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May 15, 2023, 8:05 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Developer logs: Apple tests an M3 with 12 CPU cores, 18 GPU cores, and 36GB of RAM; Meta pulls Messenger from Apple Watch and launches WhatsApp on WearOS  —  As Apple prepares to launch its next M2 Macs, the company is already ramping up testing of M3 chips.
Malcolm Harris / Wired:
A profile of Douglas Rushkoff, an internet theorist since the 1990s and a former techno-optimist who all but renounced being a digital revolution spokesperson  —  The former techno-optimist has taken a decisive political left turn.  He says it's the only human option.
Bloomberg:
How Sea, one of Southeast Asia's largest internet companies that burned billions of dollars for marketshare, made huge cuts to turn its first profit in 14 years  —  Just over a year ago, Forrest Li was laid up in bed with Covid, fretting about the future of his company …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Research finds that AI assistants may be able to influence users without them knowing, akin to humans swaying one another through collaboration and social norms  —  AI assistants may be able to change our views without our realizing it.  Says one expert: 'What's interesting here is the subtlety.'
Kate King / Wall Street Journal:
Nearly half of online footwear, apparel, and accessories brands tracked by Coresight have expanded to physical stores due to rising digital advertising costs  —  Warby Parker planned to sell glasses online and shake up retailing.  Now it's discovered the value of real stores—900 of them, in fact.
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Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
A survey of 60 major crypto companies in Q1 on the state of governance and controls finds many operate outside the norm; around half engage an external auditor  —  Before it filed for bankruptcy last November, many of the entities in Sam Bankman-Fried's colossal FTX empire had never held a board meeting.
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
A Delaware judge rules in favor of Oracle founder Larry Ellison in a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company overpaid for Netsuite's $9.3B acquisition in 2016  —  A Delaware judge has ruled in favor of Oracle founder Larry Ellison in a shareholder lawsuit alleging that he coerced …
Associated Press:
The TSA is testing facial recognition tech at 16 US airports, calling the pilot voluntary and accurate, as critics raise bias, privacy, and consent concerns  —  A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen.

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