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Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
Report: before tweeting a pro-Russia Ukraine peace plan, Elon Musk said he had Kremlin consultations; he also told the US of a Putin call but publicly denied it — - Magazine reports on October conversation with top official — The SpaceX CEO later denied speaking with Russian president| 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 … | Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Maine's attorney general 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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Podcasts adds Subscription Analytics, integrates its analytics into the marketing platform Linkfire, and adds more hosting providers to Delegated Delivery — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition …
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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.| 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 …
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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.| 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.
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Ghost, a B2B surplus inventory marketplace with 1,000+ members, raised a $30M Series B led by Cathay Innovation and plans to expand to Europe and Asia — Ghost, providing a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory, is back with fresh funds in the way of a $30 million Series B round.| 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
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