Over 1,000 people, including Elon Musk, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. — Signatures
Goldman Sachs research: generative AI could increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period and expose 300M full-time jobs to automation globally
Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’ — The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence …
Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers
A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
The FDIC tells Signature's crypto clients that they have until April 5 to close their accounts, as Flagstar's bid excluded ~$4B in Signature's crypto deposits
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. informed crypto clients with deposits at the failed Signature Bank that they have until April 5 …
Nansen: Binance saw net outflows of $2.1B over seven days as of 27 March, as it raised fees, suffered software issues, and faced a CFTC lawsuit
In a tumultuous few days, crypto giant raises fees, suffers software issues and faces regulator lawsuit — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained.
Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches
Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday.
Google plans to roll out extreme heat alerts in Search, including informing users about when to expect a heat wave, being safe, and tips to stay cool
Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves, the company announced on Tuesday.
Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models …
Lemon8, ByteDance's Instagram rival launched in March 2020, hits the US App Store's top 10; data.ai: the app never ranked in the top 200 overall charts before
As U.S. lawmakers move forward with their plans for a TikTok ban or forced sale, the app's Chinese parent company ByteDance …
An Indian appellate tribunal upholds the ~$160M fine imposed on Google by the Competition Commission of India in the Android antitrust case
The NCLAT, an appellate authority for orders passed by the CCI, had started its hearing in the Android matter on February 15 following a directive by the Supreme Court.
The UK government publishes recommendations for AI and urges regulators to issue practical guidance to organizations on implementing them in their sectors
- The U.K. government has published a white paper for the artificial intelligence industry. — It calls on regulators to come up with …
SEC sues shuttered crypto exchange Beaxy and execs, alleging it was unregistered, and the founder and Beaxy Digital for raising $8M via unregistered token BXY
- The SEC brought charges against crypto platform Beaxy on Wednesday for allegedly not registering as an exchange, broker or a clearing agency.
Docs: Binance CEO and other execs hid its links to China for several years, including an office until 2019, despite saying in 2017 that Binance left China
Company documents show crypto exchange relied on country long after it said it had left in 2017 — Binance hid substantial links …
The UK releases its draft Media Bill that could see Netflix, Disney+, and other US streamers fined up to £250K for breaking harmful material rules under Ofcom
The UK government has published its long-awaited draft Media Bill to bring the U.S. streamers under its regulatory framework …
A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring the company to save records of staff chats in antitrust litigation over its Play Store policies
Alphabet Inc.'s Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation …
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried is paying his legal fees from a $10M+ gift he gave his father with money borrowed from Alameda
While still CEO of now-collapsed FTX, Bankman-Fried transferred millions of dollars to his father. Some of those funds have since been used to pay for his mounting legal fees …
Discounting AI's short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves society ill-prepared
Researchers find a flaw in WiFi protocol IEEE 802.11 that could be exploited to inject malicious content into TCP packets and more; many routers are affected
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard …
TikTok, Amazon, and others struggle to adopt China's livestream ecommerce model in the US, as experts blame differences between US and Chinese consumer behavior
Selling over livestreams is a $40 billion business in China. But Americans just aren't responding.
Apple rolls out Apple Pay Later to select US users, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4, available to all US users in the coming months
and bring out the regulators Eray Eliaçik / gHacks Technology News : How to use Apple Pay Later: Set up, apply, and purchase Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal : Apple Rolls Out Buy Now, Pay Later ...
Microsoft launches Security Copilot, a GPT-4-powered assistant to help security professionals with incident investigations, event summaries, reporting, and more
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Q&A with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on open-source governance, business models, rejecting VC firms, running an instance, ActivityPub, content moderation, more
CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network. … Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon …
Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later in 2023 and will become the first “touch-enabled board” to run Teams Rooms on Windows
Zac Bowden / Windows Central :
On TikTok, #TikTokBan had 1.7B views on March 27, up from 983M views on March 18, as users post hundreds of videos arguing the app shouldn't be banned in the US
New York Times :
Plugins turn ChatGPT into an aggregator, signaling a major shift in ambition that puts OpenAI well on its way to becoming the next major consumer tech platform
Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO
announced a day after co-founder Jack Ma returned to mainland China after almost a year overseas. @hwclarence @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... Paul Page / @paulpage : Alibaba plans a major struc...
US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of ordering an Alameda payment of $40M+ in cryptocurrency to bribe Chinese government officials
Berlin-based Hygraph, which offers a federated digital content management service, raised a $30M Series B led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $43.7M
Digital content and how we consume it continue to endlessly evolve, and with that, so too does the tech that helps manage all of it behind the scenes.
Substack invites its newsletter writers and others to invest, raising $5M+; source: the raise is an extension of Substack's $65M Series B in March 2021
Perplexity AI, which is building an AI-based conversational search engine, raised a $25.6M Series A led by NEA with participation from Jeff Dean and others
Bloomberg :
Micron reports Q2 revenue down 53% YoY to $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., and a $2.31B record net loss after a $1.43B write-down, as executives hint at a market bottom
Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch :
A US court rules bZx protocol meets the definition of a general partnership and finds token holders of the DAO liable for losses from a $55M hack in 2021
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are beginning to look like general partnerships in the eyes of U.S. courts.
To compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with Replit, which used AI to make coding tools and will now rely on Google's LLMs for its Ghostwriter product
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
Sources: Microsoft plans a major overhaul for “Windows 12” to modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and improved security, to better compete with ChromeOS
Pennsylvania-based NCB Management Services, which purchases debt, says sensitive financial info of 494,969 people was leaked during a cyberattack on the company
Jonathan Greig / The Record :
Clearview AI's CEO says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users' consent from sites like Facebook
The UK CMA launches an in-depth probe, which can take up to six months, of Broadcom's $69B VMware acquisition, after Broadcom failed to address concerns
Google and ADT debut ADT Self Setup, a SimpliSafe-like security system integrated with nearly all Nest products and also offers sensors, a keypad, and more
A review of 2,000+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and video surveillance systems to find and arrest hundreds of protesters or even prevent protests
Lena Masri / Reuters :
How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government's adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country
Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @nicktagliaferro and @ricardovalp Tweets: @nicktagliaferro : I think the most impressive thing about the crypto ecosystem's collective quest to speedrun...
A profile of Swedish gaming company Embracer, whose growth via frantic dealmaking has raised questions of financial performance, accounting practices, and more
Financial Times : Tweets: @annasophiegross , @arashmassoudi , and @lordshipstrade Tweets: Anna Gross / @annasophiegross : Embracer has grown into Europe's biggest gaming group via a dealmaking bonanz...
Sources: Microsoft is near a deal with cloud providers OVHcloud, Aruba, and Danish Cloud Community to pull their antitrust complaints to the European Commission
Filing: Twitter wins an order from a California court to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg :
EigenLabs, working on an ETH “restaking” protocol, raised a $50M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital among investors
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