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Google confirms putting a limit of 5M files per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA (Josh Sisco/Politico)

Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution (Wall Street Journal)

GM's upcoming EVs won't support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of a system developed with Google, to help capture more data and subscription launches (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Roblox will now hide advertisements from users 13 and younger, nearly a year after nonprofit Truth in Advertising filed an FTC complaint against it (Jeffrey Rousseau/GamesIndustry.biz)

env0, which develops Infrastructure as Code workflow automation and management software, raised $18.1M led by Venture Guides, bringing Series A total to $35.1M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers (Manya Saini/Reuters)

Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users' Office 365 data (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed orgs that have been previously verified from paying $1K/month for a checkmark (New York Times)

Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal (Chloe Xiang/VICE)

Synopsys says it is launching the first full-stack AI-powered EDA suite covering all stages of chip design, including architecture, design, and manufacturing (Anton Shilov/AnandTech)

Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble (Jon Victor/The Information)

WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about potential abuses, disinformation, and hallucination (Financial Times)

Docs: investments in 4chan include $5.6M from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura and his company plus $2.4M from Japanese company Good Smile, which makes toys for Disney (Justin Ling/Wired)

Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell to global customers through localization, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Micron reports Q2 revenue of $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., down from $7.79B YoY, and a record net loss of $2.31B due to an inventory write-down of $1.43B (Jeremy C. Owens/MarketWatch)

A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation over its Play Store policies (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)

Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Filing: a California court grants Twitter's request to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)

Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later this year and will be the first "touch-enabled board" to run Teams Rooms on Windows (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Review of 2K+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and surveillance systems to find and arrest scores of protesters and even prevent them from protesting (Lena Masri/Reuters)

Clearview AI's founder says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users consent from sites like Facebook (BBC)