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Sources: after Twitter refused to pay its AWS bills for months, Amazon threatened in February 2023 to withhold payment for the ads the company runs on Twitter — Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter …
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Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a ~40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the platform — The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk's buyout, people familiar with the matter said
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| Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: |
The US adds China's Inspur, the world's third largest server maker that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to its Entity List, limiting its US tech access — The Biden administration's blacklisting of China's Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Bing Chat appears to have a hidden Celebrity mode, in which the chatbot answers questions while impersonating Biden, Trump, Tom Cruise, and other famous people — A secret Bing Chat ‘Celebrity’ mode allows users to instruct the AI to impersonate celebrities, answering questions and talking like the person it imitates.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
BidenCash, a dark web marketplace for stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2.1M+ cards sharing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more — A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration of its first anniversary.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who was a Sonos VP of software management before joining Salesforce, as she leads Slack through its “biggest product year” — Over a few days in late November and early December of 2022, it became clear that Slack was about to go through … | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Ring says new Ring Alarm users will have to pay for a Ring Protect subscription starting at $3.99 per month to use existing free features, starting on March 29 — Yet another company will charge its customers more money for using existing features as the subscription-based smart home becomes the norm.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman quits OpenAI's nonprofit board, seeking to invest in companies using OpenAI's tech, which he says may cause a conflict of interest — - LinkedIn founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is leaving the nonprofit board of OpenAI, he announced in a post on Friday.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with its virality, fixing issues, and more — Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT …
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| Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times: |
San Jose-based Vintra, whose clients include the IRS and police departments, says its “co-appearance” AI can map associations between people caught on video — A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway.
Tweets: @daragh_murray, @latimes, @senmarkey, @latimes, @latimes, @sarahdwire, and @nickbaumann
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $115M — Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing … | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The US imposes new rules requiring that CHIPS Act beneficiaries agree not to expand manufacturing capacity in “countries of concern”, like China, for 10 years — Commerce department imposes new rules on beneficiaries of $39bn programme — Chipmakers must agree not to expand capacity …
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