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April 28, 2023, 2:30 PM

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Reuters:
EU lawmakers push forward an AI Act draft, which includes requiring companies deploying generative AI tools to disclose copyrighted material used for training  —  Companies deploying generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, will have to disclose any copyrighted material used to develop their systems …
Stephen Graves / Decrypt:
Bluesky is seeing an influx of users, including @dril and AOC, with some referring to posting on the Jack Dorsey-backed social network as “skeeting”  —  Instead of “tweeting,” the influx of new Bluesky users has coined a new term for sharing their thoughts on the decentralized social media app.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
A US federal judge orders South Africa-based bitcoin pool operator Mirror Trading's CEO to pay $3.4B after CFTC charged the company with a $1.7B fraud in 2022  —  A US judge has ordered a South African executive to pay more than $3.4 billion in restitution and fines for a fraud scheme involving Bitcoin …
Bloomberg:
The New York City MTA ends its Twitter service alerts, saying the platform is “no longer reliable” and that Twitter demanded $50K per month for API access  —  New York City's mass-transit system is ending its real-time service alerts on Twitter for subway, train and bus riders …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$22.7B, and 6.3M PS5 sales, up from 2M YoY; Sony has sold 19.1M PS5s in FY 2022 and 38.4M PS5s in total since launch  —  Now that it's solved its supply shortages, Sony is seeing a lot of pent-up demand for PlayStation 5 consoles.
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
Robinhood introduces Connect, which allows users to fund their Web3 wallets without having to leave a decentralized app or be in their Robinhood Crypto accounts  —  The feature, Robinhood Connect, is already available on several decentralized apps, with more to onboard in the coming months.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Ex-Apple employee Dhirendra Prasad is sentenced to three years and must pay restitution for stealing $17M from Apple via kickbacks from parts suppliers, more  —  A former Apple employee has been sentenced to three years in prison and must pay back over $19 million in restitution …
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pinterest announces a multi-year strategic ad partnership with Amazon, its first ads partner, to bring more brands and relevant products to the social network  —  Pinterest today announced a multiyear strategic ad partnership with Amazon aimed at bringing more brands and relevant products to its platform.

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