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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, outlining a ~$1.5B plan to host US data on Oracle servers and more — TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms … | New York Times: |
The US will find banning TikTok difficult due to its massive userbase, political ramifications, possible alienation of young voters, legal challenges, and more — The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company's chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.
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| Washington Post: |
A look at ByteDance and TikTok's lobbying before Shou Zi Chew's hearing, including Axios ads and private lawmaker meetings, mirroring Meta's well-worn tactics — The app, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, is adopting the lobbying tactics of many of its American tech company peers
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
GitHub announces Copilot X, adding chat and voice features to help coders with certain tasks, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, available via a waitlist — Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools …
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The GitHub Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Register, PCMag, Thurrott, IT PRO, VentureBeat, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, Watcher Guru, BigTechWire, Fast Company, and CIO Dive
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| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Ubisoft unveils Ghostwriter and says the internal AI tool will help scriptwriters save time and create more realistic non-player character interactions — Ubisoft Ghostwriter is described by the company as ‘an AI tool’ — Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News: |
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney seems to have banned him after he made images of Trump's arrest; the word “arrested” is now banned on the tool — “I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said.
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Digital photography site DPReview, owned by Amazon, is closing April 10; people can request downloads of photos or texts they uploaded to the site until April 6 — DPReview, easily one of the most beloved publications among photography enthusiasts, will shut down and its content will be deleted.
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Jeff Carlson. Tweets:
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces Mozilla.ai, an AI-focused startup with $30M in seed funding from the Mozilla Foundation to work on open source and “trustworthy” AI — On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup.
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| Virginia Heffernan / Wired: |
Inside TSMC's facilities in Taiwan, where Fab 18 makes a quintillion transistors for Apple every six months, and an interview with Chairman Mark Liu — As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.
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Washington Post and DCD
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon announces new Fire TVs, launches a cheaper TV lineup, says over 200M Fire TV devices have been sold, and rolls out Luna in the UK, Germany, and Canada — Amazon announced today that it has sold a total of over 200 million Fire TV devices. That number is a combination of Fire TV streamers …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the Turing Award for his work on Ethernet at the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s — In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.
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Network World, Quanta Magazine, VentureBeat, MIT News, CNET, Reuters, and Association …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at Balaji Srinivasan's weird $1M bitcoin bet, predicting one BTC will be worth $1M+ in 90 days, which is economically irrational but attracts attention — It is sometimes useful to think that the shareholders of a bank are not its owners; they are just renting it from its creditors.
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Molly White, Anthony Pompliano on YouTube, CryptoPotato, NewsBTC, New York Post, and CoinGape
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Spotify has spent less than 10% of its $100M Creator Equity Fund, announced in February 2022 to promote diversity in music after the Joe Rogan controversy — Spotify Technology SA's $100 million Creator Equity Fund, designed to promote diversity in music and podcasts following controversial comments …
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Engadget. Tweets:
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| Reuters: |
Nvidia announces the H800 chip, a modified H100 chip for export to China; the cloud units of Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and others are already using the H800 — Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), the U.S. semiconductor designer that dominates the market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips … | Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Meta rehires veteran manager Nick Grudin, who left to join NFT startup Dapper Labs in August 2022, to oversee media company and creator relationships — Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's effort to cut back on middle managers isn't stopping the company hiring more middle managers.| Cam Thompson / CoinDesk: |
Magic Eden launches a Bitcoin NFT marketplace, supporting Hiro and Xverse wallets to let users trade Ordinal NFTs, expanding on SOL, ETH, and MATIC marketplaces — The popular NFT marketplace is integrating support for Bitcoin wallets Hiro and Xverse to help traders list, purchase and sell Ordinal NFTs.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google, Meta, and Apple want Congress to limit Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, expiring at 2023's end if not reauthorized — Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how US intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users … | Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Source: job listings site Indeed is laying off 2,200 people, or 15% of its headcount; Indeed was acquired in 2012 by Japan's Recruit, which also owns Glassdoor — Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it's laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
A look at San Francisco's Misalignment Museum, which displays art about AGI, including an apology to humans after a “misaligned” future AI wiped out humanity — - Underlying all the recent hype about AI, industry participants engage in furious debates about how to prepare … | Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces a toolkit for developers to measure Xbox games' energy consumption “to the nearest millisecond”, helping the company establish a baseline — How much energy does it take to play Xbox? Microsoft Corp. is helping developers find out.
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GamesIndustry.biz, Ars Technica, Windows Central, Eurogamer.net, and Inverse
| TechCrunch: |
After the Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are coming forward, many of which used Fortra's GoAnywhere file transfer tool — Clop claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations. Now the list of known victims is growing — The number of victims affected …
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@carlypage_ and @zackwhittaker
| Bloomberg: |
The US proposes banning CHIPS Act beneficiaries from expanding production capacity in “countries of concern” by 5% for advanced chips and 10% for legacy chips — The Biden administration unveiled tight restrictions on new operations in China by chipmakers that get federal funds …
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U.S. Department of Commerce, Digital Chosunilbo, Reuters, The Korea Herald, Appuals.com, and Washington Examiner
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@jendeben and @commercegov
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram plans to roll out ads in search results globally in the coming months after initial tests and debuts Reminder Ads for opt-in upcoming event reminders — Meta is introducing two new tools on Instagram designed to open up additional avenues for advertising as the company grapples with weak advertising demand.| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Tencent reports 2022 revenue down 1% YoY to ~$79.6B, the first annual drop and below estimates, and Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$20.8B, as China's economy slowed — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) reported a drop in annual revenue for the first time ever, as China's economic slowdown due to the pandemic … | AI Snake Oil: |
OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on its training data, violating the cardinal rule of ML, and GPT-4's exam performance says little about its real-world usefulness — OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
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Thurrott. Tweets:
@random_walker, @sayashk, @martinsfp, @brandonlive, @igorbrigadir, @pfau, @thom_wolf, @zacharynado, @mmitchell_ai, @blancheminerva, @fchollet, and @melmitchell1
| Arian Khameneh / Wired: |
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