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An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on part of him regretting his life's work and more (Cade Metz/New York Times) 01-05-2023

Cade Metz / New York Times: An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who left Google after over a decade to speak about AI’s risks, on part of him regretting his life’s work and more  —  For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT.  Now he worries it will cause serious harm. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Automattic says its WordPress plugin JetPack is losing the ability to automatically share blog posts to Twitter, citing the new Twitter API terms and pricing (Matt Binder/Mashable) 01-05-2023

Matt Binder / Mashable: Automattic says its WordPress plugin JetPack is losing the ability to automatically share blog posts to Twitter, citing the new Twitter API terms and pricing  —  Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies.  —  When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel earnings were better than Wall Street expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth lags (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) 01-05-2023

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel earnings were better than Wall Street expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth lags  —  Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past Lees verder op Tech Meme

A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, shared 150K documents with the US SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks (Drew Harwell/Washington Post) 01-05-2023

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, shared 150K documents with the US SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks  —  The former high-ranking executive of Trump’s media company says he’s shared 150,000 internal documents with federal investigators. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire its German rival Flink, which is in talks to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times) 01-05-2023

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire its German rival Flink, which is in talks to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation  —  Discussions come as consolidation accelerates in one of the pandemic’s hottest tech sectors  —  Grocery delivery app pioneer Getir … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Apple's high yield savings account offering a 4.15% annual return brought in ~$990M in deposits over its first four days and nearly $400M on launch day (Emily Mason/Forbes) 01-05-2023

Emily Mason / Forbes: Sources: Apple’s high yield savings account offering a 4.15% annual return brought in ~$990M in deposits over its first four days and nearly $400M on launch day  —  Apple’s AAPL freshly launched high yield savings account brought in as much as $990 million in deposits over its first four days … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of posting on Truth Social, vs. 300+ times from 2017 to 2021 on Twitter (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America) 01-05-2023

Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America: Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of posting on Truth Social, vs. 300+ times from 2017 to 2021 on Twitter  —  Former President Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of actively posting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Super Mario Bros. Movie crosses $1B globally at the box office, becoming the first to do so in 2023 and the most financially successful video game movie yet (Rebecca Rubin/Variety) 01-05-2023

Rebecca Rubin / Variety: The Super Mario Bros. Movie crosses $1B globally at the box office, becoming the first to do so in 2023 and the most financially successful video game movie yet  —  “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office. Lees verder op Tech Meme

NewsGuard finds 49 websites with generic names like “News Live 79” using generative AI and posing as news outlets; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads (Davey Alba/Bloomberg) 01-05-2023

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: NewsGuard finds 49 websites with generic names like “News Live 79” using generative AI and posing as news outlets; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads  —  The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from a subject, essentially reading a person's thoughts (Becky Ferreira/VICE) 01-05-2023

Becky Ferreira / VICE: Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from a subject, essentially reading a person’s thoughts  —  An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports. Lees verder op Tech Meme