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Josh Ye / Reuters: Baidu says that eight months after launch, its AI chatbot Ernie Bot now has 200M+ users and 85K enterprise clients, after reaching 100M+ users in December  —  China’s Baidu (9888.HK) said on Tuesday its artificial intelligence… Read More »Baidu says that eight months after launch, its AI chatbot Ernie Bot now has 200M+ users and 85K enterprise clients, after reaching 100M+ users in December (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: South Korea-based AI startup Upstage raised a $72M Series B from investors including SK Networks and SBVA, formerly known as SoftBank Ventures Asia  —  Artificial intelligence startup Upstage secured 100 billion won ($72 million) from investors… Read More »South Korea-based AI startup Upstage raised a $72M Series B from investors including SK Networks and SBVA, formerly known as SoftBank Ventures Asia (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Kode Labs, which develops tools that integrate data from building management systems and IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B led by Maverix Private Equity  —  Like many immigrants, the New York City skyline was… Read More »Kode Labs, which develops tools that integrate data from building management systems and IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B led by Maverix Private Equity (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg: Sources: the UK plans talks this month with Apple, Meta, and others to push a voluntary charter granting parents more control of social media use by young teens  —  – Ministers want Meta, Google to agree… Read More »Sources: the UK plans talks this month with Apple, Meta, and others to push a voluntary charter granting parents more control of social media use by young teens (Ellen Milligan/Bloomberg)

Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: Mark Zuckerberg wins his bid to avoid personal liability in about two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta and other companies of addicting children to their products  —  US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is overseeing the… Read More »Mark Zuckerberg wins his bid to avoid personal liability in about two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta and other companies of addicting children to their products (Rachel Graf/Bloomberg)

Billy Perrigo / TIME: Google’s Jigsaw expands Perspective API, a set of ML tools that help moderators and researchers identify toxicity, with seven attributes, including nuance  —  In the 1990s and early 2000s, technologists made the world a grand promise:… Read More »Google’s Jigsaw expands Perspective API, a set of ML tools that help moderators and researchers identify toxicity, with seven attributes, including nuance (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware’s licensing conditions, following complaints from EU business users and a trade group  —  U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is being asked by EU antitrust regulators about… Read More »EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware’s licensing conditions, following complaints from EU business users and a trade group (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

David Pierce / The Verge: Limitless launches the $99 Limitless Pendant, a wearable AI gadget that transcribes meetings and provides real-time notes and summaries, shipping in August  —  The Limitless Pendant doesn’t exactly scream “AI.”  As Dan Siroker, the CEO… Read More »Limitless launches the $99 Limitless Pendant, a wearable AI gadget that transcribes meetings and provides real-time notes and summaries, shipping in August (David Pierce/The Verge)

Ricardo Brito / Reuters: Letter: X’s lawyers tell Brazil’s Supreme Court that the social media platform will comply with every ruling issued by the court or Brazil’s top electoral court  —  Lawyers representing Elon Musk’s X told Brazil’s Supreme Court… Read More »Letter: X’s lawyers tell Brazil’s Supreme Court that the social media platform will comply with every ruling issued by the court or Brazil’s top electoral court (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: How scammers, often from Nigeria, are using sextortion to target teenage boys on social media in the US, leading to at least 20 suicides over an 18-month period  —  One word from a stranger on social… Read More »How scammers, often from Nigeria, are using sextortion to target teenage boys on social media in the US, leading to at least 20 suicides over an 18-month period (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)