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| David Z. Morris / CoinDesk: |
After a report said Binance misplaced ~$1.8B in USDC, Binance offered confused and sometimes contradictory responses, continuing its petulant and defensive tone — The FUD is coming from inside the building, says David Z. Morris, CoinDesk's chief insights columnist.
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Filing: crypto-friendly US bank Silvergate delays its annual report, citing investigations from regulators, Congress, and the DOJ; SI plunges 30%+ — Shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading. — Christy Goldsmith Romero … Commissioner — U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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| Christiana Loureiro / The Block: |
Coinbase switches banking partners for Prime accounts from Silvergate to Signature, after Silvergate reported being “less than well-capitalized” — - Coinbase is telling its Prime customers to use Signature bank. — Coinbase is telling its Prime customers to use Signature Bank instead …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
After Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds — Long story short: If you're a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps:
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Following criticism, OpenAI says the company won't use data submitted via its API for “service improvements” like AI model training, unless a customer opts in — As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans, priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among the early adopters — To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement.
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| CyberScoop: |
The Biden administration releases its cybersecurity strategy, seeking to impose minimum standards, shift responsibility to larger software makers, and more — The strategy represents a shift in how Washington approaches cybersecurity, veering toward a more strictly regulated approach.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates its Bing chatbot to let users toggle between creative, balanced, and precise tones, hoping to counter Bing's wild outbursts — Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing chatbot that lets you toggle between different tones for responses.
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| Elizabeth Weil / New York Magazine: |
A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do — Nobody likes an I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft's Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta's Galactica spewed racist rants … | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft researchers unveil Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM they claim can understand image content, pass visual IQ tests, and accepts a variety of input formats — Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI. — On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1 …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese officials have declined to process Arm China's transfer to a new Vision Fund entity, holding up Arm's plan to exit the joint venture — Unresolved restructuring looms over SoftBank's plans for blockbuster listing of UK chip designer — China is holding up Arm's plan … | Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: |
Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022 — The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snap plans to let Snapchat users pause Streaks by buying Streak Restores for $0.99 each time and will soon let Snapchat+ subscribers pause Streaks indefinitely — Maintaining Snap Streaks — where you send a snap to your friend once every 24 hours — is really important to a lot of Snapchat users.| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Apptopia: so far in 2023, TikTok has generated $205M more in IAP revenue than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter combined — Big social networks are pulling a massive revenue U-turn since Apple's introduction of App Tracking Transparency. The user privacy feature …
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| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
A profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Model X development at Tesla and has been at the helm of OpenAI's strategy to test its tools in public — OpenAI unlocked the generative-AI boom with tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E—and that's why it's our Most Innovative Company of the Year.
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh; filings show Singh owned 7.8% of FTX US, 10% of FTX Ventures, and 44M shares in the main exchange — He is the latest member of FTX's inner circle to plead guilty to fraud — Nishad Singh followed Sam Bankman-Fried into the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency trading.
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Email app BlueMail's co-founder says Apple blocked an update that added ChatGPT-powered features over inappropriate content concerns, requiring a 17+ age limit — iPhone maker asks email app with AI-language capabilities to set a 17-and-older age restriction — Regulation of Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence
Tweets: @lisamateotv, @newley, @ivanthek, and @deitaone
| New York Times: |
A look at India's homegrown digital payments system UPI, run by a nonprofit organization NPCI, which is now used by ~300M individuals and 50M merchants — India's homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy. — Reporting from New Delhi, Mumbai and Kerala in India
Tweets: @mujmash, @amitabhk87, @neeleshmisra, @mujmash, and @mujmash
| Zeynep Geylan / CryptoSlate: |
Robinhood launches a standalone Robinhood Wallet app globally on iOS, with Polygon and Ethereum network support, and says an Android app is coming later in 2023 — Crypto exchange platform Robinhood's wallet application launched on the iOS application store on Mar. 1, according to the announcement published on the Robinhood blog.| Financial Times: |
Staff and analysts: the ~$43B FIS-Worldpay deal suffered from incompatibility, Worldpay's slow response to changing user needs, and more, resulting in the split — Integration was difficult but the deal itself had always been misguided — Since it was founded by former UK policeman Nick Ogden …
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