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Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Court filings show how Zuckerberg and other Meta execs played down risks to young users, while rejecting staff pleas to bolster guardrails and hire more staff  —  In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness …
Kate Irwin / PCMag:
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place”  —  OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about AI's impact on creative professions.
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books  —  Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.  —  As a result of book publishers successfully suing …
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers  —  The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup …
Bloomberg:
Apple will withhold the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and more in the EU this year, citing concerns about DMA's interoperability requirements  —  - Firm says it'll withhold Apple Intelligence from EU this year  — Big Tech firm cites concerns over EU's Digital Markets Act
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Craig Trudell / Bloomberg:
Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay  —  - Eastern European cybercrime group demanding extortion payment  — CDK down for several days as dealerships experience fallout
Washington Post:
As power needs of AI push emissions up, tech companies explore experimental clean energy projects such as atomic fusion and futuristic geothermal power plants  —  As power needs of AI push emissions up and put big tech in a bind, companies put their faith in elusive — some say improbable — technologies.
Bloomberg:
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Q&A with AMD executive Forrest Norrod on increasing AI investments, releasing accelerator chips at a faster cadence, AMD's open standards approach, and more  —  In an interview with CRN, AMD executive Forrest Norrod talks about how the company is “dramatically” increasing investments …
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
How Embracer's layoffs and project cancellations gutted Fishlabs, a promising studio that now lives on as a cross-dev team supporting other Embracer companies  —  The exclusive inside story of Chorus developers Fishlabs, from Project Black to Project White  —  A phoenix is a mythological firebird …

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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Newsquest's editorial development director says it now employs 36 “AI-assisted” reporters, freeing up the rest of the newsroom to “be out pounding the beat”

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Tortoise Media names Times journalist Rachel Sylvester as The Observer's political editor; a source says 50%+ of Observer staff have decided to leave

Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times:
Bengaluru-based Pratilipi, which runs Pratilipi Comics, podcasting studio IVM, and more, raised a $20M Series E at a $100M valuation, down from $265M in 2021

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Nikkei Asia:
Huawei announces HarmonyOS Next, to be used in all of its devices, Harmony Intelligence, to integrate AI onto its devices, and Pangu 5.0, a family of four LLMs
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft's Copilot key on the new Copilot+ PCs launches a PWA version of Copilot, which doesn't integrate into Windows like the previous Copilot experience
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Retro game streamer Antstream plans to launch on the App Store with 1,300 titles, the first such launch after Apple allowed game streaming services on iPhone

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Change Healthcare says the February ransomware attack on its systems resulted in the theft of medical records of a “substantial proportion of people” in the US
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Sources: Amazon has considered a $5 to $10 monthly price tag for a revamped Alexa with generative AI features, dubbed “Remarkable Alexa”
Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central:
Sources: Sony is making deep cuts to funding for VR games, with only two PSVR 2 games in development; Sony released just three PSVR 2 games last year
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Las Vegas jury convicts five men for operating Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month and officials say was one of the largest illegal streamers in the US
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against 12 Kaspersky executives; the company and its founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky were not included
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI buys Rockset, an enterprise search and analytics startup that raised $105M, integrating both the tech and staff of an acquisition for the first time
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
SpaceX unveils Starlink Mini, a compact version of its satellite internet antenna “that can easily fit in a backpack”, offering a “limited number” for $599 each
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