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Elon Musk names ex-NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's 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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| Washington Post: |
A profile of Linda Yaccarino, who has vast experience in ad partnerships, praised Elon Musk publicly, and told colleagues that people get hung up on his tweets — Twitter has struggled to generate revenue since Musk took over as CEO, as advertisers have fretted over his sweeping rollbacks of content moderation.
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A former ByteDance executive in the US sues the company for wrongful termination, saying ByteDance stole its rivals' content and gave the CCP “supreme access” — The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content …
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
Binance announces its exit from Canada, saying the country's “new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits” makes the market “no longer tenable” — The world's largest crypto exchange by volume said new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits prompted the exit.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
The open-source AI boom is precarious because it is built on top of giant models like LLaMA and GPT-3, and could collapse if Meta and OpenAI decide to shut shop — Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop.
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| Guy Chazan / Financial Times: |
Germany plans to spend billions to subsidize its chip industry and secure the “oil of the 21st century”, as some believe the move does not make economic sense — The Scholz government is spending billions subsidising the country's semiconductor industry. Some believe it does not make economic sense
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Sundar Pichai on the future of Search, AI being one of the deepest platform shifts, his vision for Google, merging DeepMind, and more — AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google's CEO, and he's not worried about being first. — Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: e-commerce marketing platform Klaviyo confidentially files for a US IPO; source: the firm seeks to raise $750M+; Klaviyo was valued at ~$9.5B in 2021 — Data and marketing automation firm Klaviyo Inc confidentially submitted paperwork on Friday with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering … | New York Times: |
Netflix has become an avatar for the striking writers' complaints, as the streaming era eroded working conditions, stagnated wages, and disrupted residual pay — Fear of protests prompted the streaming giant to shift an anticipated presentation for advertisers to a virtual event and a top executive to skip an honorary gala.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro will lay off 30% of its workforce, or ~340 people, as part of a restructuring; Nuro laid off 20% of its staff in November 2022 — Autonomous delivery robot startup Nuro will lay off 30%, or about 340 employees, across the company as part of a restructuring meant to extend its capital runway.
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A look at Apple's unusual approach to building its MR headset, which took seven years to develop and which will still be an experimental product at launch — Apple's soon-to-be-revealed mixed-reality device will likely cost $3,000, requires a separate battery pack and is still experimental
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Law firms and companies' legal teams are experimenting with AI tools that can handle work done by entry-level lawyers, potentially reducing billable hours — Lawyers start to use GPT-4 technology to do legal research, draft documents and analyze contracts — Big law firms …
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