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Twitter offered LeBron James a complimentary Blue subscription after he said he wouldn't pay for one; Musk says he's paying for “a few” subscriptions personally — / After saying he wouldn't pay, James was offered a complimentary subscription ‘on behalf of Elon Musk.’
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt” — The change is apparent on Twitter accounts for several Verge writers and other journalists like LA Times reporter Matt Pearce …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Google announces Google DeepMind, a unit combining DeepMind's team and Google Research's Brain team, to be led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as its CEO — Search giant merges AI resources to accelerate progress in technology that is reshaping business
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social network protocol finalized in 2018 that is gaining prominence powering Twitter alternatives like Mastodon — The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Stack Overflow CEO says the company plans to charge large AI developers for access to the 50M questions and answers on its service as soon as mid-2023 — The programmer Q&A site joins Reddit in demanding compensation when its data is used to train algorithms and ChatGPT-style bots
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to slow hiring, and that net employee growth of 1% to 2% per year will be the standard going forward — Facebook-parent CEO says employee growth of 1%-2% a year will be standard in future — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark …
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| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony acquires Firewalk Studios, an AAA multiplayer developer working on a live service PS5 and PC game and now the 20th developer to join PlayStation Studios — It will be the 20th PlayStation Studios team — News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B — PlayStation has agreed …
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| Bloomberg: |
The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, including rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024 — European lawmakers on Thursday gave their final blessing to an ambitious law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Roblox is transcending its kid-oriented roots by reaching older players and welcoming brands; the 17-to-24 age group, up 33% YoY, is Roblox's fastest growing — The 3D-world for kids is attracting an older audience. It might also be the closest thing we've got to a metaverse that already exists.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Imgur plans to delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that's not tied to a user account, starting on May 15, potentially erasing years of internet history — For years, Imgur has made sharing photos and GIFs on the internet as easy as uploading a file — you don't even need an account to use it.
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
VC funding for Web3 startups fell 81% YoY from $9.1B in Q1 2022 to $1.7B in Q1 2023; the number of public deals fell from 770 to 333, the lowest since Q4 2020 — Editor's Note: For more Web3 coverage, please visit Crunchbase's Web3 Tracker, a site to look at startups, investors … | Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger: |
Montreal-based Optable, which offers data collaboration and clean room tech for the ad industry, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23.6M — Clean rooms are all the rage right now - and investors are noticing. — On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform …
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Over 24 executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers who discussed partnerships with Apple or adding their tech into its products say Apple copied their ideas — Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules — It sounded like a dream partnership …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based cybersecurity company Halcyon, which provides protection against ransomware, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures — Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools … | Financial Times: |
Internal slides: in the coming months, Google plans to let advertisers supply “creative” content for generative AI to “remix” for more sophisticated campaigns — Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
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| Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
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