Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Research: Meta's ban on anti-government “Boogaloo” content initially worked, but after 18 months, in late 2021, the volume had nearly returned to pre-ban levels — Members of the loose-knit Boogaloo movement who found each other online joined armed protests against Covid lockdowns.
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Sunday, July 16, 2023
Research: Meta's ban on anti-government "Boogaloo" content initially worked, but after 18 months, in late 2021, the volume had nearly returned to pre-ban levels (Brandy Zadrozny/NBC News)
Experts explain why there's no magic formula to always distinguish human-written and AI-written text, meaning AI writing detectors can only make a strong guess (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Experts explain why there's no magic formula to always distinguish human-written and AI-written text, meaning AI writing detectors can only make a strong guess — Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them. — If you feed America's most important legal document …
Xiaomi plans to focus on retail stores to boost India sales after years of e-commerce bets, in a bid to revive smartphone sales after falling behind Samsung (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
Xiaomi plans to focus on retail stores to boost India sales after years of e-commerce bets, in a bid to revive smartphone sales after falling behind Samsung — - Xiaomi, one of India's top phone brands, has lost market share — Company plans to boost retail-store sales -Xiaomi exec
Sources: Mike Rockwell's division is now called Vision Products Group, hinting at an organizational change at Apple; Apple may hold an October event for M3 Macs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Mike Rockwell's division is now called Vision Products Group, hinting at an organizational change at Apple; Apple may hold an October event for M3 Macs — Apple's new Vision Products Group reflects a shift away from its famed product-development process.
Sony and Microsoft sign a deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, ending a bitter battle between the companies (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sony and Microsoft sign a deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, ending a bitter battle between the companies — Sony has agreed to a deal for Call of Duty with Microsoft. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says Sony and Microsoft have agreed to a …
Sources: McKinsey, BCG, and other US firms are splitting their IT systems to decouple China data, as Beijing expands anti-espionage rules and data regulation (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: McKinsey, BCG, and other US firms are splitting their IT systems to decouple China data, as Beijing expands anti-espionage rules and data regulation — Beijing's move to expand anti-espionage rules and data regulation has companies racing to hive off systems
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the "rights" to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler (Alex Ivanovs/Stack Diary)
Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary:
Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the “rights” to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler — And even though there are some concerns about the type of data that was used [...] — I'm fairly certain …
Despite a generative AI funding mania, data shows that other startup funding remains bleak, with valuations down and few IPOs, deals, and late-stage rounds (Newcomer)
Newcomer:
Despite a generative AI funding mania, data shows that other startup funding remains bleak, with valuations down and few IPOs, deals, and late-stage rounds — The slowdown in public offerings and late-stage financings puts startups in peril — The generative artificial intelligence mania …
Reddit is deleting old chats, here’s how you can get them back
Some Etsy sellers say it started imposing a 45 day reserve on 75% of their income with no warning, as part of its Purchase Protection program to cover refunds (Sky News)
Sky News:
Some Etsy sellers say it started imposing a 45 day reserve on 75% of their income with no warning, as part of its Purchase Protection program to cover refunds — Sellers say the online marketplace is imposing a temporary reserve on their sales under its new ‘purchase protection programme’ …
Elon Musk says Twitter's cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load (Jahnavi Nidumolu/Reuters)
Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Twitter's cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load — Elon Musk said Twitter's cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load. — “Need to reach positive cash flow …
The UK CMA pushes back a deadline to block Microsoft's Activision deal from July 18 to August 29, which could let Microsoft complete the merger within weeks (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
The UK CMA pushes back a deadline to block Microsoft's Activision deal from July 18 to August 29, which could let Microsoft complete the merger within weeks — New timetable from Competition and Markets Authority means $75bn transaction could be closed within weeks
A look at Sony-owned Crunchyroll, which has 100M+ registered members, including 11M paid subscribers, as the anime streaming service looks to India for growth (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
A look at Sony-owned Crunchyroll, which has 100M+ registered members, including 11M paid subscribers, as the anime streaming service looks to India for growth — - President says new anime markets like India will drive growth — Global expansion helps owner Sony boost entertainment content
Study: ChatGPT helped writers complete tasks, such as writing press releases or reports, 40% faster and produce work that assessors scored 18% higher in quality (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
Study: ChatGPT helped writers complete tasks, such as writing press releases or reports, 40% faster and produce work that assessors scored 18% higher in quality — People who use ChatGPT to help with writing tasks are more productive and produce higher-quality work than those who don't, a study found.
Friday, July 14, 2023
Belgium-based Vertical Compute, a memory chip firm spun out of European VC firm Imec.xpand, raised a €20M seed led by Imec.xpand (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Belgium-based Vertical Compute, a memory chip firm spun out of European VC firm Imec.xpand, raised a €20M ...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...