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Microsoft stands out in how its terms of use describe the limitations of its flagship generative AI tool. Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images Microsoft said it will update Copilot's terms of use after they went viral. Users highlighted terms that said Copilot is "for entertainment purposes only." Microsoft said the phrasing "is legacy language" that dates back to when Copilot was part of Bing. Microsoft is making sure its Copilot Terms of Use no longer steal the show. The tech giant said it will be updating its user agreement after viral posts pointed out that Copilot said it is "for entertainment purposes only," a far cry from how Microsoft has sold its AI tool. "The 'entertainment purposes' phrasing is legacy language from when Copilot originally launched as a search companion service in Bing," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement, first published by PCMag. "As the product has evolved, that language...

United and other airlines are cutting flights over high jet fuel costs and shortages. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Jet fuel costs and supplies across the globe are under pressure from the US and Israeli war on Iran. Some major airlines are canceling flights in response. Air New Zealand and United Airlines both canceled flights. First, the war made flights more expensive. Now, it's making them disappear. The US and Israel's war on Iran has disrupted supply chains, trapping oil in storage facilities across the Middle East. That has caused the price of oil to rocket past $100 a barrel, and its availability to diminish. Jet fuel prices , as a result, reached $195 at the end of March, up nearly $100 from the end of February when the war began. And as the war drags on, jet fuel is getting harder to come by for countries that don't produce their own or have limited supplies. International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Biro said during a podcast interview earl...

Chris Brady quit his corporate job to sell pizza. Courtesy of Chris Brady Chris Brady was 25 when he quit his corporate sales job to start a mobile pizza business. He and his business partner sold pizza out of a 1967 baby blue Chevy truck around Washington, DC. Since then, he's franchised Timber Pizza Co. and has nine locations and five mobile pizza ovens. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chris Brady, founder and president of Timber Pizza Co . It has been edited for length and clarity. By the time I started my second job in tech sales in my early 20s, I knew I had no desire to keep working in the corporate world and wanted to do something on my own. My coworker Andrew Dana also felt the same way, so we'd brainstorm different business ideas over lunch. I had a lightbulb moment while talking to a potential client. I was selling catering and wedding venue advertising and called on a pizza company . The owner started telling me more about his mobil...

A Democratic congressman had harsh criticism for Polymarket for allowing users to bet on the date the U.S. would confirm the rescue of Air Force service members shot down over Iran. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/hRHlfaM via IFTTT

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/zsNbHyI via IFTTT

The controversy around Delve appears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/YsI6wSF via IFTTT