U.S. Executive Orders Target Chinese Payment Apps and WhatsApp's Privacy Changes

There are two new GPT-3 models and now the robots have come for the graphic artists. Trump continues his tech cold war against China, but the question is, will Biden? WhatsApp is further absorbed into the Facebook mothership. Eve Online players broke the game by playing it so hard. And Cameo wants you to know there’s money in the banana stand—I mean... paying Tom Arnold to record a video for you.

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Links:

• This avocado armchair could be the future of AI (MIT Technology Review)
• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (OpenAI Blog)
• Trump bars U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay (Reuters)
• WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook (XDA-Developers)
• CIRP: iPhone 12 sales strong at launch, but iPhone 12 mini ‘likely disappointed Apple’ (9to5Mac)
• Players in Eve Online broke a world record — and then the game itself (Polygon)
• Cameo launches hiring spree following banner year (Axios)

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