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X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones' account, after Elon Musk conducted a poll that resulted in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring the account — Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known …
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Threads: @deanobeidallah, @lorakolodny, @goatburgler, @mossbergwalt, @shannonrwatts, @jnewberger, @shannonrwatts, @ruthzknits, and @karaswisher
Mastodon: @ariegoldshlager@mstdn.social, @LeslieBurns@legal.social, @davidakin@mstdn.ca, @I_am_stefan@dembowski.social, @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org, @John@socks.masto.host, and @Andy_European@mastodon.online
Bluesky: @epro.social and @adnan.social
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies — A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Paris-based Mistral AI has raised €385M, or about $415M, with investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources: the deal values Mistral at about $2B — The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.
More: Unite.AI and Financial Times
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO's first significant moves — - Tether has frozen its coins held in crypto wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the company announced today.
More: Tether, crypto.news, CoinDesk, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, Bitcoin News, DL News, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, and Cointelegraph
X: @danhwang88, @jp_koning, @harri_obi, @austin_federa, @occamicrypto, and @zekefaux
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders on generative AI's role in robotics, when to expect true general-purpose robots, the humanoid form factor, and more — For the next few weeks, TechCrunch's robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
OctoML ends its deal with text-to-image AI model sharing platform Civitai, after a report found some images made by Civitai users “could be categorized as” CSAM — Civitai, a text-to-image AI model sharing platform, is seeking a new cloud computing provider and instructing … | Emily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Annie Jean-Baptiste, Google's first Director of Product Inclusion & Equity, on ensuring Google's products are more accessible — Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company's not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive
X: @elatable, @emilybobrow, and @wsj
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
After Beeper Mini's recent outage, Apple says it took steps “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to gain iMessage access — A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at the Effective Accelerationism movement, which favors open-source AI tech and believes that AI's benefits outweigh its harms and shouldn't be regulated — The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.
More: Cryptopolitan. Mastodon: @adamgreenfield@social.coop. X: @dylan522p, @garrytan, @garrytan, @almostmedia, @basedbeffjezos, and @wttdfp
| Washington Post: |
The EU's AI Act includes restrictions for foundation models, subjecting some proprietary models classified as having “systemic risk” to additional obligations — The regulation paves the way for what could become a global standard to classify risk, enforce transparency …
More: European Digital Rights, PetaPixel, and Reuters
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X: @thierrybreton, @vonderleyen, @thierrybreton, @luke_metro, @alex, @growing_daniel, @charlesfitz, @maxhodak_, @ashleevance, @micsolana, @cnliberalism, @martin_casado, @zsk, @nabeelqu, @8teapi, @swiftonsecurity, @axelvossmdep, @edwinhayward, @klyngec, @mantelero, @pieter_haeck, @ep_president, @ka_iwanska, @privacymatters, @infofannny, @bertuzluca, and @axelvossmdep
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| Erik Hoel / The Intrinsic Perspective: |
A bear case for the AI industry, as the sectors LLMs seem capable of disrupting so far, like writing, digital art, and programming help, are not very lucrative — Gemini and the supply paradox of AI — Another day, another huge new AI model revealed. This time it's Google's Gemini.
More: Business Insider and Mashable
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X: @emollick, @wfaler, @migueldeicaza, @simonw, @grady_booch, @erikphoel, @suhail, @danielcanueto, @erikphoel, @dhh, @ichbinilya, @roberthoglund, @melmitchell1, and @erikphoel. LinkedIn: Darren Coxon. Forums: Hacker News
| Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: |
Pudgy Penguins plans to launch an early-access version of Pudgy World, an interactive digital playground for Pudgy Penguins NFT holders, before April 2024 — Pudgy World, an interactive digital world available to Pudgy Penguin NFT holders, will become available in alpha mode sometime next year, according to the company's CEO.
More: The Block, CoinGecko, Blockonomi, and Decrypt
| Daphne Keller / @daphnehk: |
[Thread] Texas' and Florida's online speech rules for platforms cannot be justified, as less restrictive tools that give users control over online content exist — There was an amazing outpouring of S. Ct. amicus briefs opposing Texas's and Florida's online speech regulations yesterday. Here's what mine's about. 1/
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