Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary. All you need to do is sign in to the new Bing or Edge with your Microsoft account, and you’ll now access the open preview version that’s powered by GPT-4. Microsoft is also massively upgrading Bing Chat
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge The bill aims to make the country ‘the safest place in the world to be online’ but has been mired by multiple delays and criticisms that it’s grown too large and unwieldy to please anyone. Continue reading…
Read MoreCoinDesk: Coinbase will stop issuing loans in the US via its Borrow program from May 10 due to low demand; source: the move had nothing to do with Coinbase’s SEC troubles — May 10 is the final day customers will be allowed to take out new loans through Coinbase Borrow. — Coinbase Borrow’s days are
Read MoreAn age-old vulnerability of physical keypads is visibly worn keys. For example, a number pad with digits clearly worn from repeated use provides an attacker with a clear starting point. The same concept can be applied to keyboards by using a thermal camera with the help of machine learning, but it also turns out that
Read MoreFinancial Times: The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess opportunities, guardrails, and principles to protect competition — CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft opens its Bing chatbot to all, removing the waitlist, and announces new features, including image and video results, chat history, and plug-in support — Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary.
Read MoreApple store employees in Maryland are seeking changes to rules that could see customers encouraged to tip employees.
Read MorePhoto by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The White House announced more funding and policy guidance for developing responsible artificial intelligence ahead of a Biden administration meeting with top industry executives. The actions include a $140 million investment from the National Science Foundation to launch seven new National AI Research (NAIR) Institutes, increasing the total number of
Read MoreSaritha Rai / Bloomberg: Nasscom report: India is facing an AI/ML and data science talent crunch as unfilled job roles grow, despite having the second largest talent pool after the US — Aditya Chopra isn’t looking for a new job, but recruiters keep calling him anyway. The 36-year-old data-science specialist works …
Read MoreSam Jabri-Pickett / Reuters: Google and Meta executives say their platforms would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if the proposed Online News Act is passed — Google and Meta would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if legislation compelling internet companies to pay news publishers is passed …
Read MoreWhat if you could run Mac OS on a Nintendo Wii game console? That’s probably not a thought that has occurred to many Wii owners or Mac OS users, but that is no excuse not to give it a try, as [Michael] handily demonstrates in a recent video by running Mac OS 9 on a
Read MoreReuters: Experts say Nvidia’s H800 chip for China will likely take 10%-30% longer to carry out some AI tasks and could double some costs compared to its H100 chip — U.S. microchip export controls imposed last year to freeze China’s development of supercomputers used to develop nuclear weapons …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission proposed sweeping changes to how Meta operates, accusing the company of violating a suite of child privacy protections, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In a press release, the agency alleged that Meta violated a 2020 privacy order it
Read MoreImage: Discord Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users. As noted in a post on Discord’s blog, this change will force most users to change their usernames, as Discord will no longer have the four-number tag that
Read MoreLuc Cohen / Reuters: A jury convicts former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain of insider trading, making $50K+ by buying and selling NFTs he featured on OpenSea’s homepage — A former product manager at OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was convicted on Wednesday …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The security team at Meta is acknowledging broad occurrences of fake ChatGPT malware that exists to hack user accounts and take over business pages. In the company’s new Q1 security report, Meta shares that malware operators and spammers are following trends and high-engagement topics that get people’s
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts” — WGA writers don’t want to train AI or clean up AI-generated “sloppy first drafts.”
Read MoreLoRa is a communications method that allows for long range radio contacts to be made using typically low-powered devices. This shouldn’t be surprising given that LoRa is short for “long range” which typically involves distances on the order of a few kilometers. However, a group of students are taking the “long range” moniker to the
Read MoreLina M. Khan / New York Times: FTC’s Lina Khan calls for regulating AI, saying the tech could fuel market dominance and collusion by large firms, increase fraud and discrimination, and more — It’s both exciting and unsettling to have a realistic conversation with a computer. Thanks to the rapid advance …
Read MoreMeir Orbach / CTech: Healthy.io, which offers urine analysis through its mobile app, raised a $50M Series D; the company is laying off ~70 employees, or about a third of its staff — The medtech startup is parting ways with around 70 employees despite receiving a fresh $50 million investment
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $9.28B, vs. $9.1B est., net income down 42% YoY to $1.7B, and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; QCOM drops 5%+ — – Qualcomm reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that were in line with analyst expectations but saw sales from handset chips …
Read MoreImage: Discord Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users. As noted in a post on Discord’s blog, this change will force most users to change their usernames, as Discord will no longer have the four-number tag that
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok’s second creator fund is opening up to more users starting today. First announced in February, the program has been invite-only until now. Called the Creativity Program, the fund is meant to pay popular users for their content, but only if they meet certain requirements. The wider availability
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Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Pando, which develops supply chain management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures, bringing its total funding to $45M — Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando, a startup developing fulfillment management technologies …
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