Controversies in Google's Ethical AI Leadership and Australian News App Surge

Spotify’s new HiFi subscription tier. Clubhouse has security concerns. Apple is king of the smartphone hill once again. Maybe the biggest survival story of the Covid-19 era is about the IPO. And is the Facebook news ban pushing Australians into the arms of the news publishers themselves?

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Links:

• Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year (The Verge)
• Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security (Bloomberg)
• Apple Surpassed Samsung as World's Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter (MacRumors)
• Restaurant-Software Provider Toast Prepares for IPO (WSJ)
• Google fires another AI ethics leader (Axios)
• Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban (The Verge)

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