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Congressional offices are being flooded with calls from angry constituents following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives — - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he supported the bill being marked up on Thursday, just two days after it was unveiled …
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| Mathias Hammer / Semafor: |
The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators — Semafor Signals — Insights from The New York Times, Financial Times, and CNN — The News
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill — A push notification warns that the move ‘strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.’
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Forums: r/neoliberal and r/technology
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
As the EU's DMA takes effect, sources say the Biden administration, which sent two letters protesting the DMA, stopped short of pushing the issue with the EU — The European Union's landmark Digital Markets Act comes into effect today, requiring changes at five U.S. internet giants
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU confirms requesting further explanations from Apple over removing Epic's developer account under the DMA, and is examining if Apple broke any other rules — - Epic Games barred by Apple from opening own iPhone app store — EU says it is looking to see if firm has broken new tech law
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024's end and is working on a more “user-friendly” way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025 — Apple is preparing to allow EU-based iPhone users to uninstall its first-party Safari browser by the end of 2024 …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X announces Articles, a feature to write and share long-form content with a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers — Long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main. — Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
MacBook Air (2024) review: sturdy and sleek, fast M3 chip, excellent 13- and 15-inch displays, great keyboard, and solid speakers, but USB-C is only on one side — Apple's M3 chip is a decent speed bump, but the M2 MacBook Air remains a great deal. — It's hard to expect much from Apple's new M3-equipped MacBook Airs.
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| John Tozzi / Bloomberg: |
UnitedHealth says electronic prescribing is restored and expects its payments platform back online by March 15, after a hack prompted disruptions two weeks ago — Electronic prescribing is now restored. The company's payments platform will be back online March 15, and testing …
More: New York Times, Reuters, CNBC, and UnitedHealth Group
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Nano won't come to the Pixel 8 due to “some hardware limitations”, but plans to bring the LLM to more “high-end devices in the near future” — During The Android Show today, Google shared more about Gemini Nano, including how it won't be coming to the Pixel 8.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Inflection launches Inflection-2.5, which for weeks has helped its chatbot Pi perform “neck and neck with” OpenAI's GPT-4, and says Pi has 1M DAUs and 6M MAUs — - CEO Mustafa Suleyman said he is particularly pleased that Inflection 2.5 achieved these results while using only 40% of the training compute as GPT-4.
More: Inflection, Simon Willison's Weblog, Inc.com, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and SiliconANGLE
| Bloomberg: |
Sources say SMIC used equipment from California-based Applied Materials and Lam Research to manufacture an advanced 7nm chip for Huawei in 2023 — - SMIC used Applied Materials and Lam equipment to make 7nm chip — US wants to further limit China's access to foreign chip tech| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Temu became Meta's top advertiser by revenue in 2023 by spending nearly $2B on ads, and became one of Google's top five advertisers by spending in 2023 — The e-commerce platform's parent company spent nearly $2 billion at Meta last year and it was a top advertiser at Google
More: The Information, Investor's Business Daily, Quartz, and The Daily Upside
| New York Times: |
| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati brought questions about Sam Altman's management to the board last year before he was ousted; a new board is expected imminently — Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, brought questions about Mr. Altman's management to the board last year before he was briefly ousted from the company.
More: Business Insider and The Information
Threads: @karissabe. X: @ericnewcomer, @silvermanjacob, @garymarcus, @mikeisaac, @eshumarneedi, and @ericnewcomer. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
LinkedIn says its premium subscriptions unit hit $1.7B in revenue in 2023; COO Dan Shapero says premium subscribers rose 25% in 2023 — LinkedIn on Thursday for the first time disclosed sales for its premium subscription business, saying the unit hit $1.7 billion in revenue in 2023 …
More: PYMNTS.com and iTnews
| Cassidy Ritter / Denver Business Journal: |
Denver-based Maybell Quantum, which is developing systems to make quantum tech more reliable, scalable, and accessible, raised a $25M Series A — The new 8,000-square-foot facility will allow the company to scale and offer more lab space to other startups and researchers.
More: FinSMEs and Cerberus Capital Management
| FinSMEs: |
Colorado Springs-based Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source software and AI applications for US national security systems, raised a $35M Series A — Defense Unicorns, a Colorado Springs, CO-based software startup providing open source software and AI capabilities for National Security systems, raised $35M in Series A funding.
More: Yahoo Finance and Help Net Security
| Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: |
Tel Aviv-based Sweet Security, which offers cloud runtime security tools, raised a $33M Series A, after emerging from stealth with a $12M seed in August 2023 — Sweet Security announces a $33 million Series A funding round just six months after emerging from stealth with an initial $12 million seed funding.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
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