According to new filings discovered by the Wall Street Journal, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is set to own 93.4 percent of Electronic Arts if the proposed $55B acquisition goes through. Here's more from Eurogamer.
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EA will be almost entirely owned by Saudi Arabia if sale goes through, according to new filing
EA will be almost entirely owned by Saudi Arabia if sale goes through, according to new filing.
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How is AI really impacting jobs? @Brian Merchant writes for Blood in the Machine about what the numbers are saying: "Generative AI is not reliable enough when it comes executing complex tasks to enable most organizations to displace jobs at scale, and it certainly can’t do jobs that require empathy or hands-on problem-solving," he writes. "What it can do is automate the production of work that need not be 'reliable' or 'accurate,' but that employers might find 'good enough.' Precisely the way many corporate executives already conceive of creative work, in other words."
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
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India mandates pre-installation of government cyber safety app on all smartphones. [@AssociatedPress](
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India mandates pre-installation of government cyber safety app on all smartphones
India’s telecoms ministry has ordered smartphone manufacturers to install a government-run cybersecurity app on all new devices.
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The Shopify app is down, with around 4,000 retailers reporting issues with the site on one of the busiest retail days of the year. Here's more from [@Independent](
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Shopify down as outage reports pour in from around the world on Cyber Monday
Thousands of stores started reporting problems with logging into their accounts at around 9 a.m. ET
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Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark. CNBC reports: "Runway said Gen 4.5 is good at understanding physics, human motion, camera movements and cause and effect."
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Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark
Gen 4.5, a new AI model that allows users to generate high-definition videos based on written prompts.
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From CNBC: How a sense of nostalgia and chic led to the development of a landline-style phone that can reduce your amount of screen time.
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Tech founder built a landline-style phone to help reduce her screentime—she sold $120,000 of them in 3 days
Cat Goetze, who goes by CatGPT online, launched Physical Phones to help people spend less time on their smartphones.
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Do you hear those bells ringing? It’s the sound of stress that is already wafting into the gift-giver’s mind. Fortunately, there’s help. Read about the app that just might lift some of that holiday stress off your shoulders. Read more from [@TechRadar](
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I can feel the gift list stress already, but this smart app could calm me down
Homescreen Heroes: Giftster brings much-needed organization to gift-giving.
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Is AI sexist? Probably. But getting it to confess is another story. [@Techcrunch](
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No, you can't get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is anyway | TechCrunch
Though LLMs might not use explicitly biased language, they may infer your demographic data and display implicit biases, researchers say.
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A team at three U.S. universities developed an AI-powered browser extension that modifies how content appears on X and then tested it on 1,200 participants in the run up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The tool scans posts for anti-democratic and negative partisan views (such as calling for violence towards supporters of an opposing party) and then re-orders the posts so polarizing content is shown either more or less to participants. The scientists found that attitudes towards the opposing party changed on average by two points, and that the participants who saw less hostile content reported feeling less angry and sad while using X. The extension did not need the participation of X, and the team behind it noted, could be a way of reranking social media posts "without platform collaboration." Here's more from [@euronews](
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Social media algorithms can alter political views, study says
A browser extension powered by AI can reduce how people feel about opposing political views, according to new research that looked into the 2024 US...
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Who in the United States is going to regulate AI? [@Techcrunch](
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The race to regulate AI has sparked a federal vs. state showdown | TechCrunch
The fight over AI regulation isn't about the technology — it's about whether Washington or the states get to set the rules, and what ha...
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