| 2024-04-26 |
TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Pura 70 uses a 7nm chip, similar to the Mate 60, and a Kirin 9010 processor, a newer version of the Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000s (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Sources: the US is urging Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands to tighten export controls to China, including stopping engineers from servicing Chinese fabs (Financial Times) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
New rules that allow UK law enforcement agencies to seize, destroy, or transfer crypto holdings used for crime before making an arrest take effect (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his new company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the site (Katie Robertson/New York Times) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the "unlawful seizure of authority" over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product (CoinDesk) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia (Chris Miller/Financial Times) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
In a subpoena, Elon Musk asked Helen Toner to hand over documents about her departure from OpenAI's board and how OpenAI decides when a technology achieves AGI (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Atlassian's co-CEO Scott Farquhar plans to step down on August 31, 2024, after 23 years at the company; he will remain a board member and a special advisor (Scott Farquhar/Work Life) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.19B, vs. $1.12B est., DAUs up 10% YoY to 422M, a net loss of $305M, compared to $329M YoY; SNAP jumps 24%+ after hours (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend and authorizes the repurchase of up to an additional $70B of its Class A and Class C shares (Akash Sriram/Reuters) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
YouTube's Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total to date (Todd Spangler/Variety) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Microsoft reports Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 21% YoY to $26.71B, vs. $26.26B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 31% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Intel reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $12.72B, vs. $12.78B est., Data Center and AI up 5% to $3B, and Q2 revenue guidance below est.; INTC drops 7%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Microsoft Q3: Windows OEM revenue up 11% YoY, devices revenue down 17% YoY, overall gaming revenue up 51% YoY, and Xbox content and services revenue up 62% YoY (Tom Warren/The Verge) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5%; GOOG jumps 11%+ after hours (Alphabet) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10%; MSFT jumps 4%+ after hours (Microsoft) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
As ASML shareholders approve Christophe Fouquet as CEO, he faces a tricky balancing act to guide ASML, Europe's largest tech firm, through the US-China chip war (Toby Sterling/Reuters) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Nagomi Security, which has developed a proactive security and threat exposure management platform, emerges from stealth with a $23M Series A and a $7M seed (Meir Orbach/CTech) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, and emoji; Threads is also testing a way to mute notifications and controls for quote posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Sources: ByteDance prefers a TikTok shutdown in the US rather than a sale if legal options fail, deeming TikTok's algorithm as core to overall ByteDance systems (Reuters) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Cloud data management startup Rubrik opens up 20% at $38.60 per share in its NYSE debut, after raising $752M at a $5.6B valuation (CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate the US' net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet (Cecilia Kang/New York Times) |
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| 2024-04-26 |
Sublime, which monitors emails of companies and political campaigns to spot AI-generated phishing attacks, raised a $20M Series A, taking total funding to $30M (Thomas Brewster/Forbes) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Movement Labs, which is building Movement L2, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain based on the Move programming language, raised a $38M Series A led by Polychain (Leo Schwartz/Fortune) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Sources: a Huawei-led consortium, backed by Chinese government funding, aims to compete with Nvidia by making high-bandwidth memory chips, used in GPUs, by 2026 (The Information) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Sources: Microsoft is prioritizing security over new features to win back consumer trust, as it scrambles to respond to new attacks from Russia-linked hackers (Tom Warren/The Verge) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to a non-tech company, and without the recommendation algorithm (The Information) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices "without hanging up and rejoining" via its Android, iOS, and web apps (Abner Li/9to5Google) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Garry's Mod is removing "all Nintendo related stuff" from its Steam Workshop, covering "20 years of uploads", after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo (Andy Chalk/PC Gamer) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Interviews with 24+ current and ex-ByteDance staff: the Beijing-based company has tightened its grip on TikTok over the past two years, causing a culture clash (Financial Times) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Franco-Italian chip company STMicro reports Q1 revenue down 18% YoY to $3.47B, below $3.63B est., and expects Q2 sales down 26% YoY to $3.2B, below $3.79B est. (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to back an up to $125B investment to build a megafab in New York and a fab in Idaho over the next 20 years (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Lenovo survey of 750 CIOs: 96% expect increased AI investment in the next 12 months and 42% don't expect to show return on AI investments for the next two years (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
A look at Saudi Arabia's spending blitz to become an AI superpower, which has put the kingdom in the middle of an escalating global competition over AI (New York Times) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Filing: Swiggy, which has a ~45.8% share of the Indian food delivery market, secures shareholder approval for a potential $1.25B IPO, slated for later in 2024 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Sources: ByteDance executives have previously considered TikTok's global operations to be worth ~50% of the Chinese company's overall value, or above $100B (Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
K Krithivasan, the CEO of Indian IT giant TCS, says there will be "minimal" need for call centers in as soon as one year, due to AI chatbots taking on the work (Financial Times) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
On Meta's Q1 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said Threads now has more than 150M MAUs, up from 130M in February 2024 (Karissa Bell/Engadget) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Snowflake announces Arctic, an LLM optimized for enterprise tasks such as SQL generation, coding, and instruction following, with an Apache 2.0 license (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI assistant has been "tried" by "tens of millions of people" and making money from generative AI will take Meta several years (Alex Heath/The Verge) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
TSMC unveils a new chip manufacturing technology called A16, and says the company plans to start producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026 (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Reddit says its Dynamic Product Ads, which use "shopping signals" to automatically show relevant ads to users, are entering public beta globally (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue of ~$9B, more than doubling YoY, and ~$2B in operating income, above estimates of ~$1.3B and the biggest quarterly profit since 2022 (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Memo: Thrasio CEO Greg Greeley plans to resign and five other senior executives will "step down when Thrasio emerges from Chapter 11 in the coming weeks" (Annie Palmer/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished (David Pierce/The Verge) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $22M Series A led by Lachy Groom, bringing its total funding to $27M (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
AI coding assistant startup Augment emerges from stealth with a $227M Series B at a $977M post-money valuation, following a $25M Series A led by Sutter Hill (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Cloud data management startup Rubrik priced its NYSE IPO at $32 a share, above its expected $28-$31 range, raising $752M and valuing the company at $5.6B (CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Meta's stock drops 15%+ after hours on weak Q2 revenue guidance and higher FY 2024 capital expenditures due to increased AI infrastructure investments (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Meta's Reality Labs Q1: revenue up 30% YoY to $440M, vs. $512.5M est., a $3.85B operating loss, vs. $4.31B est.; Reality Labs lost $45B+ since the end of 2020 (Alex Koller/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $14.46B, vs. $14.55B est., software revenue up 5.5% YoY to $5.9B, and net income of $1.6B, up from $927M YoY; IBM drops 5%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 (Meta Investor Relations) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances (Andy Greenberg/Wired) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
TikTok is suspending the rewards program in TikTok Lite while it tries to resolve EU concerns about the potentially addictive nature of the program for children (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Stripe says some of its products will be available to companies that are using other payments providers, and unveils new embedded finance features and AI tools (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Worldcoin subsidiary World Assets plans to sell WLD tokens to meet the demand for orb-verified World IDs and support Worldcoin network growth; WLD drops 7%+ (Brian McGleenon/The Block) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
WhatsApp rolls out passkey support on iOS, removing the need for users to deal with SMS one-time passcodes, six months after introducing the feature on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Apple researchers share OpenELM, a family of LLMs with 270M to 3B parameters, designed to run on-device, and pre-trained and fine-tuned on public datasets (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
Source: Cognition, which offers an AI coding assistant, raised $175M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation, a month after a Series A at a $350M valuation (Kate Clark/The Information) |
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| 2024-04-25 |
President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Biden's re-election campaign plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, with "enhanced security measures", to help "meet voters where they are" (Monica Alba/NBC News) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Whether TikTok is banned or not, this is the end as we know it for the money-losing app, which may lose focus due to advertiser, creator, and staff uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Klarna partners with Uber to power Uber and Uber Eats payments, adding its Pay Now option in the US, Germany, and Sweden, but not installment-based payments (Ryan Browne/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Meta, Google, Snap, and Amazon all benefit from the US' TikTok ban; Mark Zuckerberg criticized TikTok's Chinese roots in 2019, part of Meta's broader campaign (Will Oremus/Washington Post) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Nvidia acquires AI infrastructure orchestration and management service Run:ai, a source says for ~$700M; Run:ai, founded in 2018, had raised $118M to date (Meir Orbach/CTech) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Sources: Qualcomm is cheating on Snapdragon X Plus and Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press; the numbers are not achievable with the claimed settings (Charlie Demerjian/SemiAccurate) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
How a tiny group of US lawmakers and aides wrote the TikTok divestment bill, hiding their efforts to avoid TikTok's lobbying, alongside the DOJ and White House (New York Times) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
US companies racing to build data centers to serve AI demand is causing a shortage of parts, property, and power; cooling system lead times are now 5x longer (Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Qualcomm details its Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite chips; benchmarks from a demo suggest the chips match Apple's M3, Intel's Core Ultra 9, and AMD's Ryzen 9 (Joanna Nelius/The Verge) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Dublin-based Tines, which offers no-code automation tools for security teams, raised a $50M Series B extension, sources say at a near $600M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Hands-on with the Meta AI chatbot: fails at basic search queries, stinks at counting, excels at editing existing paragraphs, quickly creates images, and more (Brian X. Chen/New York Times) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Berlin-based Parloa, which uses conversational AI to automate call center operations, raised a $66M Series B led by Altimeter, after a $21M Series A in 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Microsoft begins rolling out Windows 11 Start menu ads that show app "recommendations" from "a small set of curated developers"; users can disable the ads (Tom Warren/The Verge) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
The US DOJ argues Binance founder Changpeng Zhao should spend three years in prison and pay $50M for helping Binance violate sanctions and money laundering laws (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Filings: in 2024, ByteDance and TikTok spent $7M+ combined on lobbying against the US' TikTok bill; AdImpact: TikTok spent $4.5M+ on TV and digital ads in 2023 (Brian Schwartz/CNBC) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
SK Hynix plans to spend ~$3.86B to build a new DRAM chip facility in South Korea, starting construction this month and aiming for completion by November 2025 (Joyce Lee/Reuters) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees a divestiture as a last resort (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
An interview with Apple Arcade Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all "critical metrics" in 2023 and will feature Vision Pro games (Keith Stuart/The Guardian) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
An interview with Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors on criticism over mass layoffs and studio closures, splitting the company into three, rising debt, and more (James Batchelor/GamesIndustry.biz) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
How Palantir, which doesn't have a traditional salesforce, is using software boot camps to attract customers, hosting an average of about five per day in 2024 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price (Adam Iscoe/New Yorker) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem (The Pragmatic Engineer) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Microsoft must take security seriously again by being transparent about breaches and no longer charging its subscribers extra for must-have security features (Mary Jo Foley/Directions on Microsoft) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Paris-based FlexAI, which is developing an on-demand cloud service for AI training, emerges from stealth with $30M in seed funding (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Mobvoi, a Google-backed Chinese smartwatch and AI company, fell as much as 22% in its first day of trading, after raising $41M in its Hong Kong IPO (Filipe Pacheco/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Emails released as part of US vs. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
China approves the US listing of self-driving startup Pony.ai, which plans to sell up to 98M shares and list on Nasdaq or NYSE, signaling an easing crackdown (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Huawei unveils Qiankun, a new business unit focused on providing self-driving systems, marking the company's latest push to become a major EV industry player (Reuters) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
SenseTime's stock rises 30%+ after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; its stock is down 80%+ since its 2021 Hong Kong IPO (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Samsung starts mass production of its 9th-generation 286-layer 3D NAND memory chips, which increases data I/O speeds by 33% compared to 8th-gen 236-layer chips (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton (Tom Matsuda/Sifted) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
NYC-based Campus, which is building an online alternative to traditional community colleges, raised a $23M Series A extension, following a $29M Series A in 2023 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
Legal scholars discuss how the TikTok divestment bill could survive a First Amendment challenge and why the US will likely rely on a national security argument (Casey Newton/Platformer) |
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| 2024-04-24 |
The US Senate passes the TikTok divestment bill by a margin of 79-18; the legislation now heads to President Biden, who has committed to sign the bill into law (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) |
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