🤖 Hype Doesn't Always Match Reality

Today’s pick

Tech Giants Pour Billions Into AI, but Hype Doesn't Always Match Reality. After years of companies emphasizing the potential of artificial intelligence, researchers say it is now time to reset expectations. With recent leaps in the technology, companies have developed more systems that can produce seemingly humanlike… (Karen Hao, Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal)

Karen Hao 郝珂灵 @_KarenHao

I wrote about a topic I’ve been itching to address for some time: how AI PR hype, coupled with increasingly flashy AI-generated outputs, is creating a dangerous gap between the technology’s perception & reality. A collab with @MilesKruppa. wsj.com/articles/tech-…

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NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach. Opensea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach. A staff at Customer.io, an email vendor… (Rita Liao / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach tcrn.ch/3Ny3yp9 by @ritacyliao

tcrn.chNFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach – TechCrunchOpenSea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach. A staff at Customer.io, an email vendor contracted by OpenSea, misused their employee access to download and share email addresses of OpenSea’s us…

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NASA teases extraordinary images captured by its Webb telescope. Six months have passed since a European rocket lofted the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit. Since that time, the ultra-complex telescope has successfully unfolded its expansive sunshield, commissioned its science instruments, and reached an… (Eric Berger / Ars Technica)

Eric Berger @SciGuySpace

NASA is such a tease!

arstechnica.comNASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tearsDeep field images of the universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and more to be unveiled.

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U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores. Brendan Carr, one of the FCC's commissioners, shared Tuesday via Twitter a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai that pointed to reports and other developments that made TikTok non-compliant with the two companies' app store… (Evelyn Cheng / CNBC)

CNBC @CNBC

Brendan Carr, one of the FCC’s commissioners, said he has asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over China-related data security concerns.

cnb.cxU.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app storesA leader of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over China-related data security concerns.

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No, RadioShack's Twitter wasn't hacked. It sells cryptocurrency now.. 'If you find a squirter marry her.' That's the tweet currently taking over Twitter, with shocked reactions in the replies and quotes tweets asking, 'What in the world is going on?' The tweet wasn't accidentally sent by a politician or a hacked… (Matt Binder / Mashable)

Matt Binder @MattBinder

you know that internet marketing guy Tai Lopez from all those YouTube "get rich quick" scheme video ads? his company owns Radio Shack now. when you retweet those dumb tweets, you're helping them promote their crypto platform. that's right, RadioShack sells crypto now.

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