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Each participating company is actively building Web3 products that leverage Algorand technology, including an NFT marketplace, a DeFi protocol, an AI software company, among others

A year ago, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Facebook operated a two-tiered content moderation system. Normal users were subject to the platforms stated rules while VIP users were secretly flagged into special in a program internally called “cross check.” That list included everyone from Brazilian soccer star Neymar and former President Donald Trump to […]

Meta’s Oversight Board wants Facebook to be more transparent about VIP accounts by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

There’s a prevailing logic (or you might say hope) in tech that says there is no better time to invent and invest than when the market appears to be in a bad place. With companies like Google and Apple born out of fallow periods, that way of thinking may be understandable — and it is […]

One Peak scales up and closes $1B fund aimed at European and Israeli growth rounds by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple and truck manufacturer Navistar have scrapped their deal to co-develop self-driving trucks, the companies said Monday. Neither company provided a reason for ending the partnership. Two years ago, TuSimple and Navistar had agreed to jointly develop and produce purpose-built autonomous semi trucks by 2024; this would be a move away […]

TuSimple and Navistar end deal to co-develop autonomous trucks by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Editor’s note: This is a translation of a story about a Chinese painter based in Italy who became a critical source of information for many in China during recent protests against the country’s zero-covid policy. Find the English language version here. 过去一周，随着针对中国新冠防疫政策的抗议席卷了社交媒体，一个推特账号@李老师不是你老师 变成了各种相关信息来源的“集散地”。中国各地民众纷纷通过私信发来抗议视频和实时消息，而该账号帮投稿人隐去身份，匿名将这些消息发布出来。 这个账户背后只有一个人：李（大家称他为李老师），出于安全考虑，他要求只透露姓氏。他是一位居住在意大利的中国画家，且从未在新闻行业工作过，但这并没有阻止他把自己的推特账号变成了一个单人值守的新闻直播间。 针对新冠清零政策的抗议活动在 11 月的最后一个周末达到了高峰，李老师每秒钟都会收到十几条私信，他也在尽可能在收到投稿的一瞬间分辨、过滤掉不实信息。尽管在过去的一年里，他一直在发布关注者们的匿名私信，但这对他来说，也是一次完全不同的经历。 长期以来，他一直在网上关注并谈论中国的社会问题。2021 年的时候，他开始在微博上收到私信，这些人担心暴露自己的身份，希望通过他将这些信息发布出去。 但是后来，他发布的消息开始被审查和删帖；到今年2月，他的账户被封禁。之后的两个月中，他又有 49 个账户陆续被禁。但他的关注者们大方地让他使用自己的手机号去注册更多的账号（来发布信息）。今年 4 月，他被微博禁止访问，于是辗转到了推特。也正是在推特上，他收到了大量国际账户以及翻墙访问推特的中国用户的关注。 上周，郑州富士康工厂的工人与管理层爆发冲突，李老师开始通过中国社交媒体和他的关注者提供的信息来跟踪事态走向。那一晚，他只休息了 3…

ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that’s designed to help people communicate with computers in a more natural and intuitive way — using natural language processing (NLP) technology. But what’s behind the development of ChatGPT and how can the tech be used to help humanity? These are some of the questions that we […]

ChatGPT shrugged by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app Lensa AI went viral over the last few days, with users sharing their uncanny AI-crafted avatars (and the horrible misfires) in stories and posts. Lensa’s […]

Lensa AI, the viral app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

A good way to be wrong is to predict the future. A good way to be incredibly and embarrassingly wrong is to predict the future in a medium that is public and everlasting.

3 views: Predicting 2023’s key startup themes by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch