Elon Musk calls struggling San Francisco a city of 'Walking Dead'

Musk commented after American business columnist and author Ashlee Vance said the city has become is "unconscionable."

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Italy temporarily bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns

The move comes days after a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives wrote an open letter calling for a six-month pause in training systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched model GPT-4.

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Right-wing video site Rumble grows, as does its misinformation

Its monthly active user base rose to 80 million at the end of December, more than double the year-earlier figure, the company said on Thursday.

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AI experts disown Elon Musk-backed campaign citing their research

Critics have accused the Future of Life Institute (FLI), the organisation behind the letter which is primarily funded by the Elon Musk Foundation, of prioritising imagined apocalyptic scenarios over more immediate concerns about AI, such as racist or sexist biases.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai promises more capable Bard AI chatbot soon

Bard was released for the public on March 21 but failed to garner the attention won by OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot.

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TikTok attorney: China can't get US data under plan

ByteDance's most known app, TikTok, is under intense scrutiny over concerns it could hand over user data to the Chinese government or push pro-Beijing propaganda and misinformation on its behalf.

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Alibaba stock is overbought as spinoff prompts $47 billion rally

The Chinese internet conglomorate’s plan to slash its empire into six units has so far added $47 billion of market value, causing a key technical indicator to flash a sell signal — little more than a week after it showed the stock was oversold.

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