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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to tell Congress that AI regulation is “essential”, stress the need for government flexibility, and recommend safety measures — OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman will tell US lawmakers on Tuesday that regulation of artificial intelligence must allow companies …
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In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline” — The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a response to Coinbase's complaint requesting the agency to establish regulatory clarity for the industry.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: Twitter buys recruiting startup Laskie for “tens of millions” in cash and stock, its first deal of the Elon Musk era; PitchBook: Laskie had raised $6M — Twitter appears to have made its first deal of the Elon Musk era: Buying a job-matching tech startup called Laskie, Axios has learned.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password- or biometrics-protected folder and removing sender and message contents from notifications — WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private.
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Twitter's encrypted DMs don't offer end-to-end encryption, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and open to government access requests — A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new CEO
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Q1 2023 filings: Berkshire Hathaway sold its TSMC shares after cutting its position by 86% in Q4 2022, while Tiger Global and Coatue added to their TSMC stakes — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. drew mixed bets from top investors in the first quarter, as Warren Buffett closed …
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SEC court filings: Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B profit per year before the coin's 2022 collapse — Chicago firm made about $1 billion through dealings with crypto mogul Do Kwon's company, according to the agency
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon job listings mention an “AI-first initiative to re-architect” search and “reimagining Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience” — Amazon.com Inc. plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivaling efforts by Microsoft Corp …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
EU regulators approve Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition after Microsoft made concessions to keep rivals' access to Call of Duty and other games — The green light follows objections to the blockbuster deal by American and British regulators on the grounds that it would undercut competition.
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Pharmacy services provider PharMerica says hackers breached its system and stole the names, addresses, SSNs, and health data of 5.8M+ patients on March 12, 2023 — Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers.| Victor Dey / VentureBeat: |
Together, which aims to build open-source LLMs and was part of RedPajama, a project where six companies replicated Meta's LLaMA dataset, raised a $20M seed — Together, an open-source AI startup, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding to support its mission …
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As the European Central Bank prepares to pilot a digital euro in October, consumers, financiers, and politicians are questioning the project's aims and benefits — Europe's central bank is pushing ahead with the development of electronic currency even as politicians question its purpose
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Sources: the IRS quietly built a prototype system to let Americans file tax returns digitally and free of charge, with a pilot slated to launch in January 2024 — The prototype program developed by the federal government could be available for a small group of taxpayers by January
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| Ciara O'Brien / The Irish Times: |
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC's GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board — Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Tinder account for 87^% of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland's DPC
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces a suite of features to improve cognitive, vision, and speech accessibility on iOS and iPadOS, rolling out later in 2023 — Apple previewed a suite of new features today to improve cognitive, vision and speech accessibility. These tools are slated to arrive on the iPhone, iPad and Mac later this year.
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