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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, where he outlines a ~$1.5B plan to protect US users and more — TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms …
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| New York Times: |
The US will find banning TikTok difficult due to its massive userbase, political ramifications, possible alienation of young voters, legal challenges, and more — The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company's chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: facing a US ban, TikTok recently sought to reassure its advertisers and play down the threat of an outright ban, hoping brands would continue to spend — Advertisers take wait-and-see approach after Biden administration demands that video app's Chinese owners sell stakes| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Digital photography site DPReview, owned by Amazon, is closing April 10; people can request downloads of photos or texts they uploaded to the site until April 6 — DPReview, easily one of the most beloved publications among photography enthusiasts, will shut down and its content will be deleted.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at Balaji Srinivasan's proposed $1M bitcoin bet, predicting one BTC will be worth $1M+ in 90 days, which makes little sense besides attracting attention — Credit Suisse — It is sometimes useful to think that the shareholders of a bank are not its owners; they are just renting it from its creditors.
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Anthony Pompliano on YouTube, NewsBTC, New York Post, and CoinGape
| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Ubisoft unveils Ghostwriter and says the internal AI tool will help scriptwriters save time and create more realistic non-player character interactions — Ubisoft Ghostwriter is described by the company as ‘an AI tool’ — Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel says Raja Koduri, who joined as Chief Architect in 2017, plans to leave to found a startup focused on generative AI for gaming, media, and entertainment — Raja moves on after six years. — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced on Twitter today that Raja Koduri, the company's current Chief Architect …
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| Virginia Heffernan / Wired: |
Inside TSMC's facilities in Taiwan, where Fab 18 makes a quintillion transistors for Apple every six months, and an interview with Chairman Mark Liu — As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.
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| Bill Gates / GatesNotes: |
The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the PC, the internet, and the mobile phone, and can reduce global inequities if risks are mitigated — In my lifetime, I've seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. — The first time was in 1980 …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Nvidia introduces six new Ada Lovelace RTX GPUs: five for laptops and one for desktops, the RTX 4000 Small Form Factor, available later in March 2023 for $1,250 — Along with their server part announcements today, NVIDIA is also using the backdrop of GTC to do a wholesale update of their professional visualization product stack.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Reuters: |
Nvidia announces the H800 chip, a modified H100 chip, for export to China; Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and other Chinese companies are already using the H800 — Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), the U.S. semiconductor designer that dominates the market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram plans to roll out ads in search result globally in the coming months after initial tests and launches Reminder Ads for opt-in reminders about events — Meta is introducing two new tools on Instagram designed to open up additional avenues for advertising as the company grapples with weak advertising demand.
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| AI Snake Oil: |
OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on its training data, violating the cardinal rule of ML, and GPT-4's exam performance says little about its real-world usefulness — OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Google's Bard, coming to waitlisted US and UK users: quick, fluid, more constrained than Bing, three responses per query, disclaimers, and more — Today, Google is opening up limited access to Bard, its ChatGPT rival, a major step in the company's attempt to reclaim …
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| Bloomberg: |
The US proposes barring CHIPS Act beneficiaries from expanding manufacturing output in “countries of concern” by 5% for advanced chips and 10% for legacy chips — The Biden administration unveiled tight restrictions on new operations in China by chipmakers that get federal funds …
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: |
An internal TikTok tool can access some personal data of Indian users who used the app before India's 2020 ban; an employee jokingly called the tool “NSA-To-Go” — India's 150 million users were forced to stop using the Chinese-owned app in 2020.
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@ali_lev, @brendancarrfcc, @epro, @billevanina, @sub8u, @ali_lev, and @forbes. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Data leak site BreachForums plans to shut down following the arrest of the alleged operator of “Pompompurin”, citing fears law enforcement has backdoor access — In an abrupt about-face, the new administrator of popular cybercriminal platform BreachForums said they plan to shut … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the Turing Award for his work on Ethernet at the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s — In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.
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Reuters, CNET, VentureBeat, Association …, Quanta Magazine, and MIT News
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@theofficialacm, @nixcraft, and @benbenbrubaker
| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Tencent reports 2022 revenue down 1% YoY to ~$81B, the first-ever annual drop and below estimates, and Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$21B, as China's economy slows — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) reported a drop in annual revenue for the first time ever, as China's economic slowdown due to the pandemic …
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The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, Tencent, and Nikkei Asia. Tweets:
@byjoshye
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Artera, formerly Well Health, which uses AI for cancer testing and personalized care, raised $90M from Coatue, J&J Innovation, Marc Benioff, and others — Artera, which uses artificial intelligence for cancer testing and personalized care, raised a $90 million round to support …
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