Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster with AI amid the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside
Google, Facebook and Microsoft helped build the scaffolding of AI. Smaller companies are taking it to the masses, forcing Big Tech to react.
Google researchers detail AI model MusicLM, which can generate high-fidelity music in any genre from text and was trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music
An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it.
Sources: the Biden administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China
President Joe Biden's administration secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery …
Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US' general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications
The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive's attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.
Sources: Apple is developing tools to let non-coders use Siri in its MR headset to build AR apps and is working on AR content emphasizing health and wellness
Apple is developing software to make it easy for users of its upcoming mixed-reality headset to build their own augmented reality apps …
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, on having no major Xbox releases in 2022, its outlook for 2023, layoffs, Activision deal amid FTC lawsuit, and more
Xbox's CEO talks about the recent Developer Direct, 2022 struggles, layoffs, and what 2023 could hold.
Twitter will take less severe action against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets; suspensions will be reserved for severe violations
Twitter is promising that it'll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it'll only suspend Twitter accounts …
Counterpoint: China's smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country's No. 2 brand
Apple topped smartphone sales in China in the fourth quarter of 2022, enabling the US tech giant to rank as the country's …
Amazon will charge US Prime members delivery fees for Fresh grocery orders under $150 from February 28, changing its free delivery policy on orders over $35
here's how to avoid them Carrie Mihalcik / CNET : Amazon Fresh Grocery Delivery Is Going to Cost More Starting Next Month Bethany Biron / Insider : Amazon will start charging Prime members up to $10 i...
ShareChat employees and investors shed light on the company's leadership crisis and say revenue has not kept pace with cash burn and the ~$5B 2022 valuation
The company's top and middle management are hollowing out, revenue has not kept pace with cash burn and Sharechat's top-tier valuation …
Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk's role in shaping Tesla's self-driving car claims, as part of a probe into the company's statements about Autopilot
US regulators are investigating Elon Musk's role in shaping Tesla Inc.'s self-driving car claims, the latest effort by watchdogs …
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall
One winter morning in early 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting-house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring. Tweets: @pkedrosky , @profjohntur...
New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A
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Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 remote contractors in the past six months, 60% for data labeling and 40% programmers to teach its models software engineering tasks
many humans — are building AI tools. They are not magical or simply the product of Silicon Valley elites https://www.semafor.com/... https://twitter.com/... @martinsfp : Generative A.I. is starting to...
As the GOP assumes leadership of the US House, antitrust subcommittee's bipartisan efforts to curb the power of big tech shift to a focus on free-speech issues
The new GOP House majority is turning away from last year's bipartisan efforts to rein in the dominance of the largest tech companies …
Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, doesn't let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed
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Gaggle, which offers a tool for monitoring online student communication, says it will no longer flag LGBTQ keywords in assignments after discrimination concerns
especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @cendemtech : “...the keywords put LGBTQ students at a heightened risk of...
An analysis of hundreds of ads on Truth Social shows diet pills, miracle cures, gun accessories, and Trump-themed trinkets while major brands are nonexistent
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says Elon Musk “doesn't seem like” the right owner for Twitter and that Musk has reversed morale and content policy improvements
Dan Milmo / The Guardian :
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI told a San Francisco federal court to dismiss a proposed class action suit against Copilot, citing fair use of open-source code
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The European Commission says Google agreed to update its Store, Play Store, Hotels, and Flights to provide clear and accurate information complying with EU laws
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
In its annual report, Intel says the European Commission is revisiting its antitrust case against the firm even after the General Court overturned a €1.06B fine
Table of Contents Organization of Our Form 10-K The order and presentation … Dana F. Blankenhorn / Dana Blankenhorn : Wintel (1990-2023): Death of a Monopoly
All.health, the successor to Jawbone, seeks to dismiss an investor suit for alleged fraud; the startup has raised at least $65M, according to a 2019 filing
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : https://all.health/, a medical device startup created by the former CEO of Jawbone, is at odds with one of its investors. https://www...
Documents and sources: Meta sees a path to recovery using AI tools that boost views of Reels, improve ad targeting even with less available user data, and more
which Meta processed without a valid legal basis in the EU. And now it appears its unlawful processing is being leveraged to develop newly invasive ad targeting AIs. When will the law catch up with th...
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