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While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction — “May occasionally generate incorrect information.” — This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT …
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| Aidan Ryan / The Information: |
Source: MoonPay insiders, including CEO Ivan Soto-Wright, cashed out $150M in shares as part of the crypto payment startup's $555M Series A in November 2021 — In November 2021, just as crypto prices were hitting all-time highs, MoonPay—a crypto payments startup that celebrities including Jimmy Fallon …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst Ross Young says Apple's upcoming MR headset will have two 1.41" Micro OLED displays targeting 5,000+ nits of brightness and 4,000 pixels per inch — The tech community is collectively on the edge of our seats as we zoom toward the expected unveiling of Apple's mixed reality headset.
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| Bloomberg: |
Fidelity estimated in a recent disclosure that Twitter is now worth about 33% of Elon Musk's $44B purchase price, based on a markdown of its own Twitter stake — Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 series chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro — We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party — Now that Twitter's API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long beloved third-party apps are shutting down.
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| Nadia Asparouhova / Wired: |
As GitHub prepares to close its San Francisco HQ, a look back at the living testament to tech culture, with its conflicts presaging a decade of tech backlash — The code-hosting platform's headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.
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| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $7B, vs. $7.3B est., HPC & AI revenue up 18% YoY to $840M, and Intelligent Edge revenue up 50% YoY to $1.3B; HPE drops 5%+ — HP CEO expects PC sales to rebound in the second half of the year and notes that AI will ‘redefine what PCs can do’
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Nvidia opens at a $1T market cap, joining Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon, after raising its Q2 revenue forecast due to AI demand; NVDA is up 180%+ YTD — - Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap at the start of trading Tuesday, before slipping to $990 billion by close of trading.
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Some mainland China tech entrepreneurs are trying to gain permanent residency or citizenship outside of China to avoid US curbs and biases against Chinese firms — For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder.| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
A viral Nintendo's Tears of the Kingdom clip that shows Link unfurling a bridge wows game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a full year polishing the game — What looks simple is actually very hard to make — There's a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Marakuguc Shrine, but it's broken.
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Miami-based Transak, which sells payment and onboarding infrastructure for Web3 games and financial apps, raised a $20M Series A led by CE Innovation Capital — The startup offers on- and off-ramps that could make it easier for new users to interact with Web3 projects.
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
By creating separate crypto companies, Standard Chartered and other finance groups are betting fund managers will prefer trusted brands to opaque crypto firms — Traditional finance groups create digital asset infrastructure untainted by year of crypto scandals| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance is discussing letting some of its institutional clients use bank deposits as collateral for margin trading, to help reduce counterparty risk — Binance is discussing a proposal to let some of its institutional clients keep their trading collateral at a bank instead …
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