TechRadar tests out AdGuard VPN – is it worth your time or are there better privacy tools on the market?
EU votes to ban AI in biometric surveillance, require disclosure from AI systems
Nonbinding EU draft AI law gets tougher, but it’s still open to negotiation.
Fireside chat with Comcast: Transforming service experience with smart data replication
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” In this video, Pavel Müller, SnowMirror creator and co-founder of GuideVision – an Infosys company, chats with Steve Zadroga, senior automation engineer at Comcast, on how they have overcome Comcast’s business challenges, accelerated their transformation to […]
CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit’s API was “never designed to support third-party apps” and he didn’t know the extent that they were profiting from Reddit’s API (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit’s API was “never designed to support third-party apps” and he didn’t know the extent that they were profiting from Reddit’s API — Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision to force AI […]
The Download: heat pumps for everyone, and fake Twitter accounts in China
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps The news: Heat pumps, which use electricity to both heat and cool homes, are now just as common in […]
Didi has a market cap of ~$14B, one year after its NYSE delisting, and has maintained a ~70% share in China’s ride-hailing market, despite Beijing’s crackdown (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Didi has a market cap of ~$14B, one year after its NYSE delisting, and has maintained a ~70% share in China’s ride-hailing market, despite Beijing’s crackdown — A delisting from the US Big Board often marks the end of a company’s traction with big investors. For Didi Global Inc., the […]
OpenAI rolls out big chatbot API upgrades for developers
API updates include 4x larger conversation memory for GPT-3.5 and function calling.
The Download: inaccurate welfare algorithms, and training AI for free
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An algorithm intended to reduce poverty might disqualify people in need The news: An algorithm funded by the World Bank to determine which families should get financial assistance […]
NYC-based Medivis, whose SurgicalAR platform lets radiologists and surgeons holographically render MRI and CT images, raised a $20M Series A led by Thrive (Marty Stempniak/Radiology Business)
Marty Stempniak / Radiology Business:NYC-based Medivis, whose SurgicalAR platform lets radiologists and surgeons holographically render MRI and CT images, raised a $20M Series A led by Thrive — A photorealistic rendering of a patient created by Medivis’ technology. — SourceMedivis — A radiologist-founded startup company …
Nature bans AI-generated art from its 153-year-old science journal
“The process of publishing … is underpinned by a shared commitment to integrity.”