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June 5, 2023, 12:15 AM

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Forbes:

Interviews, pitch decks, and internal documents suggest that Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque's recent success was bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims — Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people …

More: Emad's Blog. LinkedIn: Jon Lam. Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social and @andy.baio.net

Tweets: @emostaque, @kenrickcai, @kenrickcai, @sarahnemerson, @yoda, @emostaque, @kullar, @garrytan, @kenrickcai, @garrytan, @kenrickcai, @tomgara, @neilturkewitz, @sarthakgh, @kenrickcai, and @ravenben. Thanks:@thealexknapp

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

Atomic Wallet is investigating user reports of compromised accounts and trying to block the stolen crypto from being sold; source: the hack could exceed $35M+ — The developers of Atomic Wallet are investigating reports of large-scale theft of cryptocurrency from users' wallets, with over $35 million in crypto reportedly stolen.

More: Decrypt, International Business Times, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin News, Cryptopolitan, Web3 is Going Just Great, crypto.news, CoinGape, Watcher Guru, and Cryptonews

Tweets: @atomicwallet, @atomicwallet, @zachxbt, @zachxbt, and @bleepincomputer

Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:

Instagram reinstates Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account after he launched his presidential bid; he was banned in 2021 over false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines — The prominent anti-vaccine campaigner was suspended in 2021 for spreading misleading health claims.

More: The Hill, Reuters, RADAR, Deadline, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Fortune, and Coinpedia Fintech News

Bluesky: @alkapdc.bsky.social, @shellen.bsky.social, @jetjocko.bsky.social, and @carnage4life.bsky.social

Tweets: @ebakerwhite, @azi, @schmutzie, and @viacristiano. Thanks:@viacristiano

Yvonne Lau / Fortune:

As TSMC plans to hire 4,500 workers at its two Arizona fabs, recruiters say the company's culture, rigid standards, and overseas training turn off candidates — On the Glassdoor profile of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC—the world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductor chips …

More: ChinaTechNews.com. Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social. Tweets: @pstasiatech and @davenewworld_2

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:

A look at The Frost, a 12-minute movie created by Waymark using DALL-E 2, as startups like Waymark and Runway make AI tools for fast and cheap video production — Exclusive: Watch the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost. — The Frost nails its uncanny, disconcerting vibe in its first few shots.

LinkedIn: Theo Priestley and Niall Firth

Tweets: @rainisto, @gdalmiathinks, @siggraph, @stephen_parker, @labenz, @d_id_, @tariqkrim, @fabianmosele, @bildoperationen, and @juliewdesign_

Financial Times:

Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida says cloud gaming has many technical difficulties, like latency, and the company could use its AI, GT Sophy, to enhance cloud gaming — Promise of technology remains unfulfilled after more than a decade of development — Sony's chief executive has warned …

More: Wccftech, Neowin, TheGamer, Video Games Chronicle, GamingBolt, TweakTown, The Verge, and Bloomberg

Tweets: @fttechnews, @deeketweak, @xcloudtimdog, @bankenrepublik, @fosspatents, and @gameoverthirty

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register:

Five teams at DEF CON 2023 plan to try to hack Moonlighter, a US-funded 3U cubesat, the first time DEF CON hackers will get to hack a live, in-orbit satellite — 'World's first and only' orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday — FEATURE Assuming the weather and engineering gods cooperate …

More: iTnews, ISS U.S. National Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, SiliconANGLE, and Space

Tweets: @hack_a_sat, @jessicahrdcstle, @theregister, @iainthomson, and @geeknik

Charlie Campbell / TIME:

An interview with Grab CEO Anthony Tan, who expects the company to break even in 2023 with $2.2B in revenue, on his super-app vision, social impact, and more — The lunchtime rush is just bubbling at Kedai Kopi hawker center in Singapore's Clementi neighborhood when Anthony Tan strolls in.

Tweets: @charliecamp6ell

Chris Welch / The Verge:

A look at the ad-supported, free dual-screen TV from Ilya Pozin's Telly, which says its data and analytics tools will be no more invasive than other TV vendors — More than 250,000 people have signed up in hopes of getting Telly's unique TV. There's something to this concept, but plenty of unknowns remain.

More: Pocket-lint. Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social. Tweets: @paleofuture and @deansepoch

Chris Isidore / CNN:

The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps — New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog …

More: Associated Press, Consumer Financial …, PhoneArena, CBS News, Washington Post, PCMag, Gizmodo, Insider, and CryptoPotato

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Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:

Some Montana residents speak up against, or for, the state's highly politicized TikTok ban, including one of the influencers suing the state to overturn the ban — How a highly politicized social media ban in Big Sky Country sparked a nationwide debate over freedom of speech

More: The Hill, ChinaTechNews.com, and Federal Computer Week. Tweets: @lisabonos

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google is aware of a “very small number” of Pixel Watch users reporting that the back glass panel falls off and is working to find the cause and fix the issue — Several users report the back of the Pixel Watch just falls off after a short time. — UPDATE: GOOGLE STATEMENT

More: Android Police, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, Wccftech, SlashGear, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Android Central, Gizchina, The Verge, iFixit News, and BGR

Tweets: @supersanusi and @androidpolice

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Henry Blodget / Regenerator:

Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:

Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015

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Wired:

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Annie Njanja / TechCrunch:

A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs

More: Jacobin, Cryptopolitan, Techlusive, BNN Breaking, Nation, and Agence France-Presse

Tweets: @emrys_s, @william_fitz, @waikwawanyoike, @g_mutemi, and @defiwizd

Patrick McGee / Financial Times:

With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple's MR headset could lure back VCs

More: Associated Press, The Verge, Tom's Guide, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, and CNN

Tweets: @divestech, @scobleizer, @stevesi, @patrickmcgee_, and @oablanchard

Clive Cookson / Financial Times:

Scientists and DNA sequencing startup Illumina identified 4.3M genetic variants in ~800 primates and then used AI to predict genetic health risks in 454K humans

More: Illumina, Science, and TNW

Tweets: @fdesouza and @newsfromscience

David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker:

A look at India's hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services

More: Metacurity. Tweets: @tallstories, @hartoshsinghbal, @rondeibert, @oxleyio, @ddk_nyc, @digitaldutta, @apar1984, @sandeepvioc, and @soutikbbc

Sara Fischer / Axios:

YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”