The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating "deep synthesis" tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 (Josh Nicholas/The Guardian) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Despite a recent pledge by Chinese officials to support tech to boost growth, VCs and foreign investors remain wary after a brutal, two-year regulatory campaign (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Marseille-based Volta Medical, whose AI assistant helps surgeons in cardiac ablation procedures, raised a €36M Series B, bringing its total funding to over €70M (Callum Cyrus/Tech.eu) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Some companies are taking a liberal interpretation of CA's pay transparency law with wide pay ranges; one Netflix job posting has a pay range of $90K to $900K (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: some former Twitter employees in the US finally received their official severance agreements, but offering only one month of base pay as severance (Kylie Robison/Fortune) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

PitchBook: in 2022, investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals, almost as much as the investment in the previous five years combined (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

An Ohio man pleads guilty to stealing 712+ bitcoins seized by the IRS in a case against his brother, who was convicted of running money laundering service Helix (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised (Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Irish DPC's €390M Meta fine, issued at the behest of European Data Protection Board, is a harbinger of how EU may crack down on Big Tech in the next two years (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5