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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 …
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ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog's demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training — ChatGPT's maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands …
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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.
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Sources: Elon Musk shut off OpenAI's access to Twitter's data in December, believing that $2M a year licensing fee that OpenAI was paying wasn't enough — The billionaire plans to compete with OpenAI, the ChatGPT developer he helped found, while calling out the potential harms of artificial intelligence.
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A look at Google's DeepMind-Brain merger; sources: Demis Hassabis ceded DeepMind's cherished independence for greater power and influence over the future of AI — Start-up founder Demis Hassabis trades independence for greater influence over the future of artificial intelligence| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Synergy: enterprise cloud spending grew 19% YoY to $63B in Q1 2023, vs. 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon took 32% market share, Microsoft 23%, and Google 10% — As expected, companies are continuing to cut back on their cloud spend where possible, as tech budgets continue to get careful scrutiny.
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Ex-HeadSpin CEO Manish Lachwani pleads guilty to securities and wire fraud charges for disseminating false and overstated revenue figures to potential investors — Manish Lachwani, who co-founded and led Silicon Valley startup HeadSpin Inc., pleaded guilty Thursday to securities and wire fraud charges, federal prosecutors said.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
The US sentences ex-Apple worker Dhirendra Prasad to three years and orders him to pay $19M+ for stealing ~$17M from Apple via parts supplier kickbacks and more — A former Apple employee has been sentenced to three years in prison and must pay back over $19 million in restitution …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge orders South Africa-based Mirror Trading's CEO to pay $3.4B+ after the CFTC argued the BTC pool operator ran a $1.7B+ fraud from 2018 to 2021 — 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 … | 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.
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A profile of Sarah Cardell, the UK CMA's CEO who played a key role in shaping the mergers policy that led to the agency blocking Microsoft's Activision takeover — Former corporate lawyer has attracted the ire of the US group by blocking its $75bn acquisition of Activision| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood debuts Connect, which lets users fund their self-custody Web3 wallets without leaving a decentralized app or being in their Robinhood Crypto accounts — The feature, Robinhood Connect, is already available on several decentralized apps, with more to onboard in the coming months.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Reddit begins testing Discord-like chat channels in 25 volunteer subreddits with fewer than 100K members and plans to let moderators manage chat functionality — Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits.
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