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The UK CMA blocks Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition, citing concerns about competition and innovation in the UK gaming market; Microsoft plans to appeal — The CMA has prevented Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future …
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A look at the mounting US pressure on Binance: the DOJ's money laundering division leading its criminal investigation, CZ hiring Latham & Watkins, and more — The scrutiny on Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, has sent new tremors through a market that is still bruised by the implosion of FTX.| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
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Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $69.8B, net income down 8% YoY to $15.1B, Other Bets revenue down 35% YoY to $288M, and Other Bets loss up 47% YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 25, 2023 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
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Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $52.9B, net income up 9% YoY to $18.3B, Office Commercial up 13% YoY, Dynamics 365 up 25% YoY, and LinkedIn up 8% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2023 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 …
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PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to invest $1B in generative AI in its US operations over the next three years, working with Microsoft and OpenAI — Multiyear investment in U.S. business includes accessing ChatGPT maker OpenAI's language model, training staff in AI capabilities| Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
A look at the waning crypto hype in Africa, as consumer trust fades, startups shut down, and Web3 workers reconsider their careers after FTX's fallout — Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career choices. — • LAGOS, NIGERIA
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Sources: Apple is working on emotion tracking tools, coming to its Health app in 2023, and an AI-powered health coaching subscription service codenamed Quartz — Apple Inc. is working on an artificial intelligence-powered health coaching service and new technology for tracking emotions …
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Lenovo announces the Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola, available for $699 with ThinkPad-compatible productivity features, coming first to enterprise on April 28 — The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is available in the US starting today for $699, offering a suite of productivity features designed to work with ThinkPad laptops.| Reuters: |
Inside Meta's scramble to catch up on AI: slow to adopt pricey AI-optimized systems, scrapping a custom AI chip for a more ambitious model in 2025, and more — As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection …
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The US Commerce Department outlines plans to boost chip R&D via its new National Semiconductor Technology Center; the CHIPS Act allocated $11B for R&D — The Biden administration announced its strategy for the National Semiconductor Technology Center, a string of facilities aimed at propelling U.S. innovation.| Aisyah Llewellyn / Rest of World: |
TikTok Shop is thriving in Indonesia, TikTok's second-biggest market with an estimated 110M users; Data.ai: the Shop seller app has ~5.5M Indonesian downloads — TikTok Shop, the controversial app's ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
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News sharing app Artifact adds an AI tool to generate article summaries, while noting users should still read the full articles due to occasional errors — Artifact, the personalized news aggregator from Instagram's founders is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will now summarize news articles for you.
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Hands-on with Asus' ROG Ally, a handheld Windows gaming machine launching May 11 that can be a strong Steam Deck competitor depending on the price and software — I had a fun time testing this device, but everything's going to come down to price. … Basically everything written about Asus …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Lightspark CEO David Marcus on the current crypto winter, Lightning as a Layer 2 protocol, raising ~$175M, Libra, Nostr, Bitcoin, regulations, and more — Crypto has a lot of haters these days. The former Facebook exec is trying to prove them wrong with his Bitcoin startup.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
In the latest macOS Ventura beta, Apple removes the Virtual Scanner II app that included Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper and shipped with Mojave and newer — A few weeks ago, users discovered that every copy of macOS has the original Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its internal files.| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Sources: Andy Jassy picks 14-year Amazon veteran Eric Rimling as his technical adviser, a prestigious two-year position; Jassy was Bezos' adviser in the 2000s — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has picked Eric Rimling, a 14-year veteran of the company's fulfillment operation, as his new technical adviser …
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