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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
The European Court of Human Rights rules backdoors that weaken E2EE violate human rights law, after Russia began requiring Telegram to decrypt messages in 2017 — Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says. — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
X removes paid checkmarks from some accounts after a watchdog group found 28 verified accounts allegedly tied to Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities — X (aka Twitter) accused of violating sanctions by taking payment from terrorists. — A watchdog group's investigation found …
More: New York Times, The Verge, Tech Transparency Project, BBC, Forbes, Joan Westenberg, Rolling Stone, X, Business Today, Boing Boing, Engadget, and The Hill
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| Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: |
Many Apple Vision Pro users are returning their devices, saying they're too expensive, heavy, or isolating, as the 14-day return window nears its end for buyers — Many early adopters seem set on returning their Apple Vision Pro headsets. As the 14-day return window approaches for people …
More: The Verge, Club386, Mashable, The Independent, Business Insider, Technowize, Android Authority, Business Today, MySmartPrice, TweakTown, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, iThinkDifferent, Latest Odisha News …, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, MacRumors, ZeroHedge News, MobileSyrup, BGR, Quartz, and Benzinga
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
NYC sues ByteDance, Meta, Snap, and Google to hold the companies accountable “for fueling the nationwide youth mental health crisis” by manipulating young users — New York City filed a lawsuit against TikTok, Meta, Snap and Google's YouTube to hold the companies accountable …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI has been developing a web search product partly powered by Bing — OpenAI has been developing a web search product that would bring the Microsoft-backed startup into more direct competition with Google, according to someone with knowledge of OpenAI's plans.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Meta is reducing payments to news outlets that fact-check potential WhatsApp misinformation, including on elections, and has cut CrowdTangle funding — Meta Platforms is reducing payments to news organizations that fact-check potential misinformation on WhatsApp, including around elections …
More: Washington Post and The Hindu
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| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at robots.txt, a good will-based social contract governing the behavior of web crawlers, as experts call for more rigid tools for managing AI crawlers — For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Amazon researchers detail BASE TTS, the largest text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving its natural speaking ability — Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” … | Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia passed Alphabet on February 14 as the third most valuable US company and the world's fourth with a market cap of ~$1.83T, one day after overtaking Amazon — - Chip giant is up 49% in 2024, adding $602 billion in value — Market cap of $1.83 trillion exceeds Alphabet's $1.82 trillion| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at The Shotline, a project using ElevenLabs' tech to create audio deepfakes of kids killed by gun violence, to place AI-generated calls to US lawmakers — Grieving parents made these audio deepfakes to stir the emotions of lawmakers. But they also mark a new era for artificial intelligence.
More: The Shotline, Associated Press, The Verge, The Guardian, The Hill, Hartford Courant, Engadget, The Wall Street Journal on YouTube, Mashable, March For Our Lives, and NPR
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Forums: r/aiwars and r/Futurology
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Some European entrepreneurs believe the EU's scrutiny of deals involving tech giants will lead to less M&A activity, reducing exit routes from their business — Some entrepreneurs believe there will now be less deal activity, reducing exit routes from their business| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Google plans to let businesses install auto-updating ChromeOS Flex to Windows devices, to help stop millions of Windows 10 PCs from hitting landfills in 2025 — Google will allow businesses to install an auto-updating version of the Chrome operating system to Windows devices … | Bloomberg: |
TSMC rises ~8% in its first post-Lunar New Year trading session, reaching a record $575B market cap and passing Visa as the world's 12th most valuable company — - Global AI activity should benefit Taiwan's largest company — TSMC is the main contract chipmaker to Nvidia and Apple
More: TipRanks Financial, Benzinga, and Wall Street Journal
| Financial Times: |
A look at OpenAI's business model, as the company works to more than double its yearly run rate by 2025; ChatGPT Enterprise now has 300+ paying customers — The AI startup is one of the fastest-growing companies in history, but questions remain about the long-term viability of its revenue stream
X: @madhumita29 and @jbrowder1
| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
The CEO of Greek payments company Viva Wallet, co-owned by JPMorgan, sues the bank for allegedly suppressing Viva's growth, as JPMorgan files a counter claim — Wall Street bank accused of trying to drive down the valuation of Greek payments company Viva Wallet
More: PYMNTS.com and Finextra
| Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest €3.2B in Germany in the next two years with a focus on AI, its biggest German investment ever — - President Brad Smith says investments planned over two years — Microsoft is investing heavily in data centers to fuel AI boom
More: Reuters, Silicon Republic, The Decoder, TechStartups, and Cointelegraph
| Dietrich Knauth / Reuters: |
A US judge approves Genesis' plan to sell ~$1.6B in Grayscale crypto trust shares to repay creditors, including 35M GBTC shares, worth ~$1.38B — Bankrupt crypto lender Genesis Global on Wednesday received permission from a U.S. court to sell about $1.6 billion in Grayscale cryptocurrency trust shares …
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| Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Italian app developer Bending Spoons raised $155M from Baillie Gifford and more at a $2.6B valuation, after raising $100M in 2023, and seeks M&A deals — - Italian app developer has raised $155 million in new funding — Company on track to generate $500 million in sales this year
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, and Silicon Canals
| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Leaked Google documents detail Goose, a Gemini-based LLM designed for internal use to help employees write code faster, as part of an AI-driven efficiency push — - Google has an internal large language model named Goose, designed to make employees more productive.| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Zuckerberg makes valid points on the Quest 3 being better overall than the Vision Pro today, but he risks having his own “Ballmer laughs off the iPhone” moment — Here we go again: … Look, I actually don't disagree with Mark Zuckerberg's overall stance here.
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