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Kate Knibbs / Wired: How one author gained a limited copyright for the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text” from AI, as the US Copyright Office wrestles with AI law  —  Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to… Read More »How one author gained a limited copyright for the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text” from AI, as the US Copyright Office wrestles with AI law (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: Crypto miners are stockpiling bitcoins ahead of April 20 halving; TheMinerMag: Marathon Digital, CleanSpark, and Bitfarms hoarded ~$2B worth of bitcoins  —  Digital assets market prepares for 50% drop in reward for verifying bitcoin transactions … Read More »Crypto miners are stockpiling bitcoins ahead of April 20 halving; TheMinerMag: Marathon Digital, CleanSpark, and Bitfarms hoarded ~$2B worth of bitcoins (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)

Sheila Chiang / CNBC: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to NT$592.64B ($18.87B) vs. NT$582.94B est., profit up 8.9% YoY to NT$225.49B vs. NT$213.59B est., on strong AI chip demand  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday beat revenue… Read More »TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to NT$592.64B ($18.87B) vs. NT$582.94B est., profit up 8.9% YoY to NT$225.49B vs. NT$213.59B est., on strong AI chip demand (Sheila Chiang/CNBC)

Molly White / Citation Needed: An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but you can’t build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that’s kind of useful  —  AI can be kind of useful, but I’m not… Read More »An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but you can’t build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that’s kind of useful (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Michael Peel / Financial Times: Research suggests GPT-4 surpassed or achieved the same scores as all but top-scoring specialist medics in assessing ocular problems and suggesting treatments  —  Research harnesses power of generative artificial intelligence in latest sign of its… Read More »Research suggests GPT-4 surpassed or achieved the same scores as all but top-scoring specialist medics in assessing ocular problems and suggesting treatments (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel  —  Google has fired 28 employees over their… Read More »Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)

CNBC: AWS discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers transport large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities  —  Amazon Web Services Snowmobile Truck  —  At Amazon’s annual cloud conference in 2016, the company… Read More »AWS discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers transport large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities (CNBC)

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: Filing: Anne Wojcicki is seeking to take 23andMe private after three years in public markets that saw the company’s valuation collapse from a high of $6B  —  The DNA-testing company’s shares closed at a… Read More »Filing: Anne Wojcicki is seeking to take 23andMe private after three years in public markets that saw the company’s valuation collapse from a high of $6B (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

Amy Or / Bloomberg: Walmart-backed digital marketing software company Ibotta raises ~$577.3M in its IPO at a share price of $88, giving it a market value of $2.67B  —  – Walmart-backed digital marketer’s shares priced at $88 each  — Number… Read More »Walmart-backed digital marketing software company Ibotta raises ~$577.3M in its IPO at a share price of $88, giving it a market value of $2.67B (Amy Or/Bloomberg)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Micron could get $6B+ in chip grants from the US Commerce Department for domestic factory projects; the award could be announced as soon as next week  —  – Top US memory-chip maker building factories in… Read More »Sources: Micron could get $6B+ in chip grants from the US Commerce Department for domestic factory projects; the award could be announced as soon as next week (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)