Contents

• Editorial: Khan and Gensler Should Be Fired

• Essays of the Week

  • Threads won’t kill Twitter if it’s boring
  • Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
  • FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case
  • XRP Sold on Exchange Declared Not an Investment Contract
  • Ripple’s XRP Token Surges 96% After Court Rules XRP Sales Aren’t Investment Contracts
  • FTC opens investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI

  • Video of the Week

  • Y Combinator - Will OpenAI Kill Startups?

  • AI of the Week

  • Elon Musk launches AI startup and warns of a ‘Terminator future’

  • Elon Musk's xAI Might Be Hallucinating Its Chances Against ChatGPT
  • Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
  • Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
  • OpenAI and Associated Press (AP) announce partnership to train AI on news articles
  • Harvard is using ChatGPT to teach computer science
  • How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse
  • Survey Finds AI Interviews Will be Used by 43% of Companies by 2024

  • News Of the Week

  • Threads Reaches 100 Million Members in Record Time

  • China sets wide-ranging rules for private investment funds worth almost $3 trillion
  • Mercedes will use Tesla's EV charging standard on North American cars

  • Startup of the Week

  • Pulsar Fusion

  • Tweet of the Week

  • Michael Arrington

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