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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more — In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
LinkedIn: Rafael Brown and Niall Firth
Mastodon: @ron_miller@noc.social, @Newmy@writing.exchange, @NatureMC@mastodon.online, @aardrian@toot.cafe, @Mor@hci.social, @tanyamr@newsie.social, @kenji@chaos.social, and @badams@mastodon.social
| NewsGuard: |
Analysis: in May and June 2023, 141 major brands ran ads, mostly via Google Ads, across 55 low-quality sites with AI-generated articles, some posting ~1,200/day — NewsGuard identified 141 brands that are feeding programmatic ad dollars to low-quality AI-generated news and information sites operating with little to no human oversight
More: MIT Technology Review, The Verge, and The Decoder
Twitter: @brianroemmele, @newsguardrating, @jbruce218, and @gsterling
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta announces Quest+, a VR subscription service that gives Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro users access to two games every month for $7.99/month or $59.99/year — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced Quest Plus, the company's new “virtual reality subscription” that gives users access to “the best titles on the platform,” he said.
More: Meta, YouTube, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, The Information, CNBC, Social Media Today, CNET, PCMag, Thurrott, GamesIndustry.biz, 9to5Toys, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, GameSpot, Reuters, MobileSyrup, Neowin, Android Central, VRScout, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, BigTechWire, Tom's Guide, Road to VR, BGR, Digital Trends, IGN, KitGuru, and UploadVR
LinkedIn: Nathaniël de Jong. Twitter: @metaquestvr, @dewdydoes, @nathievr, @nathievr, @camfaulkner, @vr_oasis, @dennycloudhead, @multicallum, @devrelcallum, and @wario64
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
A look at how the $42.5B US broadband infrastructure plan will be allocated: Texas leads with $3.3B+, California gets $1.8B+, Missouri gets $1.7B+, and more — The Biden administration on Monday outlined how states across the country will be receiving billions of dollars in federal funding …
More: Internet for All, The White House, The Verge, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Reuters, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, Wall Street Journal, GCN, Mashable, Fierce Telecom, Engadget, StateScoop, WRAL TechWire, and CircleID
Bluesky: @fudge.org. Mastodon: @b_fung@masto.ai. Twitter: @commercegov, @b_fung, @karlbode, @leftcoastbabe, @govjanetmills, @whitehouse, @washingtonpost, and @potus
| Will Knight / Wired: |
DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis details Gemini, an upcoming ChatGPT rival meant to combine the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems and those of LLMs — Demis Hassabis says the company is working on a system called Gemini that will tap techniques that helped AlphaGo defeat a Go champion in 2016.
More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Tech.co, WinBuzzer, and OnMSFT.com
Twitter: @sarthakgh, @glenngabe, @willknight, and @wiredscience
Forums: r/mlscaling, r/ChatGPT, and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
Databricks plans to acquire generative AI startup MosaicML in a ~$1.3B deal set to close by July 31; MosaicML debuted in 2021, raised $64M, and has 62 employees — The deal aims at connecting businesses' data with services to help them build their own, cheaper language models, Databricks CEO says
More: MosaicML, Databricks, iTnews, CRN, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, Forbes, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, FinSMEs, Blocks and Files, FinTech Global, The Information, WinBuzzer, Reuters, VentureBeat, Constellation Research, insideHPC, and Help Net Security
Twitter: @levie, @mattturck, @lindsayklife, @sullyomarr, @optionshawk, and @levie
| David Meyer / Fortune: |
A last-minute amendment to an Irish bill would let the Data Protection Commission declare some info in privacy complaints as confidential, sparking an uproar — European privacy advocates are hopping mad at what they see as an attempt by the Irish government to draw a veil over the activities …
More: The Irish Times, noyb.eu, Irish Council …, Independent.ie, Irish Legal News, GovInfoSecurity.com, and TechCrunch
Twitter: @johnnyryan, @robertjbateman, @tupp_ed, @lilianedwards, @fortunemagazine, @parmy, @joehas, @maxschrems, @iccltweet, @noybeu, @fboversight, and @maxschrems. Forums: Hacker News
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
FTX's bankruptcy team says the exchange owed its customers ~$8.7B after commingling and misusing their deposits, and has recovered ~$7B in liquid assets so far — Commingling and misuse of customer and corporate funds occurred from the inception of FTX, says current CEO John J. Ray III.
More: FTX, Bloomberg, The Block, The Block, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Crypto Briefing, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Watcher Guru
Twitter: @coindesk, @coindesk, and @ftx_official
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google Pixel Fold review: landscape-first is great for videos and the outer display feels natural, but it's heavy, pricey, and has limited multitasking features — If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. — The Google Pixel Fold is a lot of phone.
More: Ars Technica, ZDNet, 9to5Google, CNET, PhoneArena, Daring Fireball, Engadget, New York Times, Android Authority, Android Police, Washington Post, BGR, Wired, Pocket-lint, Chrome Unboxed, PetaPixel, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Tom's Guide
Twitter: @maxjmb, @maxwinebach, @alexeheath, @raywongy, and @allisonjo1
Forums: r/GalaxyFold and Ars OpenForum
| The Verge: |
A survey of 2,000+ US adults finds 57% know of ChatGPT, 46% for Bing Chat, 45% for My AI, and 38% for Bard; only ~33% have used the tools, with Gen Z dominating — We polled 2,000 people about how they're using AI, what they want it to do, and what scares them about it the most.
More: Fortune, MarketWatch, New York Post, and OnMSFT.com
Twitter: @_ericelliott, @om, @rjcc, @ppmerino, and @teedubya
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Harry and Meghan's Hollywood flop in streaming's era of slower growth; sources: Netflix is unlikely to renew their $100M deal, which runs through 2025 — They arrived three years ago with royal star power amid a streaming boom, but have notched more cancellations and rejections than produced shows| Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: |
Pete Buttigieg warns of possible air travel disruption as airlines face landing restrictions if they don't retrofit equipment to avoid 5G interference by July 1 — Airlines have until July 1 to update equipment or face restrictions on landing in poor visibility conditions
More: 9to5Mac, Fierce Wireless, Engadget, GovTech, Fortune, PhoneArena, and The Verge. Twitter: @rakeshlobster
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