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Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB closes down 60.41% — Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Some VC firms are encouraging their portfolio companies to pull funds out of Silicon Valley Bank while others are advising startups to keep no more than $250K — Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker on Thursday told top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to “stay calm” …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Meta's Head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, says the service would refuse to comply with the UK's Online Safety Bill requirements to remove end-to-end encryption — Meta's head of chat app says it would not comply with the requirements set out in online safety bill
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils a standalone classical music iPhone app with 5M+ tracks and more, available for pre-order now to Apple Music subscribers and launching on March 28 — Apple is launching a new music streaming service focused on classical music. Based on its 2021 acquisition …
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| Washington Post: |
An investigation details how a group of conservative Colorado Catholics spent millions to buy mobile app tracking data to identify priests using gay dating apps — A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained dating and hookup app data and shared …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
The UK's CMA filings: Microsoft details how Call of Duty games could run on the Nintendo Switch, citing an “optimized” game engine and the success of past ports — In a filing (pdf) submitted to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft shared some details …
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Jay Peters. Tweets:
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord starts testing a ChatGPT-powered version of its Clyde bot and other AI features, such as conversation summaries and tools for moderating servers — Discord is now using OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to transform its existing Clyde bot into a talkative chatbot.
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| CoinDesk: |
New York's AG sues KuCoin, alleging the Seychelles-based crypto exchange offers tokens, such as ETH, that meet the definition of a security, without registering — A press release said the lawsuit was part of ongoing “efforts to crack down on unregistered cryptocurrency platforms.”
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Grammarly announces GrammarlyGO, a generative AI tool that can write and rewrite content in a user's style, coming to all users via a beta program in April 2023 — Generative AI was made popular by ChatGPT at the end of 2022, and for the first few months of 2023, the floodgates have opened up for the technology.
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Grammarly Blog, Mashable, Grammarly, Engadget, TechRadar, Computerworld, ZDNet, blending bits, BGR, Fast Company, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, MarTech, Neowin, CNET, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Jesselyn Cook / NBC News: |
Investigation: some Pinterest users are creating sex-themed image boards of kids and the company's algorithm surfaces such content for adults who seek it out — Like other kids her age, 9-year-old Victoria signed up for Pinterest because she wasn't allowed on TikTok.| Bloomberg: |
Researchers call for transparency on AI tools' carbon footprint; training GPT-3 took an estimated 1.287 GWh of electricity, or what ~120 US homes use in a year — Artificial intelligence has become the tech industry's shiny new toy, with expectations it'll revolutionize trillion-dollar industries from retail to medicine.
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arxiv.org and arxiv.org
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@dinabass, @mattmday, @environment, @katekayereports, @nic__carter, @bloombergasia, @rachelmetz, and @iethics
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes ChatGPT available in its Azure OpenAI service, letting developers and businesses add the LLM to their apps, priced at $0.002 for 1,000 tokens — Microsoft is making ChatGPT available in its own Azure OpenAI service today. Developers and businesses will now be able …
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@maryjofoley and @tomwarren
| Reuters: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.39B, vs. $12.42B est., cloud services and license support revenue up 17% YoY to $8.9B, and net income down 18% YoY — Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) missed quarterly revenue estimates on Thursday, as businesses slowed down IT spending against the backdrop of a sobering economic outlook.
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| Yusuf Mehdi / Bing Blogs: |
Microsoft says Bing crossed 100M DAUs, driven by the new Bing preview's millions of active users, of which roughly a third are new to the search engine — It's hard to believe it's been just over a month since we released the new AI-powered Bing and Edge to the world as your copilot for the web.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, Windows Central, PCMag, Ars Technica, Mashable, gHacks Technology News, TechSpot, XDA Developers, and TechRadar
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Reddit plans to shut down its Clubhouse-style live audio tool Reddit Talk on March 21, saying adding audio needs “significant work”; Talk launched in April 2021 — After Clubhouse's rise to fame, every platform rushed to build a clone. But in the last year or so … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The White House's proposed budget is set to include a provision closing tax loss harvesting on crypto transactions, with the change expected to raise up to $24B — The U.S. President is expected to unveil his budget proposal on Thursday. — U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed budget …
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Wall Street Journal, CryptoSlate, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, New York Times, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, Crypto Daily, and The Block. Tweets:
@tier10k
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
An interview with Google Cloud's Jack Buser on Google Cloud for Live Games, the company's post-Stadia gaming strategy that aims to help companies scale games — Google Cloud is unveiling its new games strategy dubbed Google Cloud for Live Games. It means it will use its global infrastructure … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Vantage, which helps companies manage and cut their cloud costs, raised a $21M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners, after a $4M seed in June 2021 — Vantage, a startup that helps businesses better understand their cloud infrastructure spend (and automate their savings) …
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Vantage, AlleyWatch, Vantage, and Fortune
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games starts letting developers self-publish to the Epic Games Store, taking a 12% game sales commission and no IAP cut if they use their own payment tool — Epic Games is finally going to let developers self-publish games to the Epic Games Store beginning Thursday.
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PC Gamer, VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, Polygon, and Ars Technica
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