A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
Pitch decks: Three Arrows Capital founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies are hoping to raise $25M to start crypto exchange GTX, partnering with two CoinFlex executives
- Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the founders of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), are hoping to raise $25 million …
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry calls Twitter's decision to ax APIs for third-party apps without notice a “shit show”, leaving customers in the lurch
Well, it happened. — We knew it was coming. — A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it.
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi says regulators have lifted a ban on new user registrations, signaling an end to a longrunning regulatory crackdown
China's ride hailing giant Didi Global said in a statement on Monday that it would be allowed to resume new user registration, after a more than year-long ban that curbed its growth.
Shiba Inu developers plan to launch Shibarium, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, in the coming weeks, focusing on the metaverse and gaming applications
Ecosystem tokens shiba inu, leash and bone will serve as the the upcoming Ethereum-based blockchain. — Upcoming layer 2 network Shibarium …
After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, stolen from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC linked to the hackers
In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers have been moving $64 million in the last weekend. — 75 Total views
Some US universities, including Alabama's Auburn and the University of Oklahoma, are banning TikTok on their Wi-Fi networks, causing annoyance among students
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Sources: the European Commission is preparing a statement of objections to Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard deal, set to be released in the coming weeks
Microsoft (MSFT.O) is likely to receive an EU antitrust warning about its $69 billion bid for “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard …
Sources: seeking to win US allies, TikTok has proposed a complex, $1.5B plan to reorganize its US operations, including oversight of its key algorithms
Chinese-owned app proposes giving U.S. officials oversight of its algorithms — Two years into negotiations with U.S. regulators …
Tencent's Hong Kong stock has risen around 95% since October 28 and Alibaba's stock is up about 85% over a similar period, as China relaxes its tech crackdown
Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. have nearly doubled from their recent lows on growing signs that China is preparing to end …
A look at Deltec, an obscure Bahamian bank that got a $50M loan from an FTX-tied entity in October 2021, and chairman Jean Chalopin, who has ties to FTX leaders
The loan was among several deals struck with Jean Chalopin, the head of Deltec and Moonstone banks — and co-creator of Inspector Gadget …
Investigation: Alibaba paid Chinese scholars to lobby authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation, hoping to navigate China's clampdown
Alibaba has been paying academics to lobby Chinese authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation … Tweets: @edourdoo , @henrysgao , @marietjeschaake , @angelazhanghk , and @niubi Tw...
How Apple's supply chain is leaving China: moving some iPad and MacBook production to Foxconn's Vietnam plants, expanded iPhone production in India, and more
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post :
Touchscreen Macs will help Apple further unify its software and services, keep up with a touch-first generation, and pick up a bigger piece of the PC market
Ant Group partners with BNPL service Splitit to let Alipay users on AliExpress in Europe pay for items in installments, starting in Germany, Spain, and France
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Taiwanese government data: integrated circuit chip exports rose 18.4% YoY in 2022, down from 27.1% YoY growth in 2021 and 22% YoY growth in 2020
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Experts raise concerns about Germany's plan to heat homes with heat expelled by data centers as the warm air isn't hot enough for most district heating networks
Germany wants to force its power-hungry data centers to harness excess heat for warming residential homes — an effort which the industry warns is likely to fall flat. Tweets: @economics and @carolynnl...
The Overwatch League's path to profitability remains unclear given dwindling viewership, recent upheavals inside Activision Blizzard, and dampening esports hype
Will Bedingfield / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : “Esports are unusually unstable compared to other sports and still command only a relatively niche audience even among people who regularly ...
A look at VR support groups and communities helping members process cancer diagnoses and death, question their marriages, turn over childhood traumas, and more
Hana Kiros / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @nanea , @trippvr , @techreview , and @apsilverman Tweets: @nanea : Thank you @hanamkiros for writing about the power of TRIPP's Community Spaces in copin...
Indian social media startup ShareChat lays off 400+ people, or ~20% of its staff, a month after cutting 100+ roles; ShareChat raised $1B+ from Google and others
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Source: the CEO of Clearco, which offers capital to e-commerce firms for a cut of future revenue, resigns as growth at the well-funded startup grinds to a halt
Jon Victor / The Information :
AI tech like ChatGPT can be used by bad actors to lobby within democracies at incredible speed and scope, costing far less than troll farms like Russia's IRA
New York Times : Tweets: @intuitmachine , @willwilkinson , @pstasiatech , @nytopinion , @orinkerr , @arfung , and @geoffmanne Tweets: Carlos E. Perez / @intuitmachine : Is the side-effect of ChatGPT ...
Researchers detail health care AI's reproducibility issues; a 2021 review of 500+ papers: health ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures
Tencent says it fired 100+ employees in 2022 for suspected bribery and embezzlement; CEO Pony Ma reportedly called out staff corruption in a December meeting
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post :
Study: China led the US in AI research output and quality in 2021, producing ~43,000 papers, about twice as many as the US, with 7,401 of the most-cited papers
Nikkei Asia : Tweets: @tculpan and @noahpinion Tweets: Tim Culpan / @tculpan : On paper, China and the U.S. are neck and neck in AI. In practice, American expertise is much broader and more valuable,...
Europe's rapid delivery market has consolidated down to three companies: Getir, the largest player that operates in seven European countries, Flink, and Gopuff
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @gergelyorosz Tweets: @wired : Rapid grocery delivery apps are leaving the continent, putting the Turkish startup, Getir on top. But, its reign is anything ...
Two years after the Bahamas launched the world's first CBDC, the Sand Dollar's adoption has been sluggish, as FTX's demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism
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