In Bluesky posts, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid $1B to back out of the deal  —  The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site

Interviews with lawmakers and sources reveal how, over just 11 days, MEPs created a draft bill on generative AI, a rare example of quick consensus in the EU  —  As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers' plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT.

Elon Musk says Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per article basis with one click, starting next month  —  Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.... https://twitter.com/...

Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is supporting 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own  —  It's not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned  —  A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims …

Sources: Arm has filed with regulators confidentially for a US IPO, seeking to raise between $8B and $10B on Nasdaq later this year  —  SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday …

India's Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering probe  —  India's crime-fighting agency searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran, it said Saturday …

Docs and sources: OpenAI closed a $300M+ share sale at a $27B-$29B valuation; backers include Tiger Global, Sequoia, a16z, Thrive, K2 Global, and Founders Fund  —  Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January.  The money from VCs reported here, part of a tender offer, is separate to that.

ChatGPT is available again in Italy after OpenAI met regulator Garante'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 …

Apple drops its lawsuit against Gerard Williams III, a former Apple chip executive who allegedly poached its employees and used company resources to start Nuvia  —  Apple Inc. dropped its lawsuit against a former chip executive the company sued for allegedly poaching its employees for a startup.

Sources: the US DOJ discovered the SolarWinds breach in late May 2020, months before its public disclosure in December 2020, but was unaware of its significance  —  In May 2020, the US Department of Justice stumbled upon Russian hackers in its network, but did not realize the significance of what it had found for six months.