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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months — Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open
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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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| 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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say we'll likely need an international 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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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out the ability to edit messages up to 15 minutes after they are sent; edited messages get an “edited” tag, without showing edit history — WhatsApp is finally announced one of the most anticipated features today— message editing.
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| Wired: |
Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show most of them support some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an 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 banning 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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| 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.| Shannon Liao / New York Times: |
April 2023 email: Blizzard's chief design officer told employees to “prepare to be amazed” by the company's AI image generator trained on assets from its games — Generative A.I. is already changing how games are made, with Blizzard Entertainment training an image generator … | New York Times: |
After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in June 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still can't identify most primates — Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software … | John Harris / The Guardian: |
An interview with AI researcher Timnit Gebru on her controversial sacking by Google in 2020, biases in AI and Big Tech, racism in Silicon Valley, and more — The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.
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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
| Wall Street Journal: |
China's Micron ban may boost Samsung's and SK Hynix's sales, an uncomfortable position for South Korea given the companies' exposure to Chinese and US pressure — Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron's void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice
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