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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI now lets ChatGPT users turn off their chat histories, excluding them from the company's models, and plans to launch ChatGPT Business in the coming months — OpenAI is letting people opt to withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company's models.
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK announces legislation to tackle the “excessive dominance” of Big Tech by empowering the CMA's Digital Markets Unit, expected to become law in 2024 — Global companies like Google, Apple and Amazon could have to pay penalties of up to 10% of their global turnover as government gives competition watchdog more power
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| Alex Thompson / Axios: |
After President Biden's reelection campaign announcement, the Republican National Committee posts an attack ad featuring AI-generated images, including of Biden — - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss — Audio streaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Spotify Technology SA reported …
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Voyager Digital says Binance.US terminated an agreement to acquire the bankrupt crypto broker for $1B — Voyager Digital Ltd said Binance.US had terminated an agreement to purchase the bankrupt crypto broker. — “While this development is disappointing, our chapter 11 plan allows …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp expands its multi-device feature to let the same account be used across multiple smartphones, not just tablets and computers, a long-requested feature — WhatsApp users are no longer restricted to using their account on just a single phone. Today, the Meta-owned messaging service …
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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Coinbase asks a US federal court to compel the SEC to respond to a petition the company filed in July 2022 asking 50 questions to help clarify crypto regulation — The cryptocurrency exchange filed the petition along with a long list of questions last July.
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue of $69.8B, up 3% YoY, net income of $15.1B, down from $16.4B YoY, and Other Bets revenue of $288M, down from $440M YoY, GOOG up 3%+ — 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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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's Cruise expands its “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco to daylight hours, now operating 24/7; the unit lost $561M in Q1 2023, up 73% YoY — Cruise, the autonomous vehicle division of General Motors, is now operating a “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis …
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $52.9B, net income up 9% YoY to $18.3B, and Intelligent Cloud revenue up 16% YoY to $22.1B; MSFT up 4%+ — REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2023 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 …
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| Bloomberg: |
South Korea indicts Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin and nine others on multiple charges related to TerraUSD and freezes ~$184.7M of their assets so far — South Korea indicted Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin along with nine others on multiple charges including violations of capital markets law.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool announced in September 2022 with document creation, basic editing, and more for each channel, to all users — The best thing about Slack's new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you. It's like Google Docs but inside of Slack.| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Elon Musk posts a screenshot showing 24.7K Twitter subscribers, or ~0.018% of his 136M+ followers, paying for tweets, Spaces, and more, earning him ~$100K/month — Musk is making around $100,000 from Twitter users subscribing to his paywalled content. — After this weekend's Twitter Blue drama … | Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Thierry Breton says EU Digital Services Act content rules will apply to Apple, Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and 12 others from August 2023 — Five Alphabet (GOOGL.O) subsidiaries, two Meta Platforms (META.O) units, two Microsoft (MSFT.O) businesses, Twitter and Alibaba's …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Data.ai: Jack Dorsey-backed social network Bluesky has had 245K downloads on iOS, of which more than half came in April 2023, after starting its waitlist — Twitter users, weary from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky as a possible alternative to the social media network.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
AMD announces the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, 4nm CPUs for handheld gaming PCs; the Z1 Extreme has eight Zen 4 cores and 16 threads with 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores — But the company's now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it's officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme …
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@sebaaltonen, @tomwarren, and @wario64
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Replit, which offers AI-powered collaborative coding tools, raised $97.4M at a $1.2B valuation and says its IDE has 22.5M users, up from 10M+ in December 2021 — Replit, the fast-growing service that combines artificial intelligence with software development, closed a $97.4 million fundraising round … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia open sources NeMo Guardrails, a developer toolkit designed to help make text-based generative AI apps more “accurate, appropriate, on topic, and secure” — For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful.
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Kyle Kranen
| Matt O'brien / Associated Press: |
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the path from GPT-4 to AGI, safety measures, LLM regulation, AI risks, GPT-5's development, the response to ChatGPT, and more — OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn't a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Alphabet's board authorized a $70B buyback of its Class A and Class C shares, the same amount it approved in April 2022 — - Google parent company Alphabet said on Tuesday that its board of directors authorized $70 billion in share repurchases. — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT
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