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Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor — The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission cancels Binance Australia's derivatives license, giving the exchange until April 21 to close all positions — The exchange will close all of its customers' open derivatives positions by April 21. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to restrict personal loan apps from accessing sensitive user data like photos, videos, and contacts from May 31, in response to predatory behavior — Google plans to restrict apps that offer loan to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos and contacts … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras between 2019 and 2022 on internal messaging apps, including a child being hit by a car — Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Sundar Pichai on plans to add generative AI to Search, why chatbots do not threaten Google's Search ads business, efficiency drive, and more — ‘More work left to do’ in efficiency drive, chief executive says — Google plans to add conversational artificial-intelligence features …
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| The Block: |
OPNX, an exchange for trading bankruptcy claims from 3AC founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davie, had just $13.64 in volume in its first 24 hours; OPNX's FLEX drops 27%+ — - OPNX did not start off with a bang. — The exchange's token, FLEX, is down 27%, trading at $1.95.
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
macOS users find a copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper on every Mac running macOS Mojave or newer, as a sample document for a hidden “Virtual Scanner II” app — While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations — After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.
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@sidhubaba, @carnage4life, @aggichristiane, @benoitberthelot, and @techwontsaveus
| Financial Times: |
Sensor Tower: US advertising on TikTok grew by 11% in March despite the threat of a ban, with Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon, and Apple among the top spenders — Digital advertising on the Chinese-owned video app grew by 11% in March — Advertisers are increasing their spending on TikTok … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung announces a multi-year extension with AMD on their IP licensing agreement to bring multiple generations of AMD Radeon graphics to more Exynos SoCs — Samsung said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on their licensing agreement which gives … | Masha Borak / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Russia's tech industry decline, accelerated by the country's war against Ukraine, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation — Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family's belongings, canceled the lease …
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@mashaborak, @phuenermund, and @eileenguo
| Jay Caspian Kang / New Yorker: |
Utah's bills restricting kids' social media use have galling civil-liberties concerns and hazy enforcement plans, and will likely face constitutional challenges — Most people seem to agree that something should be done to protect kids from what sure looks like an addictive product.
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| Andy Bell: |
A Mastodon user since 2018 details issues with the service despite decentralization's promise, like few Twitter friends, little diversity, and tone policing — I first joined Mastodon in 2018 (even though my old profile says 2016?), so I'd say I've seen a lot of its evolution.
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its approach to AI safety, including evaluating AI systems, improving safeguards based on real-world use, protecting kids, and respecting privacy — OpenAI is committed to keeping powerful AI safe and broadly beneficial. We know our AI tools provide many benefits to people today.
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Reuters, Search Engine Journal, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, and SiliconANGLE
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Bill Bourdon. Tweets:
@lukolejnik, @openai, @andrewcurran_, @ruchowdh, @liron, and @officiallogank
| Kevin Varley / Bloomberg: |
US Census data: US chip imports rose 17% YoY to $4.86B in February 2023; Asia accounted for 83%, led by Malaysia at 20%, Taiwan at 15.1%, and Vietnam at 11.6% — Thailand, Vietnam, India and Cambodia have emerged as early winners this year as semiconductor production begins to move away … | Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Lower-income US students feel they are at a disadvantage when pursuing Big Tech internships, as the selection process exhibits longstanding inequities in hiring — Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges.
LinkedIn:
Judith Spitz, Ruthe Farmer, and Michael Martin
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@dealbook, @nytimes, @nytimestech, @natashanyt, @edanalyst, @pinkgrammar, and @cfiesler
| New York Times: |
Research: Chinese officials and state media pushed back on a US TikTok ban on Twitter, echoing the Huawei defense, showing Beijing's investment in TikTok's fate — The company has tried to distance itself, but the information push shows just how deeply invested Beijing is in its fate.| Semafor: |
Tests show that Twitter's “stay informed” labels, added in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia- or China-controlled media, no longer appear — Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets, violating the social media platform's own stated policies.
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B in assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022 and sold a 30% stake to FTX for $45M in September 2022 — On Jan. 31, Anthony Scaramucci sat onstage at a hedge fund conference in Miami, answering questions about, among other things, his former business partner Sam Bankman-Fried.
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@anthony, @anthony, @profileread, @anthony, @inartecarlodoss, @smtuffy, @parrotcapital, @smtuffy, @followtheh, and @smtuffy
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Influencers, small businesses, and others say Meta gutting its customer service teams during layoffs has left them grappling with scammers and technical issues — - Meta's two rounds of layoffs are affecting the company's already poor customer service for users, influencers, communities and businesses.Sponsor Posts
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