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A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok — TikTok by the numbers: How many people use the social media platform? — In China, a TikTok ban is opportunity for mockery
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| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
China “firmly opposes” a forced sale of TikTok, warning such a move would involve “technology export” and would “seriously damage” investor confidence in the US — Intervention by commerce ministry comes ahead of social media app chief's appearance at US Congress
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| Bloomberg: |
Shou Chew's answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app — TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew's appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew tells Congress that “after Project Texas is done” China-based ByteDance employees will no longer be able to access US TikTok data — - TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told U.S. lawmakers that China-based employees at its parent company ByteDance may still have access to some U.S. data from the app.
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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, including two of its own, a web browser and a code interpreter, and open sources the code for a knowledgebase retrieval plugin — We've implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Wolfram, Zapier, and others release the first third-party ChatGPT plugins — OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases. — OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT …
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| Bloomberg: |
Montenegro says police detained Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon when he tried to fly to Dubai using falsified Costa Rican travel documents — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was detained in Montenegro … | Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors in New York charge Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon with eight counts, including securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was charged with fraud by US prosecutors in New York.
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| Reuters: |
Block drops 10%+ after Hindenburg Research discloses a short position and alleges the company overstated user numbers and understated customer acquisition costs — Hindenburg Research said on Thursday it held short positions in Block Inc (SQ.N), alleging that the Jack Dorsey-led payments firm overstated … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theatres, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness — Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar …
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| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including to show Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon — Apple Inc. is considering bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English football games, according to people familiar … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up — The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop.
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| Steve Yegge / Sourcegraph Blog: |
Why LLMs aren't a dumb fad like crypto, but the biggest thing since the World Wide Web, and on the coding front, the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow — Heya. Sorry for not writing for so long. I'll make up for it with 3000 pages here. — I'm just hopping right now.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips was hacked on Thursday and posted videos for crypto scams to its 15.3M subscribers, the latest crypto scam breach on YouTube — Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel's 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snap unveils AR Enterprise Services, offering its AR Lenses and Filters to businesses, and says 250M+ people out of 375M DAUs engage with AR on Snapchat daily — Snap users are already quite familiar with the company's expertise in AR thanks to Lenses and Filters.
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Researchers warn of “industrial capture” in AI as companies entrench their power; companies' share of the biggest AI models grew from 11% in 2010 to 96% in 2021 — A handful of individuals and corporations now control much of the resources and knowledge in the sector
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm seeks to raise chip design prices by charging device makers based on the value of a device instead of charging chipmakers based on a chip's value — SoftBank-owned group aims to charge more for each chip design in radical shake-up of business model| The Verge: |
Twitter Blue rolls out globally, but the subscription service is still missing promised features like prioritized ranking in conversations and half as many ads — While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries) … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Tron founder Justin Sun and his companies for the alleged “unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities” TRX and BTT, fraud, and more — The SEC alleged TRX, BTT are unregistered securities, and claimed Sun created an “extensive wash trading” program to boost their trading volume.
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