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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Google announces Google DeepMind, a unit combining DeepMind's team and Google Research's Brain team, to be led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as its CEO — Search giant merges AI resources to accelerate progress in technology that is reshaping business
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt” — The change is apparent on Twitter accounts for several Verge writers and other journalists like LA Times reporter Matt Pearce …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social network protocol finalized in 2018 that is gaining prominence powering Twitter alternatives like Mastodon — The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook.| Bloomberg: |
The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, including rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024 — European lawmakers on Thursday gave their final blessing to an ambitious law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry.
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| Financial Times: |
Internal slides: in the coming months, Google plans to let advertisers supply “creative” content for generative AI to “remix” for more sophisticated campaigns — Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Imgur plans to delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that's not tied to a user account, starting on May 15, potentially erasing years of internet history — For years, Imgur has made sharing photos and GIFs on the internet as easy as uploading a file — you don't even need an account to use it.
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Over 24 executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers who discussed partnerships with Apple or adding their tech into its products say Apple copied their ideas — Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules — It sounded like a dream partnership …
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
VC funding for Web3 startups fell 81% YoY from $9.1B in Q1 2022 to $1.7B in Q1 2023; the number of public deals fell from 770 to 333, the lowest since Q4 2020 — Editor's Note: For more Web3 coverage, please visit Crunchbase's Web3 Tracker, a site to look at startups, investors … | Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony agrees to acquire Firewalk Studios, an AAA multiplayer developer working on a live service game for PS5 and PC; Firewalk will join PlayStation Studios — It will be the 20th PlayStation Studios team — News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B — PlayStation has agreed …
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| Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger: |
Montreal-based Optable, which offers data collaboration and clean room tech for the ad industry, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23.6M — Clean rooms are all the rage right now - and investors are noticing. — On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform …
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Jess Bradley and Darcy Frisch
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU is taking a pragmatic approach to TikTok, treating the Chinese company like its US rivals, in contrast to the “theatrical” approach that the US is taking — Europe is taking a different approach from the US toward TikTok. But first... • Instagram will cut or relocate its London employees| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes — The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
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| Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Amazon launches the Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange, which lets retailers label and track counterfeits to make it difficult for counterfeiters to move among stores — Amazon (AMZN.O) has launched its Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange (ACX), an initiative to help retail stores label … | Michael Kan / PCMag: |
After news broke that Microsoft Advertising was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” for training “illegally using Twitter data” — Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants …
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Moses Kemibaro and Lisa Fitzgerald
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta's Oversight Board issues a report backing Meta's content moderation during the pandemic but asks Meta to assess its public health and human rights impact — Meta's Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Roblox is transcending its kid-oriented roots by reaching older players and welcoming brands; the 17-to-24 age group, up 33% YoY, is Roblox's fastest growing — The 3D-world for kids is attracting an older audience. It might also be the closest thing we've got to a metaverse that already exists.| Financial Times: |
A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs upon which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more — New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn. But there are privacy and data protection concerns
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@akothari, @lakshmishaks, @wadehrarajiv, @b_parkyn, @tonytassell, @digitaldutta, @johnreedwrites, and @baldwinre
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
CoreWeave, which offers 12+ SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B led by Magnetar at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M — CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues …
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Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, The Information, Metaverse Post, and FinSMEs
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@jess and @danielgross
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, plans to provide credit scores for individuals applying for loans on blockchain-based protocols — TransUnion, one of the largest credit agencies in the U.S., will off-chain credit scores for blockchain-based loan applications … Sponsor Posts
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