There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux relationships with machine personalities that don’t r

Ina Fried / Axios: Unlike Getty Images, Adobe says it will sell stock images made by artists who used generative AI programs like Dall-E, but requires images be labeled as such  —  Adobe is opening its stock images service to creations made with the help of generative AI programs like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion, the company tells Axios.

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Runway, one of the two startups behind Stable Diffusion, raised a $50M Series C led by Felicis Ventures; sources: Runway's valuation is $500M, and ARR is ~$1M  —  Runway ML, one of the two startups behind the popular AI text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding at a $500 million valuation, Forbes has learned

Ashley Gold / Axios: Meta begins testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, letting users upload video selfies or IDs, following successful tests on Instagram  —  Meta is testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, a move the company says will make the product safer, per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios.

Financial Times: A look at FTX's historical ties to Hong Kong, where SBF cultivated ties to wealthy families, and how Alameda-owned Genesis Block helped raise cash  —  Genesis Block helped Sam Bankman-Fried's group access hard cash and onboard wealthy clients  —  At Sam Bankman-Fried's 29th birthday in March last year …

Sam Altman / @sama: Sam Altman says ChatGPT crossed 1M users since it launched less than a week ago  —  ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!

Elon Musk’s platform may be hell, but it’s also where huge amounts of reputational and social wealth are invested. All of that is in peril.

Musk: "misunderstanding" over Twitter and the App Store is resolved.

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This system adds Wi-Fi 6E at a reasonable price but lacks many of the “pro” features you might expect.

Interstellar Lab’s inflatable BioPod is designed to help plants survive inhospitable conditions on Earth and allow explorers to settle on the Red Planet.

Last month I participated in a panel discussion at Reviving London's Tech Scene event from London Tech Network. A lot of professionals from Meta, The Economist, Osedea, Beamery were present at this event. Our discussion focused on bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams. Here are my key takeaways from this discussion.

Variston IT fingerprints found in source code for advanced Chrome exploit.

The SFPD is now authorized to use explosive robots when lives are at stake.

"Production ready" neural net makes actors younger or older for film or TV.

OnePlus and Samsung are now tied in having the longest update plans.