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Quordle today - hints and answers for Monday, May 1 (game #462)

As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material (New York Times)

Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors (Nidhi Subbaraman/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Quordle today - hints and answers for Sunday, April 30 (game #461)

The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware)

A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram's ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service "is not reasonable" (Reuters)

Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's "commitment to collect minimal data" (BBC)

Interviews with lawmakers and sources reveal how, over just 11 days, MEPs created a draft bill on generative AI, a rare example of quick consensus in the EU (Reuters)

Apple drops its lawsuit against Gerard Williams III, a former Apple chip executive who allegedly poached its employees and used company resources to start Nuvia (Joel Rosenblatt/Bloomberg)

Docs and sources: OpenAI closed a $300M+ share sale at a $27B-$29B valuation; backers include Tiger Global, Sequoia, a16z, Thrive, K2 Global, and Founders Fund (TechCrunch)

Synergy: enterprise cloud spending in Q1 grew 19% YoY to $63B, down from a 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 63% of spending (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog's demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training (Kelvin Chan/Associated Press)

Canada's Online Streaming Act passes final hurdle in Parliament; it requires streamers to support Canadian content and gives the CRTC regulatory power over them (Mickey Djuric/Canadian Press)

Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to $290.2M vs. $290.8M est., a $38.1M net loss, and revenue guidance for Q2 and FY 2023 below estimates; NET drops 20%+ (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Toronto-based Practice Better, which makes client management software for health and wellness professionals, raised $27M led by Five Elms Capital (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)

Pinterest Q1: revenue up 5% YoY to $603M, vs. $594M est., global MAUs up 7% YoY to 463M, vs. 454.6M est., and Q2 growth forecast below estimates; PINS down 8%+ (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)

Microsoft discontinues Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards, and webcams, to focus on its Surface brand for PC accessories; Microsoft's first mouse debuted in 1983 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Washington becomes the first US state to adopt sweeping safeguards for health data, including location records that could reveal visits to abortion clinics (Andrea Vittorio/Bloomberg Law)

Meta says time spent on Instagram grew 24%+ since Reels launched thanks to AI recommendations, and expects Reels to be revenue-neutral by year end or early 2024 (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

A Brazilian court orders a temporary ban on Telegram in the country after the company refused to share information about neo-Nazi groups with the federal police (Bloomberg)

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $741M, platform revenue down 1% YoY to $635M, streaming hours up 20% YoY to 25.1B, and active accounts up 17% YoY to 71.6M (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Some users say Microsoft Edge sends URLs of visited pages to Bing API's site; a developer says Edge's creator follow option, on by default, may be the culprit (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Mexico-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised a $60M Series B+ led by GGV, after a $70M Series B in December 2021 (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)