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James Vincent / The Verge:
Google debuts a ChatGPT rival named Bard and says the “experimental conversational AI service” will be “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks”  —  It's official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard.
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Erin Woo / The Information:
Internal doc: just ~180K US users paid for Twitter subscriptions like Blue as of mid-January, implying annual revenue from subscriptions globally of around $28M  —  Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
CNBC:
Gemini plans to provide up to $100M to Genesis' bankruptcy recovery, mainly for its Earn users, who had ~$900M of assets frozen when Genesis paused withdrawals  —  - Crypto exchange Gemini will contribute $100 million in cash to a recovery plan for bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Binance plans to “temporarily” suspend US dollar bank transfers on February 8 and says that 0.01% of its monthly active users rely on USD bank transfers  —  USD bank transfers comprise only a tiny bit of monthly active users, the exchange said.  —  Join the most important conversation …
Apurva Venkat / CSO:
The US, France, Italy, and others warn about a ransomware attack on VMware ESXi servers, despite a February 2021 patch; Censys: 3,200+ servers have been hacked  —  A global ransomware attack has targeted thousands of servers running the VMware ESxi hypervisor, with many more servers expected to be affected …
New York Times:
Tests show CSAM still spreads and gets recommended on Twitter, including known material that's easier to detect; one video had 122K+ views in just over a month  —  Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views.
James Vincent / The Verge:
Getty Images sues Stability AI in the US for allegedly copying 12M+ images without permission or compensation for training data used to create Stable Diffusion  —  Getty Images has filed a lawsuit in the US against Stability AI, creators of open-source AI art generator Stable Diffusion, escalating its legal battle against the firm.
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
ChatGPT users are finding various “jailbreaks” that get the tool to seemingly ignore OpenAI's evolving content restrictions and provide unfettered responses  —  - Reddit users have engineered a prompt for artificial intelligence software ChatGPT that tries to force it to violate its own programming on content restrictions.
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A look at the four horsemen of the tech recession: a hangover from growth during COVID-19, hardware lifecycles, the end of zero interest rates, and Apple's ATT  —  It really was jarring to see those employment figures the same week that tech company after tech company reported mostly disappointing earnings …

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David Bauder / Associated Press:
A US federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the Oscars drew 17.86M viewers on ABC and Hulu, down about 9% from 2025; the show delivered a 3.92 rating among those aged 18 to 49, or ~5.34M viewers

Danielle Broadway / Reuters:
Netflix plans to screen two episodes of an animated Stranger Things spinoff on April 18 in 34 AMC theaters and two others before an April 23 release on Netflix

More News

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces an in-person press event at its Redmond HQ on February 7 at 10am PT, expected to focus mainly on its OpenAI partnership and ChatGPT for Bing

Earlier Picks

Rana Foroohar / Financial Times:
The US DOJ seeking a jury trial over breaking up Google's ad business is risky in antitrust but a smart way to avoid a judge likely to align with a corporation
Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block:
a16z used all of its 15M UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting ends on February 10
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pursuing investments and deals with generative AI startups, incentivizing use of their cloud services, raises regulatory concerns
Bloomberg:
JD.com, China Mobile, and other Chinese retailers are discounting iPhone 14 Pro models by ~$118, an unusually steep price cut that suggests dwindling demand
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
Since buying Twitter, Elon Musk says his workload has reached 120+ hours per week, leading to little sleep and “severe back pain”, as he runs multiple companies
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