say, via discounted bundles and deals with rivals — In a crowded marketplace, Amazon, HBO Max and other streamers explore discounted packages and partnerships with rivals
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