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April 4, 2023, 7:40 PM

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Sasha Luccioni / Wired:
Instead of halting AI research, an unfeasible task, the industry must improve transparency and accountability by being open to external audits and to regulation  —  Tech leaders' Open Letter proposed a pause on ChatGPT.  But researchers already know how to make artificial intelligence safer.
Financial Times:
US authorities arrest student loan service Frank founder Charlie Javice; the SEC charges her with falsifying Frank user numbers for JPMorgan's $175M acquisition  —  Charlie Javice allegedly falsified user numbers at student finance company  —  The founder of a student finance website acquired …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg's archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more  —  The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.
Alexander Martin / The Record:
The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data  —  Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock for $300, offering a USB-C port instead of a proprietary Surface Connect port and supporting non-Surface devices  —  Priced at $299.99, the new Surface dock will connect over USB-C instead of the proprietary Surface Connect port.
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Researcher: bugs in Nexx's Wi-Fi-enabled garage door openers let hackers open garages; Nexx hasn't responded to patch appeals for months, including from the DHS  —  A security researcher found a series of vulnerabilities with the Nexx brand of smart garage openers.
Tom Bristow / Politico:
The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022, for having ~1.4M UK users under the age of 13 and misusing their personal data  —  The ICO estimates that 1.4 million children in the UK were on TikTok in 2020.  —  LONDON — The U.K.'s data regulator …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple says its Weather app “may be slow or unavailable” due to an ongoing issue lasting multiple hours; some users have had data issues for over a week  —  Apple is currently experiencing issues with its weather data provider, leaving many users unable to see live weather information …
Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter:
Many current and former Amazon executives, showrunners, and agents say Amazon Studios is confusing and frustrating; one showrunner says Studios has “no vision”  —  Despite ambitious bets like ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ and the upcoming ‘Citadel,’ insiders complain that there's still …
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Vancouver-based Web3 messaging protocol developer LayerZero Labs raised a $120M Series B at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in its $135M Series A+ in March 2022  —  The valuation is triple the level of the firm's previous funding round in March 2022.  —  Join the most important conversation …
Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit:
Canada's privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data  —  The Canadian privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February 2023: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat vs. fall 2022, and only 4% used it daily  —  - Virtual reality hasn't caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday.
New York Times:
China opening its Micron investigation marks the most significant retaliation against US chip sanctions yet and undermines Beijing's open-for-business messaging  —  Beijing's security review of Micron Technology, which has deep roots in China, could have wide-ranging ramifications for other foreign businesses.
James Vincent / The Verge:
Stanford's AI Index: in 2022, industry produced 32 notable ML models compared to academia's three, global private investment fell 26.7% YoY to $91.9B, and more  —  An annual report on AI progress has highlighted the increasing dominance of industry players over academia and government in deploying and safeguarding AI applications.

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