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Sam Altman has “many concerns” about the EU's AI Act coming in 2024 and says that OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating” — ChatGPT chief Sam Altman voices ‘many concerns’ over bloc's planned legislation| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited London this week, part of a tour to ~17 cities, including Paris, Warsaw, and Lagos, to discuss AI, balanced regulation, and more — On a stop in London, the OpenAI CEO called for balanced regulation and warned of the risks of deepfake disinformation.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A profile of Microsoft President Brad Smith, a DC veteran testing his well-worn playbook to shape AI regulation, such as by endorsing the creation of an agency — In 2017, Microsoft president Brad Smith made a bold prediction. Speaking on a panel at the Davos World Economic Forum …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing its chatbot, Tako, in select markets; from the right side of the app, the bot helps users discover new content and ask questions about a video — AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are all the rage, so it's no surprise to learn that TikTok is now testing its own AI chatbot, as well.
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures — - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches …
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Fahrenheit, bidders led by Arrington Capital, wins an auction for Celsius Network's assets, including loans, investments, and $500M in “liquid cryptocurrency” — Failed crypto lender Celsius Network LLC is poised to restart as a new company after Fahrenheit LLC … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out its LLM-powered Search Generative Experience, with features like a conversational mode and shopping aspects, to Search Labs members — Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program.
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| Stan Schroeder / Mashable: |
OpenAI expands its free ChatGPT iOS app, which launched in the US last week, to 11 more countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Nigeria, and South Korea — The smart chat assistant is at your service in 11 new markets. — OpenAI's ChatGPT app for iOS is available in 11 new markets.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, live videos, and its usual content — Stories are over — at least on YouTube, that is. The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Margrethe Vestager says the EU and the UK disagreeing on Microsoft's Activision deal raises “important questions” and that the remedies offered convinced the EU — The European Union's decision to approve Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion plan to buy Activision Blizzard Inc …
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman to build Worldcoin, raised a $115M Series C led by Blockchain Capital, aiming to scan everyone's eyes to create IDs — A crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has raised new funding to further its mission of providing a digital ID for everyone on the planet.
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Pegasus was used in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict to target a government worker, a UN official, and others in 2021 and 2022, the first documented use in a war — The Armenia spyware victims include a former Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia (the Ombudsperson) …
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A study describes how a patient who was paralyzed from the waist down was able to walk naturally again with brain and spine implants using an AI thought decoder — In a new study, researchers describe a device that connects the intentions of a paralyzed patient to his physical movements.
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A look at Disney and Comcast's Hulu fight; sources say their Hulu valuations vary by tens of billions, they're in arbitration, and Comcast stopped funding Hulu — Parent companies are in final phase of battle marked by legal threats, broken promises and secret arbitration| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Starling Bank CEO Anne Boden steps down and COO John Mountain steps up as interim CEO; Starling, which has raised $1B+, reports FY revenue up 110% YoY to £453M — Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by its CTO …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind details how its visual language model Flamingo generates descriptions for YouTube Shorts, stored as metadata and helping improve discoverability — Google just combined DeepMind and Google Brain into one big AI team, and on Wednesday, the new Google DeepMind shared details … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Florida-based Nymbus, which offers tools for banks to migrate their legacy stacks and help launch neobanks, raised a $70M Series D led by Insight Partners — Nymbus, a startup that partners with banks to migrate their legacy stack and launch neobanks to attract new customers …
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FinTech Futures, PYMNTS.com, and Insight Partners
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Sony announces “Project Q”, a handheld device with an 8-inch screen for streaming games from a PlayStation 5 via Remote Play over Wi-Fi, launching later in 2023 — Sony has officially confirmed it's working on a PlayStation handheld to make it easier to play your PS5 games.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance launches NFT loans, starting with ether borrowing against “blue-chip” NFTs, such as BAYC, MAYC, and Azuki, with a current 7.91% annual interest rate — - Binance has launched NFT loans feature on its NFT marketplace. — The feature currently supports ETH borrowing against …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitch raises the price of Turbo, its ad-free subscription that offers extra emoticons, chat badges, and more; the US price jumps from $8.99 to $11.99 per month — Twitch is raising the monthly price of Twitch Turbo, its monthly subscription that lets you pay to remove most ads …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches API Pro, a $5,000/month tier offering access to full archive search endpoints and the ability to fetch 1M tweets and post 300K tweets monthly — Twitter announced a new API tier today called Twitter API Pro for startups that costs $5,000 per month.| Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba pushes back on reports of layoffs, saying the company plans to hire 15K workers in 2023, including 3,000 new graduates, across its six major divisions — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it plans to hire 15,000 people this year, pushing back on reports that the Chinese tech firm is laying off employees.
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South China Morning Post and Reuters
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Motorola Edge Plus review: excellent Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 performance and battery life, a sturdy build, and fast charging, but a curved display hampers usability — It's much closer to being a true flagship competitor, but the Edge Plus 2023 lacks the extra something that it needs to stand up to the category leaders.
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