Twitter adds support for tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with italic and bold text formatting, for Blue subscribers  —  We're making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features, and apply to enable... https://twitter.com/...

Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal use of copyrighted material  —  Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material  —  The European parliament is preparing tough …

Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions  —  Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation?  —  It is fair to say that Substack …

Sensor Tower: Twitter's top 50 advertisers spent $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, Volkswagen, and Stellantis haven't returned  —  Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies …

WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks  —  WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features.  The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users against SIM jacking …

Intel becoming a chip foundry is its biggest business shift in nearly 40 years, meaning US industrial policy rests on one of tech's most complex turnarounds yet  —  Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech's most complex turnrounds

BeReal struggles to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app's daily users dropped to under 6M in March from ~15M in October  —  BeReal was pitched as Gen Z's safe haven from the artifice of social media.  For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long.

A look at the impact of TerraUSD's collapse and FTX's implosion on the South Korean crypto industry, as the media reports TerraUSD had ~200K local victims  —  The collapse of Terra continues to reverberate in Do Kwon's homeland, but there are signs of progress, CoinDesk's Emily Parker reports.

Denver-based Elevate, which provides a dashboard for managing employee benefits, raised $28M led by Anthemis, bringing its total funding to $43M  —  Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis with participation …

Hacking Policy Council launches to advocate for laws that protect security researchers' work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel  —  “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne.

Parlement Technologies sells Parler to digital media company Starboard, which plans to temporarily shut down the right-wing social network ahead of a relaunch  —  Social network popular with conservatives will be sold for an undisclosed amount and overhauled for a relaunch

Meta open sources AI project Animated Drawings, which turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings, after releasing a web tool in 2021  —  Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life.

Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more  —  Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021.  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 …