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Sources: to win US allies, TikTok proposed a complex, $1.5B plan to reorganize its US operations, including oversight of its content-recommendation algorithms — Chinese-owned app proposes giving U.S. officials oversight of its algorithms — Two years into negotiations with U.S. regulators …
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
Some US universities, including Alabama's Auburn University and the University of Oklahoma, are banning TikTok on their Wi-Fi networks, annoying some students — The school's prohibition brings a geopolitical fight front and center for TikTok's biggest fans: young Americans.
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3AC founders aim to raise $25M to start “GTX”, a crypto exchange with CoinFlex founders that would let people transfer in FTX claims and get credit in a token — - Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the founders of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit — A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the European Commission is preparing to send a statement of objections to Microsoft, regarding its $69B Activision Blizzard deal, in the coming weeks — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is likely to receive an EU antitrust warning about its $69 billion bid for “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard … | Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC, worth ~$2.6M, linked to Lazarus — In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers have been moving $64 million in the last weekend.
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| Reuters: |
Ride-hailing giant Didi says Chinese regulators lifted a ban on new user registrations on January 16, signaling an end to the long-running regulatory crackdown — China's ride hailing giant Didi Global said in a statement on Monday that it would be allowed to resume new user registration …
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia's CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google's TensorFlow, and more — Over the last decade, the landscape of machine learning software development has undergone significant changes.
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A look at Deltec, an obscure Bahamian bank that got a $50M loan from an FTX-tied entity in October 2021, and chairman Jean Chalopin, who has ties to FTX leaders — The loan was among several deals struck with Jean Chalopin, the head of Deltec and Moonstone banks — and co-creator of Inspector Gadget … | William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal: |
Russian attacks on Ukraine's electrical grid are straining its mobile network, leading to a global hunt for equipment like batteries to keep the system online — Telecom operators and internet providers scour suppliers for better batteries, generators — Russia's attacks on Ukraine's electrical grid … | Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org: |
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry: Twitter axing APIs for third-party apps without notice is part of the “shit show” and leaves customers in the lurch — Well, it happened. — We knew it was coming. — A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it.
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Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service, debuted in 2021, broadly available, giving customers access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and “soon” ChatGPT — Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI's viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Shiba Inu developers plan to launch a beta testnet of Shibarium, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, in the coming weeks, focusing on metaverse and gaming applications — Ecosystem tokens shiba inu, leash and bone will serve as the the upcoming Ethereum-based blockchain.
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