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An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on part of him regretting his life's work and more — For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Automattic plans to drop its WordPress plugin JetPack's ability to automatically tweet blog posts, citing Twitter's dramatic change to its API terms and pricing — Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies. — When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website …
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
NewsGuard finds 49 websites with generic names like “News Live 79” using generative AI and posing as news outlets; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads — The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online …
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| Forbes: |
Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine — The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments.
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| Financial Times: |
The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic Bank, which was a tad bigger than SVB and had $100B+ in outflows — Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country's second-largest bank failure — JPMorgan Chase is to acquire …
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Sheila Bair and Ben Eisen
| Rebecca Rubin / Variety: |
The Super Mario Bros. Movie crosses $1B globally at the box office, becoming the first to do so in 2023 and the most financially successful video game movie yet — “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Despite scary warnings by the FBI, the FCC, and others about “juice jacking” at public charging stations, there are no documented cases of an attack in the wild — Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?
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| Becky Ferreira / VICE: |
Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from human subjects, a breakthrough in reading people's thoughts — An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports.
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| Emily Mason / Forbes: |
Sources: Apple's high yield savings account offering a 4.15% annual return brought in nearly $400M in deposits on launch day and ~$990M over its first four days — Apple's AAPL freshly launched high yield savings account brought in as much as $990 million in deposits over its first four days … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, shared 150K documents with the US SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks — The former high-ranking executive of Trump's media company says he's shared 150,000 internal documents with federal investigators.| Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire its German rival Flink, which is in talks to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation — Discussions come as consolidation accelerates in one of the pandemic's hottest tech sectors — Grocery delivery app pioneer Getir … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: with watchOS 10, Apple plans to make widgets a core part of the Watch again; the widget system combines the old Glances and iOS 14's style of widgets — Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.
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@markgurman, @twostraws, and @parkerortolani
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