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While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction — “May occasionally generate incorrect information.” — This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 series chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro — We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro …
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| Aidan Ryan / The Information: |
Source: MoonPay insiders, including CEO Ivan Soto-Wright, cashed out $150M in shares as part of the crypto payment startup's $555M Series A in November 2021 — In November 2021, just as crypto prices were hitting all-time highs, MoonPay—a crypto payments startup that celebrities including Jimmy Fallon …
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| Bloomberg: |
Fidelity estimated in a recent disclosure that Twitter is now worth about 33% of Elon Musk's $44B purchase price, based on a markdown of its own Twitter stake — Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A look at the BabyLM Challenge, which aims to create language models with datasets that are less than one-ten-thousandth the size of those used by advanced LLMs — Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. — When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst Ross Young says Apple's upcoming MR headset will have two 1.41" Micro OLED displays targeting 5,000+ nits of brightness and 4,000 pixels per inch — The tech community is collectively on the edge of our seats as we zoom toward the expected unveiling of Apple's mixed reality headset.
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
An interview with reclusive Bitcoin programmer @Fiatjaf on building the Nostr protocol to offer an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social media — Disenchanted with social media options like Twitter, the reclusive Bitcoin programmer tells Forbes how he designed his chat … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party — Now that Twitter's API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long beloved third-party apps are shutting down.
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Some mainland China tech entrepreneurs are trying to gain permanent residency or citizenship outside of China to avoid US curbs and biases against Chinese firms — For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder.| Nadia Asparouhova / Wired: |
As GitHub prepares to close its San Francisco HQ, a look back at the living testament to tech culture, with its conflicts presaging a decade of tech backlash — The code-hosting platform's headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
By creating separate crypto companies, Standard Chartered and other finance groups are betting fund managers will prefer trusted brands to opaque crypto firms — Traditional finance groups create digital asset infrastructure untainted by year of crypto scandals
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How Taiwan became a key part of the electronics supply chain, creating interdependence between Taiwan, China, and the US that has deepened even as tensions rise — In the days after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year, Taiwanese suppliers to U.S. tech giants including Apple …
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| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
Foxconn predicts “triple-digit growth in AI servers” in H2 2023 as demand skyrockets; in 2022, Foxconn made ~$36B in server revenue out of its $215B total — Apple's largest manufacturer says demand for servers needed to run ChatGPT-like services will double this year
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