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DCG plans to shut down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023 — Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business … | 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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German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400 self-acceleration issues — A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints …
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Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and Web3 mentions from its website's home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI — - VC firm Paradigm is taking its crypto-only focus to include “frontier” technologies such as AI, two sources with knowledge of the situation told The Block.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law — OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting …
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| Akriti Sharma / Reuters: |
Neuralink says the company received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants and plans to offer more details soon — Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study.
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Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs — - JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence …
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| Scott J. Shapiro / IEEE Spectrum: |
How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters — First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe.
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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 … | WABetaInfo: |
A WhatsApp beta on Android suggests the company is working on adding usernames, which may let users chat without sharing their phone numbers — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.11.15. — What's new in this update?
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| Wired: |
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more — We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.
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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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| Emily A. Vogels / Pew Research Center: |
A survey from March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% have tried the tool themselves; roughly four in ten say ChatGPT is somewhat useful — About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) are familiar with ChatGPT, though relatively few have tried it themselves, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March.
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