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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses — The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
More: TechCrunch, Moneycontrol, CSO, The Decoder, Benzinga, The Wrap, TechIssuesToday.com, Tech in Asia, and Crooks and Liars
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple aims to eventually meld the modem into the main processor on its devices but likely no sooner than 2028; the M4 MacBook Air may launch in March — Last week, Apple introduced the long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE: the iPhone 16e. In doing so, it all but abandoned the budget smartphone market.
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @thegalox_, @markgurman, and @patrickmoorhead
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| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of $4B+ after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; Bybit's CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn — Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has seen total outflows of over $5.5 billion after it suffered …
More: Etherscan, Etherscan, crypto.news, The Block, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Times, The Daily Hodl, Blockchain.News, DL News, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptopolitan, The Crypto Basic, Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, Gulf Business, and CryptoNinjas
Bluesky: @gerritd. X: @lookonchain, @cz_binance, @benbybit, @paoloardoino, @coindesk, @simplykashif, @0xnoncesense, @benbybit, and @benbybit
Forums: Hacker News, r/Buttcoin, and r/CryptoCurrency
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
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Bluesky: @xantori-crypto. X: @arkham, @chainlinkgod, @iamdcinvestor, @muz_muzzles, and @edwardlriche. LinkedIn: Rebecca Patterson
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia confirms a “rare” manufacturing issue affecting under 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs, which are missing render units, the latest hitch since launch — Where did the ROPs go? … In the grand scheme of things, that doesn't sound like a lot of affected GPUs …
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Bluesky: @seanhollister and @tomwarren.co.uk
X: @harukaze5719 and @9550pro
Forums: Hacker News, r/linux_gaming, r/technews, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/pcmasterrace
| Financial Times: |
Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023 — Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
More: Benzinga, The Markup, The Economic Times, and arXiv
Bluesky: @skylined, @nataliegreenpeer, @lchecketts, and @trishgreenhalgh. Mastodon: @davidho@mastodon.world
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google prices Veo 2, its new AI video model, at $0.50 per second of generated video; in December 2024, OpenAI offered Sora to its ChatGPT Plus and Pro subs — Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December.| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years — - The e-commerce firm is angling to become an AI company — Firm to invest in AI infrastructure such as data centers … The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans … | Bert Hubert's writings: |
As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds — We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
More: Werd I/O. Bluesky: @maggiemcneill, @jeremymorrell.dev, and @rop.gonggri.jp
Mastodon: @emilis@fosstodon.org, @knittingknots2@mstdn.social, @EveHasWords@toot.cat, and @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org
Forums: Hacker News and r/europe
| Evan Ratliff / Wired: |
A deep look at “the Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree — A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist …
More: Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, BBC, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, and Links I Would Gchat …
Bluesky: @jesszimmerman.com, @pykea, @evrat, @marklittle, @sesmith, @zekefaux, @mpchlets, @olifranklinwallis, and @keithsenkowski.com. Mastodon: @teezeh@ieji.de
X: @zachwritesstuff, @calebhannan, @olifranklin, @wired, @wired, @ev_rat, @wired, and @ev_rat. Forums: r/Longreads
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US school districts are adopting Sonny, an AI “wellbeing companion”, to provide mental health support to students when there aren't enough counselors — Is a human-AI texting service the future of mental-health care for students? — Teens around the country are confiding …
More: TechCrunch. Bluesky: @wsj.com, @daniloc.xyz, @lamhfada, @kiwired, and @radiobeartime.com. LinkedIn: Ana Brandusescu
| Enock Nyariki / Poynter: |
A Maldita study of nearly 1.2M Community Notes on X published globally in 2024 shows that professional fact-checkers are among the three most cited sources — Notes that cite fact-checkers earn more trust from X users and combat misinformation faster — When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
More: Ars Technica, Social Media Today, Washington Times, and Maldita.es
Bluesky: @ohmyshambles, @claesdevreese, and @caulfieldtim
Forums: r/politics, r/musked, and r/Twitter
| Financial Times: |
China is increasingly pooling resources from the state and private sectors, including startups like Infinigence AI, to accelerate adoption of AI data centers — Beijing is pooling resources from the private and state sectors to accelerate adoption of the fast-developing technologySponsor Posts
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What you need to know about fine-tuning LLMs — Success with generative AI hinges on honing a pretrained LLM to be a specialist at your intended domain or application. Learn how to fine-tune for four key characteristics.
Intel:
Intel Delivers powerful CPUs for AI and Networking — With the onset of AI, businesses demand powerful and efficient CPUs. Explore new Intel Xeon 6 processors, for the broadest set of workloads with leadership performance and lower TCO.
Intel Delivers powerful CPUs for AI and Networking — With the onset of AI, businesses demand powerful and efficient CPUs. Explore new Intel Xeon 6 processors, for the broadest set of workloads with leadership performance and lower TCO.
Zoho:
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 5th and 6th April 2025 from 09.00 AM to 09:30 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled for April 5 & 6 …
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 5th and 6th April 2025 from 09.00 AM to 09:30 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled for April 5 & 6 …
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