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NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent — The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly break even”, grew agitated over misinformation and hate speech questions, which he avoided, and more — The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC
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| Paul Glynn / BBC: |
Twitter changes its label on the main BBC account from “Government Funded Media” to “Publicly funded media”, after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate — Twitter has changed a label on the main BBC account, saying it is “publicly-funded” instead of … | Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The stocks of Apple suppliers Cirrus Logic and AAC fall 12%+ and 14%+, respectively, after Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models won't have solid-state buttons — - Shares of Cirrus Logic fell after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the next iPhone wouldn't feature expanded use of Cirrus' technology … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Warner Bros. Discovery officially announces Max as the new name of its flagship streaming service, launching in the US on May 23 with HBO and Discovery+ content — It's not HBO Max — soon it's just going to be Max. … The company announced the name change at a press event Wednesday …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR — LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday.
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| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
FTX's attorneys say the company recovered $7.3B in liquid assets and is considering using creditors' holdings to reopen the exchange; FTX's FTT token jumps 70%+ — FTT jumped 55%. — Featured SpeakerBrett Harrison — Founder and CEOArchitect — Don't miss “FTX: What Happened” … | New York Times: |
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's “year of efficiency”, Meta's layoffs, absentee leadership, and the big metaverse bet have devastated employee morale — Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction.
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple Music, and other services to block developers training AI bots from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs — Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent back arrow, per-app language preferences, and more — Google's Android development cycle runs on a rather predictable cadence these days. Today, after two developer previews …
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Sources: IBM explores selling its weather unit in a deal that could be valued at $1B+; IBM reportedly paid $2B+ for The Weather Company's digital assets in 2015 — Weather.com owner could fetch more than $1 billion in a sale — International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a sale …
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Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs visited Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar in recent weeks to woo sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch — Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
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PYMNTS.com and The Verge
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its instruction-following LLM released two weeks ago, with a dataset of 15K+ records generated by its staff — Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
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@simonw, @rxin, @peteskomoroch, and @databricks. Thanks:@lindsayklife
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599, solid 1440p performance, and DLSS 3, but 12GB of VRAM and poor 4K gaming performance — The RTX 4070 is the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet, with solid 1440p performance.
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@techjournalist and @tomwarren
| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
PitchBook: VC investment from 2020 to 2022 grew 278% to $5.4B in Miami, 231% to $10.2B in Chicago, 123% to $3.8B in Denver, and 19% to $74.9B in Silicon Valley — Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.
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@danielledigest and @peterhotez
| Financial Times: |
Filings: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the Chinese company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022 — Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel's Foundry Services unit partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm's designs access to Intel's A18 process to make their chips — Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd …
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@intelnews, @pgelsinger, @arm, @benbajarin, and @patrickmoorhead
| Wall Street Journal: |
A US jury finds the former CEO, CFO, and president of drug marketing startup Outcome Health guilty of running a ~$1B scheme that defrauded clients and investors — Verdict caps fall of startup's executive team led by Rishi Shah, who could face years in prison
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US Department of Justice, USA Today, Newser, and MobiHealthNews
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@rolfewinkler, @scottmaustin, @michaelmiraflor, and @bobkocher
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users' ages and get a parent's consent for users under 18 — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage …
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Bloomberg Law, KATV-TV, and Fox News
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@rebeccamkern, @b_fung, @b_fung, @b_fung, @josielenorakuar, @alibreland, and @b_fung
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Video game illustrators in China say they are losing their jobs to AI image generators, which some employers encourage the artists to use to boost productivity — “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
NYC-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service startup that aims to make economic data more accessible, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake — Cybersyn, a New York-based company offering data-as-a-service for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $62.9 million in Series A funding.
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Cybersyn, Towards Data Science, Tech Startups, and Reuters
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