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February 14, 2023, 5:35 PM
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Bloomberg:
US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's doors to the country's banking system, accelerating since FTX collapsed to push the industry to the fringes  —  Crypto's free pass is getting yanked as the most powerful US financial regulators rapidly close key doors to the country's banking system.
New York Times:
Over 30 prominent Chinese dissidents and activists report problems with their Twitter accounts, including disappearing from search or unexplained suspensions  —  As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6 with new and updated hardware and app tests that use datasets meant to be more representative of real-world workloads  —  According to its developer, Primate Labs, Geekbench 6 has new and updated tests that are meant to fully test modern hardware …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Hyundai and Kia are offering free anti-theft software updates for 8M+ vehicles, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok  —  Hyundai and Kia are offering free software updates for millions of their cars in response to a rash of car thefts inspired …
Varsha Bansal / Wired:
A look at the Modi administration's attempts to strengthen government control over the internet in India and its battle with Big Tech, which keeps giving in  —  The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in.  —  Akash Banerjee isn't sure whether he's allowed …
Nicole Farley / Search Engine Land:
Meta updates Facebook's “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool to include information about how users' on- and off-platform activity informs its ML models for ads  —  Facebook has just launched an updated version of its “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool which now includes information on how they use machine learning to deliver ads.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Copilot for Business, GitHub's enterprise AI-powered code completion tool for $19 per month, hits general availability after the beta launch in December 2022  —  GitHub today announced that Copilot for Business, the company's $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool …
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
DARPA says its Air Combat Evolution developers used AI to successfully fly a modified F-16 test aircraft multiple times over several days in early December 2022  —  The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane.  —  Chloe Xiang
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Google launches Privacy Sandbox for Android in beta, starting with a “small percentage” of Android 13 devices, similar to Apple's App Tracking Transparency  —  Here's a preview of the Privacy Sandbox, the newfangled way companies will follow you around the web that's supposed to be better for your privacy.
Financial Times:
Source: Apple's India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, and infrastructure; a former Apple engineer says “there just isn't a sense of urgency”  —  Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as the US tech giant faces pressure to cut its manufacturing reliance on China.
Levi Sumagaysay / MarketWatch:
Airbnb reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.86B est., $319M net income, up from $55M YoY, and says 2022 was its first profitable year; ABNB jumps 9%+  —  Record profit in the holiday quarter leads to earnings of nearly $2 billion for the year, but executives also suggest price cuts are coming
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, which asks users questions so that Buzzy the Robot, an AI based on OpenAI's public API, can write a personalized narrative  —  BuzzFeed — the media site that made its name (literally) spinning out viral content — landed in the middle of the buzz itself …
Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for the company's stumbles  —  Andy Jassy says ecommerce giant will double down on grocery despite recent stumbles
Will Knight / Wired:
A look at the Eric Schmidt-backed startup Istari, which uses ML to virtually assemble and test war machines using computer models of the individual components  —  The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
During Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip, TSMC founder Morris Chang criticized the $52B CHIPS Act, saying a one-time cash infusion won't build chip self-sufficiency  —  Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan like a juggernaut.  She defied threats from the Chinese regime in order to visit the island …
Shubham Agarwal / Wired:
After a backlash, Spotify removes a clause that let Apple use audiobooks from Findaway Voices to train synthetic voices; Spotify acquired Findaway in June 2022  —  After a backlash, Spotify has removed a clause that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Otter.ai announces OtterPilot, an AI assistant that summarizes meetings, captures images of shared slides, and more, rolling out to all users in the coming days  —  AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai is launching a new AI meeting assistant called OtterPilot, the company announced on Tuesday.
Dan O'Shea / Fierce Electronics:
GlobalFoundries reports record Q4 revenue, up 14% YoY to $2.1B, net income up 99% YoY to $668M, and full year revenue up 23% YoY to $8.1B; GFS closes up 8.44%  —  As recent earnings reports showed how many semiconductor designers struggled during the latter half of 2022 …
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Monad Labs, co-founded by former Jump Trading developers to build an Ethereum virtual machine-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, raised a $19M seed led by Dragonfly  —  - Monad Labs raises $19 million from Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant, Cobie, Hasu and others.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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David Klepper / Associated Press:
Google's Jigsaw plans to test video ads in Germany to “prebunk” misinformation, after promising results with a pilot project in Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time
Ian Hamilton / UploadVR:
Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR Tracking, shipping in Q3 2023
Aaron Mok / Insider:
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Google's Photos iOS app is crashing at launch for users with iOS 16.3.1, the latest version; the only known workaround is not to update iOS
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