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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly breaking even”, grew agitated over questions on hate speech, reflects on running the company, and more — The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC
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| New York Times: |
NPR “will no longer be active on Twitter” after the social network took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent — The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
Sources: Twitter is working on generative AI after buying around 10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; a source says the work involves an LLM — - CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch — Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
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| New York Times: |
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's efficiency drive, layoffs, Meta's absentee leadership, and focus on the metaverse have devastated employee morale — Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction.
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple, and other services to block developers training AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs — Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky: malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2K-$20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975 — Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn partners with CLEAR to help US users verify their identity via a government ID and phone number or via company email — LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday. Unlike with Twitter and Meta … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System and seven critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws.
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its LLM released two weeks ago, and a dataset trained on 15K records generated by its employees — Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
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| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
PitchBook: Silicon Valley startups raised $74.9B in 2022, the lowest US share since 2012, followed by NYC's $29.5B; Miami grew 278% from 2020-2022 to $5.39B — Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.
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| Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: |
Labor consultants say US companies, responding to labor shortages and rising wages, are outsourcing jobs overseas, expanding on pandemic remote work policies — Companies respond to labor shortages and rising wages by moving some positions abroad, labor consultants say
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts — OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A US jury finds the former CEO, CFO, and president of digital pharma ad firm Outcome Health guilty of running a ~$1B scheme that defrauded clients and investors — Verdict caps fall of startup's executive team led by Rishi Shah, who could face years in prison
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Raspberry Pi raised an undisclosed amount from Sony Semiconductor Solutions at a $500M valuation, the same valuation as its $45M raise in 2021, to work on AI — - Raspberry Pi has received fresh investment from Sony's semiconductor unit, in a deal that will let users and developers make visual sensory applications using its AI chips.
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| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Q&A with Alondra Nelson, former deputy director of Biden's OSTP who spearheaded the White House's AI Bill of Rights effort, on the AI policy challenge and more — I'm Ezra Klein. This is “The Ezra Klein Show.” — [MUSIC PLAYING] — It would be easy, listening to the discourse about A.I. … | Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: |
Binance.US plans to delist the TRX token linked to Justin Sun's Tron from April 18 for failing to meet the expected standard of excellence; TRX drops ~4% — The Binance US exchange said the TRX token linked to Justin Sun's Tron crypto platform will be delisted from April 18, a move that spurred a decline in the digital asset.| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Video game illustrators in China say AI image generators are causing them to lose their jobs, as some employers encourage use of AI tools to boost productivity — “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."
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Kotaku, dot.LA, and Game Developer
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@thecarteldel, @harriorrihar, @carnage4life, @violazhouyi, @sweetpotatoes, and @violazhouyi
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the FTC over its Twitter privacy investigation, saying the agency failed to comply with an earlier request — Rep. Jim Jordan , the chair of the Judiciary Committee, said the FTC has made burdensome demands of Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk.
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