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Bing Chat appears to have a hidden Celebrity mode, in which the chatbot answers questions while impersonating Biden, Trump, Tom Cruise, and other famous people — A secret Bing Chat ‘Celebrity’ mode allows users to instruct the AI to impersonate celebrities, answering questions and talking like the person it imitates.
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Meta is good at making VR hardware but is ignoring its core gamer audience, as it's not clear the company realizes that games are driving its VR business — Meta seems very committed to making hardware to usher in a whole new world and racing away from the games that drive its VR business.
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The US adds China's Inspur, the world's third largest server maker that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to its Entity List, limiting its US tech access — The Biden administration's blacklisting of China's Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: after Twitter refused to pay its AWS bills for months, Amazon threatened in February 2023 to withhold payment for the ads the company runs on Twitter — Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who was a Sonos VP of software management before joining Salesforce, as she leads Slack through its “biggest product year” — Over a few days in late November and early December of 2022, it became clear that Slack was about to go through … | Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: |
Source: Russia is circumventing sanctions by importing advanced chips through countries such as Turkey and the UAE; shipments from China to Russia have surged — Russia looks to be successfully working around European Union and Group of Seven sanctions to secure crucial semiconductors … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
BidenCash, a dark web marketplace for stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2.1M+ cards sharing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more — A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration of its first anniversary.
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| Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: |
Reports and sources: the US prepares a program that could ban US investment in some sectors in China, such as advanced semiconductors, quantum computing, and AI — Biden administration expected to seek money in its budget next week to set up program regulating investment abroad| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman quits OpenAI's nonprofit board, seeking to invest in companies using OpenAI's tech, which he says may cause a conflict of interest — - LinkedIn founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is leaving the nonprofit board of OpenAI, he announced in a post on Friday.
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Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $115M — Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing … | Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times: |
San Jose-based Vintra markets its “co-appearance” AI, which seeks to detect when people caught on video are likely associates, to the IRS and police departments — A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with its virality, fixing issues, and more — Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT …
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