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The Browser Company releases Arc Search, a new iOS app that takes a user's search query, browses the web, and builds a custom webpage to answer the query — A few minutes ago, I opened the new Arc Search app and typed, “What happened in the Chiefs game.” That game, the AFC Championship, had just wrapped up.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is optimistic Vision Pro can reinvigorate its $50B metaverse effort, with the Quest ecosystem filling the role played by Android in smartphones — Company executives are optimistic about competition as billions spent have yet to translate into wide consumer adoption
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Amazon ends its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has $500M in net losses since 2021 — - EU competition watchdog was preparing to block takeover — Tech giant to pay $94 million to iRobot over deal termination| Will Knight / Wired: |
The Biden admin plans to use the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI models — The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.
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Chinese state media: China has approved more than 40 LLMs for public use since authorities began the approval process in August 2023; 14 were approved last week — China has approved more than 40 artificial intelligence (AI) models for public use in the first six months since authorities began … | Chris Miller / Financial Times: |
China's chipmakers are ramping up production capacity, helped by the country's subsidies, raising concerns among western nations about China flooding the market — The oversupply of certain types of semiconductors is going to be a problem this year — The writer is the author of ‘Chip War’ … | Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
A look at Warner Bros. Discovery's push to expand its gaming division with live services and mobile games, by leveraging its franchises like Game of Thrones — David Zaslav's most critical mission is leading Warner Bros. Discovery through the streaming wars.
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Sources: Reddit is targeting a valuation “in the mid-single-digit billions” for its planned IPO in March 2024, after raising funds at a $10B valuation in 2021 — - Firm, advisers considering figure after early investor talks — Private trades value social media company below $5 billion| Alex Fitzpatrick / Axios: |
The New York Times says users played its puzzles and games more than 8B times in 2023, led by Wordle with 4.8B plays, and the NYT Games app had 10M downloads — The New York Times' puzzle and games were played more than 8 billion times last year, the company tells Axios exclusively … | Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Presentation: Amazon says Prime Video's ad load per hour will be two to 3.5 minutes, below traditional TV and most streamers, and expects 195M monthly viewers — Move prompts longtime subscribers to cancel Prime altogether, forgoing free shipping; ‘There is only one way to show them that this is not OK’
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How Japan's $6.4B takeover of key photoresists supplier JSR and ~$4.7B buyout of Fujitsu's chip-packaging arm Shinko Electric rankled many in the chip industry — Tokyo's $6.4bn swoop for JSR has rekindled memories of heavy state intervention and cast doubt on corporate reforms
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The US ODNI appointed cyber expert Jason Barrett in October 2023 to help the intel community harness open-source intel, an area US agencies have struggled with — Scouring open-source intelligence may not have the same cachet as undercover work, but it's become a new priority for the US intelligence agencies.| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple has handled its response, including its proposed App Store changes, to the EU's DMA with aplomb, despite the law being an assault on Apple's brand promise — An essay on the EU Digital Markets Act and Apple's “Update on apps distributed in the European Union” (and some personal history)
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