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Filing: Fidelity marks down its Twitter stake, estimating that Twitter is now worth about 33% of the $44B that Elon Musk paid, down from 44% in November 2022 — Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …
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| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says he was humbled and outraged by toxic workplace claims and blames “outside forces” for most of Activision's image issues — Bobby Kotick has a secret: He was ready to buy Time Warner a few years ago.The CEO of Activision Blizzard drops this nugget early …
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Eclypsium: a firmware flaw in 271 Gigabyte motherboards could let hackers install malware when the PC restarts; Gigabyte plans a fix, but problems could persist — Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A look at the BabyLM Challenge, which aims to create language models with datasets that are less than one-ten-thousandth the size of those used by advanced LLMs — Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. — When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
After a fake Pentagon “explosion” image went viral, Twitter adds Community Notes to images; the notes will also appear on “recent and future matching images” — Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly …
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more — If you've been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of Papa.
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Sources: the Biden administration is split on regulating generative AI; some prefer an EU-style model while others worry over losing a competitive advantage — Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated … | Forbes: |
A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company prepares to battle Nvidia over AI chips — AMD's CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker's stock price up nearly 30-fold in less than a decade.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings — The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
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| Jenny Surane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Plaid, valued at $13.4B, and founder Zach Perret, after a $58M data scraping settlement in 2022, as the company expands and fights a lawsuit by PNC — Zap $50 to a friend via Venmo. Trade Bitcoin on Robinhood. Get a student loan with SoFi.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Ontario Securities Commission opened an investigation on May 10 into Binance over trying to skirt regulations; Binance withdrew from Canada on May 12 — Crypto exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. said it has received an order from one of Canada's securities regulators to investigate whether … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction — “May occasionally generate incorrect information.” — This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Garmin launches the $800 Fenix 7 Pro and $900 Epix 2 Pro in 42mm, 47mm, and 51mm sizes, both offering an LED flashlight, heart rate sensor, and improved maps — Garmin's joining the Pro bandwagon. On Wednesday, it's launching the Epix 2 Pro and Fenix 7 Pro, which both come with a boatload …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
After raising $730M, UK chip startup Graphcore reported just ~$5M in 2021 revenue and a $183M loss; Microsoft, an investor, reportedly declined to use its chips — Nvidia is riding the AI wave to absurd heights. Its UK rival: not so much. But first... If your company sells components designed … | David Kirton / Reuters: |
Some mainland China tech entrepreneurs are trying to gain permanent residency or citizenship outside of China to avoid US curbs and biases against Chinese firms — For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 series chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro — We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon Echo Pop review: a $40 bargain, nice design, good sound, and speedy responses, but fewer hardware features and less voice sensitive than the Dot — As the latest entry-level Alexa smart speaker, the $40 Echo Pop packs a lot of value into a small package. It's not as good as the Echo Dot, but it's got looks on its side.
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| Nadia Asparouhova / Wired: |
As GitHub prepares to close its San Francisco HQ, a look back at the living testament to tech culture, with its conflicts presaging a decade of tech backlash — The code-hosting platform's headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based Hostaway, which offers vacation rental management tools, raised $175M led by PSG Equity, after raising under $3M since its founding in 2015 — Tourism and travel have come roaring back into business post-pandemic, and today a startup called Hostaway that's building technology …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Magic, which offers SDKs to help companies create and maintain crypto wallets, raised $52M led by PayPal Ventures at a ~$500M valuation — The biggest crypto wallet you've never heard of is flourishing. San Francisco-based Magic announced on Wednesday that it's raised $52 million …
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