Sources: the Biden administration and CFIUS are demanding that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company or face a possible US ban of the app
TikTok says forced sale won't resolve national security issues; its CEO set to appear before Congress next week
Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong
The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …
Sources: five days after seizing SVB, the FDIC has conducted a stop-and-start auction process, failing so far to find a willing buyer for all of SVB's assets
Big rivals are thus far shying away from scooping up the bank's assets. — Five days after seizing control of Silicon Valley Bank …
In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers' and civil servants' work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US
Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China — Britain is to ban the Chinese owned …
Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Corp.'s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company's oldest and best-known products: its Office apps.
An FTX bankruptcy filing describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders and executives, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried
Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees — Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says divesting from ByteDance won't fix US concerns, rules out an IPO, and claims the app is unprofitable due to data security spending
WSJ Interview TikTok CEO Rules Out Near-Term IPO for the Popular Video App TikTok CEO Says App Is Unprofitable as It Spends on Data Security
OpenAI allowed the Alignment Research Center, a nonprofit founded by its ex-employee, to assess the potential risks of GPT-4 including power-seeking behavior
bound by a nondisclosure agreement with OpenAI but gossiped...—told me that testing GPT-4 had caused them to have an “existential crisis,” because it revealed how powerful and creative the A.I. was co...
Baidu announces its Ernie Bot in a pre-recorded video, with founder Robin Li talking over a scripted video of interactions with the AI; BIDU drops 5%+
Baidu Inc. debuted China's answer to ChatGPT via a recorded video, disappointing investors hoping for a real-time demo …
Sources: Foxconn will make AirPods for the first time and plans to invest $200M+ in a plant in Telangana, India; a source says Apple wanted production in India
Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and plans to build …
The Arbitrum Foundation, which develops the Ethereum Layer 2 platform Arbitrum, plans to airdrop its long-awaited ARB token on March 23 and transition to a DAO
The long-awaited ARB token will grant holders the ability to vote on changes to the leading Ethereum layer 2 network.
The US Federal Reserve plans to activate its real-time FedNow Service payments system in July, seeking to improve clearing transactions between institutions
The new government-operated payments system - often used as an argument against the need for crypto's payments innovations …
Stripe raised a $6.5B+ Series I at a $50B valuation to help its employees cover tax obligations for the expiration of RSUs and to fund a new stock tender offer
Digital payments firm Stripe on Wednesday announced that it has raised more than $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation.
OpenAI's GPT-4 is an outrageous, if imperfect, step forward, offering a glimpse of a future internet where generative AI creates one big personalized web portal
Read to the end for a good Twitter reply — Building A Portal To Everything — Very often I will come up with a big existential question … LinkedIn: Simo Kajaste , Lars Bastholm , and Cenktan Ozyild...
LinkedIn adds AI-powered writing suggestions, initially for writing profiles, using OpenAI's GPT-4, and for recruiters writing job descriptions, using GPT-3.5
Earlier this month, when LinkedIn started seeding “AI-powered conversation starters” in people's news feeds to boost engagement on its platform …
Investor presentation: SVB Capital, which manages $9.5B, invested $234M in Sequoia Capital as of May 2022, $173M in a16z funds in 2018 and 2021, and more
Kate Clark / The Information :
Q&A with Signature Bank board member Barney Frank on the bank's downfall, the impact on crypto, weakening Dodd-Frank in 2018, tougher regulation, and more
pushes back at DFS' assertion that Signature wasn't closed due to an anti-crypto animus... whole thing worth reading @jenwieczner 👏👏 https://nymag.com/... Jake Chervinsky / @jchervinsky : 13/ Frank wo...
TikTok adds a Refresh button to the For You feed, resetting recommendations to those shown to new signups, after testing the feature in February 2023
TikTok is adding a way for users to “refresh” For You page content when they want to switch up their feed.
How San Francisco's Hayes Valley, or “Cerebral Valley”, became a hotbed for “hacker houses” and AI events, as the AI gold rush revives the Bay Area's tech scene
The money and power flooding into AI are warping and intensifying the typical Silicon Valley gold rush, now set to explode with the launch of GPT-4
Ethereum developers set a target date of around April 12 for the long-awaited Shanghai hard fork, delayed from its initial March target
Developers agreed to April 12 for the long-awaited upgrade that will enable staked ETH withdrawals. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
NYC-based Via plans to acquire London-based Citymapper, which has ~50M users and raised ~$60M; sources say investors are mostly not making their money back
Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned …
Source: DOJ is investigating whether the use of a predictive child welfare algorithm in PA's Allegheny County discriminates against parents with disabilities
For the two weeks that the Hackneys' baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side … Tweets: @apocalypticanow , @ap , and @rebeccakmccray Tweets: @...
CISA and FBI: hackers used vulnerabilities in Progress Telerik products to gain access to an unnamed US federal agency's server from August 2022 to January 2023
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Sources: Samsung's planned chip plant in Taylor, Texas, will now cost over $25B, up $8B from its initial forecasts, due to inflation and rising material costs
A chip plant that South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is building in Taylor, Texas, will cost … Tweets: @dnystedt , @stephennellis , and @paulportesi Tweets: Dan Nystedt / @dnystedt :...
Sources: Russia's GRU hacking unit Sandworm is led by Evgenii Serebriakov, who was indicted for a 2018 close-range cyberespionage operation in the Netherlands
Thursday, March 16, 2023 // (IG): BB // Cyber-Roundup// Coffee for Bob LinkedIn: David Mauro : For those following cyber crime and cyber warfare, Andy Greenberg details a phenomenal connection and fin...
OpenAI partners with Stripe to take payments and subscriptions for ChatGPT and DALL-E; Stripe plans to integrate OpenAI's tools into its products and services
SpaceX rebrands Starlink RV as Starlink Roam, offering satellite internet service globally for $200/month and regionally for $150/month, plus a $599+ antenna
The Verge :
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear plans to step down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy; Shear is one of the original founders of Justin.tv
My work on Twitch began in October 2006, when Justin, Michael … Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon's Twitch CEO steps down nearly 10 years after acquisition Calum Patterson / Dexerto : Twitch CEO Emmett She...
Microsoft patches an Outlook zero-day, exploitable without user interaction, and says Russian hackers used the flaw to target European organizations in 2022
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Counterpoint: Xiaomi's focus on sub-$120 phones in India helped Samsung take the top spot; market share for sub-$120 phones fell to 26% in 2022 from 41% in 2020
Parker, which offers a corporate credit card for e-commerce brands doing $3M to $100M in annual sales, emerges from stealth with $37M in equity and $120M debt
Parker, a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million … LinkedIn: Arnav Kapur LinkedIn: Arnav Kapur : $157mm raised is no small ...
The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of $1B+, including $262M through a crypto “ecosystem”
Google discontinues its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 and plans to support the headset until September 15, 2023; existing devices and apps will continue to work
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
An interview with Dave Winer, who was instrumental in the creation and evolution of RSS, on Google Reader's demise, support for RSS feeds on Mastodon, and more
Thomas Claburn / The Register : Tweets: @rustybrick Tweets: Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : Oh how I miss Google Reader and love RSS https://twitter.com/...
German and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service helped people launder 152K bitcoin since 2017
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
TSMC founder Morris Chang says chip industry globalization “is dead” and he “agrees” with US embargoes on China's chip sector, which is five years behind Taiwan
Debby Wu / Bloomberg :
Fairmatic, which helps companies manage vehicle insurance by monitoring their fleets, raised $46M led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
The US Copyright Office says protection for AI-assisted artistic works will depend on whether AI's contributions reflect the author's “own mental conception”
One of the central tensions of the past 30 years when it comes … Matt Growcoot / PetaPixel : AI Generated Image from Text is not Human Authorship says US Copyright Office Jonathan Bailey / Plagiarism ...
How Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant fell behind in the AI race despite a decade head start, hampered by clunky design and miscalculations
New York Times :
A journey into Meta's Horizon Worlds to find friends and metaverse true believers, raising questions about Zuckerberg's vision of the internet's next iteration
Sources: Microsoft has been rationing GPU access for teams building AI tools since late 2022; the company plans to announce Office 365 GPT-4 tools on March 16
Aaron Holmes / The Information :
Adobe reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $4.66B, vs. $4.62B est., Digital Media revenue up 9% YoY to $3.4B, and Digital Experience revenue up 11% YoY to $1.18B
Jordan Novet / CNBC : LinkedIn: Matt Rosoff LinkedIn: Matt Rosoff : A good quarter for the design and marketing software company, which is facing antitrust scrutiny over its attempt to buy design ups...
Snap plans to begin publishing its guidelines for serving personalized Snapchat content after previously sharing them with publishing partners and some creators
Zipline unveils Platform 2 Zip, a drone that can do a 10-mile delivery in 10 minutes to small landing zones via a tethered “delivery droid” from up to 300 feet
Inside the iPhone refurbishment process at New Jersey-based US Mobile Phones, from trade-in to refurbish to resale; Apple devices dominate consumer trade-ins
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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