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The UK CMA finds Microsoft's proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition will harm competition in the UK's gaming market and asks Microsoft for remedies — Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will harm competition in the UK gaming market …
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| Financial Times: |
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the UK could lose out on thousands of jobs by blocking Microsoft's acquisition and accuses Sony of “trying to sabotage” the bid — Bobby Kotick appeals to ‘fragile’ government as video game maker awaits decision on $75bn sale
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| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
Google's Bard announcement tweet had a GIF showing the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope; GOOG drops 8%+ — Google published an online advertisement in which its much anticipated AI chatbot BARD delivered inaccurate answers.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google details AI updates: expanding multisearch globally on mobile, new features for EV drivers, Lens translation, and updates to Translate — Google announced a bunch of AI-enabled search, Maps, and Translate updates as part of its Google presents: Live from Paris event on Wednesday.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Immersive View for Maps in London, LA, NYC, San Francisco, and Tokyo and plans to release “glanceable directions” globally in the coming months — Google is launching new updates for Maps that are part of its plan to make the navigation app more immersive and intuitive for users …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google's AI demo event in Paris paled in comparison to Microsoft's “new Bing” announcement, highlighting Google's need to widely release its ChatGPT competitor — Google demoed its latest advances in AI search at a live event in Paris on Wednesday — but the features pale …
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Google and Microsoft's race to add AI chatbots to search results comes loaded with risk; Bing shows results in a sidebar with citations, something Google lacks — Here's something you don't see everyday: Microsoft Corp. is serving up a snazzy web search tool.
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PCWorld, Mashable, Fast Company, Phandroid, and Nieman Lab
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| Washington Post: |
A live blog of the House Oversight Committee hearing with ex-Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, James Baker, and Yoel Roth on Hunter Biden laptop “censorship” — A congressional hearing today represents a moment of political reckoning more than two years in the making …
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| Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter reinstates Republican Senator Steve Daines, banned for a hunting photo flagged for “graphic violence”, after Elon Musk stepped in and amended the rule — Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, says his account was blocked over a picture flagged for ‘graphic violence’| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Hands-on with the new AI-powered Bing, which, when asked for the 2023 Grammys winners, made a list with citations in a minute; search will never be the same — Our columnist got an early look at the software's new ChatGPT-like powers — Bing with AI: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Why Search Is Changed Forever| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
At the State of the Union, Biden called for Congress to strengthen data privacy protections and antitrust enforcement to stop Big Tech from self-preferencing — President Joe Biden threw his support behind tougher rules regulating Silicon Valley during his Second State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Mozilla says the company is doing “exploratory work” for a Gecko-based browser on iOS in case Apple drops its WebKit requirement, after a similar move by Google — Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again — UPDATED Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.6B, gross bookings rose 19% YoY to $30.7B, and a record 2.1B customer trips, up 19% YoY; UBER jumps 7%+ pre-market — The company, which was hit hard in the early stages of the pandemic, saw revenue jump 49 percent from the same period a year ago.
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| Bloomberg: |
Masayoshi Son owes SoftBank ~$5.1B on side deals he set up to boost his compensation, as his unrealized losses grew ~$400M from three months before — Masayoshi Son is now personally on the hook for about $5.1 billion on side deals he set up at SoftBank Group Corp. to boost his compensation …
Tweets: @pelstrom, @pelstrom, and @iamsamirarora
| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Binance executive Leon Foong says a full audit will take “a longer time”, arguing accountants are still learning about crypto, after Mazars retracted its report — Binance Holdings Ltd., operator of the world's largest digital-asset exchange, indicated a full audit of its assets …
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| Pallabi Munsi / CNN: |
How pro-military groups in Myanmar are using Telegram channels, many with ~10K followers, to share abusive sexual videos and images of women and to doxx them — Editor's Note: This story is part of ‘Systems Error’, a series by CNN As Equals, investigating how your gender shapes your life online.
Tweets: @pallabimunsi, @pvamplify, @chuckbaggett, @michaeljstern1, @sis2sismm, @rvawonk, @akilagjc, and @wiczipedia
| Politico: |
UK PM Rishi Sunak creates the standalone Department of Science, Innovation & Technology, led by Michelle Donelan, stripping the DCMS of its tech oversight — LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is creating a standalone science, innovation and technology department as part …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
The Bank of England publishes two papers on a new digital pound, seeming to favor centralized databases over a blockchain and limiting to £10K-£20K per person — The Bank of England has set out technical features of its central bank digital currency, which officials have said is likely to be needed.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US officials and researchers say TikTok's proposed algorithm oversight faces practical difficulties and may not offer answers on possible Chinese influence — Concerns mount over TikTok's plan to address potential Chinese influence over what videos Americans see — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company| Reuters: |
Alibaba says it is developing a ChatGPT-style AI tool, currently in internal testing, confirming a news report; Baidu announced its Ernie chatbot on February 6 — China's Alibaba Group (9988.HK) on Wednesday said it is developing a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence (AI) tool and that it was currently in internal testing.
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| Bloomberg: |
Meituan plans to hire as many as 10K people this quarter as the company tries to fend off ByteDance's expanding delivery efforts in China; the stock drops 6%+ — Meituan dived its most in two months after unveiling plans to hire as many as 10,000 people this quarter, as the Chinese food …
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