Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles — Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models
An interview with Grindr CEO George Arison on online safety, a mass data protection lawsuit against the app in the UK, plans for increasing ad revenue, and more (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
An interview with Grindr CEO George Arison on online safety, a mass data protection lawsuit against the app in the UK, plans for increasing ad revenue, and more — George Arison says users should be careful after Tory MP who shared intimate images was caught in ‘honeytrap’
Non-profit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT produced his incorrect birth date (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Non-profit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT produced his incorrect birth date — OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb …
Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company’s plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company’s plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country — Tentative approval comes after chief executive Elon Musk made an unannounced visit to Beijing, where he met with Premier Li Qiang
The second AI summit, a primarily virtual event in Seoul on May 21 and May 22, faces challenges, as sources say far few leaders and ministers are set to attend (Martin Coulter/Reuters)
Martin Coulter / Reuters:
The second AI summit, a primarily virtual event in Seoul on May 21 and May 22, faces challenges, as sources say far few leaders and ministers are set to attend — Last year, a who’s who of world leaders, corporate executives and academic experts gathered at Britain’s Bletchley Park …
China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country’s data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country’s data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared — Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated …
Sources: Tesla to clear a key hurdle to introduce its advanced assisted driving features in China by partnering with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Tesla to clear a key hurdle to introduce its advanced assisted driving features in China by partnering with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions — The US automaker will then be able to deploy its autonomous driving services on the basis of lane-level navigation and mapping provided …
An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more — A decade is a long time in tech — A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led …
Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season — Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic …
AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram (Scott Nover/Fast Company)
Scott Nover / Fast Company:
AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram — The intended and unintended generative AI flooding Facebook and Instagram. — Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence.