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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content” — Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give chance to developers to create different apps and experiences around Threads.
More: The Verge, Gizchina, Engadget, and Mashable
Threads: @mosseri, @mehtology, @crumbler, @gaberivera, @carnage4life, @theromit, @mosseri, @gaberivera, @reckless1280, @ryanmruark, and @ipedro
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says he wants Threads to be the “de facto platform for public conversations online” and web app is not a “primary focus” as mobile usage is higher — Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has high ambitions for Threads: he wants it to become the …
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| Politico: |
A US executive order, expected to be issued as soon as October 30, will require firms building powerful AI models to report how they plan to protect their tech — The White House is poised to make an all-hands effort to impose national rules on a fast-moving technology, according to a draft executive order
More: Bloomberg, The Hill, Bitcoinist.com, The Verge, Reuters, CoinGeek, and CryptoSlate
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Google invests $500M upfront in Anthropic and agrees to add $1.5B more over time, after investing $550M in the generative AI startup earlier in 2023 — Google move follows Amazon investment as tech giants place bigger bets on startups racing to develop artificial intelligence
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X: @quinnypig and @quinnypig
| Telegraph: |
Sources: the UK government is working with OpenAI to develop Gov.uk Chat, an AI chatbot to help people pay taxes and access pensions — Move raises fears that taxpayers may be directed away from understaffed phone lines — Rishi Sunak is planning to launch an AI chatbot to help … | Financial Times: |
SBF testifies that he only understood “pieces” of the full financial state of his companies and was “surprised” by FTX's $8B balance-sheet hole in October 2022 — Former billionaire denies intending to defraud customers in testimony to the jury at trial
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
X adds a $16/mo. Premium+ plan with no ads in For You or Following and the “largest reply boost”, and a $3/mo. Basic plan with a “small boost” but no checkmark — X, the platform previously known as Twitter, has introduced a new $16 per month Premium Plus plan …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
US v. Google: Google's search head testifies that the company spent $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine in multiple browsers, phones, and platforms — Even if it's easy to switch browsers or platforms or search engines, the one that appears when you turn it on matters a lot.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Some artists who tried to use Meta's request form to delete their info from its AI training data say the process is frustrating; one calls it a “fake PR stunt” — This summer, Meta began taking requests to delete data from its AI training. Artists say this new system is broken and fake.| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
A profile of, and interview with, OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, who made a “superalignment” team to safely build and control superintelligent AI models — “It's going to be monumental, earth-shattering. There will be a before and an after.” — Ilya Sutskever, head bowed, is deep in thought.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Apple fixed an old bug exposing a device's real MAC address to nearby wireless routers even when Private Wi-Fi Address is enabled, including in Lockdown Mode — “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14. — Three years ago, Apple introduced …
More: The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Macworld, Help Net Security, Android Authority, TechCrunch, and Mysk on YouTube
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X: @mysk_co, @vanhoefm, @cryptonator1337, @benhammersley, @mysk_co, @gaetanoz, @evacide, and @mysk_co
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Discord's head of trust and safety John Redgrave on the content moderation challenges in the age of generative AI, exploring E2EE on Discord, and more — Discord, the online messaging platform that started as a haven for gamers, became better known earlier this year as the site … Sponsor Posts
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