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March 28, 2023, 9:30 PM

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BBC:
Clearview AI's CEO says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users' consent from sites like Facebook  —  Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Apple rolls out Apple Pay Later to select US users, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4, available to all US users in the coming months  —  Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company's take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches  —  Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Security Copilot, a GPT-4-powered assistant to help security professionals with incident investigations, event summaries, reporting, and more  —  After announcing an AI-powered Copilot assistant for Office apps, Microsoft is now turning its attention to cybersecurity.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft plans a major overhaul for “Windows 12” to modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and improved security, to better compete with ChromeOS  —  Windows “CorePC” is the spiritual successor to Windows “Core OS.”  —  What you need to know
Reuters:
US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of ordering an Alameda payment of $40M+ in cryptocurrency to bribe Chinese government officials  —  U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, charging the founder of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange …
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers  —  A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face  —  Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Amazon opens Sidewalk to developers, offering SDKs and hardware development kits, and claims 90%+ of the US population can now access the long-range IoT network  —  It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
To compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with Replit, which used AI to make coding tools and will now rely on Google's LLMs for its Ghostwriter product  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software …
Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post:
Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO  —  Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Substack invites its newsletter writers and others to invest, aiming to raise $2M; source: the raise is an extension of Substack's $65M Series B in March 2021  —  Substack, the newsletter platform, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday, allowing writers on the platform to invest in the company.
New York Times:
On TikTok, #TikTokBan had 1.7B views on March 27, up from 983M views on March 18, as users post hundreds of videos arguing the app shouldn't be banned in the US  —  After lawmakers grilled TikTok's chief executive last week, the app's users argued that the platform should not be banned …
Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust:
Discounting AI's short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves society ill-prepared  —  Superintelligence may or may not be imminent.  But there's a lot to be worried about, either way.  —  Is AI going to kill us all?
Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Japan's FTC says the watchdog does not expect the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal to stifle competition and closes its review without a cease and desist  —  Japan's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it did not expect a merger between Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Activision Blizzard …
Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal:
How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government's adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country  —  Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country  —  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador …

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