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The FTC Chair calls for regulating AI, saying the tech could fuel market dominance and collusion by large firms, increase fraud and discrimination, and more — It's both exciting and unsettling to have a realistic conversation with a computer. Thanks to the rapid advance …
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| Financial Times: |
The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess opportunities, guardrails, and principles to protect competition — CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids' data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids — - The Federal Trade Commission proposed to bar Facebook parent company Meta from monetizing kids' data after it says the company violated …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds blue checkmarks to Gmail for senders from verified brands that adopted the company's Brand Indicators for Message Identification email specification — After adding support for verified brand logos in 2021, Gmail is now going further by adding a blue checkmark to emails.
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| Diana Li / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb announces Rooms, single rooms averaging $67 per night, and 50+ features and upgrades to improve price transparency, checkout, affordability, and more — Airbnb Inc. is revamping the home-rental platform in an effort to ease mounting tensions between guests and hosts ahead of what it expects to be a busy summer travel season.
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| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
A jury convicts former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain of insider trading, making $50K+ by buying and selling NFTs he featured on OpenSea's homepage — A former product manager at OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was convicted on Wednesday …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google enables passkeys, FIDO Alliance-developed cryptographic keys that require a preauthenticated device, on all accounts, to eventually replace passwords — Google's next step into a passwordless future is here with the announcement that passkeys — a new cryptographic keys solution …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts” — WGA writers don't want to train AI or clean up AI-generated “sloppy first drafts.”
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| Sam Jabri-Pickett / Reuters: |
Google and Meta executives say their platforms would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if the proposed Online News Act passes — Google and Meta would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if legislation compelling internet companies to pay news publishers is passed … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Healthy.io, which offers urine analysis through its mobile app, raised a $50M Series D, and plans to lay off ~70 employees, or about a third of its staff — The medtech startup is parting ways with around 70 employees despite receiving a fresh $50 million investment
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google plans to change Chrome's URL bar lock icon, introduced to signify HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, because “nearly all phishing sites use HTTPS” — Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness …
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| Kate Morgan / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Gen Z customers in the US are buying flip phones like the $75 TCL Classic or $90 Nokia 2780, seeking a break from endless notifications and social media — Modern models are a bit smarter than those from the early 2000s, but still offer a needed break from endless notifications| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $9.28B, vs. $9.1B est., net income down 42% YoY to $1.7B, and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; QCOM drops 5%+ — - Qualcomm reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that were in line with analyst expectations but saw sales from handset chips … | Reuters: |
Experts say Nvidia's H800 chip for China will likely take 10%-30% longer to carry out some AI tasks and could double some costs compared to its H100 chip — U.S. microchip export controls imposed last year to freeze China's development of supercomputers used to develop nuclear weapons … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens its Bing chatbot to all, removing the waitlist, and announces new features, including image and video results, chat history, and plug-in support — Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces SlackGPT, planning to add generative AI features to Slack to summarize meetings and more, and will incorporate EinsteinGPT into Slack — Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having …
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| CoinDesk: |
Coinbase plans to stop issuing loans in the US via its Borrow program starting May 10 due to low demand; a source says the move is unrelated to the SEC troubles — May 10 is the final day customers will be allowed to take out new loans through Coinbase Borrow. — Coinbase Borrow's days are numbered.Sponsor Posts
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