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Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the “My AI” chatbot feature, powered by OpenAI GPT tech, that launched to users globally on April 19 — The user reviews for Snapchat's “My AI” feature are in — and they're not good. Launched last week to global users … | John Kruzel / Reuters: |
SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases related to government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Trump-related case in 2021 — The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution's …
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Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music with her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same as “with any artist I collab with” — In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknd …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech startups, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns haven't raised funds since 2021 — The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
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Sources: to avoid an official antitrust probe by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, following a complaint from Slack to the EU — Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack| Reuters: |
The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, an ex-OpenSea product manager accused of insider trading in NFTs, begins this week, one of the first cases for digital assets — U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens …
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A look at “the flattening”: tech companies laying off middle managers to improve efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom — Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at LAION, a free AI training dataset with 5B+ images used in Stable Diffusion and Google's Imagen, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann — In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to nearly $200M — The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money.
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Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week — Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday. Lunch was interrupted by huge news …
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| Roman Feeser / CBS News: |
A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, launched in 2014, which can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or song — Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it.| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
A look at Alethea, Graphika, and other startups that raised $300M+ from 2018 to 2022 to fight disinformation, charging companies and governments $100K+ per year — Shawn Eib was on the case as soon as customers started pulling billions of dollars from Silicon Valley Bank.
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
A poll of 1,500 US voters finds that 46% support a nationwide ban of TikTok and 35% oppose it; 62% of Republicans favor a ban, compared to 33% of Democrats — Majority of GOP voters support banning Chinese-owned app, compared with 33% of Democrats — WASHINGTON—Nearly half …
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Some critics of Twitter Blue, including @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say Twitter gave them unwanted Blue checkmarks — If you can't beat 'em verify 'em. … The latest speed bump in the rollout of Twitter's revamped verification policy under new owner Elon Musk is here: Spite checkmarks.
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