Meta announces Meta Verified, offering a blue badge, impersonation protection, and customer support for $12 per month on the web or $15 per month on iOS
Good morning and new product announcement: this week we're starting to roll out Meta Verified — a subscription service that lets …
New Bing offers marvelous responses, dangerously convincing falsehoods, direct quotes that appear to be made up, and shocking claims about its own capabilities
“You're in!” the email said. “Welcome to the new Bing!” Last Sunday, I joined a small wave of users granted early access …
Microsoft limits Bing chats to five questions per session and 50 questions per day; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic
A Wharton School professor whose classes required using ChatGPT to write essays says students fact-checked and quickly understood AI's accuracy and bias issues
(Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned) — I fully embraced AI for my classes … Tweets: @doakshannon , @emollick , @emollick , @tunguz , @drphiltill , a...
Hedge fund Galois Capital, which managed ~$200M in 2022, shutters, returns investor money, and sells claims for $0.16 after half its assets were trapped on FTX
Co-founder apologises in letter to investors and says fund is no longer viable — A hedge fund that was one of the highest-profile victims …
Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporting to train its AI; a source says CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content
Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …
Decentralized wireless communication network Helium plans to move to Solana on March 27 after 81% of its community voted in favor of migration in September 2022
Decentralized wireless communication network Helium will entirely shift to the Solana blockchain by March 27 …
A look at Meta's “The Cube”, a cubicle made of felt-like recycled PET plastic that absorbs sound and blocks distractions, rolling out to Meta's offices globally
The Facebook and Instagram parent needed a new setup for the loud hybrid workplace. Here's a first look at the quieter cubicle.
As ChatGPT and generative AI explode in popularity, CEOs, engineers, executives, and other employees at myriad companies begin experimenting with the tools
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A preview of the Gonzalez v. Google case at the SCOTUS and a look at the Israeli nonprofit law center Shurat HaDin opposing YouTube at a hearing on February 21
Back around 2010 (ish), some folks at Facebook conducted an experiment to see if they could influence people's behavior by altering what is in their feeds. … Dan York / @danyork@mastodon.social : This...
WhatsApp rolls out picture-in-picture support during video calls for iOS, first announced in December 2022, alongside captions for documents and more
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Sources: Microsoft recently began testing a big Teams update, known as 2.0 internally, aiming to improve resource usage, and plans to release a preview in March
Microsoft is preparing to launch a new version of Microsoft Teams next month that has been rebuilt from the ground …
Experts say China is behind the US in AI tools like ChatGPT due to censorship, geopolitical tensions, and the government's growing control of the private sector
Twitter has faced at least nine lawsuits in recent months from landlords, consultants, and vendors demanding payments totaling $14M+ for unpaid bills
Lawsuits come as the billionaire says the social-media company is on track to break even — Since Elon Musk took over …
Joe Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21
A look at You.com, Andi, and Perplexity, three startups that started offering chatbot-enhanced search tools before the new Bing and Google's Bard came along
Spain's High Court agreed to extradite UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor to the US over a Twitter hack in 2020 that compromised Biden's and Obama's accounts
The disappearance of China Renaissance's Bao Fan, coming as Beijing eases its tech crackdown, casts a chill across China's tech sector and worries executives
In May 2021, a group of Chinese banks agreed to lend $300mn to investment bank China Renaissance with a condition: if Bao Fan … Tweets: @jameslmcgregor , @gilliantett , and @georgemagnus1 Tweets: Jame...
SpaceX's Starlink invites select customers to test its Global Roaming Service, a $200 per month option offering internet “almost anywhere on land in the world”
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An amateur Go player beat a top-ranked AI system in 14 of 15 games, using tactics suggested by a computer program that had analyzed the AI system for weaknesses
But a human just trounced one of the world's best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/... … Tweets: @0xabad1dea : the overwhelming moral of the story recently is that AI is terrifyingly dang...
A profile of Synchron, a startup set to trial inserting brain implants via blood vessels, helping those with limited physical mobility use cursors and devices
- Synchron is part of an emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry.
Long criticized for a soft touch, Ireland's Data Protection Commission is yet to advertise for two senior posts ahead of key privacy investigations
Silicon Valley's leading data-protection watchdog in Europe is set to remain stretched in a raft of high-profile privacy probes after Ireland failed …
An interview with Geekbench creator John Poole on making the tool cross-platform from the start, what's new in Geekbench 6, why benchmarking matters, and more
so that you can tell when something is wrong. https://arstechnica.com/...
A social media post by two academics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences outlines plans to circumvent US chip sanctions, including patents on next-gen chipmaking
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A look at the use of conversational AI in US call centers, which some agents find helpful and others say leaves the humans with more complex, intense workloads
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Sources: KKR-owned BMC Software confidentially filed for a US IPO, seeking a valuation of up to $15B; KKR acquired Houston-based BMC in 2018 for $8.3B
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Semiconductor industry supply giant Applied Materials predicts a $250M hit in Q2 after a ransomware attack at an unnamed supplier, likely MKS Instruments
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US regulators expanding their crypto investigations has led some companies to look to financial hubs overseas, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Europe, and Dubai
Research: US dollar investments in Chinese startups fell nearly 75% YoY in 2022; 19% of capital put into Chinese startups was in USD, compared to 39% in 2021
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