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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023 — The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion deal, announced on Thursday that starting April 1, it will remove …
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| The Verge: |
Twitter Blue rolls out globally, but the subscription service is still missing promised features like prioritized ranking in conversations and half as many ads — While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries) …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
CMA narrows probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, saying new evidence “provisionally alleviates” concerns about UK game console supply — The UK's antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today.
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: in 2018, Musk said OpenAI lagged behind Google and cut ties after his offer to run it was rejected; Altman took no equity in OpenAI's for-profit entity — After three years, Elon Musk was ready to give up on the artificial intelligence research firm he helped found, OpenAI.
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| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris Olympics, potentially becoming the first EU country to legalize AI surveillance — PARIS — France's AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.
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| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors in New York charge Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon with eight counts, including securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was charged with fraud by US prosecutors in New York.
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| Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune: |
Utah Governor Spencer Cox signs two bills regulating social media, requiring all users verify their age and parents give permission before minors open accounts — Gov. Spencer Cox, who signed the bills on Thursday, said the state is prepared for a legal fight over the tech company regulations.
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| Reuters: |
ChatGPT set off a VC rush to invest in generative AI startups; PitchBook says AI startup investments grew from $1.5B in 2020 to $5.9B+ since the start of 2022 — In December and January, several venture capitalists from the U.S. and Britain raced to Paris to vie for a stake … | Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq expects its custody services for digital assets to launch in Q2 2023, starting with bitcoin and ether, after announcing the project in September 2022 — Nasdaq Inc. expects its custody services for digital assets to launch by the end of the second quarter as it joins a growing pool …
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Watcher Guru, Finbold, Cointelegraph, Inside Bitcoins, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Trustnodes, CryptoGlobe, and CoinJournal
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@thinkingcrypto1 and @wublockchain
| Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
Current and former Twitch staff describe how the service lost its way: out-of-touch leaders, losing big creators, cost cutting, many irrelevant ads, and more — The platform's recent moves have confused and upset creators, fans and staff alike — For Twitch, the live-streaming platform watched …
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@vahn16, @niemanlab, @washingtonpost, @_zeets, @_anthonynash, and @launcherwp
| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Axios HQ, the software business spun off from Axios in 2022, raised a $20M Series A at a $100M valuation to build communication tools with the help of OpenAI — Axios HQ to use ChatGPT maker OpenAI to improve tools that help clients write emails, headlines
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Jim VandeHei, Victoria Blair, Harrison Brazier, and Roy Schwartz
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Binance's public chatrooms show some employees and support volunteers helping customers bypass China's crypto ban, including evading the company's KYC checks — - Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has touted the exchange's know-your-customer systems, known as KYC, as a billion-dollar effort.
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| Bloomberg: |
Shou Chew's answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app — TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew's appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.
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