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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped — An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts. — Chloe Xiang
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| Wired: |
Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show the majority favor some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an EU-wide E2EE ban — In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
TikTok sues Montana over its new law intending to ban the app, citing the First Amendment, the state's lack of authority on national security issues, and more — TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence — AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI's leadership believes that the world needs …
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| New York Times: |
China's Micron ban could help the government boost its domestic memory chip industry, a sector where China has a toehold in its competition with the US — A Chinese government block on Micron Technology's memory chips marks how far apart the two economic powers are drifting on tech policy.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Warner Bros. Discovery launches Max, offering substantially more 4K content than HBO Max via its $19.99 per month Ultimate plan, above the $15.99 ad-free plan — When Max goes live on May 23rd, the new Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service will offer substantially more 4K entertainment than HBO Max ever did.
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA blocked Meta's acquisition in 2022; Meta can still access Giphy content — Stock photos repository Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N) said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy Inc from Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) for $53 million in cash.
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| Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
Google expands its AI flood forecasting tool Flood Hub to 460M people, from 20 countries up to 48 hours in advance to 80 countries up to seven days in advance — Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Some users say Twitter is restoring tweets and retweets that they had deleted, in what appears to be a new bug — Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. … This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets …
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| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta unveils open-source AI models the company says can identify 4,000+ languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, a 40x and 10x increase, respectively — They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now. — Meta has built AI models that can recognize …
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Mark Zuckerberg
| Huw Jones / Reuters: |
Securities watchdog IOSCO proposes the first global crypto regulations, covering conflicts of interest, custody, and more, aiming to finalize them by year-end — International securities watchdog IOSCO on Tuesday proposed the first global approach to regulating cryptoasset markets …
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| Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong outlines crypto trading rules for bitcoin, ether, and other large coins, letting retail investors trade them on licensed exchanges starting on June 1 — Hong Kong said retail investors can trade crypto under its new rulebook for the sector, stepping up a drive to develop …
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CoinDesk, Nikkei Asia, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CoinGape
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| Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: |
Building AI responsibly matters more than competition, one company cannot fulfill AI's potential alone, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key — Fulfilling the technology's potential is not something that one company can do alone — The writer is CEO of Google and Alphabet
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Insider, City A.M., and Search Engine Journal
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches Generative Fill for Photoshop, one of the first Creative Cloud apps to use its generative AI Firefly tool, in beta, rolling out fully in H2 2023 — / Generative Fill will arrive in Photoshop in ‘the second half of 2023.’ — Adobe Photoshop is getting a new generative AI tool …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok restructures its ecommerce business to focus on markets where the service has already been introduced, such as the UK, US, and Southeast Asia — Chinese-owned group relocates executives in renewed push of livestream shopping in US and UK — TikTok has restructured …
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@cristinacriddle
| The Economic Times: |
Sources: JioMart cuts 1,000+ jobs as part of a larger cost-cutting measure, which will include reducing the 15,000 people wholesale division by two-thirds — Layoffs have now hit Reliance Industries, with its wholesale format JioMart sacking over employees, as per people in the know.
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