Karandeep Anand, former VP of Business Products at Meta, is joining Google-backed Character.AI as CEO. [@Techcrunch](
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Character.AI taps Meta's former VP of business products as CEO | TechCrunch
Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety concerns.
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Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says. @Axios reports that Matthew Prince "said Cloudflare is working on a new tool that will stop content scraping." https://flip.it/yEnJh5 #AI #Google #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #Cloudflare #Tech #Media #Journalism
Iran’s internet blackout leaves public in dark and creates an uneven picture of the war with Israel. From [@AssociatedPress](
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Iran's internet blackout leaves public in dark and creates an uneven picture of the war with Israel
As the war between Israel and Iran hits the one-week mark, Iranians have spent nearly half of the conflict in a near-communication blackout, unable...
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Love it or hate it, ChatGPT just gave some travel advice that converted a tech editor. Read her story at [@TechRadar](
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I let Gemini and ChatGPT go head to head to plan my vacation, and now I can
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What caused the SpaceX Starship rocket to explode on the test stand late Wednesday night? [@Techcrunch](
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SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight | TechCrunch
It's the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.
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A new study from MIT's Media Lab suggests that using ChatGPT harms critical thinking abilities, [@time](
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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
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President Trump delays TikTok ban for third time, giving 90 days for a deal to be struck with American owner. [@AssociatedPress](
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Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time, without clear legal basis
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more...
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When Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, he said addressing the problem of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was "top priority." But reporting by NBC News says if anything, it's worse than ever — and may get worse still after nonprofit Thorn, which worked with X to detect CSAM, terminated its contract because of nonpayment. Here's more.
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Accounts peddling child abuse content flood some X hashtags as safety partner cuts ties
Thorn, a nonprofit that provides detection and moderation software related to child safety, said it canceled its contract with X after the platform...
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Meta's AI app now has a "Discover" page that includes users' conversations with the chatbot. Some of these contain embarrassing, personal and sensitive details about folks' lives, which, says @npub1nn0l...qf5k, can be quite easily tied back to real people. Here's his story for @npub1psar...j5uh.
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Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI
In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse pr...
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120Hz refresh rate. 256GB of storage. And a promise to be “designed and built in the USA” (emphasis on the quote marks). [@theverge](
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The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible
It’s supposedly made in the USA, cheap, and coming this fall. I doubt it all.
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