Neuralink says the company received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants and plans to offer more details soon
Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study.
OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law
OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting …
A WhatsApp beta on Android suggests the company is working on adding usernames, which may let users chat without sharing their phone numbers
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.11.15. — What's new in this update?
Sam Altman has “many concerns” about the EU's AI Act coming in 2024 and says that OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating”
claiming that by crafting a clear framework, Europe is holding up the rollout of generative #AI. To the contrary! With the “AI Pact” I proposed, we aim to assist companies in their preparation to EU A...
Google starts rolling out its LLM-powered Search Generative Experience, with features like a conversational mode and shopping aspects, to Search Labs members
Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited London this week, part of a tour to ~17 cities, including Paris, Warsaw, and Lagos, to discuss AI, balanced regulation, and more
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German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400 self-acceleration issues
A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints …
DCG plans to shut down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023
Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business …
Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs
- JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence …
How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures
even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : DeSantis set to make m...
A survey from March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% have tried the tool themselves; roughly four in ten say ChatGPT is somewhat useful
About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) are familiar with ChatGPT, though relatively few have tried it themselves, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March.
Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and Web3 mentions from its website's home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI
- VC firm Paradigm is taking its crypto-only focus to include “frontier” technologies such as AI, two sources with knowledge of the situation told The Block.
Sony announces “Project Q”, a handheld device with an 8-inch screen for streaming games from a PlayStation 5 via Remote Play over Wi-Fi, launching later in 2023
what we know Parth Bagaria / Game Rant : Rumor: PlayStation Handheld Project Q Release Date Revealed Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Sony's Project Q vs. Nintendo Switch - how do they compare? Steve Wrigh...
Fahrenheit, bidders led by Arrington Capital, wins an auction for Celsius Network's assets, including loans, investments, and $500M in “liquid cryptocurrency”
0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts? James Cirrone / Blockworks : Fahrenheit Wins Bid for Bankrupt Celsius, Will Acquire up to $500M in Liquid Crypto Tweets: Simon Dixon / @simo...
A profile of Microsoft President Brad Smith, a DC veteran testing his well-worn playbook to shape AI regulation, such as by endorsing the creation of an agency
“Today we are 10 years older and wiser, and we need to put that wisdom to work. … Eric Horvitz : We've just released a set of recommendations for moving forward with the governance of AI technologies....
Sources: the record $279M whistleblower award issued by the SEC earlier this month stemmed from a 2019 bribery case in which Ericsson paid a $1.1B settlement
The largest-ever award in the SEC's cash-for-tips program was related to Ericsson's bribery case
OpenAI expands its free ChatGPT iOS app, which launched in the US last week, to 11 more countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Nigeria, and South Korea
Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and the UK. More to come soon!
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut an ambitious project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles
- Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety … LinkedIn: Hayden Field . Tweets: @omgno2trump , @emmakinery , @brianste...
Microsoft says Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised “critical infrastructure organizations” across US industries, with a focus on gathering intelligence
aimed @ stopping relief of Taiwan in case of blockade or kinetic conflict...Biden Regime aware of this since February—same time as the airship incursion..... https://www.cnbc.com/... @nsacyber : Don't...
YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, live videos, and its usual content
Twitter won the equivalent race to see who could best copy live audio from Clubhouse. … Tweets: Andrew / @ibxtoycat : Honestly, a good thing - Community posts and shorts cover everything you'd probabl...
TikTok is testing its chatbot, Tako, in select markets; from the right side of the app, the bot helps users discover new content and ask questions about a video
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Twitch raises the price of Turbo, its ad-free subscription that offers extra emoticons, chat badges, and more; the US price jumps from $8.99 to $11.99 per month
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Twitter launches API Pro, a $5,000/month tier offering access to full archive search endpoints and the ability to fetch 1M tweets and post 300K tweets monthly
That means Elon thinks each Tweet someone posts is worth 0.5 cents. 200 random tweets are worth a dollar. — Every second, Twitter users post $30 worth of Tweets. … Tweets: @twitterdev : 📣 Calling a...
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more
We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here. Tweets: @wired and @laurengoode Tweets: @wire...
Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman to build Worldcoin, raised a $115M Series C led by Blockchain Capital, aiming to scan everyone's eyes to create IDs
But first, let's address the elephant in the room: biometrics. — 1. Orb scans user's iris to verify humanness … Tweets: Spencer Bogart / @cremedelacrypto : I thought Worldcoin was some dystopian Orw...
3D printing companies Stratasys and Desktop Metal agree to combine in an all-stock transaction valued at ~$1.8B and expect to generate $1.1B in revenue in 2025
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The UK CMA says Meta has offered to limit use of other businesses' ad data for Facebook Marketplace to address the regulator's competition concerns
Applied Intuition, a provider of autonomous vehicle software, plans to acquire autonomous trucking software company Embark in a ~$71M all-cash deal
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Toronto-based BenchSci, which uses AI to help pharmaceutical firms accelerate drug discovery, raised a CA$95M Series D led by Generation Investment Management
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