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Twitter sues Elon Musk to force the completion of his acquisition of Twitter in the Chancery Court in Delaware — The question of whether Elon Musk must buy Twitter, as he agreed to do in April, is headed to a court in Delaware. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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| Wired: |
Employees say “Twitter is a shit show internally”, fed up by weak leadership and a lack of management support amid targeted harassment from outside the company — Days after the deal to buy Twitter fell apart, fed-up employees say they are being kept in the dark.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: Apple ends its consulting agreement with Jony Ive that made Apple his firm's primary client and limited Ive from taking on work Apple found competitive — Three years after promising to work “long into the future” with the man behind its candy-colored computers, Apple and Mr. Ive are through.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Reuters, The Verge, and Pixel Envy
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In Germany, South Korea, and other countries, BMW starts selling subscriptions or charging one-time fees to unlock heated seats, engine sound options, and more — The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions — BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats …
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| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
Liquidators say they can't find Three Arrows Capital founders Kyle Davies and Zhu Su, and seek to subpoena them to prevent the dissipation of the fund's assets — The founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital haven't been cooperating in the firm's liquidation process …
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| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Medium founder Evan Williams says he is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by Tony Stubblebine, and plans to start a new holding company and research lab — Mr. Williams, the company's founder and a co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, said in a post that he planned to start a new holding company and research lab.
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| Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk, in replies to a Breitbart tweet about Trump calling him a “bullshit artist”, says Trump should “hang up his hat” and DeSantis would easily beat Biden — Former president had mocked the Tesla boss's attempt to take over Twitter
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Executives from Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, and 500+ business, education, and nonprofit leaders urge US states to boost computer science education — More than 500 business, education and nonprofit leaders have teamed with Seattle-based computer education nonprofit Code.org …
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Animoca Brands announces a $75.32M raise at a $5.9B valuation, the second tranche of its $360M round in January 2022 that valued the NFT company at $5.5B — The infusion is the second tranche of January's funding round, which nabbed almost $360 million and valued the investment company at $5.5 billion.
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| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify acquires Heardle, describing the music trivia game inspired by Wordle as a “tool for musical discovery”, and plans to keep it as a standalone site — The game, which challenges users to identify a song based on short audio clips, will remain free to play for users.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Nothing announces its phone (1), starting at £399 with LED strips on the back, two 50MP rear cameras including an ultrawide lens, in 40+ markets but not the US — The startup's debut smartphone is finally here — After weeks of teases, Nothing is finally announcing its debut smartphone …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Filing: Amazon and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are developing “personalized” cancer vaccines and have launched an FDA-approved clinical trial — - Amazon is working with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to develop cancer vaccines, according to a filing.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Multicoin Capital announces its third fund, worth $430M and closed in January 2022, with co-founders Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain as its largest limited partners — - Multicoin Capital has announced its third fund worth $430 million, which closed in January.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The FTC plans to crack down on tech companies' illegal use and sharing of “location, health, or other sensitive data” and false claims about data anonymization — ‘Companies that make false claims about anonymization can expect to hear from the FTC.’
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Federal Trade Commission, SC Media, Input, WRAL TechWire, take that for data, and The Verge
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The Magic Leap 2 mixed reality device will debut on September 30 for $3,299K, ~$1K more than the Magic Leap 1, with a lighter and smaller design and a wider FoV — About $1,000 more than the original — The Magic Leap 2 headset is launching on September 30th for a starting price of $3,299.| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Solana-based STEPN reports $122.5M in Q2 2022 profits, after earning $26M in Q1; STEPN plans to leverage 5% of the profits to buy and burn its native GMT tokens — The team will use 5% of the profits to initiate a buyback and burn program of its native GMT tokens.| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
BigScience, an effort by 1K+ AI researchers and NLP startup Hugging Face, releases BLOOM, an open-access multilingual language model bigger than GPT-3, for free — A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they're giving it out for free.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Google says YouTube TV has 5M+ subscribers, including free trial users, making it the US' biggest internet pay TV provider and fifth-largest TV distributor — Google says YouTube TV has surpassed 5 million accounts — making it the U.S.'s biggest internet-based pay TV service.| Peter White / Deadline: |
HBO and HBO Max receive 140 Emmy nominations, while Netflix gets 105, Hulu 58, Apple TV+ 52, Disney+ 34, Amazon 30, and broadcast network TV a new low of 86 — The Emmy nomination battle between HBO and Netflix took a new turn this morning with the Warner Bros. Discovery company soaring past its streaming rival.| Washington Post: |
An unnamed ex-Twitter employee tells the January 6 committee that Twitter went easy on Trump because it “relished” knowing it was his favorite social network — In testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, the unidentified former employee said they'd tried for months 'to raise the reality that … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pakistan-based Airlift, which delivers goods in 30 minutes, is shutting down after failing to raise more funding; Airlift raised an $85M Series B in August 2021 — Airlift, Pakistan's top startup, is shutting down, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, following its inability to raise fresh capital.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs raised a $64M Series B valuing the company at $664M, as the OpenAI rival builds “AI-as-a-service” tools on top of its language models — The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SingleStore, which provides databases for cloud and on-premises apps and analytics, raised a $116M Series F extension at a $1B+ valuation led by Goldman Sachs — SingleStore, a provider of databases for cloud and on-premises apps and analytical systems, today announced that it raised …
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SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and VentureBeat
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
In an internal post, Meta Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba instructed managers to identify and “move to exit” poor performers — Meta Platforms' Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba has instructed managers to identify and …
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tecton, which helps companies deploy real-time machine learning models faster with less data engineering effort, raised a $100M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins — Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they're collecting — for example …
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