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Google debuts a ChatGPT rival named Bard and says the “experimental conversational AI service” will be “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks” — It's official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard.
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| CNBC: |
Gemini plans to provide up to $100M to Genesis' bankruptcy recovery, mainly for its Earn users, who had ~$900M of assets frozen when Genesis paused withdrawals — - Crypto exchange Gemini will contribute $100 million in cash to a recovery plan for bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers on M2, building on M1, transitioning from Intel, the future of Mac gaming, Metal APIs, and more — On M2 chips, Mac mini and how the Mac will thrive in gaming — Apple's M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2021.
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| Financial Times: |
Filings: Digital Currency Group begins selling shares in investment vehicles run by its subsidiary Grayscale at a steep discount, seeking to repay creditors — Digital assets conglomerate sells down holdings in prized investments at a discount to pay creditors
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Internal Twitter document: just ~180,000 US users paid for Blue and other subscriptions as of mid-January, implying ~$28M annual subscription revenue globally — Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups — SoftBank Group Corp.'s first earnings report without founder Masayoshi Son went a lot like those he presided over the past few years … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung Galaxy S23 users say the smartphone uses ~60GB of its storage for Android and pre-installed apps, four times more than the Google Pixel 7 Pro's ~15GB — Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's—twice the size of Windows 11. — As a smartphone operating system …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu's stock jumps 15%+ after the company announced plans to add its ChatGPT-like service “Wenxin Yiyan”, or “Ernie Bot” in English, to search in March 2023 — Baidu Inc. surged more than 15% after affirming it's on track to publicly roll out its ChatGPT-like service in March …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Meta plans to revamp Horizon Worlds, including opening the app to users aged 13-17, seeking to improve user retention as competition intensifies — Memo highlights social-media giant's plan to revitalize app, boost users in 2023 — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 1.29%increase … | Reuters: |
Ex-Coinbase manager Ishan Wahi pleads guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after his brother Nikhil was sentenced to 10 months in January — A former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday in what U.S. prosecutors have called …
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The LockBit ransomware gang claims responsibility for an attack on the UK's Royal Mail that halted international shipping, contradicting an earlier statement — The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed the cyberattack on UK's leading mail delivery service Royal Mail that forced the company …
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| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M — Nintendo Co. cut its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, underscoring uncertainty around its aging Switch console and the global gaming environment.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to blur explicit images in search results by default “in the coming months”, though signed-in users over 18 will be able to turn off the feature — Google is introducing a new online safety feature to help users avoid inadvertently seeing graphically violent …
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| David Smith / The Guardian: |
How AI de-aging VFX are increasingly used on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood's economics — Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be heading| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp updates Status, adding a Private Audience Selector, Status Reactions, 30-second Voice Status messages, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and web — WhatsApp has just announced a set of new features for status updates, which will be available to users on both iOS and Android devices over the coming weeks.| Masha Borak / Wired: |
A look at Moscow's Safe City, an AI surveillance system with 217K connected cameras designed to catch criminals that is now seen as a tool of digital repression — Moscow promised residents lower crime rates through an expansive smart city project. Then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
Tweets: @mashaborak, @iethics, and @glichfield
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
ChatGPT users are finding various “jailbreaks” that get the tool to seemingly ignore OpenAI's evolving content restrictions and provide unfettered responses — - Reddit users have engineered a prompt for artificial intelligence software ChatGPT that tries to force it to violate its own programming on content restrictions.
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| Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, down from over 2.5M in November 2022, as some newcomers complain the service is hard to use and others return to Twitter — Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk's Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a direct replacement.
Mastodon: @scully@social.chinwag.org, @stefan@gardenstate.social, @rvaweather@dmv.community, and @eniko@peoplemaking.games
Tweets: @rjcc, @tim_stevens, @dimensionmedia, @okayy_dan, @rustybrick, @wired, and @mattnavarra
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Tinder rolls out incognito mode, a step up from fully hiding profiles, for Tinder+, Gold, and Premium users, profile blocking, and other safety features — Tinder is rolling out new features aimed at making it easier for users on the dating app to control how they interact with others.
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