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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
EU regulators approve Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition after Microsoft made concessions to keep rivals' access to Call of Duty and other games — The green light follows objections to the blockbuster deal by American and British regulators on the grounds that it would undercut competition.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Docs: in an informal Azure investigation, EU regulators ask rivals and clients if Microsoft leveraged its market power and business info to squeeze competitors — Microsoft Corp.'s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union's antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm …
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| Jacob Bogage / Washington Post: |
Sources: the IRS quietly built a prototype system to let Americans file tax returns digitally and free of charge, with a pilot slated to launch in January 2024 — The prototype program developed by the federal government could be available for a small group of taxpayers by January
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google's I/O 2023 suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for Big Tech; the true fight will be between the major players' centralized models and open source — Some things in tech are shocking, but not surprising — think of a CEO of a struggling company losing their job.
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin's Telly opens a waitlist to give away 500K 55-inch 4K HDR TVs, which have a second screen for constantly showing ads, in 2023 — Would you take a free TV if it constantly ran banner ads beneath everything you watched? — That's the proposition for Telly …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
WhatsApp introduces Chat Lock, which lets users put chats in a password- or biometrics-protected folder and hide chats' contents and senders in notifications — WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon job listings mention an “AI-first initiative to re-architect” search and “reimagining Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience” — Amazon.com Inc. plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivaling efforts by Microsoft Corp …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is preparing to publicly release its first open-source LLM amid the proliferation of open-source alternatives, including variants of Meta's LLaMA — In February, Meta Platforms set off an explosion of artificial intelligence development when it gave academics access … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
MoffettNathanson: US pay TV users fell 7% YoY to 75.5M in Q1 2023, with household penetration at 58.5%, the lowest level since 1992; only YouTube TV grew in Q1 — As streaming video continues its ascendancy, cable, satellite and internet TV providers in the U.S. turned in their worst subscriber losses …
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9to5Google, The Verge, Ars Technica, and The Streamable
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@nickandmore, @mattnavarra, and @susanlitv
| Victor Dey / VentureBeat: |
Together, which aims to build open-source LLMs and was part of RedPajama, a project where six companies replicated Meta's LLaMA dataset, raised a $20M seed — Together, an open-source AI startup, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding to support its mission …
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TOGETHER, TechCrunch, and Metaverse Post
| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
US crypto enforcement tsar Eun Young Choi says the DOJ is targeting exchanges, mixers, and tumblers, aiming to “send a deterrent message” about illicit behavior — The justice department is stepping up scrutiny of an industry wracked by scandal and volatility
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| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
Zip, which sells procurement management software, raised a $100M Series C led by Y Combinator at a $1.5B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $181M — Zip, a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses manage spending, announced a fresh round of capital today …
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