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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans, priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among the early adopters  —  To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft's Windows 11 announcement of adding the new Bing “directly into the taskbar” is wildly misleading since using Bing Chat still requires opening Edge  —  What the hell, Microsoft?  —  Yesterday, Microsoft made a big hubbub about a new Windows 11 update that allegedly puts AI …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to advance a bill that would enable President Biden to ban TikTok and other apps considered security risks  —  The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok introduces new well-being features, including improving screen time controls, adding new default settings for teens, and expanding Family Pairing  —  TikTok announced today that it's introducing new well-being features for teens, families and its broader community.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
In a letter, YouTube head Neal Mohan outlines his key priorities and teases upcoming features, such as new generative AI tools for creators and Shorts additions  —  Neal Mohan, the new head of YouTube, outlined his key priorities and teased some upcoming features for the media platform …
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race  —  OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships.  Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?
James Vincent / The Verge:
Twitter users globally reported multiple site issues for over two hours, including the timeline not loading on the web and mobile; most users could still tweet  —  Twitter was having difficulties this morning, with users reporting that the site's timelines were inaccessible.
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
After a lengthy, unexplained outage over the weekend due to a network update, Solana Labs plans to improve its upgrade process to ensure reliability and uptime  —  Solana co-founder said last week's 1.14 network update has raised concerns about maintaining stability during major updates.
Bloomberg:
How Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo became a key player in the US' stricter China policy, including helping steer the CHIPS Act, exports, and TikTok  —  Gina Raimondo is the first to admit that she often can't see the line between work and play—or even work and pray.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta's AR/VR roadmap: Quest 3 in 2023, Ventura headset in 2024, smart glasses with a display and a “neural interface” smartwatch in 2025, and AR glasses in 2027  —  During an internal presentation, Meta execs laid out plans for three new Quest headsets, AR glasses in 2027, and a ‘neural interface’ smartwatch.
Nektaria Stamouli / Politico:
A profile of Christos Rammos, the key investigator of the Greek government's spyware scandal engulfing PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis' administration since summer 2022  —  ATHENS — Christos Rammos is turning the screws on Greece's government.  —  Rammos has been the key investigator …
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
A look at Russia's cyberattack on Viasat's KA-SAT network in February 2022, leading some countries to debate how to improve satellite security for the long term  —  Andreas Wickberg loves snowmobiling to the house he built in the icy reaches of Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
Politico:
How the UK's Online Safety Bill became overwrought and may not even achieve its aims due to repeated policy changes driven by four prime ministers since 2019  —  LONDON — Britain's attempt to rein in the internet has turned into a political omnishambles.  —  The country's masterplan …

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

More News

Patrick George / The Verge:
Volkswagen Group plans to roll out an app store for its car brands soon, featuring TikTok, Spotify, Yelp, and other third-party apps optimized for in-car use
Blake Hester / VICE:
How the proliferation of shock sites, which can be traced back to Rotten.com's 1996 debut, defined the modern internet era and informed how we use the web today

Earlier Picks

Financial Times:
London-based Revolut reports £636M in 2021 revenue, a third coming from its crypto trading business, and a £26M net profit, up from a £223M net loss in 2020
Katie Adams / MedCity News:
Boston-based CodaMetrix, which uses AI to automate translating patient records into codes for health care providers, raised a $55M Series A led by SignalFire
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Dell refreshes the XPS 15 and XPS 17 with Intel 13th Gen H-series CPUs and Nvidia GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs, starting at $2,949 and $3,399, shipping on March 2
Elad Gil / Elad Blog:
Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning from late 2023 to late 2024, after running out of cash from “free rounds” due to low interest rates
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Twitter reverses its violent speech policy to ban users from voicing “wishes of harm” on people and adds rules on threats of damaging homes and infrastructure
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Qualcomm and Thales announce the certification of the first commercially deployable iSIM, putting eSIM-like functionality directly into a phone's main processor
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