📱 Meta's Move, ChatGPT's Rise, Musk's Influence
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Meta confirms AI 'off-switch' incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe. Meta has confirmed that non-personalized content feeds are incoming on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union ahead of the August 25 deadline for compliance with the bloc's rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA). By Natasha Lomas via TechCrunch
Meta confirms AI ‘off-switch’ incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe - Infosec Alevski (@Alevskey)
This is how generative AI will free up your time at work. Can you remember a time before ChatGPT dominated almost every conversation about the future of work? Despite its relative infancy—OpenAI launched the chatbot in November 2022—the generative AI tool has had a groundbreaking effect on almost every industry, and not just tech. By Aoibhinn Mc Bride, Jobbio via VentureBeat
This is how generative AI will free up your time at work - Ramsey Elbasheer (@genericgranola)
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Elon Musk's Shadow Rule. Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in part to avoid inviting an onslaught of late-night texts and colorful emojis on Kahl’s own phone. By Ronan Farrow via The New Yorker
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
What is Friend.tech, the viral crypto social media app?. Remember when we were inundated with crypto commercials starring Matt Damon, major sports league sponsorships, and drawings of apes ? For those in the mainstream, cryptocurrency seems pretty much dead. By Matt Binder via Mashable
What is Friend.tech, the viral crypto social media app? Friend.tech has blown up in crypto circles in a matter of days, with users claiming big earnings. But there are lots of red flags - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
Watch this robot dog scramble over tricky terrain just by using its camera. When Ananye Agarwal took his dog out for a walk up and down the steps in the local park near Carnegie Mellon University, other dogs stopped in their tracks. That's because Agarwal's dog was a robot—and a special one at that. By Melissa Heikkilä via MIT Technology Review
This robot uses computer vision and reinforcement learning to walk up stairs, climb on stones, and hop over gaps. - MIT Technology Review (@techreview)
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