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💻 Microsoft reportedly working on its own AI chips

Microsoft is reportedly working on its own AI chips that could rival Nvidia's, with the aim to cut costs and push the rollout of AI-powered features in Bing, Office apps, GitHub, and elsewhere.

🎮 Switch modder Bowser released from prison, likely owes Nintendo for rest of life

Gary Bowser, a member of the Team Xecuter Switchmodding group, has been released from prison on good behavior after serving 16 months and has paid $175 of the $14.5 million in restitution he owes to Nintendo, likely for the rest of his life, for his involvement in the development and sale of jailbreaking devices that allowed for custom firmware and piracy.

💀 Social media is doomed to die

Social media apps, including Snapchat, are doomed to lose their initial purpose of connecting and sharing with friends and family, as they are caught trying to satisfy both their users and investors/advertisers, resulting in a misalignment between user and product and the ongoing cycle of manipulation and disappointment.

💉 GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic

Microsoft and Epic Systems plan to bring OpenAI's language model GPT-4 into healthcare for use in drafting message responses from healthcare workers to patients and analyzing medical records while looking for trends, however, critics say the integration of large language models into every type of business may not always be appropriate.

🔥 Panic at Google: Samsung considers dumping search for Bing and ChatGPT

Samsung is considering a switch from Google Search to Bing and Chat GPT, causing "shock" and "panic" among Google executives, according to a report by The New York Times. Google reportedly pays up to $3.5 billion per year to be the default search engine on Samsung phones. The report notes that the contract is under negotiation and Samsung could stick with Google.

💪 Marvel’s new fitness app Marvel Move brings superheroes to your workout routine

Marvel has announced its new fitness app, Marvel Move, which features immersive audio-based running routines with popular Marvel Comics characters and will cost $74.99 per year on Android and iOS devices.

🎶 AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services

Universal Music Group has pulled a song featuring AI-generated vocals purporting to be Drake and The Weeknd from streaming services after it gained viral traction, citing "infringing content created with generative AI"; UMG has not clarified whether it sent formal takedown requests to the streaming services and social media sites featuring the song. The music industry is beginning to mobilise against the perceived threat of fake songs, with the Recording Industry Association of America warning last October that AI companies were violating copyrights en masse by using music to train their machines.

🚗 Interview with GM leader replacing carplay and Android auto

General Motors plans to cut off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future lineup of electric vehicles and instead offer an in-car operating system, which its head of operating systems believes will offer a more holistic, integral experience than projection systems currently allow, though the backlash from customers and auto analysts has been significant, even though GM is taking a phased approach and intends to continue to allow phone pairing via Bluetooth for hands-free calls, voice texting, and streaming music, while its gas-powered vehicles will continue to offer access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

🤖 Elon Musk wants to develop TruthGPT, “a maximum truth-seeking AI”

Elon Musk plans to develop his own chatbot called Truth GPT, which will be a "maximum truth-seeking AI," aimed to create more good than harm and to understand the nature of the universe, with concerns about AI being too powerful to manipulate public opinion or even cause "civilizational destruction."

💰 Sega is officially buying Angry Birds developer Rovio for $775M

Sega is acquiring Angry Birds developer Rovio for $775 million in order to benefit from Rovio's mobile gaming expertise and expand their IP across different formats.

💰 Reddit will begin charging for access to its API

Reddit has announced that it will begin charging for use of its API, but the API will remain free for developers who want to build apps and bots that help people use Reddit, as well as for researchers who wish to study Reddit for strictly academic or non-commercial purposes.

🤝 WhatsApp and Signal unite against UK online safety bill

WhatsApp and Signal have teamed up to protest against the UK's Online Safety Bill, which they claim could outlaw end-to-end encryption and compromise privacy and safety, according to an open letter signed by both app heads and five other encrypted chat apps. The executives say that the bill provides "no explicit protection for encryption" and suggest it could enable regulator Ofcom to "nullify the purpose of end-to-end encryption".

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