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X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones' account, after Elon Musk conducted a poll that resulted in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring the account — Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known …
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Mastodon: @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @ariegoldshlager@mstdn.social, @LeslieBurns@legal.social, @davidakin@mstdn.ca, @I_am_stefan@dembowski.social, @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org, @John@socks.masto.host, and @Andy_European@mastodon.online
Bluesky: @kenwhite.bsky.social, @epro.social, and @adnan.social
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies — A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at the Effective Accelerationism movement, which favors open-source AI tech and believes that AI's benefits outweigh its harms and shouldn't be regulated — The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Paris-based Mistral AI has raised €385M, or about $415M, with investors including a16z and Lightspeed; sources: the deal values Mistral at about $2B — The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.
More: New.blicio.us, Unite.AI, and Financial Times
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
After Beeper Mini's recent outage, Apple says it took steps “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to gain iMessage access — A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO's first significant moves — - Tether has frozen its coins held in crypto wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the company announced today.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders on generative AI's role in robotics, when to expect true general-purpose robots, the humanoid form factor, and more — For the next few weeks, TechCrunch's robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics.| Emily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Annie Jean-Baptiste, Google's first Director of Product Inclusion & Equity, on ensuring Google's products are more accessible — Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company's not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive
X: @elatable, @emilybobrow, and @wsj
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
OctoML ends its deal with text-to-image AI model sharing platform Civitai, after a report found some images made by Civitai users “could be categorized as” CSAM — Civitai, a text-to-image AI model sharing platform, is seeking a new cloud computing provider and instructing … | Bloomberg: |
The European Parliament and the EU's 27 member states will need to approve the AI Act, which seeks fines of up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for violations — - Region couldn't ‘let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ — Negotiators broke coffee machine working late-night deal
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
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| Erik Hoel / The Intrinsic Perspective: |
A bear case for the AI industry, as the sectors LLMs seem capable of disrupting so far, like writing, digital art, and programming help, are not very lucrative — Gemini and the supply paradox of AI — Another day, another huge new AI model revealed. This time it's Google's Gemini.
More: Business Insider and Mashable
Threads: @fxshaw. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @peterbutler@mas.to. Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social
X: @emollick, @erikphoel, @suhail, @danielcanueto, @grady_booch, @wfaler, @migueldeicaza, @erikphoel, @simonw, @dhh, @ichbinilya, @roberthoglund, @melmitchell1, and @erikphoel. LinkedIn: Darren Coxon. Forums: Hacker News
| Daphne Keller / @daphnehk: |
[Thread] Texas' and Florida's online speech rules for platforms cannot be justified, as less restrictive tools that give users control over online content exist — There was an amazing outpouring of S. Ct. amicus briefs opposing Texas's and Florida's online speech regulations yesterday. Here's what mine's about. 1/
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Tesla's 2023 Holiday Update, set for next week, includes a feature that automatically calls 911 if the car's airbags deploy in a crash, Apple Podcasts, and more — Tesla will release its 2023 Holiday Update next week with a few big changes, including one that lets Teslas call 911 automatically if the car's airbags deploy in a crash.
More: Not a Tesla App, PCMag, iLounge, Redmond Pie, Notebookcheck, iClarified, and Cult of Mac
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