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Sunday, February 19, 2023
New Bing offers some marvelous responses alongside dangerously convincing falsehoods, direct quotes that appear to be made up, and shocking claims about itself (James West/Mother Jones)
Techies earning up to $1 million a year laid off at Big Tech firms
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 widgets for Messenger, Spotify to Beta Channel Insiders
A look at the use of conversational AI in US call centers, which some agents find helpful and others say leaves the humans with more complex, intense workloads (Lisa Bannon/Wall Street Journal)
Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the use of conversational AI in US call centers, which some agents find helpful and others say leaves the humans with more complex, intense workloads — Call centers are at the forefront of deploying artificial intelligence, with bots that automate basic tasks and instruct humans how to do their jobs
Sources: KKR-owned BMC Software confidentially filed for a US IPO seeking a valuation of up to $15B; KKR acquired BMC in 2018 for $8.3B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: KKR-owned BMC Software confidentially filed for a US IPO seeking a valuation of up to $15B; KKR acquired BMC in 2018 for $8.3B — BMC Software, a technology company owned by KKR & Co., has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Meta rolls out Meta Verified subscription service, offering a blue badge, impersonation protection, and more, for $12/month on the web, or $15/month on iOS (Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook)
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Meta rolls out Meta Verified subscription service, offering a blue badge, impersonation protection, and more, for $12/month on the web, or $15/month on iOS — Good morning and new product announcement: this week we're starting to roll out Meta Verified — a subscription service that lets …
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21 (NBC News)
NBC News:
Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21 — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and some of his most prominent Republican adversaries in Congress have become allies, of sorts …
Experts say China lags behind the US in AI systems like ChatGPT due to censorship, government's growing control of the private sector, and geopolitical tensions (Li Yuan/New York Times)
Li Yuan / New York Times:
Experts say China lags behind the US in AI systems like ChatGPT due to censorship, government's growing control of the private sector, and geopolitical tensions — The state's hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs' reluctance to invest for the long term.
US regulators expanding their crypto investigations has led some companies to look to financial hubs overseas, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Europe, and Dubai (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
US regulators expanding their crypto investigations has led some companies to look to financial hubs overseas, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Europe, and Dubai — A spate of crypto probes in the US is prompting battered digital-asset firms to look toward financial hubs overseas …
A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk (Paul Kiernan/Wall Street Journal)
Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk — Developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin
VMware, Broadcom extend merger close deadline by three months
Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
Leaked docs detail reputation management company Eliminalia's tactics to remove public-interest info from the internet, like via fake sites and copyright claims (Phineas Rueckert/Forbidden Stories)
Phineas Rueckert / Forbidden Stories:
Leaked docs detail reputation management company Eliminalia's tactics to remove public-interest info from the internet, like via fake sites and copyright claims — Leaked documents obtained by Forbidden Stories reveal the inner world of Eliminalia, a Spanish reputation management company.
Friday, February 17, 2023
Fitbit plans to remove adventures, challenges, and open groups from its app and replace Studio with an SDK; Google says the features were of "limited use" (Victoria Song/The Verge)
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Fitbit plans to remove adventures, challenges, and open groups from its app and replace Studio with an SDK; Google says the features were of “limited use” — Fitbit users: better one-up your friends in challenges while you still can. Starting March 27th, Fitbit will remove all adventures …
E-signature software firm DocuSign to lay off 10 percent of its workforce
Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks (Jacob Judah/Financial Times)
Jacob Judah / Financial Times : Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, h...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
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Noah Smith / Noahpinion : Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contr...