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June 14, 2023, 4:30 PM

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Jon Porter / The Verge:
The European Commission issues a preliminary view in its antitrust investigation of Google and suggests the company divest its ad business; Google can now reply  —  The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that …
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
The European Parliament passes a draft AI Act to curtail facial recognition, force data disclosures, and more; a final version is expected to pass later in 2023  —  A draft law in the European Parliament has become the world's most far-reaching attempt to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Amazon VP of EC2 Dave Brown says AWS is considering using AMD's new MI300 chips and declined to use Nvidia's DGX Cloud, for which Oracle is the first partner  —  Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), the world's largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips …
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
IBM details using its 127-qubit quantum processor to simulate the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets, known as the Ising model, in less than a millisecond  —  A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
As 8,000+ subreddits go dark, Google's search results, which are often improved with human-sounding information by appending “reddit” to a query, have suffered  —  Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit's upcoming API changes, and it's shown me just how much I rely …
Forbes:
A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's mysterious associate who appears repeatedly in the SEC's lawsuit against the crypto exchange  —  CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao's mysterious associate Guangying Chen emerges as a key player in his company's operations …
New York Times:
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung says a Galaxy Watch update coming this summer will add an Irregular Heart Rhythm Notifications feature in 13 markets, including the US and South Korea  —  In a new announcement this week, Samsung has officially confirmed that it has a new smartwatch coming later this year …
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
Razer updates its Blade 14 laptop with AMD's Ryzen 9 7940HS, Nvidia's RTX 4060 or RTX 4070, up to 32GB of RAM, and a 14" QHD+ 240Hz display, starting at $2,400  —  Despite running late and experiencing shipping delays, AMD's latest Zen 4 mobile chips with RDNA 3 graphics and Ryzen AI …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases new GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 versions with a new “function calling” feature for coding, and cuts the price of the original GPT-3.5-turbo by 25%  —  As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing.
Nic Newman / Reuters Institute:
Reuters' 2023 Digital News Report: despite fragmentation, users' dependence on social media platforms for news keeps growing; Facebook declines and TikTok gains  —  This year's report comes against the backdrop of a global cost-of-living crisis, a continuing war in the heart of Europe, and further climate instability across the world.
River Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Axios:
Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI; experts are split on whether Section 230 applies  —  Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023  —  A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now.

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