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All.health, the successor to Jawbone, seeks to dismiss an investor suit for alleged fraud; the startup has raised at least $65M, according to a 2019 filing (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: All.health, the successor to Jawbone, seeks to dismiss an investor suit for alleged fraud; the startup…
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Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US' general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications (New York Times)
New York Times: Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US’ general counsel, a potential witness, and…
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Twitter says moving forward account suspension will be for "severe or ongoing, repeat violations" of its rules, and users can appeal suspensions from February 1 (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter says moving forward account suspension will be for “severe or ongoing, repeat violations” of…
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Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster with AI amid the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside (Washington Post)
Washington Post: Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster with AI amid the surge of attention…
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New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
Maureen Farrell / New York Times: New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed…
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Counterpoint: China's smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country's No. 2 brand (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: Counterpoint: China’s smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest…
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Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk's role in shaping Tesla's self-driving car claims, as part of a probe into the company's statements about Autopilot (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla’s self-driving car claims, as part…
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Sources: Joe Biden's administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Joe Biden’s administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced…
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Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 contractors over the past six months, 40% of them programmers creating data for its models to learn software engineering tasks (Semafor)
Semafor: Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 contractors over the past six months, 40% of them programmers creating data for its models…
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Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, doesn't let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed (James Vincent/The Verge)
James Vincent / The Verge: Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic publisher, doesn’t let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as…
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