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Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data” — The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.
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Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models starting this week, regulation, and more — “Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly."
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has updated Bard by incorporating some of its PaLm models to better answer math and logic questions, with coding capabilities coming soon — To date, Bard has used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which is focused on conversational dialogue … | Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16 — The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary” — Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software …
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The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will — BuzzFeed isn't ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense. — Pranav Dixit
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| New York Times: |
Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark — Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.
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Japan plans to restrict exports of 23 types of chip manufacturing equipment starting July 2023, amid the US push to curb China's ability to make advanced chips — Japan's government on Friday said it plans to restrict exports of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment …
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| Reuters: |
China launches a cybersecurity review of products sold in the country by US memory chip manufacturer Micron, citing national security risks — China's cyberspace regulator will conduct a cybersecurity review on products sold in China by U.S. memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology (MU.O), the regulator said on Friday.
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Agreena, which uses AI-based monitoring by satellite imagery to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B, after a €20M Series A in 2022 — The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits — While fingers are being pointed …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: India is looking for alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, and is seeking to spend between $16M and $120M — Modi government seeks alternatives to software made by NSO Group following snooping scandals around the world
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources: YMTC expects to begin production at a new chip plant in H2 2024 by relying more on domestic suppliers, boosting China's self-sufficiency efforts — Memory-chip maker to rely on local equipment suppliers for 2024 manufacturing plans — Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp …
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's classical music app fixes the genre's main problem of search and discovery using metadata from Amsterdam-based Primephonic, which Apple acquired in 2021 — Forget the metaverse. The future is metadata. It's how the world's most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.
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