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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces suffers crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures — - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches on Twitter that prevented him from declaring his candidacy.
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Microsoft says Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised “critical infrastructure organizations” across US industries, with a focus on gathering intelligence — - Chinese state-sponsored hackers have compromised “critical” cyber infrastructure in a variety of industries …
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Sam Altman says he has “many concerns” about the EU's proposed AI Act and OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating” — ChatGPT chief Sam Altman voices ‘many concerns’ over bloc's planned legislation
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently visited London, part of tour to 17 cities, including Paris, Warsaw, and Lagos, to discuss AI, balanced regulation, and more — On a stop in London, the OpenAI CEO called for balanced regulation and warned of the risks of deepfake disinformation.
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Nvidia reports Q1 revenue down 13% YoY to $7.19B, vs. $6.52B est., Data Center revenue up 14% YoY, and a Q2 revenue forecast above estimates; NVDA jumps 25%+ — - Nvidia reported first-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2024 on Wednesday, with a stronger-than-expected forecast that drove shares up 26% in extended trading.
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Sony announces Project Q, a handheld device with an 8-inch screen for streaming games from a PlayStation 5 via Remote Play over Wi-Fi, launching later in 2023 — Sony has officially confirmed it's working on a PlayStation handheld to make it easier to play your PS5 games.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a smart home display-like iOS 17 mode showing notifications, appointments, the weather, and more when an iPhone is locked in landscape mode — Apple Inc. is planning a new interface for iPhones that shows information such as calendar appointments, the weather and notifications …
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A study describes how a patient who was paralyzed from waist down was able to walk naturally again with brain and spine implants using an AI thought decoder — In a new study, researchers describe a device that connects the intentions of a paralyzed patient to his physical movements.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 48% YoY to $623.6M, vs. $608M est., forecasts Q2 product revenue below est., and plans to acquire startup Neeva; SNOW drops 10%+ — - Snowflake beat on the top and bottom lines for the fiscal first quarter, but it gave product revenue guidance that missed consensus estimates.
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft formally files its appeal against the UK CMA's decision to block its $69B Activision deal; the judicial review process could take up to nine months — Microsoft Corp. formally filed its appeal against the UK antitrust watchdog's decision to block its $69 billion Activision Blizzard Inc. deal.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: some Meta employees say important work has been at a standstill and the company's 2023 product roadmap is undecided, as its final round of layoffs ends — Meta Platforms Inc. employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Starling Bank CEO Anne Boden steps down, replaced by COO John Mountain as interim CEO; Starling, which has raised over $1B, reports £453M in FY2023 revenue — Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by its CTO …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind shows how its visual language model Flamingo is generating descriptions for YouTube Shorts based on metadata, helping improve discoverability — Google just combined DeepMind and Google Brain into one big AI team, and on Wednesday, the new Google DeepMind shared details …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: the Biden administration says SCOTUS should let stand a 2022 appeals court ruling favoring Google over its alleged theft of Genius' lyric transcriptions — The Biden administration's U.S. solicitor general said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court should not review a ruling won … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google expands Play Games Beta on PC to Europe and New Zealand, bringing the offering to 56 countries total and over 100 Android games — As telegraphed earlier this year, the Google Play Games on PC Beta is now available in Europe and New Zealand. … This is a big expansion … | Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signs the broadest-yet right-to-repair bill, with exceptions including game consoles and cybersecurity tools, effective July 1, 2024 — Today, the fight for our right to repair everything we own just scored a huge victory: the US state of Minnesota just passed the broadest-yet Right to Repair law.| Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia: |
Regulatory filings: Indonesia-based eFishery, which provides software and financing to fish farmers, raised a $108M Series D at a $1.3B post-money valuation — Indonesian agritech startup eFishery has raised US$108 million in series D funding, pushing its post-money valuation to US$1.3 billion …
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| Aja Romano / Vox: |
A look at how puritanism took over fandom communities, the growing “anti-fandom” movement, and how the US' FOSTA-SESTA worsened sex positivity discourse online — Puriteens, anti-fans, and the culture war's most bonkers battleground. — How did the internet become so puritanical?
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