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A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai (Chloe Xiang/VICE) 01-04-2023

Chloe Xiang / VICE: A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai  —  The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.  —  Chloe Xiang Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC in March, part of the 50K BTC stolen by James Zhong, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk) 01-04-2023

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Filing: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC in March, part of the 50K BTC stolen by James Zhong, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches  —  The government will sell the remaining 41,490 BTC in four tranches this year.  —  The U.S. government sold 9,861.17 bitcoin … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Twitter code behind For You tracked authors as either “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon” to keep algo tweaks from harming any one group (Matt Binder/Mashable) 01-04-2023

Matt Binder / Mashable: Twitter code behind For You tracked authors as either “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon” to keep algo tweaks from harming any one group  —  Musk said he had no idea it was doing that!  —  Twitter has just released … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022 (Mimi Billing/Sifted) 31-03-2023

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022  —  The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits Lees verder op Tech Meme

Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022 (Mimi Billing/Sifted) 31-03-2023

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022  —  The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits Lees verder op Tech Meme

Twitter code behind For You tracks authors as either “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon”, says it's to keep algo tweaks from harming any one group (Matt Binder/Mashable) 01-04-2023

Matt Binder / Mashable: Twitter code behind For You tracks authors as either “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon”, says it’s to keep algo tweaks from harming any one group  —  Musk said he had no idea it was doing that!  —  Twitter has just released … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google confirms putting a limit of 5M files per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica) 01-04-2023

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google confirms putting a limit of 5M files per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug  —  The new file limit means you can’t actually use the storage you buy from Google.  —  “Please delete 2 million files to continue using your Google Drive account.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022 (Mimi Billing/Sifted) 31-03-2023

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022  —  The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA (Josh Sisco/Politico) 01-04-2023

Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA  —  The case, if filed, would be the first in a potentially long list of enforcement actions against the tech giant. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022 (Mimi Billing/Sifted) 31-03-2023

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Copenhagen-based Agreena, whose AI monitors satellite images to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B led by HV, after a €20M Series A in 2022  —  The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits Lees verder op Tech Meme