❌ U.S. Threatens to Ban TikTok if Chinese Founder Doesn't Sell Ownership Stake

Plus: OpenAI co-founder on company's past approach to openly sharing research, Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?, and more…

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U.S. Threatens to Ban TikTok if Chinese Founder Doesn't Sell Ownership Stake. WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is demanding that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their stakes in the video-sharing app or face a possible U.S. ban of the app, according to people familiar with the matter. The move represents a major shift… (John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal)

Ben Pershing @benpershing

NEWS: The Biden administration has demanded that video-sharing app TikTok divest itself of its Chinese founder’s ownership stake or face a possible U.S. ban

wsj.comWSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell StakesThe company says a forced sale won’t resolve national-security issues as its CEO is set to appear before Congress next week.

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OpenAI co-founder on company's past approach to openly sharing research: 'We were wrong'. Yesterday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, its long-awaited next-generation AI language model. The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials, many have expressed disappointment at… (James Vincent / The Verge)

James Vincent @jjvincent

OpenAI has shared very few details about its latest AI model GPT-4, triggering criticisms from many in the AI community. Co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever told The Verge that the company's past approach to sharing research was "wrong" theverge.com/2023/3/15/2364…

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Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?. In September, my family and I move from our home in Dublin to a fancy East Coast college town, where I'll be teaching for the semester. I grew up in Dublin, which means I have a wide circle of friends to draw on whenever I'm let out of the house. (Paul Murray / New York Magazine)

Choire.substack.com @Choire

It’s worse than I’d imagined.

nymag.comWho Is Still Inside the Metaverse?Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.

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50 Tech Leaders Circulated A Private Memo In Washington Calling For Action On SVB. Just after 5:30 pm Pacific on Saturday, a memo started making the rounds among policymaker staff. Called “United States Cascade Bank Failure Scenario,” the private document laid out the case for why the U.S. government needed to take… (Alex Konrad / Forbes)

Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad

On Saturday, a group of about 50 tech leaders -- founders, VCs, economists and comms experts -- convened in a WhatsApp group to draft a private memo calling for action to secure deposits at SVB. Then they sent it to Washington. My story for @Forbes:

forbes.com50 Tech Leaders Circulated A Private Memo In Washington Calling For Action On SVBAs SVB careened towards catastrophe, some 50 founders, VCs, economists and comms experts gathered in a WhatsApp group to draft a memo calling for urgent preservation of its deposits for the sake of the broader economy. Then they sent it to Washington.

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LinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads and writing profiles. Image Credits: LinkedIn China via Weibo Earlier this month, when LinkedIn started seeding “ AI-powered conversation starters ” in people's news feeds to boost engagement on its platform, the move saw more than little engagement of its… (Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

LinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads and writing profiles tcrn.ch/42iFuPI by @ingridlunden

tcrn.chLinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads and writing profilesLearning, job ads and profiles are the latest to get the AI push at LinkedIn

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