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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft is exploring expanding ads in Bing Chat and sharing the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response — It was inevitable, but Microsoft has confirmed that more ads are coming to Bing's AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's mixed reality headset may not appear at WWDC as mass production is pushed back to Q3, amid doubts about the device creating an “iPhone moment” — Apple has again pushed back mass production of its mixed-reality headset and the device may not appear …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say hackers have compromised the 3CX VoIP IPBX desktop app, used by 600K+ companies and 12M+ daily users, in an ongoing supply chain attack — A digitally signed and trojanized version of the 3CX Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) desktop client is reportedly being used to target …
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| Washington Post: |
Midjourney halts free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral — Midjourney, the year-old firm behind recent fake visuals of Trump and the pope, illustrates the lack …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble — OpenAI's success in overtaking Google with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has achieved what seemed impossible in the past …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January after complaining that Bard was being trained with ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge — Google's Bard hasn't exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta will let users opt out of some highly personalized ads, using an online form that Meta will review and approve — Facebook, Instagram parent hopes plans to alter a privacy approach that would limit the impact from EU orders
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
As his companies lag OpenAI in the AI race, Musk launders his “concerns” about AI through the Future of Life Institute, primarily funded by the Musk Foundation — Elon Musk signed an open letter on Tuesday calling for a six-month pause in the development of artificial intelligence tools …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
An AI-focused tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying the rollout of its AI tools has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety” — An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group details two limited but highly targeted spyware campaigns using several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS, and Chrome — Two targeted spyware campaigns involving several zero-day exploits for Android, iOS and mobile versions of the Chrome browser were unmasked …
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| Futurism: |
BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment — Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard.
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| The Guardian: |
Leaked documents from Moscow-based company NTC Vulkan show how it helps GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, attacks on national infrastructure, and more — Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war — Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter details new API access tiers: Free with 1.5K tweets/month at app level, Basic for $100/month, and Enterprise; old APIs will stop working within 30 days — Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API.
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| Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: |
The New York Times says it isn't planning to pay for Twitter verification and, as a rule, won't reimburse reporters for verification of personal accounts — New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tells me.
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Netflix's iOS app code suggests the company is planning to expand its video game service to TVs for the first time, letting players use phones as controllers — Netflix Inc. is working to bring its nascent video-game service to television sets for the first time, moving beyond smartphones …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Vinod Khosla on how AI could “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, his OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more — At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he's been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including artificial intelligence.
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| Bloomberg: |
Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the past two months, down 89% from the $71M spent from September to October 2022 — In the weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter Inc., hundreds of advertisers paused spending on the platform, wary of the changes … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Invite-only Twitter alternative T2 plans to let Twitter users who are about to lose their checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its service — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company's previous leadership … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Fixie, a cloud service for helping developers integrate any LLM into their applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures — The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round.
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more — FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right. Its makers say that is the point.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based DataDome, whose service protects apps, websites, and APIs from bots, raised a $42M Series C led by InfraVia Growth, taking its total funding to $82M — Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be. According to a survey from Imperva …
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| James Reddick / The Record: |
The FDA says approval for medical devices now requires meeting certain cybersecurity standards laid out in the US omnibus spending bill signed in December 2022 — The Food and Drug Administration affirmed Wednesday that medical device manufacturers must now prove their products meet certain …
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| Alyssa Meyers / Marketing Brew: |
Audible is “conducting limited testing” of ads in audiobooks with non-members getting “ad-supported access to a limited set of Audible titles” — Audible confirmed it's currently testing audiobook ads, and Spotify seems to be eyeing the possibility.Sponsor Posts
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