Research: social media accounts pushing misinformation are targeting users in non-English languages before the US midterms, with scant resistance from platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Ahead of the US midterms, Twitter expands its Birdwatch fact-checking tool, adding 1,000 contributors weekly, each assigned a “rating impact” score out of five  —  On the heels of a report detailing how Twitter had once accidentally allowed a conspiracy theorist into its invite …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter makes notes on tweets from its crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch visible to all US users  —  After last month’s expansion of Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking program known as Birdwatch, Twitter announced this morning the notes fact-checkers leave on tweets will now be visible to all U.S. users.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Teams Premium, adding several AI-based features, like meeting recaps and live translations, expected to launch in February 2023, pricing TBA  —  Microsoft is launching Microsoft Teams Premium today, a new offering designed to boost its chat and collaboration app with some AI-powered smart features.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web”  —  Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.  In a step toward solving it …

Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Companies are seeking to hire former Twitter misinformation experts, who were laid off or have quit, seeking to avoid liability for false and toxic information  —  Seeing false and toxic information as a potentially expensive liability, companies in and outside the tech industry are angling to hire people who can keep it in check.

James Vincent / The Verge:
Google details an AI model trained on 400+ languages with the largest “coverage seen in a speech model” and plans to expand to the 1,000 most spoken languages  —  Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world’s “1,000 most spoken languages.”