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Snap plans to release a Snapchat chatbot, called “My AI”, powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT and pinned to the app's chat tab, available initially to Plus subscribers — Snapchat is introducing a chatbot powered by the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes — Google has announced a slew of new features for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS that are designed to improve connectivity, productivity and accessibility.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Reports: Twitter laid off “well above 50” staff over the weekend, including Director of Product Management Esther Crawford and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper — Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform.
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| Ben Sin / XDA Developers: |
Hands-on with the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Explorer Edition, featuring two micro-OLED screens, three front-facing cameras, and weighing 126g, in prototype — Xiaomi's AR Smart Glasses are a prototype not meant for commercial release right now, but the hardware feels more than ready
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Tesla stops FSD beta installations in the US and Canada until a future OTA update addresses an NHTSA recall; owners with FSD installed may keep using it, as is — Tesla is putting a hold on new installations of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software in the US and Canada until a firmware update …
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| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: AMD's fastest gaming processor and overall excellent offering, but $110 more expensive than the impressive last-generation 7950X — Last year, AMD released its Ryzen 7 5800X3D to the market with 96 MB of L3 V-Cache. The consumer implementation of AMD's … | Wall Street Journal: |
Some experts, particularly those advocating for “ethical AI” or “responsible AI”, say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous to the public — Even the people behind new artificial intelligence systems say their buzzy products are ‘somewhat broken.’ They're relying on us to fix them.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GSMA unveils Open Gateway, an initiative with 21 carriers offering open-source APIs using AWS and Azure to provide carrier billing, location, and other services — APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: used to integrate applications with each other … | Hudson Lockett / Financial Times: |
Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is “co-operating in an investigation”, more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance — Investment bank reports Bao Fan is assisting Chinese authorities with investigation — China Renaissance said its missing founder Bao Fan …
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| Washington Post: |
After a string of high-profile setbacks, the White House and FTC are finding breaking up Big Tech is hard, as Google lawyers up ahead of its court battle — Google is hiring teams of former DOJ lawyers to fight antitrust lawsuits as the battle over tech firms' power shifts to the courts
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| Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review: |
An analysis of Meta's Journalism Project: investments in 564 organizations totaling $29.4M through 17 grant programs since 2018, 43% received just $5K, and more — b — “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta …
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| Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
Meta plans to roll out the NCMEC's Take It Down tool on Facebook and Instagram, letting minors anonymously attach a hash to intimate content, to stop sextortion — Meta is taking steps to crack down on the spread of intimate images of teenagers on Facebook and Instagram.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Cloud security and visibility startup Wiz raised a $300M Series D led by Lightspeed at a $10B valuation, up from $6B in October 2021 after raising $250M — The Israeli startup said that it will not hold any of the funds in Israel due to the impending judicial coup
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