Technological Turmoil: Apple, Academic Integrity, and Corporate AI

We’ve said before that Elon owns Twitter, so if he decides to change the logo to a Shiba Inu, you know, why not? Apple kinda sorta bites the bullet on layoffs. What’s going on with the Apple Weather app? Do we want universities to call the use of ChatGPT plagiarism? And data on the corporate takeover of AI development.

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• Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon (TechCrunch)
• Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live (Musically)
• Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for ‘multi-year’ savings (CNBC)
• Apple to Cut Jobs in Some Corporate Retail Teams in First Known Layoffs (Bloomberg)
• Apple Weather forecasts suffer rare outage (AppleInsider)
• Universities express doubt over tool to detect AI-powered plagiarism (Financial Times)
• AI is entering an era of corporate control (The Verge)

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