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X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private” — X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as it's no longer under active development — Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Instacart's IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% YoY in 2023, sparking an online spat between staff of rivals Snowflake and Databricks — - Instacart's long-awaited IPO prospectus last week turned controversial in a way the grocery-delivery company wasn't anticipating.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to fix PhonePe shareholder liabilities and buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its stake to ~80% — Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China's approval, and how they deal with sensitive content — China has approved the first batch of AI chatbots for public rollout, and I tested them out. But first... Test time
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
LG and Samsung say their smart home apps will work with the other company's appliances and TVs in 2024, as part of the Home Connectivity Alliance formed in 2021 — The smart home is all about interoperability these days. First came Matter, making Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung play nice …
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Intel, Samsung, AMD, Synopsys, and others plan to invest between $25M and $100M each in Arm's IPO; Amazon decided against — Customers of Arm Holdings Ltd including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc …
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DappRadar: monthly NFT trading volume fell 81% from January 2022 to July 2023, while monthly NFT sales have dropped 61%, as traders return to cryptocurrencies — When you look at the charts, “everything is down.” — NFTs first crossed Daniel Maegaard's radar in 2018.| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Interviews with AI red team heads at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Meta on why breaking AI models matters for safety, the challenges of fixing them, and more — Forbes spoke to the leaders of AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta, who are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in AI systems so they can be fixed.
X: @forbes, @rashishrivast18, @evijitghosh, @forbes, @rashishrivast18, and @rashishrivast18. LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava
| New York Times: |
California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that intends to build a city in the Bay Area's Solano County, unveils a website explaining its plans — A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest people.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Child advocacy group Heat Initiative is starting a $2M US ad campaign calling on Apple to detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse materials from iCloud — An advocacy group is starting a $2 million campaign calling for the company to better police materials on its products and services.
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X: @mer__edith, @matthew_d_green, @matthew_d_green, @carlszabo, @marcistook, and @kevinliao_. LinkedIn: Lily Rhodes. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
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