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Matt Novak / Forbes:As his companies lag OpenAI in the AI race, Musk launders his “concerns” about AI through the Future of Life Institute, primarily funded by the Musk Foundation  —  Elon Musk signed an open letter on Tuesday calling for a six-month…

Adi Robertson / The Verge:An AI-focused tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying the rollout of its AI tools has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety”  —  An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has…

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:An interview with Vinod Khosla on how AI will “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more  —  At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon…

Emma Roth / The Verge:Helped by his Twitter acquisition, Elon Musk surpasses President Obama as the most followed person on the service with 133,068,709 followers  —  Elon Musk has dethroned former President Barack Obama as the most followed person on…

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:Kuo: Apple's mixed reality headset may not appear at WWDC as mass production is pushed back to Q3, amid doubts about the device creating an “iPhone moment”  —  Apple has again pushed back mass production of its…

Livemint:Report: PhonePe, one of India's largest fintech services, has called off plans to acquire BNPL service ZestMoney for $200M to $300M, over due diligence concerns  —  PhonePe, one of India's largest fintech platforms, has put on hold its plans to…

Sean Hollister / The Verge:Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January after complaining that Bard was being trained with ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge  —  Google's Bard hasn't exactly had an impressive debut — and The…

Wall Street Journal:Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta will let users opt out of some highly personalized ads, using an online form that Meta will review and approve  —  Facebook, Instagram parent hopes plans to alter a privacy approach that…

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more  —  FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and…

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Berlin-based Parloa, which uses AI and low-code tools to automate call center operations, raised a €20M Series A led by EQT Ventures  —  It's estimated that over $400 billion are spent annually to run customer contact centers…

Sarah Wynn / The Block:SEC Chair Gary Gensler says existing securities law covers most of what is happening in the crypto markets and any additional legislation is unnecessary  —  - Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said additional…

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:Crypto exchange OKX says it has identified $157M in digital assets belonging to FTX and Alameda Research, and is turning them over to the bankruptcy estate  —  FTX bankruptcy lawyers say that $694 million in liquid assets have been…

Reuters:Alibaba says it may cede control of some businesses if they opt to list after its overhaul and plans to monetize non-core assets to improve capital structure  —  Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Thursday it will look to monetise non-core assets and…

Jonathan Greig / The Record:Google's Threat Analysis Group details two limited but highly targeted spyware campaigns using several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS, and Chrome  —  Two targeted spyware campaigns involving several zero-day exploits for…

Financial Times:Sources: Meta is considering a company-wide political ads ban in Europe, concerned its platforms will be unable to comply with forthcoming online campaign laws  —  Facebook parent concerned how it will police social networks in wake of new…