Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …
Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits
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Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume
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Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, passed away in March at age 41, according to a post on Genius attributed to his family
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor …
X says it has been “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil” and is barred from giving details of the order
X Corp, formerly Twitter, has been “forced by court decisions” to block certain popular accounts in Brazil and is prohibited from giving details …
Apple updates App Store guidelines, allowing game emulators for the first time globally, and letting music streaming apps in the EU link to external websites
After @altstore announces their own third-party App Store, which will be a haven for emulators, Apple changes their rules to allow it. — https://9to5mac.com/... Matt Edwards / @matt@toot.mattedwards...
Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security
Cloud security provider Wiz found two critical architecture flaws in generative AI models uploaded to Hugging Face, the leading hub for sharing AI models and applications.
Report: Google changed its privacy policy in June 2022 to more broadly cover its use of publicly available content, including Google Docs, to train AI models
According to The New York Times, the companies may have violated YouTube creators' copyrights. — OpenAI and Google trained …
Thoughts on Apple's search for a new growth engine, Spatial Personas, and Kevin Lynch's move to the AI group; sources: new iPads may launch the week of May 6
Apple's search for a bold new product category is back on, and it includes a foray into robots.
Email: Galaxy Digital's venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups
Galaxy's prolific venture wing plans to start accepting - and investing - outside capital. — Galaxy Digital's venture team …
A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple's design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles
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Experts say the US government and tech companies are failing to mount a clear response to the theft of trade secrets by Chinese corporate and government spies
U.S. officials say some of America's most prominent tech firms have had their virtual pockets picked by Chinese corporate spies and intelligence agencies.
A look at Huawei's efforts to make HarmonyOS a formidable rival to iOS and Android; Counterpoint: 16% of smartphones sold in China in Q4 2023 used HarmonyOS
Chinese tech giant unveiled new operating system in January — Huawei Technologies may be close to succeeding where Microsoft …
A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators' chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling
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Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board
Ryan Heath / Axios :
TSMC's swift response to the earthquake highlights the readiness of Taiwan's chip sector, and experts say Japan's chip industry is similarly well-prepared
top chipmaker says its production is already back up to speed, despite devastating quake Ramish Zafar / Wccftech : TSMC Keeps 2024 Revenue Guidance Unchanged After Taiwan Earthquake Eric J. Savitz / B...
A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : X: @tobywalsh , @katejopling , @ronivey , @andrewyng , @chloeautio , @tfadell , @madhumita29 , and @dannygroner X: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : The loneliness cure: ...
Sources: ByteDance, which was directly involved in countering US efforts to ban TikTok in 2020, has let the US TikTok team lead the response this time around
While several countries have restricted TikTok, the Chinese app continues to assert its dominance Greensburg Tribune-Review : Pa., other states are seeking to restrict TikTok. That doesn't mean their ...
Filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta: Instagram had $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, 27% of Meta's revenue and more than YouTube's $28.8B ad revenue in 2021
Peter Kafka / Business Insider :
Belgium-based Robovision, which offers AI-based no-code computer vision tools to businesses, raised a $42M Series A co-led by Astanor Ventures and Target Global
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Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :
Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers
don't fall for this LinkedIn: Oana Bistriceanu : Over the past year, Bitdefender Labs has seen a motley crew of AI-powered illicit operations conducted by threat actors over social media. …
X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel on its Explore page, after Elon Musk promised “real-time customized news for you created by Grok AI”
https://mashable.com/... X: Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk : So what you're saying is that Elon Musk used his in-house AI tool (Grok) to create a fake news article, then used his own platform to ...
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