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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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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve — Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …
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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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| BBC: |
Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's “commitment to collect minimal data” — Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.
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| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit — GPT4Free uses other sites' connections to OpenAI. — Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4 …
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| Reuters: |
A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram's ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service “is not reasonable” — Brazil's second instance appeals court lifted on Saturday the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram … | Reuters: |
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 … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety — Jaan Tallinn used the fortune he made selling Skype in 2009 to invest in AI companies like Anthropic and DeepMind …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview — Microsoft Designer, Microsoft's AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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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| Reuters: |
Arm confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO; sources: Arm seeks to raise between $8B-$10B on the Nasdaq, which is expected to be 2023's largest IPO — SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing … Sponsor Posts
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