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Elon Musk seems to have revealed a burner Twitter account, @ErmnMusk, created in November 2022 and featuring bizarre tweets like “Do you like Japanese girls?” — Musk tweeted a screenshot on Monday evening which appeared to show him signed into a second account.
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The UK announces legislation to tackle the “excessive dominance” of Big Tech by empowering the CMA's Digital Markets Unit, expected to become law in 2024 — Global companies like Google, Apple and Amazon could have to pay penalties of up to 10% of their global turnover as government gives competition watchdog more power
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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Coinbase asks a US federal court to force the SEC to respond to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022, demanding clearer crypto regulations — The cryptocurrency exchange filed the petition along with a long list of questions last July. … Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss — Audio streaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Spotify Technology SA reported …
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| Alex Thompson / Axios: |
Following Biden's reelection campaign announcement, the Republican National Committee publishes an attack ad featuring AI-generated images, some including Biden — - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party …
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South Korea indicts Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin and nine others on multiple charges and freezes ~$184.7M in assets from them so far — South Korea indicted Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin along with nine others on multiple charges including violations of capital markets law.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp expands its multi-device feature to let the same account be used across multiple smartphones, a long-requested feature — WhatsApp users are no longer restricted to using their account on just a single phone. Today, the Meta-owned messaging service is announcing that its multi-device feature … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's Cruise says it is now operating its “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco 24/7, expanding to daylight hours; the unit lost $561M in the Q1 — Cruise, the autonomous vehicle division of General Motors, is now operating a “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022 — The best thing about Slack's new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you. It's like Google Docs but inside of Slack.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
AMD announces the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, a pair of 4nm CPUs aimed at handheld gaming PCs; Z1 Extreme offers eight Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores — But the company's now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it's officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Data.ai: Jack Dorsey-backed social network Bluesky has had 245K downloads on iOS, of which more than half came in April 2023, after starting its waitlist — Twitter users, weary from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky as a possible alternative to the social media network.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Replit, which offers AI-powered collaborative coding tools, raised $97.4M at a $1.2B valuation and says its IDE has 22.5M users, up from 10M+ in December 2021 — Replit, the fast-growing service that combines artificial intelligence with software development, closed a $97.4 million fundraising round …
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| Matt O'brien / Associated Press: |
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the path from GPT-4 to AGI, safety measures, the regulation of LLMs, development of GPT-5, the response to ChatGPT, and more — OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn't a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia open-sources NeMo Guardrails, offering a developer framework to help make generative AI more “accurate, appropriate, on topic, and secure” — For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful.
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
A look at AI Hub, a Discord community dedicated to AI music that released an entire album featuring original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists — On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott's voice, and labels are trying to kill it.Sponsor Posts
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