David Gilbert / Wired:
Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China’s yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more — China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it.
Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care citing “escalating operating costs”; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in 2021 (Justine Calma/The Verge)
Justine Calma / The Verge:
Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care citing “escalating operating costs”; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in 2021 — Walmart isn’t making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop.
A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry (Antonio Olivo/Washington Post)
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry — A backlash against internet data centers has triggered a wave of laws around the country to restrain the rapidly growing industry …
In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI’s Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI’s Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika — The FT asked workers in animation, advertising and real estate to test rival AI systems that create short clips
Taiwan’s KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions (Kelly Le/South China Morning Post)
Kelly Le / South China Morning Post:
Taiwan’s KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions — – King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world’s largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a Suzhou subsidiary
Google Phone app beta rolls out “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google Phone app beta rolls out “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting — The Google Phone app is picking up a new trick, with the app now rolling out “Audio Emoji” to some users.
Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 (Entrackr)
Entrackr:
Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 — API Holdings, the parent company of online drug dispenser PharmEasy, has raised Rs 1,804 crore ($216 million) …
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot which became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4 (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo:
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot which became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4 — An advanced AI model with unknown origins turned heads this week as online communities unpacked a cryptic tweet from Sam Altman.
Esther Crawford joins Meta’s Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter’s director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (Kwan Wei Kevin Tan/Business Insider)
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan / Business Insider:
Esther Crawford joins Meta’s Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter’s director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 — – The former Twitter director Esther Crawford says she has joined Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. — Crawford was one of Elon …
Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others (FinSMEs)
FinSMEs:
Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others — Elisity, a San Jose, CA-based company which specializes in identity-based microsegmentation, raised $37M in Series B funding.
