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Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations — Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
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X accelerates its plan to attract ad spending by SMBs, including outsourcing some ad sales to third parties, such as US-based marketing startup JumpCrew — Social media site accelerates plan to attract small businesses as billionaire owner battles big brands
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Phil Spencer says Microsoft has “no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo” after Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said Microsoft wants to target “every screen” — In our exclusive interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, we got a glimpse of the future of Xbox …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta says it is updating child safety features after a series of WSJ reports, including expanding its list of terms, phrases, and emojis related to child safety — In a blog post published today, Meta says it's expanding and updating its child safety features aimed at protecting kids … | Wall Street Journal: |
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: OpenAI delays its GPT store until early 2024 after “a few unexpected things have been keeping us busy”; the company had planned to launch in November 2023 — OpenAI will delay the launch of a GPT store until early next year, according to a memo to developers seen by Axios.
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A profile of Apple's chip division, including interviews with its head Johny Srouji and Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus — WATCH NOW — Why Apple doubled down on the expensive custom chip business, edging out Intel and starting a trend — Apple's soaring stock price …
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Amazon signs a SpaceX contract for three Falcon 9 rocket launches, set to begin in mid-2025, to help put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation into orbit — - Amazon's Project Kuiper has been delayed by rocket setbacks — Company also aims to use rockets from ULA, Bezos' Blue Origin| TechCrunch: |
Filing: hackers accessed 0.1% of user accounts in 23andMe's data breach that the company disclosed in October 2023; 23andMe reported 14M+ customers in May 2023 — Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company's recent data breach.| Associated Press: |
A councilman for the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre reveals that a resolution the city council approved unanimously in October 2023 was written by ChatGPT — City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation's first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn't know it at the time.| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
The US, UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance — - US, Australian and UK set to test sonar data processed by AI — Plan is part of Aukus security alliance formed to deter China| Lewis Gordon / The Verge: |
How Saudi Arabia's investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as it aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports — With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the kingdom's insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are already remaking the global video game industry.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Meta announces Seamless Communication, a suite of AI translation models that aim to enable more natural and authentic communication across languages — Meta AI researchers announced on Thursday that they have developed a new suite of artificial intelligence models called Seamless Communication …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google says RCS in Google Messages now has over 1B MAUs, and adds Photomoji, Voice Moods, Screen Effects, Custom Bubbles, Animated Emoji, and other features — First, the number: according to Google, over 1 billion monthly active users are using RCS in Google Messages.
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