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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more — For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: with watchOS 10, Apple plans to make widgets a core part of the Watch again; the widget system combines the old Glances and iOS 14's style of widgets — Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Despite scary warnings by the FBI, FCC, and more about “juice jacking” at public charging stations, there are no documented cases ever of an attack in the wild — Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?
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| Forbes: |
Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine — The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, turned over 150K documents to the SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks — The former high-ranking executive of Trump's media company says he's shared 150,000 internal documents with federal investigators.| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources: Meta managers built up “kingdoms” as headcount surged, before layoffs led to an unprecedented morale crisis and lower confidence in Mark Zuckerberg — Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
NewsGuard finds 49 websites populated by generative AI posing as news outlets with generic names like News Live 79; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads — The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online …
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| Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors — Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries
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| Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire German rival Flink, which also is seeking to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation — Discussions come as consolidation accelerates in one of the pandemic's hottest tech sectors — Grocery delivery app pioneer Getir … | New York Times: |
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material — As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.
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| Rebecca Rubin / Variety: |
The Super Mario Bros. Movie box office crosses $1B globally, becoming the most financially successful video game movie ever — “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office.| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Earnings from Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel were better than expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth still lags — Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past
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