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May 4, 2023, 4:10 PM

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David McCabe / New York Times:
The White House announces plans to address AI's risks, including $140M for new research centers and draft guidelines for government agencies using AI safeguards  —  Vice President Kamala Harris also plans to meet with the chief executives of tech companies that are developing A.I. later on Thursday.
Financial Times:
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Shopify sells its logistics unit to supply chain tech company Flexport, after building the operation for years and acquiring Deliverr for $2.1B in May 2022  —  - Shopify is selling its logistics unit to supply chain technology company Flexport.  — The Canadian e-commerce company …
Ilya Banares / Bloomberg:
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.43B est., GMV up 15% YoY to $49.6B, vs. $47.7B est., and plans to cut ~20% of its staff; SHOP jumps 20%+  —  Shopify Inc. cut jobs for the second time in less than a year and agreed to sell the majority of its logistics business …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Google releases a brief teaser video showing off the Pixel Fold, confirming that it will be officially revealed on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 event  —  / This is Google's first foldable phone.  More details are coming at Google I/O on May 10th.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft opens its Bing chatbot to all, removing the waitlist, and announces features like image and video results, persistent chat and history, and plug-ins  —  Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Discord plans to drop the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others and force most users to pick a username with an @ prefix  —  Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users.
Washington Post:
Sources: Google, which published AI papers prolifically, in February moved to sharing only after the work had been productized, due to OpenAI's ChatGPT launch  —  For years the tech giant published scientific research that helped jump-start its competitors.  But now it's lurched into defensive mode.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD's AI chip expansion and working with the chipmaker on Microsoft's own processor for AI workloads, codenamed Athena  —  Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker's expansion into artificial intelligence processors …
Alf Wilkinson / Financial Times:
A Finder.com experiment using ChatGPT to pick 38 stocks finds the portfolio rose 4.9% over eight weeks, compared to an average 0.8% loss for 10 popular UK funds  —  Theoretical fund of 38 stocks do better than 10 most popular funds on Interactive Investor, finds finder.com  —  Latest news on ETFs
CoinDesk:
Coinbase plans to stop issuing new loans in the US via its Borrow program on May 10 due to low demand; a source says the move is unrelated to US SEC troubles  —  May 10 is the final day customers will be allowed to take out new loans through Coinbase Borrow.  —  Coinbase Borrow's days are numbered.
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Salesforce announces SlackGPT, which will let users and developers build AI-driven experiences on the platform, and plans to incorporate EinsteinGPT into Slack  —  Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having …

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