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May 1, 2023, 12:40 PM

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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.
Financial Times:
The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic; the bank, which is slightly bigger than SVB, had $100B+ outflows  —  Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country's second-largest bank failure  —  JPMorgan Chase is to acquire …
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.
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of posting on Truth Social, vs. 300+ times from 2017 to 2021 on Twitter  —  Former President Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of actively posting …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Becky Ferreira / VICE:
Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from a subject, essentially reading a person's thoughts  —  An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports.
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.
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 …
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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