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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says he hired a CEO for X/Twitter and “she will be starting in ~6 weeks”; Musk will become “exec chair & CTO” overseeing “product, software, & sysops” — Excited to announce that I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. https://twitter.com/...
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter — Twitter owner Elon Musk said earlier he had picked a new chief executive, without naming the person — NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic expands Claude's context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI's GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens — Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images — Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts … | James Cirrone / Blockworks: |
Coinbase apologizes for its newsletter calling Pepe the Frog a “hate symbol”, saying its overview “did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme” — Coinbase has come out with an apology for its recent newsletter suggesting Pepe the Frog was a “hate symbol.”
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| Ryan Dinsdale / IGN: |
Riot Games names its global president A. Dylan Jadeja as the company's new CEO starting later in 2023, succeeding Nicolo Laurent, who will stay on as an advisor — Succeeding Nicolo Laurent. — IGN can reveal that Riot Games global president A. Dylan Jadeja will succeed Nicolo Laurent as the company's CEO later this year.
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| Reuters: |
EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition use in public and predictive policing tools, and set transparency rules on generative AI; details must be finalized — European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Germany's Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M — Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily …
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Twitter appears to disable autocomplete in its search bar after users pointed out that the feature was recommending gory videos of animal abuse and war footage — Searching for dog and cat videos returned horrifying results. — Matthew Gault — Twitter has disabled autocomplete …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
A US judge rules that nearly $300M in BlockFi's wallets belong to clients, not the bankrupt lender's estate; $375M in interest-bearing accounts is the estate's — A further $375 million that users tried to transfer out of interest-bearing accounts after Nov. 10 still belongs to the estate, Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said
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| Alvise Armellini / Reuters: |
Italy's AGCM opens an investigation into Apple over exempting its own apps from ATT, a day after the EU confirmed sending Apple Pay questionnaires to retailers — Italy's antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into U.S. technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out back-end updates to tackle spam calls, particularly prevalent in India, using its AI and ML systems, hoping to reduce the spam calls by 50%+ — WhatsApp has announced that it has introduced back-end updates to tackle spam calls, which are particularly prevalent in India right now.| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Lyft discontinues pooled rides as “they take people out of their way”, one of many product changes CEO David Risher has made since taking over in April 2023 — Lyft Inc. is officially discontinuing shared rides, the latest change the ride-hailing company's new chief executive officer … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Review of the $700 Asus ROG Ally: fast performance and a smooth variable refresh screen, but Windows is hard to use on a handheld and the UI has major glitches — A big step forward for Windows handhelds — but is Windows the way forward at all? … Windows handheld gaming PCs existed before the Deck …
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Revolut CFO Mikko Salovaara plans to leave “for personal reasons” after two years; documents and LinkedIn show CEO James Radford left the company in March 2023 — Exits of Mikko Salovaara and James Radford follow last year's exodus of executives
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| Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: |
The US Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief on May 9 in the Coinbase v. SEC case, slamming the regulator for its “haphazard, enforcement-based approach” — The largest business organization in the world has thrown its weight behind Coinbase in its fight against the SEC.
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| CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: Bluesky had 628K mobile downloads in April 2023, up 606% from March, when its Android app launched, in addition to iOS; Mastodon had 90K downloads — - Bluesky has exploded in popularity over the past few months as measured by the number of mobile app downloads on both iOS and Android platforms.
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Crosspoint Capital Partners plans to acquire Canadian cybersecurity company Absolute Software for $657M, or a 34% premium to the US-listed stock's last close — Canada's Absolute Software (ABST.TO) said on Thursday it had agreed to be taken private by Crosspoint Capital Partners for $657 million …
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| Ted Chiang / New Yorker: |
Similar to McKinsey and other consulting firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism” — As it's currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a record ~$32B full fiscal year loss; investments in the year fell to ~$3B — SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks …
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| Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: |
JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$35B, beating analyst estimates, and a ~$903M net income, compared to a ~$555M net loss in Q1 2022 — China's e-commerce giant JD.com Inc (9618.HK), said on Thursday its chief executive Xu Lei will step down, with the company's chief financial officer taking on the role.
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