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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 …
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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 … | 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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| 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 … | Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Meta struggles to precisely define what political content is, offering only a vague statement, after saying Threads would not amplify political content — What constitutes “political” content? — It's an important question that Meta has conspicuously left unanswered …
More: Anchor Change … and Platformer
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| 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, Hartford Courant, The Hill, Engadget, The Wall Street Journal on YouTube, Mashable, March For Our Lives, and NPR
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| 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 … | 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
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| 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
| 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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| 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
| 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.| The Information: |
Sources: Together AI, which helps developers access Nvidia server chips to train AI models, is raising $100M+ led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1B+ valuation — Nvidia's hot streak with artificial intelligence chips, which have been in high demand globally, is also lifting a slew of companies that resell the chips.| Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
Omdia: South African streaming company Showmax had 2.1M subscribers in Africa at the end of November 2023, ahead of Netflix's 1.8M and Amazon Prime Video's 300K — Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO … | 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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