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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
The White House publishes a roadmap for mitigating risks posed by cryptocurrencies and urges Congress to hasten efforts to create a crypto regulatory framework — Four senior Biden officials penned a note Friday urging lawmakers to hasten their efforts to create a regulatory framework for crypto.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster on AI due to the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside — Google, Facebook and Microsoft helped build the scaffolding of AI. Smaller companies are taking it to the masses, forcing Big Tech to react.
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox having no major 2022 releases, 2023 momentum, layoffs, the Activision deal amid the FTC lawsuit, and more — Xbox's CEO talks about the recent Developer Direct, 2022 struggles, layoffs, and what 2023 could hold.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis — SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
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California Public Utilities Commission, California Public Utilities Commission, Wired, TechSpot, and VICE
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| Karmela Padavic-Callaghan / New Scientist: |
Researchers detail how ProGen, an LLM trained on 280M proteins, designed proteins with anti-microbial properties that were tested in real life and shown to work — An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a subset of the proteins and found some did the job
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| Julia Angwin / The Markup: |
Q&A with Princeton CS professor Arvind Narayanan on why he calls ChatGPT a “bullshit generator”, his worries over its boom, developing his AI taxonomy, and more — Hello, friends, — If you have been reading all the hype about the latest artificial intelligence chatbot …
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| Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic: |
How the “enshittification” cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others — Today's links — Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
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Michael Tsai. Tweets: @masspirates, @greglinden, @doctorow, @glichfield, @scottmonty, @robertmaguire_, @agroebbe, @tychobrahe, @sriramk, @doctorow, @josh_bersin, @alexdecampi, @seankreynolds, and @hlinehan
| New York Times: |
Court filing: the US DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging FTX US' general counsel and a potential witness, and asks a judge to limit his communications — The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive's attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.
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CNBC, Reuters, The Block, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, Engadget, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, crypto.news, CoinJournal, NewsBTC, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, and Top Startups 2023. Tweets: @cryptoelitenews
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: Florida startups raised $9.7B in 601 deals in 2022 vs. $7.8B in 652 deals in 2021; VC funding fell 40%+ in 2022 in California, Massachusetts, and NY — Last year could not top the banner year venture capital saw in 2021 — at least in most geographies.| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
The US Federal Reserve rejected Custodia Bank's application to become a Federal Reserve System member, citing safety risks with the bank's crypto-focused model — The U.S. Federal Reserve on Friday rejected crypto-focused Custodia Bank's application to become a member of the Federal Reserve System …
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Board of Governors …, Cointelegraph, Associated Press, Axios, MarketWatch, Bitcoin News, Fortune, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Crowdfund Insider, Slashdot, PYMNTS.com, The Crypto Basic, CryptoSlate, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @custodiabank, @pt, @iang_fc, @thobishop, @federalreserve, @panekkkk, @smdiehl, @mayazi, @jeffjohnroberts, @brucefenton, @satoshialien, and @tyler_lindholm
| Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based Smile CDR, which offers services for health and clinical data interoperability, raised a ~$30M Series B led by UPMC Enterprises and others — LinkedIn posts indicate Smile Digital Health quietly let people go last year. — Toronto-based health data company Smile CDR …
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| CTech: |
OpenWeb, which helps outlets target readers with ads and manage comments, acquires Jeeng, an audience management service used by over 650 publishers, for $100M — The Israeli-founded unicorn, which raised $170 million at a $1.5 billion valuation three months ago, completed its third acquisition in a year … Sponsor Posts
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