Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state, starting on January 1, 2024
Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation
Filing: Elon Musk creates X.AI Corp., a privately held AI company incorporated in Nevada, and authorizes the sale of 100M shares
Name of new Nevada-incorporated organization suggests link to billionaire's interest in everything app — Elon Musk has created a new artificial intelligence …
Court docs: the FBI used Discord billing records to help identify Jack Teixeira, the Air National guardsman who allegedly leaked classified Pentagon documents
A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of highly classified military documents appeared in court Friday …
Developer logs: Apple is testing a laptop with a CPU similar to current models and with the same resolution as the 14" MacBook Pro, suggesting a 15" MacBook Air
Apple Inc. is ramping up testing of fresh Macs with processors on par with the current M2 chip, making headway on key new machines that could help reverse a sales decline.
Sources: Sega is nearing a deal to acquire Rovio for ~$1B; Rovio was in talks to sell to rival Playtika for $800M+, but the negotiations ended in March 2023
Japan-based entertainment conglomerate expected to pay about $1 billion for Rovio Entertainment — Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. SGAMY …
A New York federal judge sentences James Zhong, who stole 50K+ bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012, to one year and one day in prison; Zhong faced 27 to 33 months
A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site before his cache hit $3.35 billion in value must serve a year in prison.
A look at OpenAI's “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release
Microsoft-backed company asked an eclectic mix of people to ‘adversarially test’ GPT-4, its powerful new language model
Sources: Musk plans a new startup to rival OpenAI, is talking to Tesla and SpaceX investors, may use Twitter for training data and Tesla for computing resources
Billionaire seeks to hire engineers, attract investors and acquire chips needed to build large language model
SEC reopens a draft rule, that expands its regulatory powers over crypto, for public comment, adding explicit language to cover digital asset and DeFi exchanges
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday altered a proposed rule to make more explicit that digital-asset exchanges …
Instagram updates Reels with a section for trending audio and hashtags, expands gifts to more countries, enhances its editing tools, adds new metrics, and more
As governments around the world express growing concerns about TikTok, its rival Instagram Reels is getting a series of new updates aimed at creators.
Sam Altman says OpenAI won't train GPT-5 for “some time” and the letter to pause AI development missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”
This is in line with my current belief that GPT-4 is pretty close to where LLMs will peak. … Tweets: Brij Singh / @brij : Capabilities over versions! Moving forward, @OpenAI may shift focus away from ...
Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, starting at €999 and available for preorder in Europe
The clip-on fan interfaces with a trap door that opens up for internal cooling. — Some companies may be giving …
Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives
Its Music-based Wordle Chris Morris / Fortune : Heardle is going silent as Spotify shuts down its music guessing game Tweets: Dan Nguyen / @dancow : Seems like a low bar, sure, but the fact that the N...
A San Francisco federal judge rules Google must face trial, set for May 8, over Sonos' patents, but invalidates two of four patents and narrows Sonos' claims
Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) received a mixed ruling on Thursday from a San Francisco federal judge in a patent lawsuit brought by Sonos Inc …
Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV series and charge for content; JioCinema had 22M viewers for an IPL cricket match on April 12
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VC funding for cybersecurity startups fell to nearly $2.7B in Q1 2023, down 58% YoY from $6.5B in Q1 2022; the number of announced deals dropped 45% YoY to 149
which saw less than $10 billion go to cyber startups — in total dollars raised. https://news.crunchbase.com/ ... @crunchbasenews : Although venture funding struggled mightily in the first quarter, fun...
How Apple's commitment to supporting old iPhones allowed it to capture a part of the US market once cornered by the inexpensive Android phones
It's not just lavish marketing and the threat of green bubbles—Apple's commitment to supporting old phones has allowed it to capture a part … Tweets: @kaleekreider and @ryanrozbiani Tweets: Kalee Krei...
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Digg's collapse, Reddit going public after 17 years, TikTok and regulation as its biggest threats, its longevity, and more
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Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material
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Court filings in California's suit against Amazon say the company blocked sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites despite claiming to end the policy
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