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| Financial Times: |
Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B portfolio of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB drops 60%+ — Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities
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Todd Baker. Tweets:
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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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Wired, BBC, Social Media Today, MacRumors, and Politico
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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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LinkedIn:
Jay Peters. Tweets:
@lulumeservey, @tomwarren, @charlieintel, @tomwarren, @lulumeservey, @rand_al_thor_19, @idlesloth84_, @jeffgrubb, @gazondaily, @charlieintel, @paultassi, and @legacykillahd
| 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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LinkedIn:
Aubrey Bergauer. Tweets:
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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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Gizmodo. Tweets:
@brandyzadrozny, @tonyajoriley, @froomkin, @ukigoni, @emzanotti, and @arkloster
| CoinDesk: |
New York AG files suit against KuCoin, alleging the crypto exchange offers tokens, including 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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NY State Attorney General, The Block, Bloomberg, Reuters, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, Bitcoinist.com, and CoinGape
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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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@discord, @_rynogg, @moonlessshift, @tomwarren, @toastcrust, @tomwarren, and @petergyang
| 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, ZDNet, Computerworld, Mashable, Engadget, TechRadar, Grammarly, Fast Company, Silicon Republic, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, and MarTech
| 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.| 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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Rob Fannon and Luis Vargas
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@jackrowbo, @maryjofoley, and @tomwarren
| 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.| 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, Blockworks, The Block, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Cryptonews, ArcticStartup, and Crypto Daily. Tweets:
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| 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 … | 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 …
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@stephentotilo and @stephentotilo
| Reuters: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.39B, vs. $12.42B est., and cloud services and license support revenue up 17% YoY to $8.9B — 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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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the company's role in the generative AI explosion, H100's transformer engine, US-China trade tensions, and more — WATCH NOW — Nvidia expanded from gaming into A.I. Now the big bet is paying off as its chips power ChatGPT
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@vboykis
| 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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GamesIndustry.biz, PC Gamer, VentureBeat, Game Developer, Ars Technica, IGN, Engadget, and Polygon
| 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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AlleyWatch, Vantage, Vantage, Fortune, and Bloomberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ahead of a March 16 launch, Baidu hurries to ready its ChatGPT-style Ernie Bot, which struggles with basic tasks, to get ahead of its Chinese rivals — Employees working round-the-clock say the AI chatbot, dubbed Ernie Bot, is still in training mode before a planned March 16 rollout
Tweets:
@jordanschnyc, @_karenhao, and @tomflowers
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI is investigating a data breach of DC Health Link servers impacting thousands, including US House members and staff; some data is already for sale online — The FBI is investigating a data breach affecting U.S. House of Representatives members and staff after their account …
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Engadget, NBC News, The Hill, Gizmodo, The Register, PCMag, The Record, Associated Press, Dark Reading, Reuters, Metacurity, HackRead, Washington Post, SC Media, HealthITSecurity, and TechRadar
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@henryrodgersdc, @maxpcohen, and @demopj
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese AI surveillance companies iFlytek and SenseTime are evading US sanctions to access high-end chips via cloud providers and other intermediaries — AI surveillance groups targeted with US sanctions have found other ways to access restricted technologySponsor Posts
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