Monthly Archives: April 2023

New York Times: As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek limits on the use of AI-produced material  —  As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.

Financial Times: Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents  —  Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet

Jordan Novet / CNBC: An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient  —  – Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter.  — […]

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources describe how Meta’s managers built “legions of kingdoms” as headcount doubled and declining morale, confidence in Zuckerberg’s leadership after layoffs  —  Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — […]

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14  —  Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again […]

Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal: Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors  —  Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to […]

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety  —  Jaan Tallinn used the fortune he made selling Skype in 2009 to invest in AI companies like Anthropic […]

Avram Piltch / Tom’s Hardware: The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit  —  GPT4Free uses other sites’ connections to OpenAI.  —  Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if […]

Reuters: A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram’s ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service “is not reasonable”  —  Brazil’s second instance appeals court lifted on Saturday the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft’s Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI’s text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview  —  Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.