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California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning "addictive feeds", barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more (Taryn Luna/Los Angeles Times)

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A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023 (Joanna Chiu/Rest of World)

A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains ...

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A profile of Santa Clara County Deputy DA Erin Wes...

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Nick Clegg criticized Rishi Sunak's doomerism after the PM held a summit on AI safety, saying Britain "wasted a huge amount of time" focusing on the risks of AI (Politico)

Nick Clegg criticized Rishi Sunak's doomerism afte...

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Hands on with Plaud's ChatGPT-powered NotePin: deliberate design that uses tap to trigger the device, can manage multiple speakers in 59 languages, and more (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Hands on with Plaud's ChatGPT-powered NotePin: del...

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JPMorgan, Visa, and other financial firms join Project Agora, a blockchain-based project by Bank for International Settlements to overhaul cross-border payments (Bastian Benrath-Wright/Bloomberg)

JPMorgan, Visa, and other financial firms join Pro...

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Intezer, which develops AI-powered tools for autonomous security operations, raised a $33M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking total raised to $60M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Intezer, which develops AI-powered tools for auton...

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Motion, which sells analytics and research tools for creative strategists, raised a $30M Series B led by Inovia Capital, bringing its total funding to $42M (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

Motion, which sells analytics and research tools f...

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Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a "video tab" feature and an X-exclusive women's soccer reality show, The Offseason, produced by Alexis Ohanian (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

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Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to connect suppliers and buyers in the wholesale food industry, raised a $55M Series B led by Bicycle Capital (Daniel Cancel/Bloomberg)

Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace ...

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Functional Finance, which offers financial operations software for managing general agents, insurers, and wholesalers, raised a $20M Series A led by Walkabout (Avi Ben-Hutta/Coverager)

Functional Finance, which offers financial operati...

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The judge overseeing the Google ad trial calls Google's testimony that it faces "fierce competition" from the likes of Microsoft and Meta "highly questionable" (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

The judge overseeing the Google ad trial calls Goo...

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Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of insurance pricing models, raised a $120M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total raised to $180M (FinTech Global)

Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of...

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Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for failing to appear for scheduled testimony for a probe into his $44B Twitter takeover (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctio...

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OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence (Timothy B Lee/Understanding AI)

OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reas...

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Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; Black Forest raised a $31M seed (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model pow...

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Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days; Intel stock jumps 7%+ (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Inte...

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Twitch changes enforcement of community guidelines so that strikes for some offenses will depreciate over time, users will get more info on strikes, and more (Ash Parrish/The Verge)

Twitch changes enforcement of community guidelines...

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