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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society — It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a final ruling; the site's mods say most ChatGPT answers are wrong — Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says ChatGPT crossed 1M users since it launched less than a week ago — ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!
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| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Sources: the US Department of Agriculture is probing Neuralink for potential animal welfare violations after complaints that its animal testing is being rushed — Elon Musk's Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto lender Nexo aims to exit the US in the coming months, stops signing up US customers to its Earn Interest Product and halts access to it in eight states — Nexo will immediately suspend access to its Earn product in several U.S. states. — Crypto lender Nexo announced Monday …
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Microsoft plans to increase the price of new, first-party Xbox Series X and S games to $70 in 2023, after prices remained steady at $60 since the Xbox 360 era — Forza Motorsport, Redfall, and Starfield will be among the first to reflect the change. — Xbox is preparing to join …
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| Ellen Thomas / Insider: |
Memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January 2023, saying the move “has nothing to do” with Bret Taylor's departure — Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January. — Butterfield posted his announcement …
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| Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine: |
Unlike Bernie Madoff, SBF has not confessed to criminal conduct, arguing sloppiness and missteps caused FTX's collapse, meaning a US prosecution could take time — On December 11, 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested and criminally charged with one of the biggest financial frauds in history …
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| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
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| NBC News: |
Secret Service report: China-linked APT41 hackers stole $20M+ in US COVID-19 relief benefits, the first known pandemic fraud tied to state-affiliated hackers — Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Unlike Getty Images, Adobe plans to sell stock images made by artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E, but requires that the images be labeled as such — Adobe is opening its stock images service to creations made with the help of generative AI programs like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion, the company tells Axios.
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Orthogonal Trading defaults on eight loans to lending protocol Maple Finance, totaling $36M, or ~30% of active loans on the protocol, likely due to FTX exposure — - Orthogonal Trading has defaulted on eight loans totalling $36 million on lending protocol Maple Finance.
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Runway, one of the two startups behind Stable Diffusion, raised a $50M Series C led by Felicis Ventures; sources: Runway's valuation is $500M, and ARR is ~$1M — Runway ML, one of the two startups behind the popular AI text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding at a $500 million valuation, Forbes has learned.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Following tests on Instagram, Meta begins testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, letting users upload IDs or video selfies screened by partner Yoti — Meta is testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, a move the company says will make the product safer, per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios.
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