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Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
The White House publishes a roadmap for mitigating risks posed by cryptocurrencies and urges Congress to hasten efforts to create a crypto regulatory framework  —  Four senior Biden officials penned a note Friday urging lawmakers to hasten their efforts to create a regulatory framework for crypto.
David Ingram / NBC News:
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis  —  SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
Julia Angwin / The Markup:
Q&A with Princeton CS professor Arvind Narayanan on why he calls ChatGPT a “bullshit generator”, his worries over its boom, developing his AI taxonomy, and more  —  Hello, friends,  —  If you have been reading all the hype about the latest artificial intelligence chatbot …
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan / New Scientist:
Researchers detail how ProGen, an LLM trained on 280M proteins, designed proteins with anti-microbial properties that were tested in real life and shown to work  —  An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties.  Researchers then created a subset of the proteins and found some did the job
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Source: Baidu is planning to launch an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT in March 2023, initially embedding it into its main search services  —  Baidu Inc. is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter …
Kat Bailey / IGN:
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox having no major 2022 releases, 2023 momentum, layoffs, the Activision deal amid the FTC lawsuit, and more  —  Xbox's CEO talks about the recent Developer Direct, 2022 struggles, layoffs, and what 2023 could hold.
Washington Post:
Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster on AI due to the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside  —  Google, Facebook and Microsoft helped build the scaffolding of AI.  Smaller companies are taking it to the masses, forcing Big Tech to react.
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Analysis: US Black Web3 founders raised $60M in 2022, up from $16M in 2021; total money raised by US Web3 startups in 2022 fell to $11.9B from $16.5B in 2021  —  Startups in the space are more bullish than ever  —  Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector …
Bloomberg:
As the GOP assumes US House leadership, the antitrust subcommittee shifts its focus from bipartisan efforts to curb Big Tech's power to free speech issues  —  The new GOP House majority is turning away from last year's bipartisan efforts to rein in the dominance of the largest tech companies with a change in leadership on a key panel.
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
How the “enshittification” cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others  —  Today's links  — Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.

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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
WaPo has launched its creator network, where half a dozen creators will launch new series every few weeks in different verticals and retain IP ownership

Michael Calderone / The Wrap:
The Atlantic hired ~30 WaPo reporters in the last couple of years, including four since WaPo's cuts, indicating WaPo retention issues; Atlantic has 200+ staff

Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
The Las Vegas Review-Journal stops printing the Las Vegas Sun, ending the last joint operating deal stemming from a 1970 law; the Sun vows to fight in court

More News

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The US Federal Reserve rejects Custodia Bank's application to become a Federal Reserve System member, citing safety risks with its crypto-focused business model
Moneycontrol:
Some ShareChat employees and investors detail the company's leadership crisis and say revenue has not kept pace with cash burn and its ~$5B valuation in 2022
Tim Harford / Financial Times:
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall

Earlier Picks

Mark Keierleber / The 74:
Gaggle, which offers a tool to monitor online student communications, plans to stop flagging LGBTQ keywords in school assignments, after discrimination concerns
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Amazon will charge US Prime members variable fees for Amazon Fresh grocery delivery orders under $150 from February 28, dropping free deliveries on $35+ orders
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI told a San Francisco federal court to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit against Copilot, citing fair use of open-source code
New York Times:
Court filing: the US DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging FTX US' general counsel and a potential witness, and asks a judge to limit his communications
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter plans to take “less severe actions” against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets, and reserve suspensions for severe violations
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