The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess opportunities, guardrails, and principles to protect competition
CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
The White House announces plans to combat AI's risks, including $140M for new research and draft guidelines for agencies to ensure the safe use of AI
Vice President Kamala Harris also plans to meet with the chief executives of tech companies that are developing A.I. later on Thursday.
The FTC Chair calls for regulating AI, saying the tech could fuel market dominance and collusion by large firms, increase fraud and discrimination, and more
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Microsoft opens its Bing chatbot to all, removing the waitlist, and announces new features, including image and video results, chat history, and plug-in support
Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary.
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.5B, above $1.43B analyst estimates, GMV up 15% to $49.6B, and plans to cut 20% of its staff; SHOP jumps 20%+
Shopify Inc. cut jobs for the second time in less than a year and agreed to sell the majority of its logistics business to Flexport Inc …
Google adds blue checkmarks to Gmail for senders from verified brands that adopted the company's Brand Indicators for Message Identification email specification
After adding support for verified brand logos in 2021, Gmail is now going further by adding a blue checkmark to emails.
Discord plans to remove the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others, forcing users to pick a username with the @ symbol
Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users.
Shopify offloads its logistics unit to supply chain tech company Flexport, a reversal after years of building the operation and acquiring Deliverr for $2.1B
- Shopify is selling its logistics unit to supply chain technology company Flexport. — The Canadian e-commerce company …
Coinbase plans to stop issuing loans in the US via its Borrow program starting May 10 due to low demand; a source says the move is unrelated to the SEC troubles
May 10 is the final day customers will be allowed to take out new loans through Coinbase Borrow. — Coinbase Borrow's days are numbered.
Some Gen Z Americans are buying flip phones like the $75 TCL Classic or the $90 Nokia 2780, seeking a break from endless social media and email notifications
Modern models are a bit smarter than those from the early 2000s, but still offer a needed break from endless notifications
The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids' data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids
In an announcement today, the agency said that, on top of … Jamey Kistner : 🔒 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed changes to its 2020 privacy order with Facebook, accusing the company of f...
Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts”
now fix it’: On the picket lines with Hollywood writers as they bring signs, slogans, and sunscreen to their fight … New York Times : Outside Hollywood Studios, Writers Make Their Case The Hollywood R...
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI like GitHub's Copilot, as part of the BigCode project
AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow's R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative …
Google enables passkeys, FIDO Alliance-developed cryptographic keys that require a preauthenticated device, on all accounts, to eventually replace passwords
you can now switch to passkey-only Adam Rowe / Tech.co : Your Google Account Doesn't Need a Password Anymore Luke Mandato / MobileSyrup : Dashlane is exploring password-free logins with device authent...
A jury convicts former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain of insider trading, making $50K+ by buying and selling NFTs he featured on OpenSea's homepage
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Twitter's Community Notes have become a surprise hit, offering fact-checking through a crowd-sourced consensus and modeling a fairer, more transparent approach
The strength of the platform's Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus — I think I might have let out an audible groan … Tweets: @daveleebbg , @jakuuire , @warrenpearce , @trhloff...
Salesforce announces SlackGPT, planning to add generative AI features to Slack to summarize meetings and more, and will incorporate EinsteinGPT into Slack
Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having …
Google and Meta executives say their platforms would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if the proposed Online News Act passes
Google and Meta would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if legislation compelling internet companies to pay news publishers is passed …
Meta warns malware actors are increasingly spreading their infrastructure across platforms and has blocked 1,000+ ChatGPT-themed malicious URLs since March 2023
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Novidea, which offers software spanning every aspect of an insurance business, raised a $50M Series C, brining its total funding to $90M
Using an open API architecture, Novidea's software platform enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey
A Finder.com experiment using ChatGPT to pick 38 stocks finds the portfolio rose 4.9% compared to an average 0.8% loss for 10 popular funds over eight weeks
Theoretical fund of 38 stocks do better than 10 most popular funds on Interactive Investor, finds finder.com — Latest news on ETFs
The CJEU clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights, including saying that there is no threshold of harm to confer a right to compensation
The European Union's top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection.
Google plans to change Chrome's URL bar lock icon, introduced to signify HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, because “nearly all phishing sites use HTTPS”
Honestly, it's about time. … Tweets: Brian Jackson / @brianleejackson : Interesting. The HTTPS lock icon 🔒 is being replaced with a tune icon. Coming to a #Chrome near you. I remember writing about wh...
Khan Academy pilots Khanmigo, a GPT-based chatbot to help students with math problems, debugging code, debating, and other topics without enabling cheating
Sal Khan, founder and CEO of online learning nonprofit Khan Academy, wants to turn GPT into a tutor. Tweets: @dr_cintas , @tedtalks , @simonw , @gdb , and @swyx Tweets: Alvaro Cintas / @dr_cintas : Th...
Bluesky, which has 55K+ users, feels absolutely wild, with the CEO asking users to stop calling posts “skeets”, a struggle to establish norms, and lots of nudes
and hundreds—of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet been issued. That changes right now. @samthenightowl : a fun ...
Twitter restores free API access for verified government or publicly owned services tweeting weather alerts, transportation updates, and emergency notifications
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $9.28B, vs. $9.1B est., net income down 42% YoY to $1.7B, and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; QCOM drops 5%+
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Airbnb announces Rooms, single rooms averaging $67 per night, and 50+ features and upgrades to improve price transparency, checkout, affordability, and more
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AMD announces the Ryzen Mobile 7040U series, offering up to eight cores with RDNA 3 graphics and claiming to outperform Apple's M2; pricing and release date TBC
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Pando, which develops supply chain management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures, bringing its total funding to $45M
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Balaji Srinivasan “settles” his mid-March $1M bet, in which he predicted 1 BTC would be worth $1M by June 17, ahead of time by giving $500K to three entities
As some US VCs crash parties in the Middle East to find funding, some view their desperation poorly because the region's investors value long-term relationships
Bloomberg : Tweets: @matthew_petti and @jeffnolan Tweets: Matthew Petti / @matthew_petti : Now that Silicon Valley's American gravy train is grinding to a halt, tech executives are increasingly looki...
Microsoft tells IT admins that Edge will soon open links from Teams and some Outlook accounts to “help increase productivity”; Enterprise IT admins can opt out
Q&A with BlackBerry director Matt Johnson on tech movies, why the BlackBerry really died, Storm, and why he disagrees with the “nerds rule the world” narrative
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Tel Aviv-based Healthy.io, which offers urine analysis through its mobile app, raised a $50M Series D and lays off ~70 employees, or about a third of its staff
Meir Orbach / CTech :
Experts say Nvidia's H800 chip for China will likely take 10% to 30% longer to carry out some AI tasks and could double some costs compared with its H100 chip
Reuters : Tweets: @rnaudbertrand , @_mm85 , and @byjoshye Tweets: Arnaud Bertrand / @rnaudbertrand : We're now in the ironical - but eminently predictable - situation whereby “U.S. microchip export c...
Nasscom report: India is facing an AI/ML and data science talent crunch as unfilled job roles grow, despite having the second largest talent pool after the US
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Tweets: @saritharai Tweets: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : AI Talent wars in the ChatGPT era Data science and machine learning professionals are being lured with 2X salaries an...
TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers, such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC, sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue
Jack Dorsey has posted an average of 59 times per day on Nostr since January 31, 2023, often talking about crypto and open source while criticizing Elon Musk
Thrasio, Razor, Perch, and other Amazon “aggregators” that raised $16B in mostly debt are struggling under rising rates, higher costs, and cooling online demand
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