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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: SK Hynix says its capacity to make HBM chips is almost fully booked through 2025 and it now aims to begin mass production of its next-generation HBM chip in Q3  —  - Samsung rival aims to begin making next-gen HBM3E next quarter  — SK Hynix is one of the companies at heart of a global AI boom

Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks  —  A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution …

Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol: Chennai-based CRM software maker Freshworks redesignates CEO Girish Mathrubootham as the executive chairman and names Dennis Woodside as his replacement  —  Mathrubootham will now be spending more time on the long-term product vision, innovation and AI strategy.

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed  —  Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.

Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator's chief data officer and director of its data division  —  Commodity Futures Trading Commission has promoted Ted Kaouk to the chief data and artificial intelligence officer role

Annie Palmer / CNBC: An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be “less empowered” if they voted in a union  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law in comments he made to media outlets about unionization efforts at the company …

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and it'll take “several months” to notify victims  —  Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers  —  Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a …

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income  —  The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco  —  Game engine maker Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former COO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member.

Antonio Olivo / Washington Post: A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry  —  A backlash against internet data centers has triggered a wave of laws around the country to restrain the rapidly growing industry …

Financial Times: In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI's Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika  —  The FT asked workers in animation, advertising and real estate to test rival AI systems that create short clips

Kelly Le / South China Morning Post: Taiwan's KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions  —  - King Yuan Electronics Co, one of the world's largest chip testing and packaging services firms, has divested its entire stake in a Suzhou subsidiary

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Phone app beta rolls out “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting  —  The Google Phone app is picking up a new trick, with the app now rolling out “Audio Emoji” to some users.

Entrackr: Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021  —  API Holdings, the parent company of online drug dispenser PharmEasy, has raised Rs 1,804 crore ($216 million) …

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot which became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4  —  An advanced AI model with unknown origins turned heads this week as online communities unpacked a cryptic tweet from Sam Altman.

FinSMEs: Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others  —  Elisity, a San Jose, CA-based company which specializes in identity-based microsegmentation, raised $37M in Series B funding.

Kwan Wei Kevin Tan / Business Insider: Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023  —  - The former Twitter director Esther Crawford says she has joined Mark Zuckerberg's Meta.  — Crawford was one of Elon …

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ETH is a security  —  The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says Gensler refused to discuss his view on ETH in testimony even after the SEC was investigating it as a security.

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation  —  A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company's offices says the company retaliated …

Ian King / Bloomberg: AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours  —  - Sluggish gaming chip demand also has weighed on sales  — Investors waiting for new AI processors to fuel more growth

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sam's Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members' purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores  —  Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts …

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: An APK review suggests the Rabbit R1 runs Android and its entire user interface is powered by a single Android app  —  - The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered, handheld gadget that seems to run Android under the hood.  — Many reviewers have criticized the utility of AI gadgets like the Rabbit R1 …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps showing live streams and clips  —  Twitch is officially rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced on Tuesday.