Microsoft has acknowledged Bing’s strange responses to some queries since the updated search engine launched a week ago. Bing’s AI-boosted responses can be rude, manipulative, and unsettling. Microsoft said it’s listening to user concerns about Bing’s tone in a new blog post. The company didn’t intend Bing for “general discovery …
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Even Tesla has agreed to new requirements for companies seeking funding from the Biden Administration’s $7.5 billion EV charging initiative. The Biden Administration announced Wednesday the final standards for its plan to build a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers along highways, including a requirement that all Inflation Reduction …
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As activist investors pressure Salesforce, the company is exploring cost-cutting options. Today, Insider reported that the company is implementing stricter engineering performance measurements, with some salespeople being pressured to quit or adopt harsh performance policies. Performance reviews based on engineers’ code output, a flawed way to measure engineering productivity, encourage …
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AI photo apps: over? AI-powered photo apps like Lensa AI’s “magic avatars” and others that promise to turn text into images have gone viral on the App Store in recent months. Apptopia data shows consumer interest in AI photo apps has fallen as quickly as it rose. The firm tracked …
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Some startups are defying the trend of scarcer capital. Descope, a “developer-first” authentication and user management platform, raised $53 million in seed funding today. Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, TechAviv, J Ventures, Cerca, Unusual Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments, and CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Microsoft chairman …
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Richard Socher, the founder of You.com, is aware that his business has always been a David battling Google and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft for supremacy in the search market. He likes to point out that his business developed search based on generative AI in December, well in advance of …
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Twitter announced earlier this month that it would restrict free use of its API, the programming interface that enables developers to communicate with Twitter. While the change undoubtedly has an impact on startups and independent developers who are creating tools to make the platform entertaining and safe, it also poses …
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Google announced the launch of the first Beta for its “Privacy Sandbox” adtech stack proposal, which aims to iterate how ad tracking, targeting, and reporting is done so it appears less creepy for individual users while maintaining an interest-based, behavioral targeting capability on web users’ eyeballs. Google has started letting …
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After a brief beta period that began in December of last year, GitHub today announced that Copilot for Business, the $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool, is now generally available. License management, organization-wide policy management, and more privacy features are all added by Copilot for Business. Before, …
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In order to address a vulnerability that hackers were actively using to compromise Apple devices, Apple on Monday released a new version of the operating systems for the iPhone and iPad. Apple stated that it “is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited” on the …
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