Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending frenzy in India
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Trump eliminating the USAGM cut the budget of the Open Technology Fund, launched in 2012 to let 24M+ people living under repressive regimes access the internet
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Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8
FBI Investigation Underway, China Suspected Huileng Tan / Business Insider : The US Treasury says some computers were breached by China-backed hackers United States Department of the Treasury : Dear C...
Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas X: @robleathern , @nitashatiku ...
NewsGuard: since May 2023, websites hosting AI-created fake news articles have grown from 49 to 600+; some post “hundreds if not thousands of articles” per day
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . X: @pranshuverma_ . LinkedIn: Franky Saegerman Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : The issue isn't volume o...
Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC
Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator … X: @cher0x801 , @bigmeaninternet , @deljohnsonvc , @josh_wills , @itsurboyevan , @itsurboyevan...
Inside Bryce Adams and Brian Adam's OnlyFans empire run from a $2.5M Florida compound: ~$10M in annual revenue and a $1M+ payroll; Adams' OF has $16.5M in sales
SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA — In the mornings, the workers of Bryce Adams's OnlyFans empire buzz in through a camera-wired security gate … X: @pranshuverma_ , @drewharwell , @merylkornfield , and @oknox X: P...
A mid-March Midjourney update seemingly fixed one of the AI image generator's major failings: its inability to depict lifelike human hands with five fingers
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A survey in January 2023 of 300 HR leaders at US companies found 98% say software and algorithms will help them make layoff decisions in the coming year
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Tweets: @byheatherlong and @wbm312 Tweets: Heather Long / @byheatherlong : AI is starting to pick who gets laid off HR departments have become increasingly data driv...
A look at the tech being used at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, including player-tracking tech for offside decisions and algorithms to forecast crowd patterns
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