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A live blog of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony before Congress, as he attempts to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of the app — TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will attempt to address lawmakers' worries that the extraordinarily popular video app represents a dangerous national security threat.
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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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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew tells Congress that “after Project Texas is done” no China-based ByteDance employee will have access to 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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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporean army reservist and an ex-Goldman Sachs banker, as he defends TikTok before a skeptical Congress — Singapore army reservist and ex-Goldman banker says misconceptions about Chinese-owned app need to be clarified — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company
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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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| 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 …
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| 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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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 …
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| 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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Montenegro's Interior Minister says police detained a person suspected to be Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon at Podgorica's airport with falsified documents — The announcement was made by the minister of interior Filip Adzic. — Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.
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| CNBC: |
Filing: Coinbase received an SEC notice warning the exchange of potential US securities law violations that could lead to enforcement actions; COIN drops 10%+ — - The SEC issued crypto exchange Coinbase a Wells notice, warning the exchange that it identified potential violations of U.S. securities law.
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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 …
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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
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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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| 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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| Meta: |
Meta launches an updated WhatsApp app for Windows that loads faster and enables group video calls with up to eight people and audio calls with up to 32 people — Today, we're introducing a new WhatsApp app for Windows that loads faster and is built with an interface similar to the mobile version of the app.
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