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SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM — - Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during …
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Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle for the first time, as the companies close the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin — On Monday, Coinbase and Circle, the two companies behind USD Coin, settled on new terms that would change the governance …
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| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
More: Benzinga, Insider, UPROXX, On my Om, and The Verge
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Bluesky: @hadleysheley.bsky.social and @vasabjit.bsky.social
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Mastodon: @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @GaryRLundberg@newsie.social, @jayreding@mastodon.world, and @KimPerales@toad.social
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X: @robtornoe, @nxthompson, @business, @tomcoates, and @mehdirhasan
Forums: r/UkrainianConflict and r/politics
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X says the company fixed a bug that prevented the service from displaying many images from before 2014 over the weekend, and that “no images or data were lost” — Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted …
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| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard listed favorable arguments when asked about “benefits” of slavery, genocide, fascism, and colonization — Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson from any Fortune 500 Company … | Financial Times: |
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they more are powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site's URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
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X: @elonmusk, @lexnfx, @tomcoates, @edzitron, @yashar, @kyliebytes, @yashar, @xdaily, @elonmusk, @beijingpalmer, @daveleebbg, @petersterne, @mcwm, @lum_, @lauraloomer, @rmac18, @jen_mcfadden, @annevedingell, @parismarx, @kronykal, @jason_kint, @ivanthek, @karaswisher, @cit_uprising, @killedbygoogle, @kwalkertweets, @lauraloomer, and @mollyjongfast. Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam
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Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; the stock jumps 15%+ — SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale …
More: CRN, SiliconANGLE, iTnews, The Information, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns — The growth correlates with the more than $25 million in revenue generated by the platform since its Aug. 10 launch.
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Genesis Therapeutics, which uses AI to discover and develop small-molecule drugs, raised a $200M Series B co-led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $280M — Artificial intelligence and biotech are two of the sectors that have been able to buck the current sluggish pace of venture capital spending.| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content — YouTube has recruited Frank Sinatra's estate and other Universal Music Group UMG .39%increase; green up pointing triangle acts …
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Bluesky: @noahkeatonhawks.bsky.social. X: @lindseygamble_, @mortms, @lindseygamble_, @reneritchie, and @youtubeliaison. LinkedIn: Matt McLernon
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition …
More: Apple Podcasts for Creators, 9to5Mac, RAIN News, The Information, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, MacStories, AppleInsider, The Verge, and MacRumors. LinkedIn: Lars Ettrup
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom Q2: revenue up 3.6% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.12B est., net income up 298% YoY to $182M, enterprise customers up 1% QoQ to ~218.1K, and raises FY 2024 guidance — - Zoom surpassed expectations on the top and bottom lines and pushed up full-year guidance. — During the quarter Zoom … | Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
A draft US and ByteDance summer 2022 agreement to avoid a TikTok ban would give US agencies power to block app policy changes, veto executive hirings, and more — For the past several years the Biden Administration and TikTok have been negotiating a deal to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned app.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
A look at Google executives like CFO Ruth Porat who have either shifted roles or left the company in recent months, as the company searches for its own identity — - A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months. — Some have wanted to seek …
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