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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023 — The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion deal, announced on Thursday that starting April 1, it will remove …
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| The Verge: |
Twitter Blue rolls out globally, but the subscription service is still missing promised features like prioritized ranking in conversations and half as many ads — While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries) …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
CMA narrows probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, 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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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, including two of its own, a web browser and a code interpreter, and open sources the code for a knowledgebase retrieval plugin — We've implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Wolfram, Zapier, and others release the first third-party ChatGPT plugins — OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases. — OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: in 2018, Musk said OpenAI lagged behind 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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| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors in New York charge Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon with eight counts, including securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was charged with fraud by US prosecutors in New York.
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| Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune: |
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs two bills regulating social media apps, including requiring age verification for all users and permission from parents for minors — Gov. Spencer Cox, who signed the bills on Thursday, said the state is prepared for a legal fight over the tech company regulations.
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| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris 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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| Bloomberg: |
Shou Chew's answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app — TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew's appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.
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| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Binance suspends spot trading on its exchange due to an “issue” and says it is working “to resolve this as soon as possible” — Bitcoin dipped, losing $700 before paring the decline. — Crypto exchange Binance suspended spot trading amid an issue on the world's … | 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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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Messages in Binance's public chatrooms show some employees and support volunteers helping customers bypass China's crypto ban, including evading its KYC checks — - Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has touted the exchange's know-your-customer systems, known as KYC, as a billion-dollar effort.
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