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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple’s display and car research teams were reportedly based  —  The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to… Read More »Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple’s display and car research teams were reportedly based (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country’s strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown  —  Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada,… Read More »Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country’s strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Filing: Meta rejects the FTC’s bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints  —  – Messenger Kids let some chat, video-call with unapproved users … Read More »Filing: Meta rejects the FTC’s bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross  —  Video platform provider Vimeo named Philip Moyer, a senior… Read More »Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September  —  New York CNN —  —  Disney is curbing password sharing for… Read More »Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September (Samantha Murphy Kelly/CNN)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won’t be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops  —  Users have been prompted to withdraw Bitcoin NFTs… Read More »Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won’t be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

Bloomberg: YouTube’s CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube’s ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube’s creator contracts to train Gemini  —  The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be a infraction… Read More »YouTube’s CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube’s ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube’s creator contracts to train Gemini (Bloomberg)

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use  —  Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as… Read More »Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Niamh Rowe / Fortune: Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm  —  Ellipsis Labs today announced $20 million in Series A funding, led by Paradigm with… Read More »Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm (Niamh Rowe/Fortune)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices  —  Backlink scams are now leveraging fake, AI-generated ‘lawyers’… Read More »A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices (Jason Koebler/404 Media)