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The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, with rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024 — European lawmakers on Thursday gave their final blessing to an ambitious law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry.
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Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25; users won't be able to access or manage their Twitter accounts via Microsoft's tool — Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API. — Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform.
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After news broke that Microsoft Advertising was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” for training “illegally using Twitter data” — Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants …
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Internal slides: in the coming months, Google plans to let advertisers supply “creative” content for generative AI to “remix” for more sophisticated campaigns — Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Imgur plans to delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that's not tied to a user account, starting on May 15, potentially erasing years of internet history — For years, Imgur has made sharing photos and GIFs on the internet as easy as uploading a file — you don't even need an account to use it.| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products — Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules — It sounded like a dream partnership … | Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger: |
Montreal-based Optable, which provides a data collaboration and clean room service, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23.6M — Clean rooms are all the rage right now - and investors are noticing. — On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform Optable announced $20 million … | Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes — The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
VC funding for Web3 startups fell 81% YoY from $9.1B in Q1 2022 to $1.7B in Q1 2023; the number of public deals fell from 770 to 333, the lowest since Q4 2020 — Editor's Note: For more Web3 coverage, please visit Crunchbase's Web3 Tracker, a site to look at startups, investors … | Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU is taking a pragmatic approach to TikTok, treating it the same as its American rivals, in contrast to the “theatrical” approach being taken by the US — Europe is taking a different approach from the US toward TikTok. But first... • Instagram will cut or relocate its London employees| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta's Oversight Board supports Meta's content moderation actions during the pandemic but asks Meta to assess its impact on public health and human rights — Meta's Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions …
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NCC Group measured a record 459 ransomware attacks in March 2023, up 91% MoM and 62% YoY, saying the surge is likely due to exploits of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT — March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks …
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Coinbase says the company got a license to operate in Bermuda; source: Coinbase plans to launch an offshore derivatives exchange in Bermuda as soon as next week — Coinbase has received a license to operate in the off-shore haven of Bermuda, signaling that the company is doubling-down on plans …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Bluesky for Android launches on the Play Store, after the decentralized Twitter alternative debuted on iOS in February 2023, but the service remains invite-only — Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized Twitter alternative, now has an Android app. The launch follows the release …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs upon which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more — New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn. But there are privacy and data protection concerns
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Google announces Google DeepMind, a new unit combining the DeepMind team and the Brain team from Google Research, with DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as CEO — Search giant merges AI resources to accelerate progress in technology that is reshaping business
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, plans to provide credit scores for individuals applying for loans on blockchain-based protocols — TransUnion, one of the largest credit agencies in the U.S., will off-chain credit scores for blockchain-based loan applications … | Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Amazon launches the Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange, which lets retailers label and track counterfeits to make it difficult for counterfeiters to move among stores — Amazon (AMZN.O) has launched its Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange (ACX), an initiative to help retail stores label … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
CoreWeave, which offers 12+ SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B led by Magnetar at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M — CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues …
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