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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay — Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
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| Victor Swezey / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter appears to have restored verification checkmarks to many accounts with 1M+ followers, saying they are subscribed to Blue; some deny they paid for Blue — Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform's biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
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| Mike Pearl / Mashable: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple XR headset's external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple's app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users — Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset's features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product.
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| Bloomberg: |
Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week — Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday. Lunch was interrupted by huge news …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners to build a test chip showcasing the capabilities of its designs, its most advanced chipmaking effort yet — Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers
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| Nabiha Syed / The Markup: |
Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more — A conversation with Katherine Forrest — Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
A look at “the flattening”: tech companies laying off middle managers to boost efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom — Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap
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@michelezanini, @adsinuk, @andre_spicer, @andrewtghill, and @patrickmcgee_
| Martine Paris / Forbes: |
Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music with her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same as “with any artist I collab with” — In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknd …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann — In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox.
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@marissalnew, @aggichristiane, and @oliviasolon
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech startups, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns haven't raised funds since 2021 — The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
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Crunchbase News, The Economic Times, and AngelList
| Roman Feeser / CBS News: |
A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, launched in 2014, which can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or song — Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it.
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| John Kruzel / Reuters: |
SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases related to government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Trump-related case in 2021 — The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution's …
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