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| 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 …
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple made $7B+ worth of iPhones in India in the FY ended March 2023, exporting ~$5B worth; India accounts for ~7% of iPhones made, up from ~1% in 2021 — Apple Inc. assembled more than $7 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal year, tripling production in the world's fastest …
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| New York Times: |
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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| 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's price more than doubled. FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed spectacularly in November …
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| Bloomberg: |
Ethereum successfully completes its Shanghai, or Shapella, update, letting users withdraw staked ether tokens; ~1.2M ETH are expected to be withdrawn in a week — The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, adding 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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| Financial Times: |
Filings: SoftBank sold ~$7.2B of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022; BABA drops 5%+ — Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
How the US is making arrests and seizing crypto funds, like James Zhong's 50K+ bitcoin, using Chainalysis and other tools to identify criminals via transactions — Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources say Apple is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand and the company has been mass producing the Apple Watch in the country for over a year — U.S. tech giant turning out Apple Watch in Southeast Asian country — For Apple and other tech companies … | Wall Street Journal: |
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 … | Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Discord says it is cooperating with US law enforcement's investigation into the classified material breach — Instant messaging platform Discord said on Wednesday it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement's investigation into a leak of secret U.S. documents that has grabbed attention around the world.
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| Nate Rogers / The Ringer: |
A profile of Paul Dochney, the man behind pseudonymous character @dril that emerged from Something Awful to become one of the most influential Twitter accounts — Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act?
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@kriswernowsky, @scottnover, @en_cohen, @whet, @joeyneverjoe, @lara_korte, @nate_rgrs, @nicktagliaferro, @getfiscal, @drewmagary, @ted_scheinman, and @gracegfreud
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A study finds that assigning ChatGPT a persona using its API, like “a bad person” or a certain historical figure, increases the chatbot's toxicity sixfold — It's no secret that OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things.
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arXiv.org, AI2 Blog, and VentureBeat
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@martinsfp, @neuroecology, @jordannovet, @ameetdeshpande_, and @danieljkelley
| 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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Amir Satvat, Steve Tate, and Bill Young
| Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: |
An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building a “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without knowing the ramifications — The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Italy outlines compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT suspension order, requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing, adopt age gating, and more — Italy's data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month …
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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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