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The fight for a Montana bill to ban TikTok, which passed in the Senate and will likely pass in the House, previews the legally perilous road for a federal push (David McCabe/New York Times) 13-04-2023

David McCabe / New York Times: The fight for a Montana bill to ban TikTok, which passed in the Senate and will likely pass in the House, previews the legally perilous road for a federal push  —  The fight has shown the difficult test and legally perilous road facing lawmakers or the White House if they try to enact a national ban on the social media service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A study finds that assigning ChatGPT a persona, like “a bad person” or a certain historical figure, using the API, increases the chatbot's toxicity sixfold (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 13-04-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: A study finds that assigning ChatGPT a persona, like “a bad person” or a certain historical figure, using the API, increases the chatbot’s toxicity sixfold  —  It’s no secret that OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things. Lees verder op Tech Meme

PBS has not tweeted from its main Twitter handle since April 8, after Twitter labeled it “Government-funded Media”, and says it has no plans to resume tweeting (Sara Fischer/Axios) 13-04-2023

Sara Fischer / Axios: PBS has not tweeted from its main Twitter handle since April 8, after Twitter labeled it “Government-funded Media”, and says it has no plans to resume tweeting  —  PBS has not tweeted from its main Twitter handle since April 8, following Elon Musk’s decision to label the outlet “government-funded news.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

A teenage member of the Discord server where classified Pentagon documents were shared claims the leaker, who went by the name “OG”, worked on a military base (Washington Post) 13-04-2023

Washington Post: A teenage member of the Discord server where classified Pentagon documents were shared claims the leaker, who went by the name “OG”, worked on a military base  —  The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Italy outlines compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT suspension order, requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing, adopt age gating, and more (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) 13-04-2023

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Italy outlines compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT suspension order, requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing, adopt age gating, and more  —  Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems (Kenrick Cai/Forbes) 13-04-2023

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems  —  Alexandr Wang briefly became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24 by supplying artificial intelligence companies with the one thing they all need: humans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

FTX's attorneys say the company recovered $7.3B in liquid assets and is considering using creditors' holdings to reopen the exchange; FTX's FTT token jumps 70%+ (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk) 13-04-2023

Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: FTX’s attorneys say the company recovered $7.3B in liquid assets and is considering using creditors’ holdings to reopen the exchange; FTX’s FTT token jumps 70%+  —  FTT jumped 55%.  —  Featured SpeakerBrett Harrison  —  Founder and CEOArchitect  —  Don’t miss “FTX: What Happened” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent back arrow, per-app language preferences, and more (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) 13-04-2023

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent back arrow, per-app language preferences, and more  —  Google’s Android development cycle runs on a rather predictable cadence these days.  Today, after two developer previews … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: IBM explores selling its weather unit in a deal that could be valued at $1B+; IBM reportedly paid $2B+ for The Weather Company's digital assets in 2015 (Wall Street Journal) 13-04-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: IBM explores selling its weather unit in a deal that could be valued at $1B+; IBM reportedly paid $2B+ for The Weather Company’s digital assets in 2015  —  Weather.com owner could fetch more than $1 billion in a sale  —  International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a sale … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filings: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the Chinese company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022 (Financial Times) 12-04-2023

Financial Times: Filings: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the Chinese company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022  —  Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes Lees verder op Tech Meme