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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple pivots to a less ambitious design for its upcoming EV, from Level 4 autonomy to Level 2+, and pushes back its launch from 2026 to 2028 or later — - After board meetings, car downgraded to Level 2+ autonomy — Company pushes back launch from 2026 to 2028 at the earliest
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Netflix says it's looking to retire its ad-free Basic plan in some countries where ad-supported plans are available, starting with Canada and the UK in Q2 — Although Netflix no longer allows new or returning members to sign up for the ad-free Basic subscription that costs $11.99 per month …
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| CNBC: |
Netflix buys the exclusive rights to WWE programs like Raw, airing in 2025 in the US, Canada, Latin America, and more; filing: the 10-year deal is worth $5B+ — - Netflix and TKO Group Holdings said Tuesday that the streaming platform will air the WWE's flagship program Raw starting next year.
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| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
Netflix says user engagement with games on its service tripled in 2023 and Grand Theft Auto has become its most successful launch to date — The company added the Grand Theft Auto trilogy to its offerings late in the year. — Netflix said that user engagement with games on the service tripled in 2023.| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces AI features for Chrome on Mac and Windows: Organize Similar Tabs and custom themes rolling out soon in the US, and Help Me Write in February — Google's Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it's soon adding …
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| The Information: |
Source: Brex told employees that the fintech is cutting 282 jobs, or ~20% of its staff, saying the team grew “too quickly” and its CTO and COO are stepping down — Brex is cutting 20% of its workforce and shaking up senior management ranks in a new effort to slash its cash burn …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Framework Laptop 16 review: the modular system offers unprecedented customization, is competent at mid-range gaming, but ran hot, froze, and glitched in testing — The Framework Laptop 16 is the most ambitious notebook I've ever touched. There's never been anything like it before.
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| Basith Rahman P P / MySmartPrice: |
Alleged renders of Google's Pixel 9 Pro show a ~6.5-inch display, smaller than the Pixel 8 Pro's, a refreshed camera island with three cameras, and a flat frame — The upcoming Google Pixel 9 Pro might feature a smaller flat display compared to the Pixel 8 Pro. — HIGHLIGHTS
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
eBay plans to cut ~1,000 roles, or ~9% of full-time employees, and to scale back the contracts it has within its alternate workforce over the coming months — This is breaking news. Please check back for updates. — CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X adds support for passkeys for US-based iOS users; the announcement comes shortly after the hack of the US SEC's X account — X, formerly Twitter, today announced support for passkeys, a new and more secure login method than traditional passwords, which will become an option for U.S. users on iOS devices.
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| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
A FINRA review of 500+ crypto-related retail communications finds that 70% of them contained claims that are false, misleading, or otherwise violated its rules — The U.S. regulator launched the review on crypto-related public communications following the collapse of FTX in November 2022.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Filing: Google is terminating its contract with data-labeling firm Appen, effective March 19; Google accounted for $82.8M of Appen's $273M revenue in 2023 — - Alphabet has cut all contractual ties with Appen, the artificial intelligence data firm that helped train Google's chatbot Bard, Google Search results and other AI products.| Bloomberg: |
Supermicro stock has jumped 430%+ since early 2023 amid an AI frenzy, outpacing Nvidia and boosting the value of its founder's 12% stake, plus options, to $3.3B — - Charles Liang founded Super Micro in 1993 with wife Sara Liu — Company's shares gained more than 430% since the start of 2023| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
SAP plans voluntary buyouts or job changes for 8,000 employees as part of a 2024 restructuring program but says its headcount should remain the same — SAP said in a statement on Tuesday that it plans to carry out voluntary buyouts or job changes for 8,000 employees as part of a 2024 restructuring program …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: Figma is refreshing employee equity packages and offering buyouts as the startup resets its valuation from $20B to $10B, after the scrapped Adobe deal — CEO Dylan Field promised to refresh employee equity packages and offered three months' pay to any who wished to depart as Figma reset … | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden admin preps an EO that aims to restrict the flow of sensitive data via intermediaries, like data brokers, to foreign adversaries like China — - Concern about countries accessing US data through legal means — White House worried about AI being used to mine information
More: iTnews, The Messenger, and Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
Attain: Boomers and Generation X consumers in the US shopped more frequently and spent more than Gen Z on Temu in 2023; Boomers shopped twice as much as Gen Z — - Boomers shopped twice as much on app as Gen Z consumers — Broad appeal lifts Temu's effort to take on Amazon in US| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
MIT CSAIL study: only 23% of US wages for doing vision tasks would be economically attractive to automate with AI, due to large upfront and operating expenses — Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when? — That's the trio of questions a new research study …
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
A bug in Ethereum's Nethermind client took down ~8% of Ethereum's validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of ETH validators — The lion's share of Ethereum's validators rely on the same piece of software to power their operations. According to some experts, this could be a big risk.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
A look at Palworld, a Pokémon-like game launched on January 19, which has sold 5M+ copies and is now the most played game on Steam, amid IP infringement claims — The Pokémon-like has sold over 5 million copies in the three days since its early access launch.
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