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May 31, 2023, 5:20 AM

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James Vincent / The Verge:
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nikkei Asia:
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 …
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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