Eri Sugiura / Financial Times:
Sony's CTO and NEC's CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China's ability to procure chips but question the sanctions' long-term effectiveness — Sony and NEC executives say progress may be slowed but China will remain a force in AI and other areas
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Sony's CTO and NEC's CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China's ability to procure chips but question the sanctions' long-term effectiveness (Eri Sugiura/Financial Times)
Elon Musk may be planning to sue some Twitter employees, here's why
Saturday, December 10, 2022
With "Twitter Files", Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends (Eric Levitz/New York Magazine)
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
With “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends — But it is actually a tool of progressive power. While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal …
Google, worried about its reputation, is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but by waiting too long it may cede the market to competitors like ChatGPT (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Google, worried about its reputation, is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but by waiting too long it may cede the market to competitors like ChatGPT — The tech giant believes the future of search is conversational. How did it let OpenAI's ChatGPT take the lead? — Google's had an awkward week.
Three members of Twitter's Trust & Safety Council, including two who have been members since 2016, resign, alleging Twitter's new leadership had shut them out (Nitish Pahwa/Slate)
Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
Three members of Twitter's Trust & Safety Council, including two who have been members since 2016, resign, alleging Twitter's new leadership had shut them out — Eirliani Abdul Rahman helped the platform stop youth sexual exploitation. The new boss wasn't listening.
With Republicans poised to take over the House in 2023, a look at the prospects of the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act in a divided Congress (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
With Republicans poised to take over the House in 2023, a look at the prospects of the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act in a divided Congress — With Republicans poised to take over the House next year, a divided Congress looms. The result could be two years of partisan strife and gridlock.
Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the "Twitter Files" give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias — Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …
FTX secretly funded crypto news site, claims Axios
FTX founder Bankman-Fried to testify before US House panel
Friday, December 9, 2022
SBF agrees to testify before a House committee on December 13 but remains quiet about a request from a Senate committee, which could issue a subpoena (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)
Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
SBF agrees to testify before a House committee on December 13 but remains quiet about a request from a Senate committee, which could issue a subpoena — The FTX founder said on Twitter he would appear before a House committee next week, but was quiet about a similar request from a Senate committee.
Istanbul-based delivery startup Getir closes its acquisition of Berlin-based rival Gorillas, valuing the group at $10B, and sources say Gorillas alone at ~$1.2B (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Istanbul-based delivery startup Getir closes its acquisition of Berlin-based rival Gorillas, valuing the group at $10B, and sources say Gorillas alone at ~$1.2B — Combined group worth $10bn represents a fall in valuation as investors turn against lossmaking tech start-ups
SoftBank-backed Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal drops its $152M IPO plans, after filing in December 2021, amid a tech stock rout (Reuters)
Reuters:
SoftBank-backed Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal drops its $152M IPO plans, after filing in December 2021, amid a tech stock rout — SoftBank-backed Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal has decided to pull the plug on its $152 million IPO, the company told Reuters, making it the latest casualty …
Singapore-based Amber Group, one of Asia's largest crypto exchanges, cuts 40% of its staff, scraps retail operations, and terminates its Chelsea FC sponsorship (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Singapore-based Amber Group, one of Asia's largest crypto exchanges, cuts 40% of its staff, scraps retail operations, and terminates its Chelsea FC sponsorship — Amber Group, one of Asia's leading crypto trading and lending platforms, is cutting jobs, scrapping retail operations and terminating …
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Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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