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The UK CMA narrows its probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard bid, saying new evidence “provisionally alleviates” concerns about UK game console supply — The UK's antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today.
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A researcher finds Verification settings in Twitter's app showing that the company may be working on letting Blue subscribers hide their blue checkmark — Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription.
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Sensor Tower: Twitter Blue had 385K+ subscribers on iOS and Android and made $11M on mobile in its first three months, including ~$8M from 246K US subscribers — Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able …
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Sources: in 2018, Elon Musk said OpenAI lagged Google and cut ties after his offer to run it was rejected; Altman took no equity in OpenAI's for-profit entity — After three years, Elon Musk was ready to give up on the artificial intelligence research firm he helped found, OpenAI.
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OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers' personal info — OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, potentially becoming the first EU country to legalize AI surveillance — PARIS — France's AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.
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Nasdaq expects its custody services for digital assets to launch in Q2 2023, starting with bitcoin and ether, after announcing the project in September 2022 — Nasdaq Inc. expects its custody services for digital assets to launch by the end of the second quarter as it joins a growing pool … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: Fortra told GoAnywhere customers that their data was safe after a ransomware attack by the Clop gang, but two said they later received ransom demands — Software maker Fortra told its corporate customers that their data was safe — even when it wasn't — following a ransomware attack on its systems, TechCrunch has learned.
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TikTok says Enes Freedom, a former NBA player critical of China, was banned for 12 days due to an error by US moderators before being reinstated on March 23 — Enes Kanter Freedom, a popular figure on the right, had his account restored on the same day TikTok's chief was grilled on Capitol Hill.| Bloomberg: |
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tether estimates the company will make $700M in profit in Q1, taking its excess reserves to back its USDT stablecoin to $1.66B, above $1B for the first time — - Cryptocurrency firm Tether estimates it will make $700 million profit in the March quarter, taking its total excess reserves to over $1 billion …
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ChatGPT set off a VC rush to invest in generative AI startups; PitchBook says AI startup investments grew from $1.5B in 2020 to $5.9B+ since the start of 2022 — In December and January, several venture capitalists from the U.S. and Britain raced to Paris to vie for a stake … | Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
Current and former Twitch staff describe how the service lost its way: out-of-touch leaders, losing big creators, cost cutting, many irrelevant ads, and more — The platform's recent moves have confused and upset creators, fans and staff alike — For Twitch, the live-streaming platform watched …
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