Tech Giants in Legal Turmoil

You think things are bad in your corner of the tech sector? Wait until I tell you about the memory chip industry. OpenAI releases a tool to let you check if something was created by OpenAI. Netflix might be going a tad overboard on this password sharing crackdown. Meta wins round one against the FTC. And the interesting new app from the founders of Instagram.

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• Hynix Posts Record Loss on Slump in Memory-Chip Prices (Bloomberg)
• Historic Crash for Memory Chips Threatens to Wipe Out Earnings (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI releases tool to detect machine-written text (Axios)
• Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called ‘Apprentice Bard’ (CNBC)
• Confirmed: Netflix Unveils First Details of New Anti-Password Sharing Measures (The Streamable)
• Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy Virtual Reality Startup in Loss for Khan’s FTC (Bloomberg)
• Meta Plans to Shut Down One of Its Most Popular and Long-standing Multiplayer VR Games (Road To VR)
• Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback (Platformer)

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