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ChatGPT comes for radio

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s been pretty slow in the audio world for the past few weeks — except when it comes to AI, which seems to be progressing at a clip.

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IFPI report: subscription audio streaming revenue grew 10.3% to $12.7B in 2022, which ended with 589M paid subscribers; total streaming grew 11.5% YoY to $17.5B (Jem Aswad/Variety)

Jem Aswad / Variety: IFPI report: subscription audio streaming revenue grew 10.3% to $12.7B in 2022, which ended with 589M paid subscribers; total streaming grew 11.5% YoY to $17.5B  —  Global recorded-music revenue growth slowed down dramatically in 2022 but still was up 9% according to the year-end report …

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A US federal judge approves a settlement in the Celsius bankruptcy case that lets the company’s custody account holders opt in to receive 72.5% of their crypto (Stephanie Murray/The Block)

Stephanie Murray / The Block: A US federal judge approves a settlement in the Celsius bankruptcy case that lets the company’s custody account holders opt in to receive 72.5% of their crypto  —  – Celsius custody account holders can receive 72.5% of the crypto in their custody accounts if they opt into a newly-approved settlement.

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SpaceX’s Starlink and other satellite internet providers are making light pollution worse for astronomers

People watch the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 second-generation Starlink satellites at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on February 27th, 2023. | Photo by Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images The swift rise of internet satellites, forming megaconstellations, and accumulating space junk are already starting to mess with astronomers’ research. The

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Windows 11’s Snipping Tool appears to have a bug similar to Pixel’s Markup tool “aCropalypse” bug, which lets anyone reveal info edited out in some screenshots (João Carrasqueira/XDA Developers)

João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: Windows 11’s Snipping Tool appears to have a bug similar to Pixel’s Markup tool “aCropalypse” bug, which lets anyone reveal info edited out in some screenshots  —  Recently, we heard of a vulnerability in the screenshot tool of Google’s Pixel phones, referred to as aCropalypse …

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Intel says Raja Koduri, who joined as Chief Architect in 2017, is leaving to found a startup focused on generative AI for gaming, media, and entertainment (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel says Raja Koduri, who joined as Chief Architect in 2017, is leaving to found a startup focused on generative AI for gaming, media, and entertainment  —  Raja moves on after six years.  —  Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced on Twitter today that Raja Koduri, the company’s current Chief Architect

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Feroot Security finds TikTok tracking pixels on 30 US government websites across 27 states; such trackers are ubiquitous and offered by Meta, Google, and others (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Feroot Security finds TikTok tracking pixels on 30 US government websites across 27 states; such trackers are ubiquitous and offered by Meta, Google, and others  —  Security firm’s report shows states might be inadvertently helping Chinese-owned app collect data

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The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the PC, the Internet, and the mobile phone and can reduce global inequities if risks are mitigated (Bill Gates/GatesNotes)

Bill Gates / GatesNotes: The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the PC, the Internet, and the mobile phone and can reduce global inequities if risks are mitigated  —  In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.  —  The first time was in 1980 …

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An internal Microsoft document instructs Azure salespeople to say that OpenAI’s licenses have “limited enterprise-grade capabilities” and fewer privacy features (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: An internal Microsoft document instructs Azure salespeople to say that OpenAI’s licenses have “limited enterprise-grade capabilities” and fewer privacy features  —  OpenAI’s ChatGPT has enraptured the business world since its November release and OpenAI is signing up customers eager …

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Hands-On: NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit

NVIDIA’s Jetson line of single-board computers are doing something different in a vast sea of relatively similar Linux SBCs. Designed for edge computing applications, such as a robot that needs to perform high-speed computer vision while out in the field, they provide exceptional performance in a board that’s of comparable size and weight to other

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