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Memo: BuzzFeed plans to rely on OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize its content while humans offer ideas, “cultural currency”, and “inspired prompts” — CEO Jonah Peretti intends for artificial intelligence to play a larger role in the company this year
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The FBI, US DOJ, Secret Service, Europol, and others seize ransomware gang Hive's site and decryption keys; the FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022 — The infrastructure behind Hive, one of the most prolific ransomware operations, has been seized by law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe.
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Sources: Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison told staff their goal is to go public or let employees sell shares in private markets within the next year — Fintech startup hires Goldman, JPMorgan to advise on direct listing or private-market transaction involving employees' shares| IDC: |
Worldwide smartphone shipments fell 18.3% YoY to 300.3M units in Q4 2022, the largest ever drop in a quarter; Apple fell 14.9%, Samsung 15.6%, and Xiaomi 26.3% — Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) …
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue down 32% YoY to $14B, vs. $14.46B est., Data Center and AI down 33% YoY, and Q1 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 9%+ — Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street targets on Thursday, slammed by a worsening PC market …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources describe how Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin has become the chief executor of Elon Musk's whims, even when they go against established protocols — On a day hundreds of Twitter Inc. employees were debating whether to resign, Ella Irwin showed up with a pep talk.
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| New York Times: |
Under increasing pressure in the US, ByteDance and TikTok shift their strategy for dealing with officials by going on the PR offensive and speaking out publicly — Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.
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Crowdbotics, a software development platform with a library of prebuilt app architectures, raised a $40M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $68M — Crowdbotics, a software development platform with a library of prebuilt app architectures, today announced that it raised $40 million …
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Sources: Amazon plans to launch an NFT initiative in April 2023, and has looked at layer-1 blockchains, blockchain-based gaming, and digital asset exchanges — Amazon is launching a digital assets enterprise, according to four sources familiar with the matter, who said that an NFT initiative is expected in the spring.
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NYC-based Pearl Health, which helps primary care doctors using data science, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z and Viking, bringing its total funding to $100M+ — Primary care is the foundation of the healthcare system accounting for 50% of outpatient visits.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to require that Uber and Lyft have zero-emission fleets by 2030, potentially affecting an estimated 100K+ for-hire vehicles — In his State of the City speech Thursday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that Uber and Lyft will be required to be zero emission by 2030.
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Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to offer the first robot lawyer: slow and poor legal analysis, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, and more — Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. — I've been going pretty hard on DoNotPay …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Yandex says the company's systems were not hacked and blames a former employee for leaking a code repository, after 44.7GB of files appeared on a hacking forum — A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Munich-based smart thermostat startup tado raised €43M led by Trill Impact Ventures, after its plans to go public via a SPAC merger fell apart in September 2022 — Smart home energy startup Tado has raised €43 million ($46.9 million) in a round of funding led by Trill Impact Ventures … Sponsor Posts
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