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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft now allows six Bing Chat turns per session and 60 chats per day and plans to test chat tones for switching between focused and creative responses  —  Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Amazon expands its partnership with OpenAI-rival Hugging Face, which plans to build its next-gen LLM on AWS and have Amazon offer its tools to AWS customers  —  Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit is expanding a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face Inc. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don’t Worry About the Vase: A roundup of AI news from the past week, including lengthy discussions with the new Bing, Sydney, Microsoft’s restrictions, and fears of AI wiping out all value  —  Previous AI-related recent posts: Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day, Next Level Seinfeld, Escape Velocity From Bullshit Jobs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, stemming from Islamic State gunmen killing a college exchange student in Paris in 2015  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday is hearing oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that argues tech companies should be legally liable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don’t Worry About the Vase: A roundup of notable recent interactions with the new Bing and AI-related developments, from lengthy discussions with Sydney to Microsoft adding restrictions  —  Previous AI-related recent posts: Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day, Next Level Seinfeld, Escape Velocity From Bullshit Jobs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Source and memo: Max Cutler, Spotify’s head of audio talk shows and partnerships who oversaw deals with creators like Joe Rogan, is leaving to start a company  —  Max Cutler, Spotify Technology SA’s head of audio talk shows and partnerships, is leaving the company to start a new venture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia’s GeForce Now and promises to offer Activision Blizzard games on the cloud service if the acquisition closes  —  Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service.  Speaking at a press conference in Brussels today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kan / PCMag: Sci-fi outlet Clarkesworld suspends short story submissions, citing a surge in AI-generated stories from people who only care about “making a quick buck”  —  Clarkesworld speculates that people are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word for accepted stories. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A researcher found a now-secure US DOD Azure database without a password for two weeks that had years’ worth of military emails with sensitive personnel info  —  A government cloud email server was connected to the internet without a password  —  The U.S. Department of Defense secured … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February 2023, as some worry that generative AI could commoditize book writing  —  Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. Lees verder op Tech Meme