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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger form a venture to explore next-gen social apps; the first is Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles — EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A look at Microsoft's prized 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo, after a leadership overhaul, layoffs, and more; sources detail a pivot to Unreal Engine — Microsoft Corp. says it's going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to the contrary.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI debuts a free web-based tool to help determine if text was written by a machine, rated as “very unlikely”, “unlikely”, “unclear”, “possible”, or “likely” — - “It has both false positives and false negatives,” …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
PayPal plans to lay off ~2,000 employees, or ~7% of its workforce, “over the coming weeks”, as the company addresses the “challenging macroeconomic environment” — - PayPal on Tuesday announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees, or around 7% of its workforce.
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| The Verge: |
Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: similarly good sound quality, useful sensors, and a responsive Siri, but pricey and the best experience is via a paired set — Apple's second take on the HomePod doesn't stray far from the original, but it's better all around.
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
Independent examiner: Celsius misled its investors, sometimes used new customer funds to pay for withdrawals, CEO Alex Mashinsky made false claims, and more — Shoba Pillay was appointed by a New York bankruptcy court to look at whether the crypto lender operated as a Ponzi scheme
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Cloud Partner Program accounts for creating malicious OAuth apps used to steal customers' emails — Microsoft has disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Partner Network accounts for creating malicious OAuth applications …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap Q4: revenue flat YoY at $1.3B, vs. $1.31B est., DAUs up 17% YoY to 375M, vs. 375.3M est., and a $288M net loss, vs. $23M in net income YoY; stock down 13%+ — - Snap missed on revenue for the fourth quarter but beat on earnings. — Snap had a rough 2022, as a slowing economy led numerous companies … | TJ Denzer / Shacknews: |
EA Q3: revenue up 5% YoY to $1.88B, vs. $2.5B est., net income up 209% YoY to $204M, net bookings down 9% YoY to $2.34B, and lowers FY guidance; stock drops 10% — The game publishing giant reduced its full year revenue expectations by about half a billion dollars in its latest quarter guidance.| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Sources: Meta executives are debating whether to relax the company's long-standing opposition to sharing ad revenue with creators, as it seeks to boost Reels — When Wall Street analysts dial into an earnings call tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg, they're likely to pepper the Meta Platforms CEO …
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Vogue Business. Tweets: @amir, @sylviavarnham, @kelliliegel, @mattnavarra, @pkafka, and @corelampone
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $5.6B, vs. $5.5B est., net income down 98% YoY to $21M, and Client segment revenue down 51% YoY due to weak PC chip sales — - AMD reported fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations for sales and profit, but guided analysts …
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to €3.2B and a €270M loss, up from €39M YoY, as operating costs rose 44% YoY, and adds 10M paying subscribers to hit 205M — Music streaming group adds subscribers but is hit by rise in operating expenses
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony halves its PlayStation VR2 shipment forecast to ~1M units in Q1 after early preorders disappointed; the headset is slated to launch on February 22 — Sony Group Corp. reduced projections for the initial launch of its PlayStation VR2 headset dramatically after early pre-orders disappointed …
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Tweets: @chris_dring, @gamingguru456, @wario64, @mldghost, @taronuke, @tomwarren, @nickstatt, @ogg1993, and @tomwarren
| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Twitter shuts down CoTweets, an experimental feature that let two users author and publish a tweet in tandem; in a month, CoTweets will show a single author — If you're reading this, it's already too late to post a CoTweet. — Did you use Twitter's fairly new CoTweets feature?
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Tweets: @rustybrick, @martinsfp, and @carnage4life
| Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: |
The goal of the Big Tech layoffs is to bring workers to heel and cultivate an insecure workforce, as an official recession hasn't hit the US or its tech sector — In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs.
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Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, and WRAL TechWire
| Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: |
A look at generative AI's history and advances before recent breakthroughs, including Nvidia's CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and Google's transformers — A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. — Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical.
Tweets: @elipariser and @tnatw
| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
| Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia: |
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit down 69% YoY to ~$3.5B, its lowest since Q3 2014, and revenue down 8% YoY to ~$57.3B, citing weak chip and smartphone demand — South Korean tech giant's slump expected to continue in first half of this year — SEOUL — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday …
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