New York Times:
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material — As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.
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As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material (New York Times)
Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents — Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient — - Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter. — Since ex-Oracle exec Thomas …
Sources describe how Meta's managers built "legions of kingdoms" as headcount doubled and declining morale, confidence in Zuckerberg's leadership after layoffs (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Sources describe how Meta's managers built “legions of kingdoms” as headcount doubled and declining morale, confidence in Zuckerberg's leadership after layoffs — Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce
Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 — Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.
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 (Nidhi Subbaraman/Wall Street Journal)
Nidhi Subbaraman / 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
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Sources: Arm has filed with regulators confidentially for a US IPO, seeking to raise between $8B and $10B on Nasdaq later this year (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: Arm has filed with regulators confidentially for a US IPO, seeking to raise between $8B and $10B on Nasdaq later this year — SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday …
India's Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering probe (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India's Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering probe — India's crime-fighting agency searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran, it said Saturday …
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is supporting 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is supporting 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own — It's not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned — A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims …
US lawmakers propose bill to ban AI from launching nuclear weapons
Six months since Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, a brief overview of Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Six months since Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, a brief overview of Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve — Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems …
Friday, April 28, 2023
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Solana's SOL is up about 125% since December 31, outperforming bitcoin's 78% rally, as the blockchain tries to move past its association with Sam Bankman-Fried (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Solana's SOL is up about 125% since December 31, outperforming bitcoin's 78% rally, as the blockchain tries to move past its association with Sam Bankman-Fried — The SOL token of the Solana blockchain has more than doubled this year, outperforming Bitcoin, as the project tries to move past …
A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA's Chief Executive, who played a key role in shaping the policy that led to Microsoft's Activision takeover being blocked (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA's Chief Executive, who played a key role in shaping the policy that led to Microsoft's Activision takeover being blocked — Former corporate lawyer has attracted the ire of the US group by blocking its $75bn acquisition of Activision
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters : SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting w...
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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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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...