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Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
Twitter lets users reply directly to any DM with a threaded message and react to messages with a wider range of emojis  —  Twitter has released two new updates for DMs, which have been in the works for a few months, but are now getting a full launch in the app.
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
iOS 16.5 beta mentions new Beats Studio Pro, which a source says come in four colors with a Transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, and better ANC  —  Earlier this year, 9to5Mac revealed that Apple has been working on new Beats Studio Buds+ with a custom Beats chip.
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
The US says the FBI disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage operation by inspecting FSB's Snake malware and decrypting and decoding its communications  —  A law enforcement effort dubbed “Medusa” targeted malware deployed by Moscow's Federal Security Service, officials said Tuesday.
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
The American Psychological Association issues an advisory on social media use by adolescents, saying social networks are “not inherently beneficial or harmful”  —  One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set guidelines designed to protect children …
James Vincent / The Verge:
Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots  —  Anthropic is a bit of an unknown quantity in the AI world.  Founded by former OpenAI employees and keen to present itself …
Jordan Pearson / VICE:
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a mass shooting in Texas a “psyop”, remarking himself the case was “very strange” and “gets weirder by the moment”  —  Musk has a history of engaging with right-wing conspiracies, and his reaction to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas continues the trend.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, pleads guilty for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts and other crimes  —  PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O'Connor, a UK citizen connected to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting many high-profile accounts …
Washington Post:
In a Twitter video, Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his Fox show on the social network; Elon Musk says Twitter did not sign a deal “of any kind whatsoever”  —  The former Fox News host tweeted a video saying he's moving his show to the social media site.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads”  —  It's often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI's ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there's some truth to that.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.79B est., its first profitable Q1 with a $117M net income, and a cautious outlook for Q2; ABNB drops 10%+
Bloomberg:
Sources: Jump Crypto and Jane Street are pulling back from US crypto trading over regulatory uncertainty; Jump is expanding globally while Jane scales back  —  Jane Street Group and Jump Crypto — two of the world's top market-making firms — are pulling back from trading digital assets …
Financial Times:
Uber launches flight bookings on its UK app in partnership with travel booking company Hopper as part of its efforts to become a travel “super app”  —  Ride-booking giant expands offering after rolling out train, coach and Eurostar ticket tool  —  Uber has launched flight bookings …
More: Engadget and Reuters
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
An investigation finds Google Maps isn't proactively deleting location data consistently when people visit abortion clinics, a year after Google said it would  —  Our investigation finds Google still retains location data about users who visit clinics, hospitals and other ‘particularly personal’ locations …
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
EA reports Q4 revenue up 2.7% YoY to $1.87B, a $12M net loss, down from a $225M net profit YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.95B, and FIFA net books up 31% YoY  —  But the video game company swung to a net loss of $12 million, against a year-earlier net profit of $225 million.
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
UVeye, which uses computer vision and AI for vehicle inspections, raised a $100M Series D led by Hanaco VC, a source says at an ~$800M valuation  —  UVeye's automated vehicle inspection technology may have started out as a system to detect security threats, but the six-year-old Israeli startup …
Financial Times:
Chinese DRAM chipmaker ChangXin plans a Shanghai IPO, sources say after receiving assurances over exemptions from US export controls for its equipment  —  ChangXin Memory Technologies to raise funds for production expansion following assurance on American equipment supplies
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU draft proposal: non-EU cloud providers seeking an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data must do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company  —  Amazon (AMZN.O), Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Microsoft (MSFT.O) and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking …
More: TechRadar
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Microsoft opens its Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program to 600 customers, up from 20, and adds features, like a Semantic Index and DALL-E in PowerPoint  —  Microsoft is expanding preview access to its Microsoft 365 Copilot, a digital assistant based on OpenAI's GPT-4 …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Molly White:
A critique of a16z's State of Crypto 2023 report, which seems to be an exercise in propaganda with the sole goal of bolstering the VC firm's bottom line
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Carriers in dozens of US states are tearing out Chinese equipment, a difficult process the FCC says has already cost $5B+, well over its $1.9B reimbursement pot

Earlier Picks

Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US judge sentences ex-Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi to two years in prison for crypto insider trading; Wahi pled guilty to two counts in February 2023
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta tests paying Facebook creators based on public Reels' performance, instead of ad earnings, and plans to roll out payouts to Instagram in the coming weeks
James Vincent / The Verge:
Meta unveils ImageBind, an open-source AI model combining text, audio, visual, depth, thermal, and movement data, as rivals OpenAI and Google get more secretive
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, available as subscriptions on May 23; Final Cut requires an M1 or newer and Logic requires an A12 or newer
Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal:
Wendy's partners with Google to automate its drive-throughs using an AI chatbot that has been taught to upsell, rolling out in June 2023 to an Ohio restaurant
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