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The US House passes the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, which would create a regulatory framework for digital assets — Dubbed the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, the measure was approved by the House of Representatives with a 279-136 vote.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Documents and sources: OpenAI didn't use Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT's Sky and hired another actress months before Sam Altman contacted Johansson — A different actress was hired to provide the voice for ChatGPT's ‘Sky,’ according to documents and recordings shared with the Washington Post.
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News Corp and OpenAI announce a multiyear agreement to bring News Corp's news content to OpenAI; sources say the deal could be worth $250M over five years — Agreement could generate over $250 million over five years for News Corp in cash and credits — Wall Street Journal owner News Corp struck …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay now lets users see their card benefits and perks before selecting a card, use BNPL on more sites, and fill in card details through biometrics or PIN — Google Pay is rolling out a number of updates that capitalize on its integrations with other Google products, like Android and the Chrome browser.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 262% YoY to $26.04B, vs. $24.65B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., and splits its stock 10-for-1; NVDA jumps 5%+ — Nvidia shares topped $1,000 for the first time in extended trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker reported fiscal first-quarter results that topped analyst estimates.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Truecaller partners with Microsoft's Azure AI Speech to let its AI Assistant users create an AI version of their voice to answer calls based on a recorded clip — Caller ID company Truecaller will let users create an AI version of their voice to answer calls.| Kelsey Piper / Vox: |
Leaked OpenAI documents show aggressive tactics toward ex-staff, and contradict leadership's comments on being unaware of provisions about equity cancellation — On Friday, Vox reported that employees at tech giant OpenAI who wanted to leave the company were confronted with expansive and highly restrictive exit documents.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches its Symphony AI suite for brands, using generative AI to let marketers write scripts, produce videos, and enhance current assets — TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it's launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for brands.
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| Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News: |
New Hampshire indicts Steve Kramer, the political consultant who admitted to commissioning the deepfake robocall of Biden, on five counts, including bribery — Steve Kramer, the Democratic consultant whom NBC News first linked to the robocall impersonating the president, is facing five counts in New Hampshire.| Reuters: |
South Korea announces a ~$19B support package for its domestic chip industry and asks the Industry Ministry to strengthen the country's non-memory chip sector — South Korea announced on Thursday revised plans for a support package for the country's vital semiconductor industry worth 26 trillion won …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
US FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel proposes requiring the disclosure of content generated by AI in political ads on radio and TV, citing the use of deepfakes — U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday proposed requiring disclosure of content generated … | Financial Times: |
Meta's Yann LeCun says LLMs won't reach human intelligence and instead FAIR is working on a “world modeling” vision, to create AI that can develop common sense — Yann LeCun argues current AI methods are flawed as he pushes for ‘world modelling’ vision for superintelligence
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Bluesky now lets users send DMs and says the service is working on adding support for messages with images and end-to-end encryption — Bluesky will now let you send a direct message to other users. For now, you can only send messages containing text, but Bluesky is working on adding support for images and videos.
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Q&A with Taiwan's ex-Digital Minister Audrey Tang on Plurality, a book on collaboration-enhancing tech she wrote with Microsoft's internal economist Glen Weyl — The island-country's digital minister has radical ideas for using open-source technology to provide public goods.| Bloomberg: |
How social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu has defied China's tech sector crackdown and boomed through a combination of influencers, AI, and soft marketing tactics — - Xiaohongshu's profit last year beat peers including Weibo — The two co-founders have a combined fortune of $6 billion| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Source: the US DOJ and state AGs plan to sue Live Nation on Thursday for illegally abusing its live ticketing monopoly through its 2010 Ticketmaster acquisition — - It will argue that Live Nation leveraged Ticketmaster's exclusive contracts with concert venues to maintain a monopoly …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Zuckerberg creates the Meta Advisory Group with Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Tobi Lütke, and Charlie Songhurst, to advise on tech and growth opportunities — - Stripe's Collison, Shopify's Lütke among new advisers — Group to guide Meta on tech, strategic growth opportunities
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| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q1 revenue up 131% YoY to ~$12B and operating profit up 275% YoY to ~$3.6B, as global expansion gains pace — - The upstart Chinese player beats most results expectations — PDD remains upbeat on the outlook for Chinese consumption| Aaron Levie / @levie: |
Box CEO on how generative AI can turn the mostly unstructured data inside enterprises into valuable knowledge, enabling greater automation of workflows and more — The reason I'm insanely bullish on AI is that since starting Box, we have never seen a bigger shift in how we can work with our enterprise information than today. AI completely revolutionizes how we can work with enterprise information. Since the mainframe era, it's been
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Praktika, which lets users create personalized AI-powered avatars to make learning a language feel more natural, raised a $35.5M Series A led by Blossom Capital — Most apps that help you learn languages feature a user experience that has you selecting options or swiping away wrong answer cards … | Inci Ozbek / Bloomberg: |
Istanbul-based Colendi, which provides digital banking services, raised a $65M Series B at a $700M valuation from Citi Ventures and others — - Digital banking startup raised $65 million in Series B round — Colendi targets $1 billion valuation in new investment round
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