2023-08-19
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Meta's reckless choice to block news before the Act is in force is hurting access to vital information on Facebook and Instagram. We are calling on them to reinstate news sharing today for the safety of Canadians facing this emergency. We need more news right now, not less. twitter.com/cp24/status/16...
CBC News
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
2023-05-01
ChatGPT scored better than real doctors at responding to patient queries posted online, according to a study published Friday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, in which a panel of doctors did blind evaluations of posts. https://www.wsj.com/... #cdnpoli #bcpoli
Wall Street Journal
Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors
Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries
2022-10-31
The world's smallest violin... https://www.wsj.com/... #cdnpoli
Wall Street Journal
The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480B+ on paper in the past year; Mark Zuckerberg's wealth drops by $87B+, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos by $58B+
Moguls including Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have collectively lost more on paper than the market values of most S&P 500 companies
2022-04-04
Ren had long said his children would not succeed him at Huawei...But her lengthy house arrest in Canada has raised her popularity within the company and across China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... #cdnpoli
Washington Post
Huawei promotes CFO Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, as one of three rotating chairs, six months after her detention in Canada
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2020-12-25
“Mr Ma hasn't appeared publicly since he criticized financial regulators for stifling innovation in an Oct. 24 speech that infuriated leader Xi Jinping and other senior officials” https://www.wsj.com/...
Financial Times
China's market regulator announces an antitrust investigation into Alibaba for alleged monopolistic practices, the first investigation of its kind in China
the man most closely identified w/ the meteoric rise of China Inc.—was advised by the government to stay in the country... https://www.bloomberg.com/... @luluyilun & @cocojournalis...
2020-08-04
Beijing—which has barred Silicon Valley's biggest companies from gaining a foothold in China, saying they don't adhere to Chinese law—slammed the U.S. move on TikTok https://www.wsj.com/... #cdnpoli
Wall Street Journal
With a TikTok sale, China would lose control of its first global internet sensation, hardening suspicions that the US is sabotaging its tech growth
Washington's push for Chinese company to sell American operations hardens suspicions in China that the U.S. aims to sabotage its technology