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Wall Street Journal: Before the dinner, Zuckerberg did a private demonstration for Trump of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, which he gifted to the president-elect, the people familiar with the discussions said. Zuckerberg’s team told the inaugural fund before the dinner that Meta planned to donate, one of the
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Ars Technica, on TikTok at risk of being banned in the US: "Estimates show that small businesses on TikTok would lose more than $1 billion in revenue [in US] and creators would suffer almost $300 million in lost earnings in just one month unless the TikTok Ban is halted,
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Financial Times, on Russian-backed campaign in Romania (paywalled): The Russian-backed influence campaign that prompted Romania to scrap its presidential election result echoes operations carried out in Moldova and other countries this year, according to Romanian intelligence reports and Moldovan officials. The short story is that presidential elections in Romania were
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on an annual defense bill that includes just over $3 billion to help U.S. telecom companies remove equipment made by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE from American wireless networks. Link I may be missing something here: US
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This is an automated, AI managed, human washing machine, that gets you cleaned in 15 minutes. It also assesses your stress level and directs water jets to your tensioned muscles. The machine's designer was Manatsu Ueda, a 90-year-old resident of Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture And: The human washing machine
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The Browser Company, makers of ARC browser, are making another AI-based browser. This time better and smarter, it is called DIA and it is fully AI-based. Take a look: https://vimeo.com/1035951032 (I cannot link to X, it is against my religion…)
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The Biden administration said Tuesday that it would award up to $7.86 billion in direct funding to Intel, with the U.S. chip giant set to receive at least $1 billion of that money before the end of the year. The money is a reduction from Intel’s preliminary
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An "experimental art installation" dubbed "Deus in Machina" by the St. Peter's Church in Lucerne has seen a confessional booth outfitted with a vertically aligned monitor, a bunch of computer equipment and a big blue button for adventurous penitents willing to ask questions to
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These actions are in part a response to Republicans’ complaints that media companies and advertisers have silenced conservative voices, according to six people who have worked with major advertisers. Some of those criticisms have led to legal action: In August, Elon Musk’s X sued a coalition of large advertisers,
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The ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a web browser that it would combine with its chatbot, and it has separately discussed or struck deals to power search features for travel, food, real estate and retail websites, according to people who have seen prototypes or designs of the products. OpenAI has
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The New Yorker: “When this happens in an authoritarian system, it is horrific but unsurprising,” Seaford, the technology executive who was hacked during Greece’s spyware campaign, told me. “When it happens in a democracy; however, it creates a sense of disorientation: ‘Could this happen to me? Here? Really?!’ Link
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Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Link Oops!