🚨 A New Chat Bot Is a 'Code Red' for Google's Search Business

Plus: FTX's Gary Wang, Caroline Ellison Pleaded Guilty to US Charges. Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point. And more…

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A New Chat Bot Is a 'Code Red' for Google's Search Business. Over the past three decades, a handful of products like Netscape's web browser, Google's search engine and Apple's iPhone have truly upended the tech industry and made what came before them look like lumbering dinosaurs. Three weeks ago, an… (Nico Grant, Cade Metz / The New York Times)

Nico Grant @nicoagrant

After the release of ChatGPT from rival OpenAI, Google’s management declared a “code red.” Teams across the company were reassigned to work on AI products and prototypes from now until Google’s I/O conference in May. Story with @CadeMetz

nytimes.comA New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search BusinessA new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.

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FTX's Gary Wang, Caroline Ellison Pleaded Guilty to US Charges. Two top FTX executives Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang have pleaded guilty to criminal charges and are cooperating with federal prosecutors as part of the investigation into the cryptocurrency platform's collapse, according to Damian Williams, the… (Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg)

Bloomberg Crypto @crypto

BREAKING: Two top associates of Sam Bankman-Fried — Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang — plead guilty to criminal charges linked to FTX's collapse trib.al/vvL6h25

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Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point. Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after another, people have signed up for mas.to and other… (Amanda Hoover / WIRED)

WIRED @WIRED

Stepping in for Twitter might not be as easy as it seems.

wired.trib.alMastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping PointAs the niche, decentralized social networking platform rises in popularity, it faces rising costs, culture shifts—and potential legal risks.

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Moving Fast and Breaking Things. When someone is suppressed, restrained or otherwise pushed into a corner, the aggressor tends to assume unlimited power. The feeling of isolation and power imbalance gives the oppressor a form of momentum - as long as they can control the rules of… (Ed Z / Substack)

Ed Zitron @edzitron

Today's Substack is my last of the year. It's about how SBF, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk all share the same vulnerability - an inability to see (and prepare for) their own weaknesses and ignorance, and why it's just so satisfying to see them fail.

ez.substack.comMoving Fast and Breaking ThingsWhen someone is suppressed, restrained or otherwise pushed into a corner, the aggressor tends to assume unlimited power. The feeling of isolation and power imbalance gives the oppressor a form of momentum - as long as they can control the rules of the system, they are unstoppable, able to bend and c…

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What this year in crypto has taught us. Saying I told you so is not much use, but the market implosion holds some real lessons. (Jemima Kelly / Financial Times)

Financial Times @FinancialTimes

Opinion: The world of crypto has proved itself more shameless, dishonest, interconnected and fantasy-based than even its strongest critics could have imagined, writes @jemimajoanna

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