Tech News An examination of data collected by Tesla: what information its vehicles record, how Tesla uses this data to develop Autopilot, and who actually owns the data (Mark Harris/IEEE Spectrum)
Tech News At least four top executives associated with a Chinese state-run semiconductor fund, which has invested $30B in total, have been arrested on corruption charges (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)
Tech News Online crypto casinos like Stake are luring gamers, in some cases to the point of bankruptcy, by using celebrity endorsements and sponsored streams on Twitch (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
Tech News UK-based Cera, whose app uses data analytics and AI to manage at-home health care, has raised $320M split equally between debt and equity led by Kairos HQ (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Tech News A look at Netflix scrambling to build an ad business and revive its subscriber growth; sources: Reed Hastings expects Netflix could charge ~$80 per 1,000 views (Wall Street Journal)
Tech News [Thread] via iRobot, Amazon, one of the most powerful data collection companies on earth, will get another vast and intrusive set of data about people's homes (Ron Knox/@ronmknox)
Tech News Analysis: Binance, Crypto.com, Coinbase, FTX, and other crypto companies have committed $2.4B+ to sports marketing in the past 18 months (Kim Bhasin/Bloomberg)
Tech News A brief history of AI and why some AI researchers believe the technology they have built is sentient or conscious despite no evidence (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Tech News The US DOJ says Alexander Vinnik, founder of BTC-e, a crypto exchange alleged to have laundered $4B+ in proceeds, was extradited from Greece to the US (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
Tech News A look at FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's increasing US political contributions, including $10M+ to back Biden in 2020, and uncertainty about his goals and leanings (Elena Schneider/Politico)
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