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The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators — Semafor Signals — Insights from The New York Times, Financial Times, and CNN — The News
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
Donald Trump declares support for TikTok, saying a ban will double the business of “Facebook and Zuckerschmuck” and Facebook is the “true enemy of the people” — - Congress members were inundated with calls from angry constituents after TikTok told its users …
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| Karishma Vaswani / Bloomberg: |
TikTok's US popularity is not just a national security issue but also highlights the failure of the US tech industry to come up with an equally addictive app — Beijing won't say yes to a TikTok divestment. Washington should admit it's as much about a lack of tech innovation as it is about national security.| Axios: |
Angry constituents flood congressional offices with calls following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives about a possible ban — - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he supported the bill being marked up on Thursday, just two days after it was unveiled …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Russian state-sponsored hackers Midnight Blizzard accessed some of its “source code repositories and internal systems” following the January hack — Microsoft revealed earlier this year that Russian state-sponsored hackers had been spying on the email accounts of some members of its senior leadership team.
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Sources: China is in the process of raising $27B+ for its largest chip fund to date to counter US curbs; the central government will only contribute a fraction — - Local government, SDIC may join China's biggest-ever chip fund — Washington urges allies to tighten China export controls| Bloomberg: |
Sources say SMIC used equipment from California-based Applied Materials and Lam Research to manufacture an advanced 7nm chip in China for Huawei in 2023 — - SMIC used Applied Materials and Lam equipment to make 7nm chip — US wants to further limit China's access to foreign chip tech
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Tests show GPT 3.5 systematically produces biases that disadvantage protected groups based on their names alone when screening and ranking candidates for jobs — Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Nano won't come to the Pixel 8 due to “some hardware limitations”, but plans to bring the LLM to more “high-end devices in the near future” — During The Android Show today, Google shared more about Gemini Nano, including how it won't be coming to the Pixel 8.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X unveils Articles, a feature for writing and sharing long-form content in a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers — Long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main. — Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.
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| John Tozzi / Bloomberg: |
UnitedHealth says electronic prescribing is restored and expects its payments platform back online by March 15, after a hack triggered disruptions two weeks ago — Electronic prescribing is now restored. The company's payments platform will be back online March 15, and testing …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati brought questions about Sam Altman's management to the board in 2023, before he was ousted; a new board is expected imminently — Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, brought questions about Mr. Altman's management to the board last year before he was briefly ousted from the company.
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| Evan Halper / Washington Post: |
US data center demand for crypto mining and AI are putting new pressures on an overtaxed power grid, as bottlenecks mount and utilities struggle to keep up — AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America's power grid to the brink. Utilities can't keep up.
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sensor Tower: Instagram's total app downloads grew 20% YoY in 2023 to 768M, making it the most downloaded app worldwide; TikTok's downloads grew 4% YoY to 733M — Meta-owned platform's push into short-form video bears fruit while TikTok's explosive growth begins to ease
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| Addie Morfoot / Variety: |
How Netflix's stand-up specials, COVID-19, as well as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and podcasts have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians' reach — Netflix, COVID and social media have been game changers for the comedy business, with the pandemic accelerating shifts already underway across the media landscape.| Phil Serafino / Bloomberg: |
Filing: chipmaker Astera Labs, which offers cloud and AI connectivity hardware, plans to raise as much as $534M in its US IPO — Astera is selling 14.79 million shares, while existing investors are offering another 3.01 million, the Santa Clara, California-based company said Friday in a regulatory filing.| Reuters: |
Broadcom expects $10B in revenue from AI-related chips in 2024, as CEO Hock Tan says AI revenue, up 4x YoY to $2.3B in Q1, offset cyclical business slowdown — Broadcom (AVGO.O) said on Thursday it expects $10 billion in revenue from chips related to artificial intelligence this year … Sponsor Posts
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