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August 21, 2023, 11:25 AM

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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and others detail his growing international power, childhood, career, politics, role in the Ukraine war, and more  —  How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week, addressing a longstanding wish list item; Adam Mosseri confirmed testing the web app  —  Meta Platforms plans to launch a web version of microblogging app Threads early this week, the biggest new feature to be introduced …
Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
A notice from Maine's AG says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing”  —  - Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says  — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, less than two years after raising a $50M Series A, and tells owners to move NFT metadata to the IPFS  —  - NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round.
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to explore the use of music in AI programs and ways to pay artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content  —  YouTube has recruited Frank Sinatra's estate and other Universal Music Group UMG .39%increase; green up pointing triangle acts …
AI Snake Oil:
A recent paper on ChatGPT's political biases seems to have many flaws, including testing an older model and prompt types, but the broader topic merits research  —  A new paper making this claim has many flaws.  But the question merits research.  —  Previous research has shown …
Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg:
John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and was the company's CEO until 2000 and CTO until retiring in 2001, died on August 19 at age 82  —  Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement.
Wall Street Journal:
A look at the potential impact of the EU DSA and DMA on Big Tech; some say the effect could be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks  —  Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those imposed on banks

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