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May 3, 2022, 7:50 PM

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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Investigation: for $160+, SafeGraph sells a week's worth of data on visitors of 600+ Planned Parenthood locations, including where they came from and went after  —  It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Internal documents: the CDC bought the location data of millions of phones in the US to analyze compliance with COVID-19 rules, especially in the Navajo Nation  —  Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Elon Musk told potential investors he plans to stage an IPO for Twitter in as little as three years after buying it  —  Tesla chief says he could stage IPO within three years of acquisition  —  Elon Musk, who has agreed to take Twitter Inc. TWTR -0.55%▼ private in a $44 billion deal …
New York Times:
Interviews with 30+ people detail Elon Musk's insular circle of ~10 confidants who mostly agree with him and help him execute on his impulses  —  To a degree unseen in any other mogul, the world's richest man acts on impulse and the belief that he is absolutely right.
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Twitter tests a Twitter Circle feature for sharing tweets with up to 150 people, rather than publicly, similar to Instagram's Close Friends sharing option  —  Twitter today announced that it is testing a new Twitter Circle feature, which is designed to allow people to share their tweets with a smaller crowd.
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Meta's AI lab creates Open Pretrained Transformer, a language model trained with 175B parameters to match GPT-3's size, and gives it to researchers for free  —  Meta's AI lab has created a massive new language model that shares both the remarkable abilities and the harmful flaws of OpenAI's pioneering neural network GPT-3.
Wall Street Journal:
The SEC plans to add 20 investigators and litigators to its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, created in September 2017 to investigate fraud, taking it to 50 staff  —  Agency to add 20 staffers to help tighten scrutiny of unregulated $1.7 trillion cryptocurrency market
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD Q1: revenue grew 71% YoY to $5.89B, including $2.8B from Computing and Graphics, up 33% YoY, and $2.5B from Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom, up 88% YoY  —  - AMD reported first quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday.  — AMD's results on Tuesday suggest that the chipmaker …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts Spotify Island on Roblox, the first music streaming brand on the service; artists and fans can go on quests, unlock content, and buy merchandise  —  Spotify announced today it will become the first music streaming brand to have an official presence within Roblox, with the launch of …
Shuli Ren / Bloomberg:
After cracking down on its technology giants, China leans on Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan's distribution networks to fill grocery deliveries during lockdowns  —  The regulatory crackdown on Big Tech that started in China in late 2020 sent stocks reeling.  Over the past year …
Financial Times:
Sources: the UK has shelved plans to empower the CMA's digital markets unit, announced in 2020, hampering the regulator's ability to set rules and impose fines  —  Government not expected to include legislation to beef up CMA's digital markets unit in Queen's Speech

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