Monday, May 8, 2023
Sunday, May 7, 2023
ChatGPT maker OpenAI's losses swell to $540 million, likely to keep rising
Siemens, SAP say EU draft Data Act puts trade secrets at risk
Images of a Texas mall mass shooting go viral on Twitter, fueling criticism of its reduced moderation; Twitter allows some graphic posts like Ukraine war images (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
Images of a Texas mall mass shooting go viral on Twitter, fueling criticism of its reduced moderation; Twitter allows some graphic posts like Ukraine war images — Graphic images of the attack went viral on the platform, which has made cuts to its moderation team.
Source: Volkswagen plans to fire most of the management team at Cariad next week, after the software unit missed its development goals and exceeded its budget (Jan Schwartz/Reuters)
Source: Volkswagen plans to fire most of the management team at Cariad next week, after the software unit missed its development goals and exceeded its budget — Carmaker Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) is set to dismiss all but one of the executive board members at its software division Cariad next week …
Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds of Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba to develop AI systems without the latest chips (Wall Street Journal)
Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds of Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba to develop AI systems without the latest chips — Research in China on workarounds, such as using software to leverage less powerful chips, is accelerating
Emerging markets like India, where iPhone has a low market share, are starting to take off for Apple, attracting a lot of switchers to its ecosystem (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Emerging markets like India, where iPhone has a low market share, are starting to take off for Apple, attracting a lot of switchers to its ecosystem — Apple is turning its attention to emerging markets at a time when growth is slowing at home. Also: Power On is now on Discord …
Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the training data used for the company's products, like ChatGPT (David Ingram/NBC News)
Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the training data used for the company's products, like ChatGPT — Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT. — Alexej Savreux, a 34-year-old in Kansas City …
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware — Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen.
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling "right to be forgotten" requests (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests — The European Union's fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what's to come for AI services.
Bluesky says it can't "accommodate heads of state" as it seeks to control growth during its beta; Bluesky currently has ~60K users and a waitlist of 1.2M people (Kylie Robison/Fortune)
Bluesky says it can't “accommodate heads of state” as it seeks to control growth during its beta; Bluesky currently has ~60K users and a waitlist of 1.2M people — Bluesky, the buzzy social media platform that's emerging as a Twitter competitor, said on Friday that it will not allow …
Discord says it will let "high-visibility users" secure usernames to minimize the risk of impersonation, as some users criticize its plans to change usernames (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Discord says it will let “high-visibility users” secure usernames to minimize the risk of impersonation, as some users criticize its plans to change usernames — A race to reserve usernames is kicking off on Discord. — Starting in the next couple of weeks …
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content — From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet.
Binance may face US probe for violating Russian sanctions: Report
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted — The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company
Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
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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; ...
