Sunday, January 8, 2023

The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating "deep synthesis" tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)

Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal:
The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week  —  Beijing is among the first governments to regulate hyper-realistic, AI-generated media



The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged  —  We're seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade.  —  After years of hype, the Creator Economy is slamming into reality.



Sources: Apple's headset "Reality Pro" to be unveiled this spring, before WWDC; new Mac Pro will have the same design as current Intel model, no expandable RAM (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's headset “Reality Pro” to be unveiled this spring, before WWDC; new Mac Pro will have the same design as current Intel model, no expandable RAM  —  2023 is set to be the year of Apple's mixed-reality headset and not much else.  Also: The company hikes battery …



Saturday, January 7, 2023

Mojo Vision, which demonstrated a working prototype of its smart contact lenses in 2022, pivots to focus on micro-LED display tech and lays off 75% of staff (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios:
Mojo Vision, which demonstrated a working prototype of its smart contact lenses in 2022, pivots to focus on micro-LED display tech and lays off 75% of staff  —  Mojo Vision, a startup that had embarked on a years-long effort to create a smart contact lens with a built-in display …



GPTZero, an app made by a Princeton student to detect if an academic essay was written by a human or by OpenAI's ChatGPT, goes viral (Tony Ho Tran/The Daily Beast)

Tony Ho Tran / The Daily Beast:
GPTZero, an app made by a Princeton student to detect if an academic essay was written by a human or by OpenAI's ChatGPT, goes viral  —  “Humans deserve to know when the writing isn't human.”  —  Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech … Edward Tian was fast asleep when his bot broke a website.



A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name (Brandy Zadrozny/NBC News)

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name  —  Growing concerns over impact of medical misinformation on public health  —  When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning …



OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a...