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• FTC reported to be investigating OpenAI for consumer protection violations

  13-07-2023 23:02
  
  The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating ChatGPT maker OpenAI for potential violations of consumer protection regulations, involving data privacy and false statements about third parties.According to reports that surfaced Thursday, the FTC has filed an official request with OpenAI for a wide range of data, covering how the company markets its products, how it goes about identifying and correcting failures in the system, how it handles customer data, and more. The Washington P
  
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• Google Bard launches in EU, overcoming data privacy concerns in the region

  13-07-2023 17:54
  
  Google has announced it is making its Bard chatbot available in the EU and Brazil, five months after the company opened it up for early access. To date, residents in EU countries have been unable to access the company’s ChatGPT rival due to issues surrounding data privacy concerns.In addition to making Bard more widely available, Google has also introduced a host of new features including text-to-speech capabilities, shareable Bard conversation links, Google Lens compatibility, and the ab
  
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• Executive Insight: Your Website Is An Experience Center – Like It Or ... - Twice

  13-07-2023 15:03
  
  Executive Insight: Your Website Is An Experience Center – Like It Or ...  Twice
  
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• Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone for UK business

  13-07-2023 13:46
  
  Apple’s Tap to Pay service for the iPhone has finally arrived in the UK, allowing smaller UK merchants and other enterprises to replace traditional payment terminals at the point of sale.In a surprise announcement, the company extended the service to UK businesses on July 13. It lets them accept Apple Pay and other contactless payments using an iPhone and a partner-enabled app and is the logical extension of Apple’s original plan to make the iPhone (and Watch) replace the conte
  
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• Microsoft Dev Box — a better path to provisioning and productivity?

  13-07-2023 12:00
  
  Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.Microsoft is basically a platform and tools vendor, and it’s particularly good at developing tools largely because it’s made up of developers. But the problem with a company like Microsoft creating tools for others is that it firm doesn’t really know what “others” do. This is because, like any job, developers are focused on doing their own jobs and generally aren’t rotated through other positions in a company to
  
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• 7 questions to ask when considering a new Apple MDM platform

  13-07-2023 12:00
  
  As the number of platforms used in business has proliferated beyond the PC, mobile device management (or enterprise mobility management or unified endpoint management, if you prefer) has become a core competency for IT departments. Apple actually kick-started the MDM market back 2010 when it announced that iOS 4 would offer enterprise management via the Apple MDM framework, and focused that framework on third-party vendors.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Elon Musk launches xAI to take on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

  13-07-2023 09:58
  
  Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has launched a new generative AI venture, dubbed xAI, to take on the likes of OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT.“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” the company said on its official website.Musk, who was a board member of OpenAI at the time of its inception in 2015, has also roped in Center for AI Safety’s director Dan Hendrycks to be a part of xAI’s advisory team.To read this article in full, pleas
  
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• KidsCan Chief Executive says it's possible for the Government to ... - Newstalk ZB

  13-07-2023 08:09
  KidsCan Chief Executive says it's possible for the Government to ...  Newstalk ZB
  
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