FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting "offensive weapons" into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a "fever pitch" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times) https://t.co/CoJntTQqn9

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FBI Director Christopher Wray says China inserts malware into networks to disrupt critical US infrastructure, and its “pre-positioning” has hit a “fever pitch”

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Filing: the FTC seeks a pause in Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, arguing layoffs in Microsoft's gaming division contradict Microsoft's prior claims (Jessica Conditt/Engadget)

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FTC accuses Microsoft of misrepresenting its Activision Blizzard plans after layoffs

The FTC is accusing Microsoft of contradicting its pledge to allow Activision Blizzard to operate independently post-acquisition.

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Filing: the FTC seeks a pause in Microsoft

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Google releases Gemini Ultra 1.0, the largest and most capable version of its LLMs, and renames Bard to Gemini, which now has a dedicated Android app (David Pierce/The Verge)

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Google’s AI now goes by a new name: Gemini

Gemini is coming to your phone, your email, your everything.

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Google debuts Gemini Ultra 1.0, its largest and most capable LLM, renames Bard as Gemini, debuts a dedicated Android app, and plans to add Gemini to its iOS app

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Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

What Medium’s CEO has learned about technology and journalism

The online publisher is on track to become profitable this year. But challenges remain for Tony Stubblebine, including AI-generated content.

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Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more

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Sources: Elon Musk's xAI has secured $500M in commitments from investors toward a $1B goal and is aiming for a valuation of $15B to $20B (Bloomberg)

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Musk’s AI Startup Secures $500 Million Toward $1 Billion Funding Goal

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured $500 million in commitments from investors toward a $1 billion goal, according to p...

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Sources: Elon Musk

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Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country's infrastructure and assign them letter grades (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)

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Canada Will Use Letter Grades to Assess Companies’ Cyber Resilience

The Canadian government is joining forces with the cybersecurity ratings firm SecurityScorecard Inc. to bolster defenses for that country’s criti...

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Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country

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Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)

Nayanthara Film 'Annapoorani' Pulled From Netflix Over Hindu Portrayal

'Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food,' headlined by Nayanthara, has been pulled from Netflix after multiple complaints from Hindu groups.

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Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film

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Wearables with powerful AI models would be a much more profound invasion of personal privacy than what we have today with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

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Do You Want Mark Zuckerberg Snooping in Your Closet?

AI is going into pendants and glasses. That could become a profound new invasion of privacy that makes us all more guarded.

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Wearables with powerful AI models would be a much more profound invasion of personal privacy than what we have today with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri

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Andreessen Horowitz says "we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values" for technology (Ben Horowitz/Andreessen Horowitz)

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Politics and the Future

Technology startups need a voice. We are non-partisan, one issue voters: If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are fo...

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Andreessen Horowitz says “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values” for technology

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Reuters temporarily removes its article titled "How an Indian startup hacked the world" to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-hackers-appin/

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Reuters temporarily removes its article titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision

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