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March 24, 2023, 7:30 PM

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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
A researcher finds Verification settings in Twitter's app showing that the company may be working on letting Blue subscribers hide their blue checkmark  —  Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The UK CMA narrows its probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard bid, saying new evidence “provisionally alleviates” concerns about UK game console supply  —  The UK's antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers' personal info  —  OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: in 2018, Elon Musk said OpenAI lagged Google and cut ties after his offer to run it was rejected; Altman took no equity in OpenAI's for-profit entity  —  After three years, Elon Musk was ready to give up on the artificial intelligence research firm he helped found, OpenAI.
Laura Kayali / Politico:
France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, potentially becoming the first EU country to legalize AI surveillance  —  PARIS — France's AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
Nasdaq expects its custody services for digital assets to launch in Q2 2023, starting with bitcoin and ether, after announcing the project in September 2022  —  Nasdaq Inc. expects its custody services for digital assets to launch by the end of the second quarter as it joins a growing pool …
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Tether estimates the company will make $700M in profit in Q1, taking its excess reserves to back its USDT stablecoin to $1.66B, above $1B for the first time  —  - Cryptocurrency firm Tether estimates it will make $700 million profit in the March quarter, taking its total excess reserves to over $1 billion …
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Gary Price / LJ Infodocket:
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