Monthly Archives: September 2023

Amazon takes on Microsoft as invests billion in Anthropic

Amazon is in a race among big tech firms to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence.

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Hackers steal $200 million from crypto company Mixin

Hong Kong-based crypto company Mixin announced on Sunday that it was breached and that the hackers stole around $200 million. “In the early morning of September 23, 2023 Hong Kong time, the database of Mixin Network’s cloud service provider was … Continue reading

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Nx lands $16M to build ‘monorepo’ tools for software devs

Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series A round with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and a16z. The funding will be … Continue reading

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Spotify will use AI to replicate podcasters’ voices and translate them to other languages

Spotify is translating podcasts into multiple languages with the same original voice.

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ADP Global Payroll Review (2023): Features, Pricing, and More

Looking for a software that provides local and global payroll? Read our in-depth review to learn more about ADP Global Payroll pricing, features, and more.

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Decade of newborn child registry data stolen in MOVEit mass-hack

Ontario’s government-funded birth registry has confirmed a data breach affecting some 3.4 million people who sought pregnancy care, including the personal health data of close to two million newborns and children across the Canadian province. BORN Ontario said in a … Continue reading

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Snap partners with Microsoft on ads in its ‘My AI’ chatbot feature

Snapchat has a new advertising partner in Microsoft for the ads it’s inserting into its AI product, My AI, an AI chatbot introduced earlier this year to the wider Snapchat user base. The company in May said it would begin … Continue reading

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ChatGPT Can Now Respond With Spoken Words

A new version of OpenAI’s popular chatbot behaves a lot like Siri and Alexa. You can talk to it — and have a conversation.

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The Secret Ingredient of ChatGPT Is Human Advice

Companies like OpenAI hone their bots using hand-tailored examples from well-educated workers. But is this always for the best?

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Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in A.I. Start-up Anthropic

Tech giants have been partnering with up-and-coming A.I. start-ups, like Microsoft backing OpenAI, but Amazon has not been as active as rivals until now.

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