UK chip giant Arm files for blockbuster US share listing In a blow to the London stock market, the firm said in March that it would not list shares in the UK. May 01, 2023 at 08:30AM

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As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material (New York Times)

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Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents (Financial Times)

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An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors (Nidhi Subbaraman/Wall Street Journal)

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An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware)

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A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram's ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service "is not reasonable" (Reuters)

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Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Quebec-based E2ip, which develops tech for smart displays and surfaces, raised a $120M Series B co-led by Export Development Canada and McRock Capital (Charlize Alcaraz/BetaKit)

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Apple drops its lawsuit against Gerard Williams III, a former Apple chip executive who allegedly poached its employees and used company resources to start Nuvia (Joel Rosenblatt/Bloomberg)

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Source: IRL CEO Abraham Shafi has stepped down, following allegations the messaging startup used bots to inflate the users it reported publicly and to investors (Mark Matousek/The Information)

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Docs and sources: OpenAI closed a $10.3B+ funding round at a $27B-$29B valuation; investors include Microsoft, Tiger Global, Sequoia, a16z, and Founders Fund (TechCrunch)

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Filing and sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is raising a $330M Series F at a ~$4.2B valuation, up 55% from its $2.7B valuation in 2021 (Forbes)

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Sources: the US DOJ discovered the SolarWinds breach in late May 2020, months before its public disclosure in December 2020, but was unaware of its significance (Kim Zetter/Wired)

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Synergy: enterprise cloud spending grew 19% YoY to $63B in Q1 2023, vs. 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon took 32% market share, Microsoft 23%, and Google 10% (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

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ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog's demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training (Kelvin Chan/Associated Press)

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Amazon cloud and ads units offset flat e-commerce Amazon has been hit as shoppers return to in-store spending after the pandemic. April 28, 2023 at 05:08AM

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Toronto-based Practice Better, which makes client management software for health and wellness professionals, raised $27M led by Five Elms Capital (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)

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Meta shares are up 170% since bottoming out in November 2022, despite virtually no revenue growth, as investors focus on dramatic cost-cutting efforts (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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YouTube Music adds podcasts on Android, iOS, and the web, supporting listening offline, in the background, and casting for all US users, with or without Premium (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Washington becomes the first US state to adopt sweeping safeguards for health data, including location records that could reveal visits to abortion clinics (Andrea Vittorio/Bloomberg Law)

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Meta says time spent on Instagram grew 24%+ since Reels launched thanks to AI recommendations, and expects Reels to be revenue-neutral by year end or early 2024 (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

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Lookout agrees to sell its consumer mobile security business to F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223M, transitioning into a "pure-play enterprise company" (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

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A Brazilian court orders a temporary ban on Telegram in the country after the company refused to share information about neo-Nazi groups with the federal police (Bloomberg)

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Meta's Reality Labs division reports Q1 revenue of $339M, down from $695M YoY, and operating loss of $3.99B, up from a $2.96B loss YoY (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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US senators unveil a bipartisan bill that bans kids under 13 from joining social media and requires tech companies to get parental consent for teen accounts (Brian Fung/CNN)

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Yelp announces a series of updates, including AI-powered search suggestions and review highlights, and the ability to upload short videos up to 12 seconds long (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Ukraine rapidly expanding its 'Army of Drones' for front line The country increases its drone production after millions of pounds are raised through donations. April 26, 2023 at 04:32AM

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In the latest macOS Ventura beta, Apple removes the Virtual Scanner II app including Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper that shipped with macOS Mojave and up (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

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Inside Meta's scramble to catch up on AI: slow to adopt pricey AI-optimized systems, scrapping a custom AI chip for a more ambitious model in 2025, and more (Reuters)

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Alphabet's board authorized a $70B buyback of its Class A and Class C shares, the same amount it approved in April 2022 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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OpenAI now lets ChatGPT users turn off their chat histories, excluding them from the company's models, and plans to launch ChatGPT Business in the coming months (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Coinbase asks a US federal court to force the SEC to respond to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022, demanding clearer crypto regulations (André Beganski/Decrypt)

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A group of operational technology cybersecurity vendors launches ETHOS, an open-source portal to share early warnings about threats to critical infrastructure (Christian Vasquez/CyberScoop)

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Facebook work filtering posts 'cost me my humanity' Screening out extreme content left him numb to suffering, a former Kenya-based worker tells the BBC. April 25, 2023 at 05:12AM

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Common ChatGPT phrases like "as an AI language model" and "I cannot generate inappropriate content" are appearing in and exposing fake Amazon reviews and tweets (Matthew Gault/VICE)

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Sources: Twitter committed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd's murder; now it's trying to sell those stakes and back out (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

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A look at "the flattening": tech companies laying off middle managers to boost efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

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A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app launched in 2014 that can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or by song (Roman Feeser/CBS News)

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Analysis: people spend more time watching Netflix than Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max combined, and Netflix makes up ~75% of the top 10 shows in the US each week (Bloomberg)

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Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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Millions of families miss out on cheap broadband Ofcom is concerned that people are not getting the broadband social tariffs they are entitled to. April 24, 2023 at 04:35AM

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Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more (Nabiha Syed/The Markup)

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Sources: in its most advanced chipmaking effort, Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners and build a test chip to showcase the capabilities of its designs (Financial Times)

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GitHub's private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers privately disclose security flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Twitter Blue checkmarks were restored on Saturday for some of the platform's biggest names, including those who had not criticized the verification system (Victor Swezey/The Daily Beast)

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Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Some critics of Twitter Blue, such as @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say they have been given unwanted Blue checkmarks (Mike Pearl/Mashable)

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