As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek limits on the use of AI-produced material (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:42 Rating: 5

Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:43 Rating: 5

An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:42 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 07:42 Rating: 5

Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors (Nidhi Subbaraman/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 05:41 Rating: 5

An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram's ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service "is not reasonable" (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:43 Rating: 5

Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:42 Rating: 5

Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's "commitment to collect minimal data" (BBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Interviews with lawmakers and sources reveal how, over just 11 days, MEPs created a draft bill on generative AI, a rare example of quick consensus in the EU (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Apple drops its lawsuit against Gerard Williams III, a former Apple chip executive who allegedly poached its employees and used company resources to start Nuvia (Joel Rosenblatt/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Source: IRL CEO Abraham Shafi has stepped down, following allegations the messaging startup used bots to inflate the users it reported publicly and to investors (Mark Matousek/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Docs and sources: OpenAI closed a $10.3B+ funding round from Microsoft, Tiger Global, Sequoia, a16z, Thrive, Founders Fund, and others at a $27B-$29B valuation (TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Filing and sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is raising a $330M Series F at a ~$4.2B valuation, up 55% from its $2.7B valuation in 2021 (Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Synergy: enterprise cloud spending in Q1 grew 19% YoY to $63B, down from a 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 63% of spending (Ron Miller/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog's demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training (Kelvin Chan/Associated Press) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

The New York City MTA ends its Twitter service alerts, saying the platform is "no longer reliable"; MTA: Twitter demanded $50K per month for API access (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:43 Rating: 5

Canada's Online Streaming Act passes final hurdle in Parliament; it requires streamers to support Canadian content and gives the CRTC regulatory power over them (Mickey Djuric/Canadian Press) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Toronto-based Practice Better, which makes client management software for health and wellness professionals, raised $27M led by Five Elms Capital (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Pinterest Q1: revenue up 5% YoY to $603M, vs. $594M est., global MAUs up 7% YoY to 463M, vs. 454.6M est., and Q2 growth forecast below estimates; PINS down 8%+ (Emily Bary/MarketWatch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:42 Rating: 5

Washington becomes the first US state to adopt sweeping safeguards for consumer health data, including location records that could reveal abortion clinic visits (Andrea Vittorio/Bloomberg Law) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:43 Rating: 5

Google says it plans to add E2EE to Google Authenticator "down the line", after researchers warned that its new feature to sync 2FA codes is not E2E encrypted (Abner Li/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Meta says time spent on Instagram grew 24%+ since Reels launched thanks to AI recommendations, and expects Reels to be revenue-neutral by year end or early 2024 (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Mark Zuckerberg disputes the narrative that Meta is moving its focus away from a metaverse vision and sees AI tech working in tandem with the metaverse (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5