This Week in Tech

Apr 9th 2023

This Week in Tech 922

AI Hustlers

Hosted by Devindra Hardawar

Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite

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Category: News

Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite

  •  Biden eyes AI dangers, says tech companies must ensure products are safe.
  •  A viral image of the Pope in a white coat was faked with AI.
  •  Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data.
  •  What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news.
  • Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT.
  •  Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral.
  •  At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free.
  •  What did Twitter’s ‘open source’ algorithm actually reveal? Not a lot.
  •  Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis'.
  •  Dogecoin jumps more than 30% after Musk changes Twitter logo to an image of Shiba inu.
  •  New Analysis Shows News Industry Reaps Considerable Economic Benefit from Facebook.
  •  Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'.
  •  Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive.
  •  Google to cut some of its perks to cut costs amid AI race.
  •  Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts.
  •  Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures.
  •  E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out.
  •  Super Mario Bros. movie has the largest domestic opening of the year ($146M), the global debut is huge too ($377.5M).
  •  Sony is reportedly working on a remote play-only handheld, the Q Lite.

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