Back in 2016 I made the case that the problematic impact of fake news was ultimately a function of who delivered it, and that to focus on social media was a red herring. Seems pertinent. https://
stratechery.com/2016/fake-news/
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Who Delivers Fake News Matters More Than Platform
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Baichuan Intelligent raises $300M from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi
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Baichuan Intelligent has raised $300 million in a Series A1 round led by Chinese tech giants Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi and several top investment institutions. Together with a previous $50 million angel round, Baichuan has now raised $350 million in total.
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Propaganda and AI: Stoking Outrage Through Digital Manipulation
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Propaganda machines are hard at work stoking the fires of outrage and division, while more and more innocent people suffer.
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China’s Sanctions Impact on Nvidia: Long-Term U.S. Tech Strategy
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The drip, drip, drip of China’s sanctions hard to gauge for Nvidia I’ve been following the U.S. regulations regarding tech to China for years now. When I was at Barron’s, I predicted that restrictions on China were a lasting, long-term change in the U.S.’s stance — and I was
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Tech Industry Talent Recruitment Strategy and Internal Workforce Development
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It is somewhat unfortunate that tech sees in its best advocates collections of skills/etc that tech could make more productive use of if they were inside the house, but tech sees in its best advocates…
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Structural Barriers to AI Adoption Beyond Decision Maker Age
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I don’t think it is primarily age of decision makers which functions as a barrier to it. Mostly structural factors.
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Mergers Destroy Value Despite Synergy Optimization Efforts
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There is some empirical support for this claim too — e.g on average, mergers destroy value (i.e the value of the combined company is lower than the sum of the original companies). This is despite mergers being explicitly chosen for maximising synergies.
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Disney’s New Robot Brings Cartoon Characters to Life
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Disney’s new robot is a cartoon came to life https://
freethink.com/robots-ai/new-
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#robot #artificialintelligence #entertainment #innovation #technology @jblefevre60 @LaurentAlaus @pierrepinna @Ym78200 @kalydeoo @pierrecappelli @PawlowskiMario @JolaBurnett @lyakovet @baski_LA @TerenceLeungSF -
Public AI Constitution Overlaps 50% With Anthropic Version
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We used Polis to ask our public to deliberate on the normative values they would like AI to abide by, and then used those opinions to curate a new AI constitution. We found that the Public constitution overlapped with the Anthropic-written constitution ~50% of the time.
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Generative AI Wildfire Prevention Tool Built with NVIDIA
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In 2020, 9,900 wildfires burned through California, charring 4.3 million acres and wreaking $19 billion in losses. @Chooch_AI and @Vantiq worked with NVIDIA to build a #generativeAI tool that helps get the jump on wildfires. More about us: https://
nvda.ws/3tjg3Ae #NVIDIAstory