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March 21, 2024, 7:50 AM
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Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ plans to sue Apple as soon as Thursday, accusing the company of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing iPhone features  —  - Lawsuit to be filed in federal court as soon as Thursday  — Case comes as iPhone maker also faces scrutiny in Europe
CNBC:
Reddit priced its IPO at $34 per share, the top of its expected range, raising $519M and valuing the company at about $6.5B, ahead of its market debut  —  In this photo illustration a Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.  —  Reddit, the 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Epic plans to release its Epic Games Store on iOS and Android later in 2024, with the same terms as the PC store, including a 12% commission on sales  —  With plans to launch its own game store on iOS, it's now been announced that the Epic Games Store is coming to Android.
Wall Street Journal:
Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match Group file an amicus brief in Epic v. Apple protesting Apple's plan to charge a commission for payments made outside the App Store  —  Four tech companies object to Apple's new app store policies related to payment for services
Emily Mullin / Wired:
Neuralink shows its first brain implant patient, a 29-year-old man paralyzed from the shoulders down, playing online chess using the Neuralink device  —  In a livestream on X, the paralyzed 29-year-old man used his Neuralink brain implant to control a computer.
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Fairly Trained certifies KL3M, an LLM claimed to be built without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials by legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures  —  OpenAI claimed it's “impossible” to build good AI models without using copyrighted data.  An “ethically created” …
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
BlackRock unveils its first tokenized asset fund, BUIDL, built on the Ethereum network and fully backed by cash, US Treasury bills, and repurchase agreements  —  The asset management giant also made a strategic investment in asset tokenization company Securitize.
Ashley Gold / Axios:
After a classified briefing on TikTok, the Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing”  —  - But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.
Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic:
The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform
Bloomberg:
A UK jury finds Jian Wen guilty of laundering bitcoin for a Chinese fugitive allegedly behind a ~$6B fraud in China; police had seized BTC worth $2.2B+ in 2018  —  - Jury finds Jian Wen guilty on one count of money laundering  — Jian helped Chinese fugitive Zhimin Qian launder Bitcoin
Yossi Matias / The Keyword:
In a research paper, Google Research details how AI helped to provide accurate flood forecasting in over 80 countries up to seven days in advance of the flood  —  A paper published in Nature today shows how Google Research uses AI to accurately predict riverine flooding and help protect livelihoods …
Financial Times:
Chinese state media: during his visit to Shanghai, Tim Cook says “there's no supply chain in the world that's more critical to us than China”  —  Apple chief Tim Cook has said China is “critical” to its business in comments made during a visit to the country …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
GitHub releases code scanning autofix, powered by Copilot and CodeQL, in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, to help them fix vulnerabilities  —  It's a bad day for bugs.  Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the top 10,000 most popular websites: dozens share date with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies  —  Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with.  Here's how many of these third-party companies …
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over  —  - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false  — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm
David Gilbert / Wired:
X suspends the accounts of some journalists and researchers who posted the alleged real name of neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss, after Stonetoss appealed to Musk  —  Researchers and journalists have been blocked on X from sharing the alleged identity of the neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss.

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From Mediagazer

Karissa Waddick / USA Today:
After Trump said some publications wanted the US to “lose the War”, FCC's Carr threatened broadcasters, saying they can lose their license over war coverage

Lukas I. Alpert / MarketWatch:
How BuzzFeed went from a $1.7B digital-media darling in 2016 to the brink of bankruptcy, as an early investor blames mismanagement following a 2021 SPAC merger

New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos said “I don't care” after being told that WaPo could lose subs due to Opinion changes; 60K+ canceled their subs in Feb. following layoffs

More News

Anna Tong / Reuters:
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, founded by two Google researchers, releases three Japanese language models using “model merging”, which combines existing models
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, a 4nm chip aimed at high-end smartphones that adds on-device generative AI and Wi-Fi 7; OnePlus is the first partner
Reuters:
US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Earlier Picks

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Micron reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $5.82B, vs. $5.53B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates, buoyed by demand for AI hardware; MU jumps 11%+
Tim Copeland / The Block:
A commit in Ethereum Foundation's GitHub repository shows the foundation has received a voluntary and confidential inquiry from an unspecified state authority
Forbes:
Sources: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told staff last week that Robin Rombach and his team of researchers who helped develop Stable Diffusion, have resigned
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