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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society — It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ChatGPT crossed 1M users since it launched less than a week ago — ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Sources: the US Department of Agriculture is probing Neuralink for potential animal welfare violations after complaints that its animal testing is being rushed — Elon Musk's Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid …
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Microsoft plans to increase the price of new, first-party Xbox Series X and S games to $70 in 2023, after prices remained steady at $60 since the Xbox 360 era — Forza Motorsport, Redfall, and Starfield will be among the first to reflect the change. — Xbox is preparing to join …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto lender Nexo aims to exit the US in the coming months, stops signing up US customers to its Earn Interest Product and halts access to it in eight states — Nexo will immediately suspend access to its Earn product in several U.S. states. — Crypto lender Nexo announced Monday …
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| Ellen Thomas / Insider: |
Memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January 2023, saying the move “has nothing to do” with Bret Taylor's departure — Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January. — Butterfield posted his announcement …
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Runway, one of the two startups behind Stable Diffusion, raised a $50M Series C led by Felicis Ventures; sources: Runway's valuation is $500M, and ARR is ~$1M — Runway ML, one of the two startups behind the popular AI text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding at a $500 million valuation, Forbes has learned.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
SCOTUS refused to hear an appeal by Virginia-based Centripetal Networks to reinstate a $2.75B award to be paid by Cisco in a cybersecurity patent dispute — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Centripetal Networks Inc to reinstate the largest award in the history of U.S. patent law … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Google's latest Pixel drop brings VPN by Google and Clear Calling to Pixel 7 and 7 Pro, automatic speaker labels in the Recorder app to Pixel 6 and up, and more — Google today announced the latest Pixel drop, which brings new features to Pixel phones, Pixel Watch, and Pixel Buds.
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| Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: |
E-commerce marketing company Rokt says it raised a secondary funding round at a $2.4B valuation, up from $1.95B in December 2021, as it prepares for an IPO — Tech startup Rokt said on Monday it raised its valuation to $2.4 billion in a secondary funding round led by investment firm Square Peg …
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| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
SBF claims FTX CEO John Ray is not working with him, not replying to messages, and made false statements, while dodging questions on Alameda and loaning funds — - Sam Bankman-Fried is taking aim at John Ray, the new CEO of FTX, claiming he's been iced out after the firm filed for bankruptcy protection.
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
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| Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine: |
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Some laid-off tech workers on H-1B visas from Meta, Shopify, Twitter, and other tech companies say they didn't get adequate immigration support from companies — Some former tech employees on work visas in the US are experiencing an existential crisis: “Is it worth staying here for a job and country that doesn't care about you?”| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
London-based Chattermill, which analyzes customer feedback data across channels to give companies actionable insights, raised a $26M Series B led by Beringea — Chattermill, a platform that helps companies unlock insights by analyzing customer feedback data from across myriad digital channels …
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