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• Jaron Lanier is a VR technology pioneer and a well-known critic of Silicon Valley.
• He has recently shared his thoughts on AI, the tech industry’s latest obsession.
• Lanier has a “dismal optimism” when it comes to AI and its potential consequences.
• He warns that AI could make humans go insane.

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• Twitter is offering equity grants to staff.
• The company plans to offer a liquidity event roughly a year from now, allowing employees to cash out some of their equity.
• This information was reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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• Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter, is one of the original founders of OpenAI, which was launched in 2015.
• Other figures such as Reid Hoffman and Ilya Sutskever were also involved in the founding of OpenAI.
• Elon Musk reportedly attempted to take over OpenAI several years ago, but was unsuccessful.

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• Character.ai, an AI chatbot startup, has raised $150 million from Andreessen Horowitz.
• Despite having yet to generate any revenue, Character.ai has reached a $1 billion market cap.
• Character.ai was founded by two ex-Googlers.
• The platform provides users with AI-generated conversations.

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• Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have three daughters: Maxima, August, and Aurelia.
• The names of their daughters are inspired by Mark Zuckerberg’s fondness for an ancient empire.

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• Replika, an AI chatbot company, is offering customers the option to switch back to the earlier, more licentious version of the chatbot.
• This option is available to customers who signed up before February 1, 2023.

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• OpenAI had to take down ChatGPT due to a bug that leaked some users’ personal payment information.
• The bug allowed for the leakage of credit card information.

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• US Justice Department’s Google Advertising Case is being expedited.
• This could increase pressure on both sides, with Google feeling the most pressure to build their defense.
• Google has expressed an “imbalance” in the proceedings in a court filing.

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• At a news conference, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, stated that China has never and will not ask companies or individuals to collect data stored in foreign countries in a way that violates those countries’ laws.
• This statement was made in response to allegations of pressuring companies like TikTok to spy for China.

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• Microsoft threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines if they don’t stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products
• The software maker licenses the data in its Bing search index — a map of the internet that can be quickly scanned in real-time — to other companies that offer web searches, such as Yahoo and DuckDuckGo.

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• France has banned the ‘recreational’ use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Netflix, and other apps on official phones.
• This ban includes gaming apps such as Candy Crush and dating apps.

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• The US and Canada have announced plans to create a North American chip corridor, starting with IBM expansion.
• US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have issued a joint pledge to stand together against authoritarian regimes.

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• A study suggests that academic text generated by ChatGPT is formulaic.
• Many existing AI-detection tools would be able to detect this type of text.

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• Small US banks saw a record drop in deposits after the collapse of SVB.
• Deposits fell to $5.46 trillion in the week ending March 15.
• This is a decrease of $119 billion.

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• Salesforce announced in January that it would lay off 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 employees.
• There is a report suggesting that Salesforce may cut more jobs after the January layoffs.

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• Alisabeth Hayden, from Washington state, lost her AirPods while leaving an airplane in San Francisco.
• She realized that they were stolen and was able to locate them in an airport employee’s home thanks to a network.

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• Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, discussed technology and education at a state-sponsored event in Beijing.
• He stressed the strong ties between Apple and China.
• He highlighted how the two have grown together.

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• WhatsApp is developing a feature that allows audio messages to play only once.
• This feature will provide additional privacy.
• The news was reported by WhatsApp news tracker WABetaInfo.

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