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Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (@pranshuverma_ / Washington Post)
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Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored" (@anthonyha / TechCrunch)
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A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it "does not use Taction's" tech (@ashleycapoot / CNBC)
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (@c_grigera / Fortune)
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Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook decline to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing "political content" (@zeitchikwapo / The Hollywood Reporter)
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Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series (@sarahpereztc / TechCrunch)
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Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms (@laith_alkhalaf / Financial Times)
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The US and China create a "Super Intelligence Dialogue" on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era "red telephone" (@berkowitzbt / Axios)
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Russia has increased targeted strikes on Ukrainian data centers, disrupting internet access for ~100K Kyiv residents on Wednesday and Thursday (@christopherjm / Financial Times)
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Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks (@joereuters / Reuters)
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A US federal judge dealt fresh setbacks to Deel in the Rippling case over alleged spying, including rejecting its bid to strike testimony from a central witness (@blumbergpeter / Bloomberg)
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A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers (@alexalper / Reuters)
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