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On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal — The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site
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Six months since Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, a brief overview of Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve — Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems …
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Interviews with EU lawmakers and sources reveal how, over just 11 days, MEPs wrote a draft bill on generative AI, a rare example of quick consensus in Brussels — As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers' plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence … | Reuters: |
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Elon Musk claims that Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per-article basis, with one click, starting in May 2023 — Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.... https://twitter.com/...
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Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is backing 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit that Craig Wright filed to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own — It's not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned — A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims …
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India's Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering investigation — India's crime-fighting agency searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran, it said Saturday …
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Apple drops its lawsuit against former chip executive Gerard Williams III, who the company alleged poached its employees and used its resources to start Nuvia — Apple Inc. dropped its lawsuit against a former chip executive the company sued for allegedly poaching its employees for a startup.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Sources: the US DOJ discovered the SolarWinds breach in late May 2020, months before its public disclosure in December 2020, but was unaware of its significance — In May 2020, the US Department of Justice stumbled upon Russian hackers in its network, but did not realize the significance of what it had found for six months.
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A WSJ columnist used Synthesia, ElevenLabs, and ChatGPT to create an AI video clone that could trick her bank's voice biometric system, make a TikTok, and more — Our columnist replaced herself with AI voice and video to see how humanlike the tech can be. The results were eerie.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Arm has confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO, seeking to raise between $8B and $10B on the Nasdaq, expected to be the largest IPO in 2023 — SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing …
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| Vivian Wang / New York Times: |
A look at livestream shopping in China, where an estimated $500B in goods were sold on apps like Douyin in 2022, an 8x jump since 2019, amid regulatory scrutiny — Star sellers can amass huge followings and eye-popping fortunes, through a format that mixes consumerism and entertainment.
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Docs and sources: OpenAI closed a $300M+ share sale at a $27B-$29B valuation; backers include Tiger Global, Sequoia, a16z, Thrive, K2 Global, and Founders Fund — Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. The money from VCs reported here, part of a tender offer, is separate to that.
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