OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
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...
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...
MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on Android at Google, dies after being stabbed in San Francisco on April 4
I worked with Bob Lee when I first started working at Google. … Jenny Lee : Last night, I heard about Bob Lee's passing. I am completely devasted and heartbroken. — Bob was our Chief Product Office...
Post, a Twitter alternative that pays publishers via microtransactions, launches in public beta and says outlets get an average $25 CPM for a paywalled article
Post, a Twitter alternative of sorts that's rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize … Mastodon: @atomicpoet@mastodon.social . Tweets: @jeffnolan and @b...
How Twitter played a major role in research and science communication, especially during the pandemic, as researchers and scientists leave the service
In November, Vince Knight decided he'd had enough of Twitter. After more than a decade on the social-media platform, Knight … Tweets: @erictopol , @marionkoopmans , @ibjiyongi , @evornithology , @kas...
Synergy Research: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 65% of the $53B in global cloud spending in Q1 2022, up from 52% in 2018
Three companies account for about two-thirds of cloud spending and are using their size to maintain their hold on rapidly growing market Tweets: @jeffnolan Tweets: Jeff Nolan / @jeffnolan : makes sens...
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources
a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re-build the social gr...
After a peak of $248M in February, daily trading volumes of NFTs on OpenSea fell 80% to ~$50M in March; average price of a Bored Ape NFT fell 44% since Feb. 24
Internet collectibles ranging from cartoon apes to artsy doodles have plunged in value as real-world conflict … Tweets: @germanotes , @muradahmed , @jeffnolan , @adamsamson , @carnage4life , @_inpract...
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue rose 32% YoY to $75.3B and net income grew from $15.2B to $20.6B YoY; Cloud revenue rose from $3.8B to $5.5B YoY; stock rises 5%+
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for Alphabet in 2021. Bloomberg : Alphabet Seeks More Investors in 20-for-1 Stock Split Leah Montebello / City A.M. : Google parent Alphabet beats r...