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| Paris Martineau / The Information: |
Source: US Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham plan to introduce a bipartisan bill with wide support that would make Section 230 expire on January 1, 2027 — In June 1995, two young congressmen reached across the aisle to introduce legislation that would become the defining legal protection …
More: AppleInsider, Investor's Business Daily, User Mag, and The Decoder
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Threads: @zackseverino and @parkert
X: @zack415, @wexler, @robertfreundlaw, @viacristiano, @zacharyleelee, @abebrown716, @parismartineau, @pat_hedger, and @tpapres. Forums: r/technology
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week — Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm.
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LinkedIn: Matt Burns, Kwaku Otchere, and Frederic Lardinois
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash from its global blacklist, after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024 — The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed Tornado Cash from its global blacklist Friday.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: KKR, Coatue, and other ByteDance investors are exploring buying out Chinese investors from TikTok US to assure Trump that it is free of Chinese control — General Atlantic, Susquehanna, KKR and Coatue discuss acquiring more stakes in viral app's US operations alongside Oracle
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly” — The AI search startup laid out its bid for buying, and rebuilding, TikTok.
More: Perplexity, Washington Examiner, Decrypt, and The Hill
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to buy Deribit, the largest bitcoin and ether options trading platform, which was reportedly valued at $4B-$5B in January — The companies have notified regulators in Dubai about the discussions as Deribit holds a license there, which would be taken over by any acquirer, some of the people said.
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| The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives — Today, we're excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down …
More: eWeek, The Register, The Decoder, and Unite.AI
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| Wired: |
Interviews with 50+ current and ex-staffers reveal Google's two-year race to catch up with OpenAI, including through layoffs and lowering some guardrails — The search giant should've been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn't. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and lowering some guardrails.
More: Quartz, John Battelle's Search Blog, and TechCentral.ie
Bluesky: @katie-drummond, @alexeheath.com, and @anthonylydgate. LinkedIn: Divya Jain. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Bruna Horvath / NBC News: |
Lyft says it plans to roll out robotaxis in partnership with May Mobility in Atlanta, starting summer 2025 — Robotaxis using self-driving technology can already be found on the streets of at least four U.S. cities and even more abroad. — Lyft is about to enter the increasingly competitive world of robotaxis.| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models — Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. — When employees at meta started developing …
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Forums: r/Piracy, r/books, and r/technology
| Gary Rivlin / Bloomberg: |
A book excerpt from AI Valley details the 2024 mass defection of staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving but faced scaling challenges, to Microsoft — An excerpt from AI Valley tells the story of why the staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving, defected en masse to Microsoft in 2024.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts — In recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting …
More: TipRanks Financial, Beebom, and Android Headlines
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Micron Q2: revenue up 38% YoY to $8.05B, vs. $7.89B est., net income up 100% to $1.58B, data center revenue up 200%, and offers better-than-expected Q3 guidance — Micron shares popped 6% in extended trading Thursday after the company reported second-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Report: North Korea is launching Research Center 227, a cybersecurity research unit focused on AI-based hacking for stealing information and digital assets — The North Korean government is reportedly establishing a new hacking group within the intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB).| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Sources: Katie Haun is raising $1B across two new crypto-focused funds as her Haun Ventures is close to deploying most of the $1.5B raised in 2022 — Katie Haun is back on the fundraising circuit. The former federal prosecutor, who raked in $1.5 billion for her record-breaking debut venture funds in 2022 … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023 — Ticket resale marketplace StubHub on Friday filed for an IPO, saying that it plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang walks back his January 2025 comments casting doubt on useful quantum computing within 15 years, which triggered a quantum stock sell-off — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday walked back comments he made in January, when he cast doubt on whether useful quantum computers …
More: Fortune, SiliconANGLE, The Boston Globe, Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Sherwood News, Benzinga, Network World, PR Daily, Barron's Online, ITPro, The Indian Express, Fierce Electronics, Bloomberg, Observer, The Motley Fool, TipRanks Financial, Wall Street Pit, and Entrée Capital
Bluesky: @pileofgarbage.net. Mastodon: @whitemice@mastodon.social. X: @sarbjeetjohal and @holgermu. LinkedIn: Jaime Gómez García
Forums: r/singularity, r/unusual_whales, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Kara Fellows / CBS News: |
Google says it uncovered and eliminated 10K+ illegitimate Google Maps listings, including for fake businesses, and sues the alleged scammers behind the fraud — Google says it uncovered thousands of illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Google Maps and has announced …
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