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May 26, 2023, 1:55 PM

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Reuters:
Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to leave the region if it can't comply with the EU's upcoming AI Act  —  OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week to leave …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
CNBC:
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut an ambitious project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles  —  - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400 self-acceleration issues  —  A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints …
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs  —  - JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence …
Bloomberg:
DCG plans to shut down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023  —  Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business …
Akriti Sharma / Reuters:
Neuralink says the company received US FDA approval to conduct its first in-human clinical trial of brain implants and plans to offer more details soon  —  Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study.
Bloomberg:
France's CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day  —  Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine.
Emily A. Vogels / Pew Research Center:
A survey from March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% tried the tool themselves; 74% say ChatGPT is extremely, very, or somewhat useful  —  About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) are familiar with ChatGPT, though relatively few have tried it themselves, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March.

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