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A live stream of Microsoft's The Future of Work with AI event, where the company is expected to demo adding OpenAI's tech to its 365 and Office apps — Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work, on tasks that zap our time, creativity, and energy.
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot — Microsoft Corp.'s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company's oldest and best-known products: its Office apps.
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Biden administration and CFIUS are demanding that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company or face a possible US ban of the app — TikTok says forced sale won't resolve national security issues; its CEO set to appear before Congress next week
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| Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: |
In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers' and civil servants' work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US — Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China — Britain is to ban the Chinese owned …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong — The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
OpenAI's GPT-4 is an outrageous, if imperfect, step forward, offering a glimpse of a future internet where generative AI creates one big personalized web portal — Read to the end for a good Twitter reply — Building A Portal To Everything — Very often I will come up with a big existential question …
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Simo Kajaste, Lars Bastholm, and Cenktan Ozyildirim. Mastodon:
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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| New York Times: |
Sources: five days after seizing SVB, the FDIC has conducted a stop-and-start auction process, failing so far to find a willing buyer for all of SVB's assets — Big rivals are thus far shying away from scooping up the bank's assets. — Five days after seizing control of Silicon Valley Bank …
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| FTX: |
An FTX bankruptcy filing describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders and executives, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried — Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees — Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Sources: Foxconn will make AirPods for the first time and plans to invest $200M+ in a plant in Telangana, India; a source says Apple wanted production in India — Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and plans to build …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve plans to activate its real-time FedNow Service payments system in July, seeking to improve clearing transactions between institutions — The new government-operated payments system - often used as an argument against the need for crypto's payments innovations …
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| TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Via plans to acquire London-based Citymapper, which has ~50M users and raised ~$60M; sources say investors are mostly not making their money back — Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned …
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Aimara Geissler, Sean Floyd, Barak Sas, Cody Grosser, Jan Eller, and Victoria Markewitz
| Bloomberg: |
Baidu announces its Ernie Bot in a pre-recorded video, with founder Robin Li talking over a scripted video of interactions with the AI; BIDU drops 5%+ — Baidu Inc. debuted China's answer to ChatGPT via a recorded video, disappointing investors hoping for a real-time demo …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Parker, which offers a corporate credit card for e-commerce brands doing $3M to $100M in annual sales, emerges from stealth with $37M in equity and $120M debt — Parker, a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million … | Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
The Arbitrum Foundation, which develops the Ethereum Layer 2 platform Arbitrum, plans to airdrop its long-awaited ARB token on March 23 and transition to a DAO — The long-awaited ARB token will grant holders the ability to vote on changes to the leading Ethereum layer 2 network.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
How San Francisco's Hayes Valley, or “Cerebral Valley”, became a hotbed for “hacker houses” and AI events, as the AI gold rush revives the Bay Area's tech scene — The money and power flooding into AI are warping and intensifying the typical Silicon Valley gold rush, now set to explode with the launch of GPT-4
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Stripe raised a $6.5B+ Series I at a $50B valuation to help its employees cover tax obligations for the expiration of RSUs and to fund a new stock tender offer — Digital payments firm Stripe on Wednesday announced that it has raised more than $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation.
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| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
Ethereum developers set a target date of around April 12 for the long-awaited Shanghai hard fork, delayed from its initial March target — Ethereum developers agreed to April 12 for the long-awaited upgrade that will enable staked ETH withdrawals. Once the date is confirmed by developers on GitHub, it will be set in stone.| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google discontinues its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 and plans to support the headset until September 15, 2023; existing devices and apps will continue to work — Google has announced today that it will no longer be selling its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headsets, with support set to be discontinued later this year.| Associated Press: |
Source: DOJ is investigating whether the use of a predictive child welfare algorithm in PA's Allegheny County discriminates against parents with disabilities — For the two weeks that the Hackneys' baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side …
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