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Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India appoints the government-run Press Information Bureau’s fact checking unit to undertake fact checking for government-related social media content  —  In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on… Read More »India appoints the government-run Press Information Bureau’s fact checking unit to undertake fact checking for government-related social media content (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: EU Commission rules, set to be adopted as soon as next week, will fine X, TikTok, and other big platforms over lax election AI content moderation  —  Social media platforms including X and TikTok… Read More »Sources: EU Commission rules, set to be adopted as soon as next week, will fine X, TikTok, and other big platforms over lax election AI content moderation (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q4 revenue up 123% YoY to ~$12.5B and operating profit up 146% YoY to ~$3.2B, boosted by merchant fees  —  Profits at Nasdaq-listed Chinese ecommerce group soar… Read More »US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q4 revenue up 123% YoY to ~$12.5B and operating profit up 146% YoY to ~$3.2B, boosted by merchant fees (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: A review of OpenAI’s GPT Store finds many GPTs that offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more  —  When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s… Read More »A review of OpenAI’s GPT Store finds many GPTs that offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Steven Levy / Wired: An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, now fundamental to LLMs, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper  —  They met by chance, got hooked on an… Read More »An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, now fundamental to LLMs, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper (Steven Levy/Wired)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Toronto-based PocketHealth, which helps 775 health care providers exchange images covering 1.5M patients to cut costs, raised a $33M Series B led by Round13  —  – It raised $33 million in a round led by Round13… Read More »Toronto-based PocketHealth, which helps 775 health care providers exchange images covering 1.5M patients to cut costs, raised a $33M Series B led by Round13 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld’s stats this week  —  The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam… Read More »SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld’s stats this week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Bloomberg: After damage to four major African subsea internet cables, some telecoms are rerouting traffic via Brazil or overland cables; repairs may take over three weeks  —  – Subsea cable repairs expected to take at least three weeks  — Cables… Read More »After damage to four major African subsea internet cables, some telecoms are rerouting traffic via Brazil or overland cables; repairs may take over three weeks (Bloomberg)

Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: After its early OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and Inflection’s staff continues a strategy of developing close ties with leading AI practitioners  —  Satya Nadella’s hiring of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing close… Read More »After its early OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and Inflection’s staff continues a strategy of developing close ties with leading AI practitioners (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holding to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin  —  – Purchase were made with proceeds from a convertible… Read More »Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holding to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)