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Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the “benefit of humanity” over profits — OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.
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Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries — Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.
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Source: Embracer plans to sell its subsidiary Saber Interactive to private investors in a $500M deal, making Saber a privately-owned company with ~3,500 staff — Saber will continue developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB will sell …
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to Meta, as part of Meta's ongoing litigation to protect WhatsApp — Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta's messaging app of spying on 1,400 users over a two-week period
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
In a hearing, a federal judge sounded skeptical of X's claims in its lawsuit against CCDH; an expert says it is “a SLAPP suit disguised as a contractual suit” — X alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate cost it millions by showing that hate speech was spreading on the platform.
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An investigation into ClothOff, an app being used to make deepfake porn images of underage girls, finds a brother and sister in Belarus are linked to the app — Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated nonconsensual images of underage girls around the world| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft launches Copilot for Finance in public preview, helping users reconcile data in Excel, speed up the collections process in Outlook, and more — - Microsoft is launching a Copilot for Finance, which it said will be able to perform a handful of common role-specific actions in Excel and Outlook.
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LinkedIn: Georg Glantschnig, John Cable, Christopher Versace, Reshmi Ghosh, Alysa Taylor, and Charles Lamanna
Forums: r/Accounting and r/singularity
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that creates a realistic talking or singing video from a portrait photo and an audio file — Researchers at Alibaba's Institute for Intelligent Computing have developed a new artificial intelligence system called “EMO,” …
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| Kevin Nguyen / The Verge: |
A eulogy for TinyLetter, as Mailchimp shuts down the newsletter tool acquired in 2011 that had a brief run nurturing great personal writing on the internet — In remembrance of the humblest newsletter service and its brief run nurturing great personal writing on the internet.| Patrick Sisson / New York Times: |
The data center industry is struggling to meet its self-imposed sustainability goals as AI's booming growth increases electricity demand and strains power grids — Artificial intelligence's booming growth is radically reshaping an already red-hot data center market, raising questions … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Microsoft outlines its new DirectSR API, which lets game developers integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and others — Microsoft has outlined a new Windows API designed to offer a seamless way for game developers to integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.
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X: @dachsjaeger, @tomwarren, @buckstermcgee, @fromsoftserve, @directx12, @dachsjaeger, and @kirby0louise
Forums: r/XboxSeriesX, r/Amd, r/hardware, and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
JFrog finds ~100 malicious PyTorch and Tensorflow Keras models on Hugging Face, some of which can execute code on users' machines to give attackers a backdoor — At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face platform, some of which can execute code on the victim's machine …
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