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In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged “unease” among VMware customers and partners after making sweeping post-acquisition changes — “There's more to come.” — Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners …
More: Broadcom B-Connected Blog, Channel Futures, The Register, ITPro, and CRN
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks — Apple researchers have developed new methods for training large language models on both text and images, enabling more powerful …
More: arXiv, MarkTechPost, and AIModels.fyi
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| Magdalene J. Taylor / New York Times: |
A look at the collapse of dating apps' usability, which can be blamed on the paid subscription model and the near monopoly the apps have over the dating world — “The golden age of dating apps is over,” a friend told me at a bar on Super Bowl Sunday. As we waited for our drinks …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to network …
More: The Economic Times and PCMag
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| Axios: |
A look at a potential TikTok US sale, with an estimated valuation of $100B, or $40B without the algorithm, as Steven Mnuchin and others form investor groups — - TikTok's U.S. revenue reportedly was between $16 billion and $20 billion in 2023, but CEO Shou Zi Chew has said the company is in the red.
More: CNBC, PhoneArena, New York Times, Business Insider, Financial Times, and New York Times
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment — A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day. So he decided to fight back| Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX's Starshield is building a network of spy satellites under a classified, $1.8B contract with the US spy agency National Reconnaissance Office — SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency … | Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
FTX's collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant today, including a lack of decentralization and companies' persistent regulatory battles — Jay Gatsby, Albert Einstein, Frodo Baggins, John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg …
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn't a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino's thankless task of trying to assure brands — Unexpected split leaves X CEO Linda Yaccarino with another loss — Don Lemon got to see both sides of Elon Musk.
More: twitchy.com, New York Post, Deadline, TMZ.com, Business Insider, and Benzinga
| Benjamin Shestakofsky / IEEE Spectrum: |
An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn's push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering — For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself in an early-stage tech startup to study its organization and culture.| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
A profile of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, whose trial begins on March 18 in SF, where federal prosecutors have accused him of defrauding HP of billions — A criminal trial is set to begin for Mr. Lynch, the founder of the software company Autonomy, which was sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 and later accused of being a fraud.
More: The Guardian and Financial Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US prosecutors in Virginia, with FDA's help, are investigating whether Meta's platforms are facilitating and profiting from the illegal sale of drugs — Federal prosecutors are looking into whether platforms including Facebook facilitate and profit from illicit sale of drugs
More: The Verge, Benzinga, Blaze Media, New York Post, The Information, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera, and Quartz
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