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July 21, 2023, 12:40 PM
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others make voluntary AI governance pledges to the White House, including cybersecurity investment and watermarking systems  —  The White House is bringing in AI's top seven companies Friday to make a series of voluntary promises to protect users.
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
After a May 2023 White House meeting, OpenAI drafted an internal policy memo supporting the US government requiring licenses for developing advanced AI systems
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Lindsey Choo / Wall Street Journal:
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: average time spend on Threads' app declined to four mins, down from 19  —  Data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options such as a chronological feed
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit removes the moderators of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close protesting Reddit's API changes, and takes charge of the subreddit  —  Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform's API pricing changes.
Rich Stanton / PC Gamer:
Troy Hunt: sensitive info of ~4,000 people who attended Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak just now  —  This may cost the company a few Robux.  —  The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Sergey Brin has increased his visits to Google in recent months to three to four days a week, working with AI researchers building Google's Gemini  —  Co-founder is working alongside AI researchers at tech giant's headquarters, aiding efforts to build powerful Gemini system
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh for the $1B+ they allegedly misappropriated for “pet projects” before FTX's bankruptcy  —  FTX Trading Ltd on Thursday sued founder Sam Bankman-Fried and other former executives at the cryptocurrency exchange …
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US FTC suspends its in-house trial against Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition set for August 2023, opening the door to settlement talks  —  - Move allows Microsoft, Activision to speak with commissioners  — Companies asked for delay ahead of August in-house trial
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in a recent Microsoft breach, China-linked hackers accessed the emails of the US ambassador to China and the assistant secretary of state for East Asia  —  Spying campaign also compromised State Department official who oversees East Asia  —  Hackers linked to Beijing accessed …

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett fires an experienced editor overseeing 26 community newspapers for “sharing proprietary information” with a “competing media company”, which was Poynter

CNBC:
Sources: Sinclair is looking to sell 60+ of its 185 TV stations, in markets including Minneapolis and Austin, and is exploring options for the Tennis Channel

Zachary Small / New York Times:
Jason Gastrow, aka Dunkey, who has nearly 7.5M YouTube subscribers after reviewing games for over a decade, starts Bigmode, a publishing company for indie games

More News

Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Activision Blizzard lays off ~50 esports employees and asks Overwatch League teams to vote on an updated operating agreement, and to decide the league's future
Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal:
The US DOJ merges its crypto enforcement team, formed in 2021, into the department investigating computer-related crimes, giving crypto crimes more resources
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Meta rolls out Quest v56, featuring Hand Tracking 2.2, which the company claims reduces latency by up to 40% in typical usage and up to 75% during fast movement

Earlier Picks

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal:
Twitter is letting some verified organizations post job listings directly on their profiles through a job listings feature
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
A Google bug report says the company fixed a Chrome zero-day that an Apple employee found during a March 2023 hacking competition but did not report to Google
David Pierce / The Verge:
OpenAI adds opt-in “custom instructions”, or a user's details that ChatGPT should remember, in beta for ChatGPT Plus subscribers everywhere but the UK and EU
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon plans to roll out its Amazon One palm scanning payment tech to all 500+ US Whole Foods stores by the end of 2023; 200+ locations already have Amazon One
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The US Federal Reserve launches FedNow, its long-awaited real-time payments system that will eventually let individuals and businesses transfer money in seconds
Nikkei Asia:
TSMC reports Q2 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$15.68B and net income down 23.3% YoY to ~$5.9B, the first quarterly decline since 2019, as all non-AI chip sales slump
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