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Elon Musk names ex-NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter CEO, to focus on business operations; Musk will focus on “product design & new technology” — - Former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino will be Twitter's next CEO.
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Oppo closes its chip design unit Zeku due to global economic uncertainty; Zeku developed the MariSilicon X image-processing chip used in Oppo's flagship devices — Oppo, China's biggest domestic smartphone maker, is closing its chip design business as the global smartphone market extends a prolonged decline.
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Toyota says the vehicle data of 2.15M users in Japan, or almost all of its cloud service customers, has been public since November 2013 due to a human error — Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Bard, which expanded to 180 countries, is not available in the EU and Canada; Google says it will be made available “consistent with local regulations” — Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries.
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The UK extradites Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch to the US to face wire and securities fraud charges over HP's $11B acquisition of the software company in 2011 — Mike Lynch, co-founder of UK software firm Autonomy, has been extradited to the United States to face criminal charges …
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A look at China's plans to “de-Americanize” its chip industry, nearly seven months after the US unveiled curbs, with billions from local investors and companies — Seven months after Washington unveiled tough curbs, Chinese companies are doubling down on homegrown supply chains … | Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who has become a divisive figure during the debate over CSAM and privacy — Ylva Johansson is on a personal mission to make the internet safer for children. Her opponents say her plans would wreck online privacy.
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Tessera, the collective NFT ownership service that launched as Fractional with $20M in funding from Paradigm and others, plans to shut down — Co-founder Andy Chorlian tweeted that the decision was made after “carefully analyzing possible market scenarios, our company structure and our financial situation.”| Financial Times: |
Doc: the EU plans to lay a €45M internet cable in the Black Sea to improve connectivity to Georgia and reduce its “dependency” on lines running through Russia — Move to improve connectivity to Georgia amid global concerns over spying and sabotage| 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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Sources: Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao are exploring ways to cut Zhao's majority stake in the company, hoping to improve Binance's standing before US regulators — Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao, the crypto exchange's founder, majority owner and chair, have been exploring ways to reduce … | 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 …
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