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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
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Six months since Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, a brief overview of Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve — Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems …
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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 / @elonmusk: |
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/...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … | TechCrunch: |
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.
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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.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
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.
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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 … | Mark Matousek / The Information: |
Source: IRL CEO Abraham Shafi has stepped down, following allegations the messaging startup used bots to inflate the users it reported publicly and to investors — Abraham Shafi has stepped down as CEO of messaging app IRL following allegations that the company used bots to inflate the users …
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