Without last week’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse, AI and chatbots would dominate tech conversations. Microsoft-backed OpenAI released GPT-4, a new language model, in recent days. Anthropic’s Claude chatbot competed. Gmail and Docs are getting AI from Google. Chatbot-enabled Bing search has garnered attention. Missing name? Apple. The Cupertino-based company …
Read More »Meta tracking violates EU data transfer rules
Austria’s data protection authority found that Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law by transferring personal data to the US, where government surveillance was possible. In August 2020, the European privacy rights group NOYB filed a number of complaints against websites using Google Analytics for data export. Several EU …
Read More »According to Mark Zuckerberg, engineers who joined Meta in person outperform those who joined virtually
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has said that internal data analysis shows that engineers who joined the company in person did better than those who joined remotely. He also said that younger engineers, or those who are “early in their careers,” do better …
Read More »Open Health Stack is made available by Google for programmers
Google recently unveiled Open Health Stack, a brand-new open-source platform for app developers to create health-related applications. These resources, which were introduced last week at the company’s ‘The Check Up’ special event, include an Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and design standards for health apps. The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards …
Read More »Microsoft dismisses its ethical AI team while promoting OpenAI
At Microsoft, it was the job of a whole team to guide AI innovation toward moral, responsible, and sustainable results.According to Platformer, the elimination of the ethics and society team was part of a recent round of layoffs that affected 10,000 workers throughout the company. Microsoft has recently redesigned its …
Read More »Meta will eliminate 10,000 more workers and “low priority initiatives.”
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, confirmed recent reports that another round of layoffs was looming by announcing plans to trim its employment by another 10,000 individuals and remove roughly 5,000 open positions that it had not yet filled. Also, according to Zuckerberg, the business would halt “lower priority …
Read More »Discord releases AI-generated discussion summaries, improves its bot with ChatGPT-like functionality, and more
The newest firm to join the AI craze is Discord. The business revealed today that it is introducing a number of new AI experiences to its servers. Most significantly, Discord is integrating OpenAI ChatGPT technology into its Clyde bot update so that users can have more in-depth conversations with the …
Read More »Credit Karma wants a lot of Americans to know how much money they have
Credit Karma Net Worth is a new product from the same people who make credit monitoring services. It helps people find out how much money they have, grow it, and keep it safe. Credit Karma’s founder and CEO, Kenneth Lin, said in an interview that the new feature brings the …
Read More »Tweed is a crypto wallet API that can be added to any web service to give it a web3 feel
Meet Tweed, a startup that has been working on a white-label cryptocurrency wallet and payment solution. The company is coming out of stealth today. With Tweed, companies can make wallets for their users so they can buy, hold, send, and spend crypto assets without knowing how to do it. Accel …
Read More »Synctera gets $15 million to help companies in Canada launch banking products with embedded chips
A banking-as-a-service startup called Synctera has raised an extra $15 million to help it grow into Canada. The corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, NAventures, led the financing. This brings the total amount of money Synctera has raised to $60 million since it started in June 2020. The …
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