OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen
but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tec...
Instacart launches Instacart Platform, which offers software management services for e-commerce, fulfillment, ads, insights, and other data for grocery stores
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Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020
Market summary: 📊 — Brutal week in the market finally ends. Steve Zurier / scmagazine.com : What's it mean? Making sense of Twitter's decision to oust ‘Mudge’ Zatko and Rinki Sethi Kris Holt / Engad...
Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification
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Interview with Apple engineer Cher Scarlett, who has become the face of the #AppleToo movement, a group that wants to shed light on workplace issues at Apple
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Mapbox workers voted against a union 123-81, after the company forced a formal vote on whether workers wanted to form a union allied with CWA
Anna Kramer / Protocol : Tweets: @seldo , @protocol , and @anna_c_kramer Tweets: Laurie Voss / @seldo : There will be other companies, there will be further votes. The highest support for labor union...
Poll: of 750 tech workers, half are at least somewhat interested in joining a union, and ~50% say there is already interest of unionizing at their workplace
Anna Kramer / Protocol : Tweets: @_aupe_ , @techworkersco , @bizcarson , and @alphabetworkers Tweets: Aupe / @_aupe_ : “Unions tend to form during short moments of high-pressure social change, accord...
Profile of Twitter's Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team, as Responsible ML becomes one of the company's top priorities in 2021
Machine learning engineer Ari Font was worried about the future of Twitter's algorithms. It was mid-2020, and the leader …Tweets:@anna_c_kramer,@ruchowdh,@williams_jutta,@anna_c_kramer,@ruchowdh,@nee...
Profile of Yubo, a social media app for teens to connect with strangers, which saw engagement increase nearly 400% in the last year and has at least 40M users
Anna Kramer / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol Tweets: @protocol : If you Google Yubo, you'd mostly find news articles warning parents about child predators. But Yubo... isn't like that. At its core, it'...
Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American “activist-entrepreneur” with an MBA and MA in agriculture
About six months ago, Twitter quietly hired someone to become the head of product for conversational safety on the platform. Tweets: @neerajka , @anna_c_kramer , @protocol , @martinsfp , @anna_c_krame...