Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, adding more short videos, more social media posts, and AI conversations
Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results
The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series competition, which will also feature Just Dance and Gran Turismo
Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net :
The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to 13 this year, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs
Can't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people
Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware
Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen.
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI's future, and more
The former Yahoo chief says she wishes she had acquired Hulu instead of Tumblr. — After a decades-long career …
Bluesky says the social network can't “accommodate heads of state”, seeking to control its growth during its beta; Bluesky has ~60K users and 1.2M on a waitlist
Bluesky, the buzzy social media platform that's emerging as a Twitter competitor, said on Friday that it will not allow …
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content
From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet. LinkedIn: Theo Priestley . Mastodon: @willoremus@mastodon....
Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits
A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million …
Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, an undefined metric for measuring Twitter's success, after taking issue with mDAUs during the takeover
Six months into running the social-media company, the billionaire is talking about his own metric of success
Emerging markets like India, where iPhone has a low market share, are starting to take off for Apple, attracting a lot of switchers to its ecosystem
Apple is turning its attention to emerging markets at a time when growth is slowing at home. Also: Power On is now on Discord …
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests
The European Union's fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what's to come for AI services. LinkedIn: Yash Thakker . Mastodon: @Woodchaz@social.vivaldi.net . Tweets: @adamthierer and @gonnetpedro LinkedI...
Q&A with Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, who was awarded IEEE's Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, and more
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Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the training data used for the company's products, like ChatGPT
Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT. — Alexej Savreux, a 34-year-old in Kansas City … Tweets: @ndiakopoulos Tweets: Nicholas Diakopoulos / @n...
A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021
- Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Tweets: @nfinitylabs Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carn...
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
Discord plans to let “high-visibility users” secure usernames to “reduce the risk of impersonation”, as some users criticize the company's username change push
Umar Shakir / The Verge :
In an email, Twitter acknowledges a “security incident” that showed Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the bug has been fixed
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac :
An Idaho federal judge dismissed an FTC lawsuit against location data broker Kochava, saying the agency had not provided adequate evidence to show consumer harm
Natasha Singer / New York Times :
Former staff say TikTok had a dashboard of users who watch LGBTQ content; TikTok claims to have deleted the dashboard in the US in 2022, but the data remains
raising alarm as the company faces scrutiny over ties to China LinkedIn: Xan Wolstenholme-Britt : The WSJ revealed that #TikTok tracked users who watched gay content on the app and created a database ...
A profile of Roger Lee, who runs Layoffs.fyi, which has catalogued nearly 450,000 tech cuts, and Comprehensive.io, which tracks compensation in tech job posts
and https://layoffs.fyi/ has been an important part of that. This is a great profile by @loracorkelley of its founder https://www.nytimes.com/...
Source: API marketplace Rapid laid off 82% of its staff in under two weeks, reducing its headcount from 230 to 42; the startup had a $1B valuation in March 2022
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : LinkedIn: Jorge García Rodríguez . Tweets: @bayareawriter LinkedIn: Jorge García Rodríguez : I guess this is the end! It was a pleasure, folks! Tweets: Mary Ann Azeve...
Slash, a neobank focused on Gen Z entrepreneurs, raised $19M in seed and Series A funding from NEA, Menlo Ventures, Connect Ventures, Y Combinator, and others
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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