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April 25, 2023, 8:20 AM

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André Beganski / Decrypt:
Coinbase asks a US federal court to force the SEC to respond to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022, demanding clearer crypto regulations  —  The cryptocurrency exchange filed the petition along with a long list of questions last July. … Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote …
Jordan Pearson / VICE:
Elon Musk seems to have revealed a burner Twitter account, @ErmnMusk, created in November 2022 and featuring bizarre tweets like “Do you like Japanese girls?”  —  Musk tweeted a screenshot on Monday evening which appeared to show him signed into a second account.
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud  —  Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The UK announces legislation to tackle the “excessive dominance” of Big Tech by empowering the CMA's Digital Markets Unit, expected to become law in 2024  —  Global companies like Google, Apple and Amazon could have to pay penalties of up to 10% of their global turnover as government gives competition watchdog more power
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
A US appeals court affirms a lower court's 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple's App Store policy banning third-party app stores is illegal  —  Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store's policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc.
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Sources: to avoid a formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, after a complaint from Slack to the EU  —  Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack
Matt O'brien / Associated Press:
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the path from GPT-4 to AGI, safety measures, the regulation of LLMs, development of GPT-5, the response to ChatGPT, and more  —  OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn't a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018.
Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI:
AI will have a significant impact on the economy, but as with the internet, this impact will be concentrated in information-focused industries and occupations  —  Software didn't eat the world and AI won't either.  —  In 2011, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published an essay …
Xerox Newsroom:
Xerox announces the donation of the Palo Alto Research Center, which it founded in 1970 and established as an independent company in 2002, to SRI International  —  PARC researchers to continue developing pioneering technologies while Xerox focuses on core print, digital and IT services to support clients' hybrid workplace needs.
Bloomberg:
South Korea indicts Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin and nine others on multiple charges and freezes ~$184.7M in assets from them so far  —  South Korea indicted Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin along with nine others on multiple charges including violations of capital markets law.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022  —  The best thing about Slack's new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you.  It's like Google Docs but inside of Slack.

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