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October 30, 2023, 8:45 AM

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Emilia David / The Verge:

Biden signs an EO on generative AI, directing the NIST, DHS, and other agencies to create new safety standards, protect privacy, support workers, and more — President Joe Biden signed an executive order providing rules around generative AI, ahead of any legislation coming from lawmakers.

More: The White House, Engadget, Forbes, Financial Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, NBC News, Barron's Online, The Hill, Washington Post, Reuters, Politico, The Messenger, TechSpot, Axios, AI News, New York Times, Carnegie Endowment …, Wired, Washington Times, FedScoop, and Mashable

Bluesky: @progcpl.bsky.social. X: @ericgeller, @arthurb, @melt_dem, @loumariehsd, @ericschmidt, @vivekchil, @filip_timotija, @reddy, @romain_hurayart, @mariushobbhahn, @kevinafischer, and @_benleonard_. Forums: r/StableDiffusion

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Document: the G7 plans to agree to a voluntary, 11-point code of conduct on October 30 for companies developing advanced AI systems, seeking to mitigate risks — The Group of Seven industrial countries will on Monday agree a code of conduct for companies developing advanced artificial intelligence systems …

More: Metaverse Post, Cointelegraph, ITBusiness.ca, U.S. Department of Commerce, Search Engine Journal, iTnews, Music Ally, Cryptopolitan, and The Verge

Bluesky: @joanwestenberg.bsky.social and @epro.social

X: @pstasiatech, @secraimondo, and @andrewcurran_

Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:

Ahead of the UK's AI Safety Summit, over 100 individuals and labor groups accuse the government of “squeezing out” workers from the event in favor of Big Tech

More: CIO.com and diginomica. X: @kategobell

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:

Meta plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland an ad-free option for €9.99 or €12.99 per month, alongside free with ads — - Plans cost €9.99 per month on the web, €12.99 on mobile — The model follows increasing EU regulations on data access

More: Meta, The Verge, and Politico

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Meta plans to temporarily suspend showing ads to all users under 18 in the EU and parts of Europe starting on November 6, to comply with EU regulations — Ad changes for Instagram and Facebook owner are aimed at navigating EU rules about targeted ads — Meta Platforms will stop showing adverts …

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Android 14 review: an unexciting release for consumers, featuring a lightly customizable lock screen and improved back button functionality — Android 14 offers a lightly customizable lock screen and not much else. — Does anybody care about Android 14?

More: The Verge, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Police, Benzinga, and Daily Mail

Mastodon: @SebastienK@mastodon.social, @YurkshireLad@mastodon.social, and @CraigStuntz@types.pl

Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, and Ars OpenForum

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism” — X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform's crowd-sourced fact-checking system …

More: CNN, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, International Business Times, Social Media Today, Livemint, Mashable, The Information, Forbes, and Watcher Guru

Threads: @thatadamguy. Bluesky: @jesseltaylor.bsky.social. X: @elonmusk, @shayan86, @mr_internet, @paultassi, @autismcapital, @wallstreetsilv, @shaykhsulaiman, @pitdesi, @therabbithole84, @howardlindzon, @stokel, @djsnm, @elonmusk, and @keemstar

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Washington Post:

A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as the hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal:

ChatGPT Plus users say OpenAI has added an “All Tools” feature and capabilities for analyzing docs like PDFs, potentially sidelining third-party ChatGPT plugins — OpenAI to release updated version of ChatGPT that gives users access all GPT-4 tools - including browsing and DALL

More: The Verge, TechRadar, Hindustan Times, and The Decoder

Threads: @luokai, @jeffmacaddress, @mark_r_vickers, @_imfakhr, @chris, @joenandez, and @luokai

X: @thealexker, @yacinemtb, @airkatakana, @saboo_shubham_, @therealadamg, @8teapi, @arvidkahl, @iamfra5er, @simonw, @simonw, @simonw, @0interestrates, @dfinke, @asmartbear, @jeremynguyenphd, @alphasignalai, @thealexker, @yasser_elsaid_, and @markuseicher70

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk:

The UK government publishes its final crypto rules and plans a phased introduction of the regulations, including legislation for fiat-backed stablecoins in 2024 — The government plans to propose legislation on fiat-backed stablecoins by early 2024. — Register Now

More: Blockworks, GOV.UK, Bloomberg, DL News, Reuters, GOV.UK, and Cointelegraph. Forums: r/ethtrader

George Hammond / Financial Times:

An interview with Vinod Khosla on the investor frenzy around AI, why the US should use all the tools at its disposal to win the AI race with China, and more — Many are ‘investing because everybody else is’ and most will lose money, claims Vinod Khosla — Artificial intelligence start-ups …

More: Crunchbase News, All tech magazine, AIN.Capital, and PYMNTS.com. X: @arthur1

Gary Miller / The Citizen Lab:

Research details how vulnerabilities in signaling protocols used by mobile network operators for international roaming can be exploited to geolocate devices — Table of Contents — 2. Geolocation Attacks Against Telecommunications Networks — 4. Incentives Enabling Geolocation Attacks

More: Light Reading, The Intercept, and Wired

Mastodon: @pboehler@mastodon.social. X: @citizenlab, @paulcadario, and @rondeibert

Financial Times:

Analysis: 126 companies have cancelled or suspended IPO applications on Shanghai's tech-focused Star Market in 2023, more than the previous four years combined — Policy reversal leads to record number of listing applications pulled this year from tech-focused Star Market

X: @michaelxpettis, @michaelxpettis, @scottlincicome, @tanarrowz, @raywangtaiwan, and @michaelxpettis

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:

Web Summit names Katherine Maher, the former Wikimedia Foundation head, as its new CEO, replacing co-founder Paddy Cosgrave, ahead of the event on November 13 — Technology conference Web Summit has named Katherine Maher, the former head of the Wikimedia Foundation, as its new chief executive officer …

More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Web Summit on YouTube, Business Post, RTÉ, The Irish Times, and Web Summit

X: @websummit and @duediler

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New York Times:

Sources: WBD staff are bracing for widespread layoffs as David Ellison wants $6B in “synergies”; the internal mood is grim as staff preferred Netflix's proposal

CNN:

CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure

Henry Dyer / The Guardian:

UK minister Josh Simons resigns over allegations that a think tank he led has probed some journalists and falsely linked them to a “pro-Kremlin” network

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Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:

Filing: Thailand's Kasikorn Bank buys 97% of the Satang crypto exchange, operating in Thailand since 2017, for ~$102.8M and plans to rebrand Satang to Orbix

More: The Block, Finextra, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, Cryptonews, Metaverse Post, Bitcoin Insider, and Forkast. Forums: r/ethtrader

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:

Ad holding company Omnicom agrees to acquire Flywheel, the digital commerce arm of UK-based B2B media company Ascential, for a net cash purchase price of ~$835M

More: PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, Reuters, and Omnicom Group

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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

A look at physics-informed machine learning approaches, which are in the early stages and can help AI tackle hard problems in robotics, science, and engineering

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Hands-on with Apple's Journal, an incredibly basic journaling app, with an interesting Moments page that uses the Suggestions API to prompt users to add entries

More: 9to5Mac and Android Authority

Threads: @bill_pugh and @benedictevans

X: @rjonesy, @hydrabadbish, @between2pixels, @whomohitgoyal, @chrisschiffner, @xotic, @explorebyroad, @lanceulanoff, and @rjonesy. Forums: r/apple

Chloe Cornish / Financial Times:

Sources: Byju's plans to sell Epic, acquired for $500M, to settle debts after defaulting on a $1.2B loan, and may also sell Great Learning, acquired for $600M

LinkedIn: Amit Gupta

Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:

As Cruise suspends all its driverless operations, a look at the lack of clear federal regulations and fragmented oversight governing self-driving cars in the US

More: Forbes, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, ChinaTechNews.com, and The Last Driver License Holder

X: @jhoplovestrains and @trishathadani

Forums: r/technology and r/SelfDrivingCars

Emily Parker / CoinDesk:

Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins, starting with a law that took effect in June 2023 and has terms to protect the assets underlying stablecoins

X: @magiccircletech, @emy_wng, @moo9000, and @jp_koning

LinkedIn: Emily Parker, yousef Ibrahim, Matthew Ketchum, and Jason Gottlieb