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Apple announces a suite of features to improve cognitive, vision, and speech accessibility on iOS and iPadOS, rolling out later in 2023 — Apple previewed a suite of new features today to improve cognitive, vision and speech accessibility. These tools are slated to arrive on the iPhone, iPad and Mac later this year.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to tell Congress that AI regulation is “essential”, stress the need for government flexibility, and recommend safety measures — OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman will tell US lawmakers on Tuesday that regulation of artificial intelligence must allow companies …
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A live blog of testimony from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, IBM VP Christina Montgomery, and professor Gary Marcus before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify to Congress on AI like ChatGPT as regulations and oversight are being considered.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: Twitter buys recruiting startup Laskie for “tens of millions” in cash and stock, its first deal of the Elon Musk era; PitchBook: Laskie had raised $6M — Twitter appears to have made its first deal of the Elon Musk era: Buying a job-matching tech startup called Laskie, Axios has learned.
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In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline” — The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a response to Coinbase's complaint requesting the agency to establish regulatory clarity for the industry.
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Twitter's encrypted DMs don't offer end-to-end encryption, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and open to government access requests — A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new CEO
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EU states approve the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) rules, becoming the first major global jurisdiction with a crypto licensing regime, taking effect in 2024 — The landmark Markets in Crypto Assets regulation was given final approval by the EU's Council, which also agreed a new law for sharing data on crypto tax holdings.
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC court filings: Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B profit per year before the coin's 2022 collapse — Chicago firm made about $1 billion through dealings with crypto mogul Do Kwon's company, according to the agency
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password- or biometrics-protected folder and removing sender and message contents from notifications — WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Pharmacy services provider PharMerica says hackers breached its system and stole the names, addresses, SSNs, and health data of 5.8M+ patients on March 12, 2023 — Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers.| Bloomberg: |
Q1 2023 filings: Berkshire Hathaway sold its TSMC shares after cutting its position by 86% in Q4 2022, while Tiger Global and Coatue added to their TSMC stakes — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. drew mixed bets from top investors in the first quarter, as Warren Buffett closed …
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| Financial Times: |
As the European Central Bank prepares to pilot a digital euro in October, consumers, financiers, and politicians are questioning the project's aims and benefits — Europe's central bank is pushing ahead with the development of electronic currency even as politicians question its purpose
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| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
Q&A with Michael Lewis on his FTX book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon”, slated for October 3, visiting SBF, the forthcoming trial, and more — About a year after the author Michael Lewis began to shadow Bankman-Fried, the founder of the crypto exchange FTX, Bankman-Fried was arrested.| Ciara O'Brien / The Irish Times: |
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC's GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board — Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Tinder account for 87^% of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland's DPC
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Kevin Systrom on Artifact's new writer features, serving writers as a key to the news app's growth, matching consumers with writers, and more — Artifact aims to unlock new, cross-platform audience relationships for people who write for a living| Victor Dey / VentureBeat: |
Together, which aims to build open-source LLMs and was part of RedPajama, a project where six companies replicated Meta's LLaMA dataset, raised a $20M seed — Together, an open-source AI startup, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding to support its mission …
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| Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal: |
Discord users are scouring servers to find any remaining US military documents from the recent leak, after prosecutors suggested more might still be online — The government secrets leaked on Discord have become fodder for users seeking fun and attention — WASHINGTON—Videogame enthusiasts …
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| Bloomberg: |
MTN plans to build a $320M East2West inland fiber cable connecting ten African countries in Q4 2023, following its subsea cable that landed in Cape Town in 2022 — MTN Group Ltd., Africa's biggest mobile-phone operator, plans to build a $320 million inland fiber cable to connect ten countries …
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