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The US SEC sues Bittrex and its ex-CEO for allegedly operating an unregistered securities exchange, claiming tokens like Algorand and Omise Go are securities — The agency said Bittrex failed to register as an exchange, broker or clearing agency. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged …
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Apple launches its Apple Card Savings account, announced in October 2022, letting users deposit Daily Cash rewards into a 4.15% high yield account with no fees — Months after its first announcement, Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users, with users able to route Daily Cash rewards …
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Heart On My Sleeve, a song created using AI trained on the voices of Drake and The Weeknd without the artists' permission, goes viral on social media — A song that uses Artificial Intelligence to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral on social media.
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Twitter plans to introduce labels on tweets for which the company has limited searchability or visibility due to a violation of its hateful conduct policy — Twitter is introducing new labels it will show on tweets the company limits for breaking its rules.
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A winner at the Sony World Photography Awards rejects the award, saying his submission was AI-generated and meant to test if such competitions were ready for AI — A winner at this year's Sony World Photography Awards wasn't a photo at all. — Jordan Pearson
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Source: Apple's revenue in India hit a record almost $6B in FY 2022, up nearly 50% YoY from $4.1B; Tim Cook is inaugurating India's first Apple stores this week — Apple Inc.'s sales in India hit a new high of almost $6 billion in the year through March, highlighting the market's increasing importance …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
A look at autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT and BabyAGI, which perform multistep tasks by iteratively taking output from GPT-4 and feeding it back into itself — AutoGPT and BabyAGI run GPT AI agents to complete complex tasks iteratively. — Since the launch of OpenAI's GPT-4 API …
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| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
Documents detail hundreds of ICE investigations into employees allegedly misusing its database, from stalking and harassment to passing information to criminals — Documents obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of investigations by the US agency into alleged database misuse that includes harassment, stalking, and more.| Wall Street Journal: |
US attorneys charge 40+ staff at China's domestic security agency, alleging they made thousands of fake profiles on Twitter and elsewhere to pose as US citizens — Complaint depicts vast effort to disguise criticism of U.S. policies as coming from Americans
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Sources: Tel Aviv-based QuaDream is closing after Microsoft and Citizen Lab showed last week how its spyware was used to hack reporters, politicians, and others — It was reported last week that the Israeli firm's hacking tools have been used against journalists, opposition figures …
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| Jenni Reid / CNBC: |
Tokyo-based Sega acquires Finland-based Rovio, best known for its Angry Birds games, for €706M, a ~19% premium on its €9.25 stock price before the announcement — - The deal would be for the entirety of Rovio's outstanding shares and options, valuing them at 9.25 euro per share …
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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
Illinois, Michigan, and seven other US states join the DOJ lawsuit against Google, jointly filed with eight states in January 2023, for alleged ad tech monopoly — Nine more U.S. states on Monday joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed earlier by the Justice Department against Alphabet Inc's Google … Sponsor Posts
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