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Sources: Apple's headset “Reality Pro” to be unveiled this spring, before WWDC; new Mac Pro will have the same design as current Intel model, no expandable RAM — 2023 is set to be the year of Apple's mixed-reality headset and not much else. Also: The company hikes battery …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Seattle Public Schools sue TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies for allegedly causing a youth mental health crisis — A new lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies alleges … | Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged — We're seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade. — After years of hype, the Creator Economy is slamming into reality.
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Sources: the US attorney's office for the Western District of Washington sent subpoenas to US-based hedge funds for records of their communications with Binance — The federal probe into Binance is unfolding at a time of deep uncertainty in the crypto industry| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Meta says it is weeks away from announcing its decision on reinstating Trump, who continues to harass 2020 election workers by name, as recently as last week — The platform cut Trump's indefinite suspension to two years at the urging of its Oversight Board. But that doesn't mean he's coming back.
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Mastodon's “active users” fell 30%+ from a 2.5M+ peak in early December 2022 to ~1.8M in the first week of January, and are still declining but at a slower pace — More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn't it taken off?| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week — Beijing is among the first governments to regulate hyper-realistic, AI-generated media| New York Times: |
PitchBook: investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals in 2022, almost as much as was invested in the previous five years combined — An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text …
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A look at Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab, which is exploring questions around artificial consciousness and the possibility of self-aware robots — The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind's next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.
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Sources: Twitter cuts staff in its already diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in a unit for hate speech and harassment — Twitter Inc., under new owner Elon Musk, has made deeper cuts into its already radically diminished trust and safety team handling …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI's GPT into Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and its other productivity apps — In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft …
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| Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: |
DoNotPay plans to use its AI-based legal advisor to coach a defendant via an earpiece to fight a speeding ticket in an unnamed US courtroom in February 2023 — The AI legal assistant has helped people contest parking tickets, now it's leveling up to the courtroom—and the judge doesn't know.
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