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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:

The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse — The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) …

More: TechCrunch, Washington Post, Library of Congress, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Associated Press, NBC News, New York Times, The Hill, The Record, New York Post, Politico, Fox News, Reuters, and The White House

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Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits — Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday said it will roll back requirements that U.S. suppliers and staffing firms pay their employees …

More: Business Today and Trak.in

Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social …. X: @pamelawatching, @quinnypig, @reuterslegal, and @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:

PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down — But CIOs aren't quite convinced that everyone needs an AI-enabled PC just yet — The biggest innovation in years has come …

More: Benzinga. X: @clareconley. LinkedIn: Jason James and Kyle Houser

Kate Rogers / CNBC:

A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed — A woman walks past tents for the homeless lining a street in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 1, 2021.

Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social. X: @capolicylab, @simonkp, and @mmitchell_ai

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines — Apple's (AAPL.O) offer to open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals is set to be approved by EU antitrust regulators as soon …

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, GSMArena.com, PYMNTS.com, TipRanks Financial, The Verge, AppleInsider, and NewsBytes

X: @dmtrsprvt, @supadav03, @kross_roads, @kross_roads, @florian4gamers, and @kross_roads. Forums: MacRumors Forums

Bloomberg:

Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX — - Pact would release crypto exchange co-founder from claims — In return he would help them pursue celebrities who pushed FTX

More: Cryptonews, The Block, Cryptopolitan, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is “revisionist history” and a bid to boost his AI company — OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles in pursuit of profits is nothing more than …

More: The Decoder. X: @business

George Steer / Financial Times:

Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets — US stock markets suffer their worst run since October 2022 as investors pull back from AI bets — Nvidia's share price plunged …

More: Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Benzinga, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg Television on YouTube, Wall Street Journal, The Straits Times, Quartz, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, and Bloomberg

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough” — Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk's takeover, is shutting down.

More: Post., TechCrunch, and Daring Fireball

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Mia Sato / The Verge:

Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:

The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

Cade Metz / New York Times:

Two voice actors sue AI startup Lovo, saying it illegally used recordings of their voices to make audio clones without their permission; Lovo denies the claims

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production

More: Tom's Hardware, TechNode, and ExtremeTech

Nikkei Asia:

SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech

More: DatacenterDynamics, SK hynix Newsroom, KED Global, DigiTimes, The Korea Herald, TweakTown, SamMobile, The Investor, AnandTech, Wccftech, and insideHPC

Reuters:

China publishes measures to boost foreign investment in its domestic technology sector, including encouraging tech companies to raise money via bond issuance

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone

More: 9to5Toys, Gizmochina, Business Standard, Notebookcheck, Business Today, Inverse, GSMArena.com, Android Central, and Android Police

Ryan Browne / CNBC:

Telegram partners with Tether to let the messaging app's ~900M users send USDT to each other through The Open Network blockchain

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Midas, which lets users in Turkey invest in US and Turkish equities, raised a $45M Series A, after a $11M seed in 2022, and plans crypto trading and more

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March

More: The Register, BankInfoSecurity.com, SC Media, Tech Monitor, and TechRadar

Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social and @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. X: @lorenzofb

LinkedIn: Ryan W. and Peter Piatetsky

New York Times:

Sources describe Nigeria's detention of two Binance officials, including US compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan, on charges of tax evasion and money laundering

More: Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Blockworks, Reuters, DL News, and Cryptonews. X: @flitteronfraud

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Web design and hosting platform Webflow acquires Intellimize, which had raised $50M+ and uses AI to personalize websites, a source says for “eight figures”

X: @geofftroberts, @leinwand, @callmevlad, @webflow, @coreygmoen, @gyalif, @j8kes, and @amirmxt. LinkedIn: Daniel Brown

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:

Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, arXiv, The Sun, WINK News, TechSpot, MarkTechPost, Microsoft Research, PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, Guru3D, Maginative, VentureBeat, Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, Inverse, Gadgets 360, and TweakTown

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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100s for Reels' launch, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more

More: Benzinga, Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube, The Verge, Barstool Sports, Not Boring by Packy McCormick, Roberto Nickson on YouTube, The Verge, and The Verge

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