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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features — The world's largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models
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Adam Selipsky, Andy Jassy, Howard Wright, Daniel DuPlessis, and Matt Garman
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@kantrowitz, @jennifercobbe, @ajassy, @jordannovet, @vboykis, and @b_fung
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more — Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 … | Bloomberg: |
Ethereum completes its Shanghai and Capella upgrade, letting users withdraw staked ether; ETH passes $2,000 as ~1.2M ETH is expected to be withdrawn in a week — The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade.
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| Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local: |
Sources: SFPD arrested IT firm owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee; they purportedly knew each other and were driving together before the killing — Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing …
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Hank Green and Cindy Gallop
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures” — One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a ramsom.
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple made $7B+ worth of iPhones in India in the FY ended March 2023 and exported ~$5B worth; ~7% of iPhones are now made in India, up from ~1% in 2021 — Apple Inc. assembled more than $7 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal year, tripling production in the world's fastest …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand instead of China and has been mass producing Apple Watches in Thailand for over a year — U.S. tech giant turning out Apple Watch in Southeast Asian country — For Apple and other tech companies … | Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
The European Data Protection Board sets up a ChatGPT task force, a potentially important first step toward a common EU policy on setting privacy rules for AI — The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on Thursday moved to create a task force on ChatGPT, the agency said in a statement.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
How the US is making arrests and seizing crypto funds, like James Zhong's 50K+ bitcoin, using Chainalysis and other tools to identify criminals via transactions — Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Discord says the company is cooperating with US law enforcement's investigation into a leak of classified documents of international US intelligence assessments — Instant messaging platform Discord said on Wednesday it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement's investigation into a leak …
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| Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: |
An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without understanding what lies ahead — The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps — Microsoft is bringing Windows 11 to its HoloLens 2 headset. The update will be available free of charge, and Microsoft …
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| Nate Rogers / The Ringer: |
A profile of Paul Dochney, the 35-year-old man behind @dril, a character born on the comedy site Something Awful before becoming an influential Twitter account — Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act?
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe rolls out support for images and PDFs in cloud-based video collaboration service Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing to Premiere Pro in May 2023 — Adobe has announced several product updates ahead of the 2023 NAB Show, including the addition of text-based video editing features …
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| Julie Muhn / Finovate: |
Virginia-based digital ID service ID.me, used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ — - ID.me announced a $132 million funding round, bringing its total raised to $240 million. — The company has brought on Samantha Greenberg as CFO.| New York Times: |
NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent — The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
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David Lingholm. Mastodon:
@PeterR@mastodon.social, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @timkmak@journa.host, @mimsical@mastodon.social, and @georgetakei@universeodon.com
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@npr, @elonmusk, @oliverdarcy, @kevincollier, @gbrumfiel, @bobbyallyn, @bruce_arthur, @elonmusk, @itswolfgangruth, @jangles, @benjaminnorton, @phil_lewis_, @kurtwagner8, @keithedwards, @npr, @mikeisaac, @davidcorndc, @timcast, @keithboykin, @chrisgorham, @scottdetrow, @rudygiuliani, @jbenton, @edgeofsports, @pt, @nerdjpg, @mfcannon, @tweetsbyparker, @davidmackau, @esqueer_, @adamweinstein, @jaycaspiankang, @davidsirota, @_cingraham, @aniceburrito, and @phil_lewis_
| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
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@KarlBode@masto.ai, @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot, @mattnavarra@mastodonapp.uk, @pbump@journa.host, and @mattnavarra@mastodonapp.uk
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@jamin2g, @disclosetv, @censoredmen, @elonmusk, @paulg, @notabigjerk, @elonmusk, @jamesclayton5, @vprasadmdmph, @ggreenwald, @farzyness, @davidsacks, @karlbode, @micsolana, @rubinreport, @rmac18, @wfkars, @richlightshed, @mattnavarra, @bydavidgardner, @elonmusk, @parismarx, @elonmusk, @crawf34, @realmattcouch, @paleofuture, @nandiniwhy, @charliekirk11, @rmac18, @rmac18, @rmac18, @charlesarthur, @farzyness, @rvawonk, @mattbinder, @mattbinder, @memeghnad, @mattbinder, @rvawonk, @drewb, @coloradotravis, @ankaman616, @lorakolodny, @unusual_whales, @faizsays, @sabaeitizaz, @washingtonpost, @esqueer_, @washingtonpost, and @farhip
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google plans to shut down Currents, G Suite's Google+ replacement launched in 2019, on August 8 so users won't have to work in a “separate, siloed destination” — / It'll wind down starting in 2023 and be replaced with Spaces … Google has announced that it'll shut down Currents … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A study finds that using the ChatGPT API to assign a persona, like “a bad person” or certain historical figures, to the chatbot increases its toxicity sixfold — It's no secret that OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things.
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Gizmodo, Metaverse Post, VentureBeat, arXiv.org, AI2 Blog, and VentureBeat
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@jordannovet, @martinsfp, @neuroecology, @ameetdeshpande_, and @danieljkelley
| Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank plans to sell SoftBank Ventures Asia, which manages ~$2B in assets, to a new VC entity led by Masayoshi Son's brother Taizo Son, for an undisclosed sum — SoftBank Group Corp. is selling its early-stage venture capital arm SoftBank Ventures Asia Corp. after suffering billions of dollars in losses from failed startup bets.
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Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, Financial Times, PitchBook, and Forbes
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