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June 8, 2023, 4:30 AM

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google updates how Bard handles math, coding questions, and string manipulation via “implicit code execution”, which lets the chatbot run code in the background  —  Bard, Google's beleaguered AI-powered chatbot, is slowly improving at tasks involving logic and reasoning.
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
DeepMind's AlphaDev, an AI for discovering enhanced algorithms, devised new C++ sorting algorithms that are up to 70% faster and have been added to the language  —  The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers.  —  DeepMind's run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues.
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Twitch walks back new branded content guidelines, released on June 6, calling them “bad” for streamers and the company, after swift backlash from creators  —  / ‘These guidelines are bad for you and bad for Twitch, and we are removing them immediately.’
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Court filings: Binance's lawyers allege SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the company in March 2019 when he was teaching at MIT Sloan  —  - According to a new filing from Binance's lawyers, SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the crypto exchange in 2019.
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon plans to launch an ad-supported Prime Video tier and is talking with WBD and Paramount about adding their ad-based tiers to Prime Video Channels  —  Discussions come as ad buyers have been pushing for more access to premium shows and movies  —  Amazon is planning to launch …
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Apple details features coming to its services this fall, like offline maps and real-time EV charging availability in Maps and Collaborative Playlists in Music  —  New features are coming to Apple Music, Apple Maps and more  —  Following the launch of Apple's next operating systems for its devices …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Google Cloud partners with Mayo Clinic to test a service for making AI chatbots and search apps; Mayo created a tool that helps staff find patient data and more  —  - Google Cloud on Wednesday said Mayo Clinic is using a new generative AI search tool that lets companies create customized chatbots.
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Internal email: Google plans to include office attendance records in performance reviews and consider new requests to work remotely full-time as an exception  —  Search giant, which asks most workers to be in an office 3 days a week, will consider attendance as part of performance
Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters:
GameStop fires CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appoints chairman and majority shareholder Ryan Cohen as its executive chairman; GME drops 15%+  —  June 7 (Reuters) - GameStop (GME.N) fired CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appointed billionaire Ryan Cohen as executive chairman …
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases a Game Porting Toolkit, based on the open-source platform Wine, to translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming  —  One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Chats, screenshots, and interviews: some people are pirating GPT-4 and offering free access after stealing OpenAI API tokens scraped from other people's code  —  Why pay for $150,000 worth of OpenAI access when you could just steal it?  —  People on the Discord for the r/ChatGPT subreddit …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to update its account center to give users more control over its cross-site tracking and profiling, ahead of a German antitrust ruling set for July 4  —  Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office …
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
Pornhub adds a video message to its homepage for Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas visitors, asking to oppose the states' newly passed age verification laws  —  Pornhub wants to punt privacy concerns of age verification to Big Tech.  —  Starting today, Pornhub visitors in Virginia …
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David Pierce / The Verge:
WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast tool that is “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment services in the future  —  June 8, 2023 … The newest feature in WhatsApp brings a very different kind of messaging to the world's most popular chat app.

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