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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society — It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ChatGPT crossed 1M users in five days and the company will monetize the tool eventually as the compute costs are “eye-watering” — ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!
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| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Sources: the US Department of Agriculture is investigating Neuralink for potential animal welfare violations after staff complaints over rushed animal testing — Elon Musk's Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Unpacking the 2022 crypto credit crisis and its parallels with the 2008 financial crisis by analyzing Three Arrows Capital's collapse, FTX's implosion, and more — The crypto financial crisis of 2022 — Apparently the way it works is that if you blow up a big crypto firm …
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
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| Brad Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft's president discusses the FTC reportedly blocking the Activision Blizzard acquisition and says the company offered Sony a 10-year Call of Duty deal — Far from harming competition, it'll allow us to compete against more powerful companies through innovation.
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google brings continuous scrolling to desktop search in English in the US, loading six pages of results, after a similar change on mobile in October 2021 — Google's search results on desktop will load in a continuous scroll instead of dividing into pages, the company has announced.
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| Financial Times: |
TSMC plans to more than triple its Arizona investment to $40B, building a fab for 3nm chips, set to open in 2026, and making 4nm chips in its fab for 5nm chips — President Biden to hail Taiwanese chipmaker's second plant as boost for US manufacturing — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple launches its Self Service Repair program in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, the first expansion outside the US — Apple today announced it has launched its self-service repair program in Europe, extending the program beyond the United States for the first time.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta's Oversight Board releases a report on the controversial cross-check moderation system, citing “shortcomings” and calling for “radically” more transparency — Meta's Oversight Board has released an in-depth report on Facebook and Instagram's controversial cross-check system … | Reuters: |
Goldman Sachs plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy or invest in crypto companies after FTX's collapse hit valuations and dampened investor interest — Goldman Sachs (GS.N) plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy or invest in crypto companies after the collapse …
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Finextra, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, crypto.news, Livemint, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, The Block, NewsBTC, CoinGape, and Coinspeaker
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK Treasury finalizes expanded crypto regulation plans, including letting the FCA restrict how companies run and advertise, after FTX's implosion — Implosion of FTX injects fresh urgency into government's pledge to impose order — The Treasury is finalising plans for a package …
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CoinDesk, The Block, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, ExchangeWire.com, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, and Watcher Guru
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| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
Meta threatens to consider removing news from its apps if Congress passes Senator Klobuchar's “ill-considered” Journalism Competition and Preservation Act — Bill would allow news organizations to band together to negotiate for a larger share of online advertising revenue
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| John Seabrook / New Yorker: |
How a young generation of musicians are using TikTok, amassing huge followings but making little money, as some older musicians remain opposed to the platform — The social-media platform is transforming the music industry. Is that a good thing? … In December, 2020 …
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National Review, Slice of Shy, and Beyond Search
Tweets: @danishacarter4, @newyorker, and @flomachinenews
| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Hong Kong officials and legislators criticize Google over a pro-democracy song, “Glory to Hong Kong”, appearing among the top results for the national anthem — Officials and lawmakers call on company to alter its results page to show China's national anthem instead of a song made popular by antigovernment protesters
Tweets: @shiraovide, @tripperheadtoo, and @newley
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Some laid-off tech workers on H-1B visas from Meta, Shopify, Twitter, and other tech companies say their employers did not provide adequate immigration support — Some former tech employees on work visas in the US are experiencing an existential crisis: “Is it worth staying here for a job and country that doesn't care about you?”| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Runway, one of the two startups behind Stable Diffusion, raised a $50M Series C led by Felicis Ventures; sources say Runway has a $500M valuation and a ~$1M ARR — Runway ML, one of the two startups behind the popular AI text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding at a $500 million valuation, Forbes has learned.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon reaches a deal with the EU to end two antitrust investigations, increasing visibility of rivals' products and adding offers for non-Prime orders — Ecommerce group commits to increasing visibility of rivals' products as part of settlement with Brussels| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat partners with Adidas to launch a Bitmoji Fashion Drop, including an item users can only acquire with Snap Tokens, a first — Snapchat announced today that it's partnering with Adidas to launch a new Bitmoji Fashion Drop, giving users access to exclusive merchandise.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto lender Nexo aims to exit the US in the coming months; US users in eight states can no longer use its Earn Interest Product and signups are halted — Nexo will immediately suspend access to its Earn product in several U.S. states. — Crypto lender Nexo announced Monday …
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Nexo.io Blog, TheStreet, The Block, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Coinspeaker, Watcher Guru, and Micky
Tweets: @patio11, @phil_geiger, @carnage4life, @samcallah, @nexo, and @coindesk
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: EU privacy regulators rule that Meta's TOS should not require that users agree to personalized ads based on their online activity; Meta can appeal — EU privacy regulators say Facebook, Instagram shouldn't use their terms of service to require users to accept ads based on their digital activity
Tweets: @kylebrussell and @samschech
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