Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Image Creator to Edge, powered by OpenAI's DALL-E and accessible via Bing Chat, letting users create images from text prompts
Microsoft today announced that its new AI-enabled Bing will now allow users to generate images with Bing Chat.
Hands-on with Google's Bard, available via waitlist in the US and UK: quick and fluid, more constrained than Bing, three responses/query, disclaimers, and more
Today, Google is opening up limited access to Bard, its ChatGPT rival, a major step in the company's attempt to reclaim …
Microsoft speech recognition subsidiary Nuance debuts Dragon Ambient eXperience Express, which uses GPT-4 to generate clinical note drafts after patient visits
https://www.cnbc.com/... Prerak G. : Today, Nuance and Microsoft announce the first fully automated clinical documentation application for healthcare powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. … Chris Salvatore : Ver...
TikTok refreshes its Community Guidelines, expanding a section to cover “synthetic and manipulated media”, or deepfakes, as pressure from the US increases
As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies.
Ahead of Shou Zi Chew's testimony, TikTok confirms having 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020; in September 2021, TikTok reported 1B+ MAUs globally
starting with a comprehensive data privacy law. As @evan_greer says let's stop “xenophobic showboating” and get serious about tech regulation. Karissa Bell / @karissabe : This is the same playbook tha...
OpenAI temporarily shut down ChatGPT after a bug let some users see the titles of other users' chat histories; some chat histories are still missing
OpenAI temporarily shut down its popular ChatGPT service on Monday morning after receiving reports of a bug that allowed some users to see the titles of other users' chat histories.
Adobe announces Firefly, a “family” of creative generative AI models, and releases a DALL-E-like image generator and a WordArt-like stylized text generator
Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator. The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” …
Google suspends Pinduoduo's app on the Play Store over “security concerns” and flags several Pinduoduo apps as malware, alerting users who had installed them
On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware …
Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers, who offer anyone info on US citizens, including China
from the you're-not-actually-fixing-the- problem dept — We've noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral panic of 2023 is largely a distraction.
An overview of 55 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2022, mostly in products from Apple, Microsoft, and Google; Chinese groups exploited more than others
- Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that we judge were exploited in 2022. Although this count is lower …
The FDIC plans to break up SVB and hold an auction for its traditional deposits unit and another for its private bank, after failing to find a buyer last week
Global premium smartphone sales rose 1% YoY in 2022, taking 50%+ of the smartphone market's revenue for the first time; Apple took 75% of the premium market
Although overall global smartphone sales in 2022 fell 12% YoY due to macroeconomic difficulties, global premium (≥$600 wholesale price) …
How Elon Musk acquiring and running Twitter, adding to SpaceX and Tesla, became a headache for the Biden administration, which worries over foreign influence
Argentina was headed toward its thrilling victory over France at the World Cup in Qatar, and Elon Musk, the Tesla Inc. CEO and Twitter owner …
Study: GPT models and related technologies could seriously affect ~19% of workers in the US, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure
Researchers examine how OpenAI's GPT technology could affect the workforce, and find 'the influence spans all wage levels …
The FDIC plans to sell all of Signature Bank's 40 branches to Flagstar Bank, as well as some Signature loans and deposits not in its digital banking business
Bloomberg reports: — “Signature Bank's crypto-related deposits will be returned to customers directly … Michael Farrell : I am pleased to announce that Signature Bridge Bank, N.A. was acquired Sunda...
eToro secures $250M at a $3.5B valuation via an Advanced Investment Agreement signed in 2021, after scrapping its SPAC plans in 2022 amid slowing growth
After calling off its plans to go public via a SPAC at a $10.4 billion valuation in 2022, trading platform eToro has secured $250 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation.
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023
Today I shared with Twitch employees that we've … Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon's post-Bezos experiment hasn't gone exactly as planned Bloomberg : Amazon to Cut 9,000 More Jobs, Deepening Biggest Pullb...
Nvidia announces DGX Cloud, aiming to offer a flexible way for companies to scale up their AI needs, starting at $36,999 per month for a single node
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NVIDIA unveils a cuLitho software library for computational lithography, or creating patterns for silicon wafers, and says TSMC, ASML, and others signed on
Faster masks, less power. — Nvidia announced its new cuLitho software library for speeding up a critical process in the semiconductor manufacturing workflow.
OP3N, which develops the blockchain chat app Superapp and aims to be the “Web3 version of WhatsApp meets Amazon”, raised a $28M Series A at a $100M valuation
OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared exclusively with TechCrunch.
Netflix plans to launch 40 games in 2023 and has a further 70 in development with its partners, after releasing 55 titles since adding games in November 2021
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Roblox rolls out AI tools, including Code Assist to let creators use simple text prompts to create usable code and Material Generator for in-game 2D surfaces
New initiative aims to take game development past “the hands of the skilled few.” — SAN FRANCISCO—At the Game Developers Conference Monday …
Google rolls out a Pixel Watch update, two weeks later than expected, including fixing a Clock app bug that delayed alarms and adding Fall Detection
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Unlearn.AI, which creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials, raised $15M at a $265M valuation and adds OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to its board
Unlearn.AI, which has built a machine learning platform that creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials …
Sources: Apple lobbied for changes to India's labor law in the Tamil Nadu state, where Foxconn has its largest iPhone plant, to help expand local production
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Sources: in 2021, the phone of a US and Greek national who worked on Meta's security and trust team was infected with Predator spyware from an Athens-based firm
A year after its Staten Island win, the Amazon Labor Union has endured setbacks and conflicts, including between president Chris Smalls and longtime organizers
Noam Scheiber / New York Times : Tweets: @josheidelson , @marketurbanism , @noamscheiber , @michelleimiller , @_grendan , @jacremes , @lfelizleon , and @jamieson Tweets: Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson...
Singapore-based Reebelo, a marketplace for pre-owned phones, laptops, tablets, and more, raised a $29M Series A extension, bringing its Series A total to ~$50M
Reebelo is a great example of how entrepreneurship has become distributed and gobal: Austrian 🇦🇹 … Jussi Salovaara : Another key milestone unlocked for Reebelo! Congrats Philip Franta, Rastouil Fabie...
Sources: China is giving its most successful chip companies, like SMIC, Huawei, and Hua Hong, easier subsidy access and more control over state-backed research
Qianer Liu / Financial Times :
CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Elon Musk's acquisition
Tech industry group NetChoice, founded by Google and Meta, launches a litigation center to combat state laws and local lawsuits, modeled on Chamber of Commerce
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post : Tweets: @netchoice Tweets: @netchoice : Today, NetChoice is thrilled to launch our new litigation center. The NetChoice Litigation Center is dedicated to keeping th...
Research: 14% of new Fortune 500 board members in 2022 had cybersecurity experience, down from 17% in 2021; the SEC is finalizing new cyber risk reporting rules
Derek B. Johnson / SC Media :
Maryland-based Aembit launches its workload identity and access management service and announces a $16.6M seed from Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
A case for slowing down AI over bias and future existential risks, despite its alleged inevitability, the AI arms race with China, and safety by experimentation
Sigal Samuel / Vox : Tweets: @sigalsamuel , @upfromthecracks , and @maosbot Tweets: Sigal Samuel / @sigalsamuel : The AI race has gone berserk. We need to SLOW DOWN. “No!” I hear some people say. “We...
Filing: Google denies intentionally destroying evidence in the US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit over its search business, responding to the US' bid for sanctions
Mike Scarcella / Reuters :
London-based tech investors and founders say the government must back its pledges with policies and financial incentives or risk losing its lead to rival cities
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times :
TrendForce: NAND flash memory revenue fell 45% YoY and 25% QoQ in Q4 2022 and is set to drop 8.1% QoQ in Q1 2023; NAND's per-bit costs may reach all-time lows
Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of famous people or fictional characters
Brad Stone / Bloomberg : Tweets: @martinsfp and @bradstone Tweets: @martinsfp : Why didn't they cut deals with IP holders? If the answer is ‘the tech is currently too risky’ then why let users sully ...
Sources detail the FTC's pursuit of Amazon: possibly suing to stop the $1.7B iRobot acquisition, a retail antitrust case, a dark pattern investigation, and more
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