|
January 29, 2023, 10:50 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
The Biden administration publishes a roadmap for mitigating cryptocurrencies' risks and urges Congress to hasten efforts to create a crypto regulatory framework — Four senior Biden officials penned a note Friday urging lawmakers to hasten their efforts to create a regulatory framework for crypto.
Source:
The White House. More:
crypto.news, Bitcoin News, SiliconANGLE, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, Inside Bitcoins, Watcher Guru, CryptoPotato, CoinDesk, and CryptoSlate
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis — SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Source: Baidu is planning to launch an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT in March 2023, initially embedded into its main search services — Baidu Inc. is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter … | Karmela Padavic-Callaghan / New Scientist: |
Researchers detail how ProGen, an LLM trained on 280M proteins, designed proteins with anti-microbial properties that were tested in real life and shown to work — An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a subset of the proteins and found some did the job
More:
Neowin, Slashdot, Nature, and VICE
Tweets: @twenseleers, @tonymmorley, @thisismadani, @erictopol, @sn4ileater, @shiraeis, and @ppmc_uab
| Julia Angwin / The Markup: |
Q&A with Princeton CS professor Arvind Narayanan on why he calls ChatGPT a “bullshit generator”, his worries over its boom, developing his AI taxonomy, and more — Hello, friends, — If you have been reading all the hype about the latest artificial intelligence chatbot …
Mastodon: @JeroenJeremy@mastodon.green. Tweets: @random_walker, @juliaangwin, @daphnehk, @harrymccracken, @jonathandriddle, @digiphile, @random_walker, and @fuzheado
| TechCrunch: |
Court records from 2011 to 2022 show how police in some US states used data like text messages, search history, and emails in abortion-related prosecutions — In late April, police in Nebraska received a tip saying 17-year-old Celeste Burgess had given birth to a stillborn baby and buried the body.| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox having no major 2022 releases, 2023 momentum, layoffs, the Activision deal amid the FTC lawsuit, and more — Xbox's CEO talks about the recent Developer Direct, 2022 struggles, layoffs, and what 2023 could hold.
More:
Engadget, Game Rant, Pure Xbox, Video Games Chronicle, GamingBolt, PC Gamer, Appuals.com, Wccftech, TheGamer, Dot Esports, Kotaku, Windows Central, and Dexerto
Tweets: @tomwarren, @draydensbeard, @dreadknux, and @tomwarren
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: China's top nuclear weapons research lab, on the US export entity list since 1997, bought 7nm to 14nm Intel and Nvidia chips several times since 2020 — State-owned institute continued buying Intel- and Nvidia-made chips despite inclusion on a U.S. export blacklist in 1997
More:
Associated Press
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Crunchbase: US Black Web3 founders raised $60M in 2022, up from $16M in 2021; US Web3 startups raised $11.9B in 2022, down 39% from $16.5B in 2021 — Startups in the space are more bullish than ever — Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash … | Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic: |
How TikTok, Amazon, and other platforms go through “enshittification”, helping users before abusing them to help business customers, then abusing those as well — Today's links — Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
More:
Michael Tsai. Tweets: @doctorow, @mikeelgan, @tychobrahe, @hlinehan, @greglinden, @glichfield, @robertmaguire_, @sriramk, @josh_bersin, @timsweeneyepic, @seankreynolds, @scottmonty, @doctorow, @doctorow, @alexdecampi, @masspirates, and @agroebbe
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Florida startups raised $9.7B in 601 deals in 2022, up 25% YoY from $7.8B in 652 deals; VC funding fell 40%+ YoY in 2022 in California, Massachusetts, and NY — Last year could not top the banner year venture capital saw in 2021 — at least in most geographies.| Bloomberg: |
As the GOP assumes US House leadership, the antitrust subcommittee shifts its focus from bipartisan efforts to curb Big Tech's power to free speech issues — The new GOP House majority is turning away from last year's bipartisan efforts to rein in the dominance of the largest tech companies with a change in leadership on a key panel.
More:
BIG by Matt Stoller and MacDailyNews
Sponsor Posts
Airtable:
Meet Airtable ProductCentral — The unified solution for managing your entire product development process in the AI era.
Meet Airtable ProductCentral — The unified solution for managing your entire product development process in the AI era.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Zoho SalesIQ turns 10: Transforming customer experiences since 2014 — October marked a remarkable milestone for Zoho SalesIQ—our 10th anniversary. What began in 2014 as a simple live chat tool has evolved …
Zoho SalesIQ turns 10: Transforming customer experiences since 2014 — October marked a remarkable milestone for Zoho SalesIQ—our 10th anniversary. What began in 2014 as a simple live chat tool has evolved …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 11/01 - ChatGPT Search
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:50 PM ET, January 29, 2023.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Athena Stavrou / The Independent:Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
CNBC:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
More:
Board of Governors …, Cointelegraph, Associated Press, Bitcoin News, Axios, MarketWatch, Fortune, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Crowdfund Insider, Slashdot, PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, The Crypto Basic, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @custodiabank, @federalreserve, @panekkkk, @thobishop, @iang_fc, @brucefenton, @pt, @tyler_lindholm, @smdiehl, @jeffjohnroberts, @satoshialien, and @mayazi
Earlier Picks
| Tim Harford / Financial Times: |
Tweets: @johnkoetsier, @pkedrosky, @ftweekend, @profjohnturner, @thecompoundnews, @prashanth_krish, and @financialtimes
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
More:
Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Associated Press, Engadget, PCMag, Yahoo Finance, Android Police, The Verge, Gizmodo, BGR, CNBC, Tom's Guide, CNET, Insider, and The Information. Tweets: @mattmday
| New York Times: |
More:
Reuters, PYMNTS.com, The Daily Hodl, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Block, CryptoSlate, Engadget, Bitcoin News, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Bloomberg, CoinJournal, NewsBTC, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, and Top Startups 2023. Tweets: @cryptoelitenews