Journals

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Google Maps for Android to overlay the weather and air quality index when browsing the map layer, a feature the iOS app has had for some time  —  Like the iOS app, Google Maps… Read More »Google updates Google Maps for Android to overlay the weather and air quality index when browsing the map layer, a feature the iOS app has had for some time (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Disney+ begins emailing subscribers about new changes to its TOS that will make sharing accounts harder, days after Hulu sent out similar notices  —  Today, Disney Plus began sending out emails informing subscribers about new… Read More »Disney+ begins emailing subscribers about new changes to its TOS that will make sharing accounts harder, days after Hulu sent out similar notices (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)

Reuters: Sources: Shanghai plans to accelerate approvals for foreign firms wanting to send their local data offshore, a major relaxation of China’s stringent data rules  —  Shanghai plans to accelerate approvals for foreign firms wanting to send their local data… Read More »Sources: Shanghai plans to accelerate approvals for foreign firms wanting to send their local data offshore, a major relaxation of China’s stringent data rules (Reuters)

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: Inside Zuzalu, a co-living experiment organized by Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro in 2023, as the techno-utopian “Network State” concept inspires more projects  —  Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias.  Who’s ready… Read More »Inside Zuzalu, a co-living experiment organized by Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro in 2023, as the techno-utopian “Network State” concept inspires more projects (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

John Sakellariadis / Politico: Some top cybersecurity experts are retreating from a CISA program that enlists outside professionals, citing growing conservative backlash and management gripes  —  Scrutiny from conservative activists and management gripes are straining the government’s plan to enlist… Read More »Some top cybersecurity experts are retreating from a CISA program that enlists outside professionals, citing growing conservative backlash and management gripes (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Billy Perrigo / TIME: A look at OpenAI’s “Democratic Inputs to AI” grant program, which awarded $100K each to 10 teams to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI systems  —  One afternoon in early May 2023, Colin Megill… Read More »A look at OpenAI’s “Democratic Inputs to AI” grant program, which awarded $100K each to 10 teams to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI systems (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI, DeepMind, and others seek clarity over how the UK’s AI Safety Institute is testing their AI models, timeframe, and the feedback process  —  OpenAI and DeepMind push for Britain’s new AI safety institute to speed up… Read More »Sources: OpenAI, DeepMind, and others seek clarity over how the UK’s AI Safety Institute is testing their AI models, timeframe, and the feedback process (Financial Times)

Bloomberg: Douyin CEO Kelly Zhang steps down, a source says ByteDance will not seek to appoint a successor and Zhang will shift her focus to the video-editing app CapCut  —  – Zhang will shift her focus to video-editing app CapCut … Read More »Douyin CEO Kelly Zhang steps down, a source says ByteDance will not seek to appoint a successor and Zhang will shift her focus to the video-editing app CapCut (Bloomberg)

Financial Times: Sources: Shein approached the CAC and China Securities Regulatory Commission to get their blessing for a US IPO, despite not formally requiring their approval  —  Online fast-fashion retailer in delicate dance with Beijing despite severing Chinese roots  — … Read More »Sources: Shein approached the CAC and China Securities Regulatory Commission to get their blessing for a US IPO, despite not formally requiring their approval (Financial Times)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Smaug-72B, a Qwen-72B-based open-source LLM released by Abacus AI, tops the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard and outperforms GPT-3.5 on several benchmarks  —  A new open-source language model has claimed the throne of the best in… Read More »Smaug-72B, a Qwen-72B-based open-source LLM released by Abacus AI, tops the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard and outperforms GPT-3.5 on several benchmarks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)