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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.
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| 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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying 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 …
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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 …
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, after raising a $50M Series A in September 2021, and migrate the metadata of minted NFTs to the IPFS — - NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other Microsoft executives on AI, a decade of AI investments, Office Copilots, Bing, and more — “In general, I get excited by new things,” says the CEO. The story of a transformative moment that's been a decade in the making.| AI Snake Oil: |
An August 17 paper on ChatGPT's political biases seems to have many flaws, like poor prompts and testing an older model, but the broader topic merits research — A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research. — Previous research has shown …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
PeckShield: after using BNB as collateral, a wallet tied to Binance Coin's almost $600M October 2022 hack had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol — Cryptocurrencies' sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack.
More: CoinDesk, The Daily Hodl, and Cryptopolitan
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest unveils new safety features; users ages 16 and older will now be able to opt into either a private or public profile; private is default for under 16 — Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are among the candidates expected to launch IPOs by 2024, as Arm's upcoming IPO is set to gauge investors' sentiment — Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation
More: TechCrunch, BayStreet.ca, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| Kavish Harjai / Associated Press: |
The US announces a ~$667M fourth round of rural broadband infrastructure grants and loans for 37 new projects after setting aside $771.4M in April and June 2023 — The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants …
More: Technical.ly, Telecompetitor, Light Reading, and The Verge
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinning up to three profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding at ~20M DAUs — BeReal is trying to be real. And if we're being real, what's the point of that Discovery feed, anyway?
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