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Hands-on with Google's Bard, available via waitlist in the US and UK: quick and fluid, more constrained than Bing, three responses/query, disclaimers, and more — Today, Google is opening up limited access to Bard, its ChatGPT rival, a major step in the company's attempt to reclaim …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Image Creator to Edge, powered by OpenAI's DALL-E and accessible via Bing Chat, letting users create images from text prompts — Microsoft today announced that its new AI-enabled Bing will now allow users to generate images with Bing Chat.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
TikTok refreshes its Community Guidelines, expanding a section to cover “synthetic and manipulated media”, or deepfakes, as pressure from the US increases — As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies.
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Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers, who offer anyone info on US citizens, including China — from the you're-not-actually-fixing-the- problem dept — We've noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral panic of 2023 is largely a distraction.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI temporarily shut down ChatGPT after a bug let some users see the titles of other users' chat histories; some chat histories are still missing — OpenAI temporarily shut down its popular ChatGPT service on Monday morning after receiving reports of a bug that allowed some users to see the titles of other users' chat histories.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Adobe announces Firefly, a “family” of creative generative AI models, and releases a DALL-E-like image generator and a WordArt-like stylized text generator — Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator. The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Nvidia announces DGX Cloud, offering its AI supercomputers to companies looking to scale up their AI needs, starting at $36,999 per month for a single node — When NVIDIA's founder and CEO Jensen Huang waxed poetic about artificial intelligence in the past, it mostly felt like marketing bluster …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
NVIDIA unveils a cuLitho software library for computational lithography, or creating patterns for silicon wafers, and says TSMC, ASML, and others signed on — Faster masks, less power. — Nvidia announced its new cuLitho software library for speeding up a critical process in the semiconductor manufacturing workflow.
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| Blake Schmidt / Bloomberg: |
Grammarly appoints Global Head of Product Rahul Roy-Chowdhury as its CEO, starting on May 1, replacing Brad Hoover, who will stay on as a board member — Grammarly, the creator of a popular writing assistant, is replacing its chief executive officer and launching a new artificial intelligence tool … | Bloomberg: |
How Elon Musk acquiring and running Twitter, adding to SpaceX and Tesla, became a headache for the Biden administration, which worries over foreign influence — Argentina was headed toward its thrilling victory over France at the World Cup in Qatar, and Elon Musk, the Tesla Inc. CEO and Twitter owner …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Google suspends Pinduoduo's app on the Play Store over “security concerns” and flags several Pinduoduo apps as malware, alerting users who had installed them — On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Roblox rolls out AI tools, including Code Assist to let creators use simple text prompts to create usable code and Material Generator for in-game 2D surfaces — New initiative aims to take game development past “the hands of the skilled few.” — SAN FRANCISCO—At the Game Developers Conference Monday …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
An internal Microsoft document instructs Azure salespeople to say that OpenAI's licenses have “limited enterprise-grade capabilities” and fewer privacy features — OpenAI's ChatGPT has enraptured the business world since its November release and OpenAI is signing up customers eager … | Mandiant: |
An overview of 55 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2022, mostly in products from Apple, Microsoft, and Google; Chinese groups exploited more than others — - Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that we judge were exploited in 2022. Although this count is lower …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Reykjavik-based Pearl Abyss' CCP Games raised $40M in financing led by a16z to launch a triple-A blockchain game set in the Eve Online universe — CCP Games has raised $40 million in funding to make a new triple-A blockchain game set in the Eve Online universe.
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| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Global premium smartphone sales rose 1% YoY in 2022, taking 50%+ of the smartphone market's revenue for the first time; Apple took 75% of the premium market — Although overall global smartphone sales in 2022 fell 12% YoY due to macroeconomic difficulties, global premium (≥$600 wholesale price) …
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple lobbied to change India's labor laws in the Tamil Nadu state, where Foxconn operates its largest iPhone plant, to help expand local production — Apple Inc. is seeking changes in India's labor laws as part of its effort to expand local production, and regional governments …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Study: GPT models and related technologies could impact 50%+ of the tasks needed in ~19% of US jobs, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure — Researchers examine how OpenAI's GPT technology could affect the workforce, and find 'the influence spans all wage levels … Sponsor Posts
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