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Stability AI says Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO and from the board “to pursue decentralized AI”; COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte named interim CEOs — Mostaque has told a number of people close to him that he plans to step down as chief executive …
More: Stability AI, Bloomberg, Axios, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Cryptopolitan, The Verge, Analytics India Magazine, and PetaPixel
Threads: @hexinab0x and @benedictevans
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LinkedIn: Jon Lam and Jim Geduldick
Forums: r/MachineLearning, r/singularity, and r/ArtistHate
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
A look at the US DOJ's lawsuit against Apple, comparisons to Microsoft suit in the 90's, basic factual errors, why it is clearly a political case, and more — March 21, 2024 the United States filed an antitrust complaint against Apple. The filing is a new approach to antitrust and hinges …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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Threads: @mrjoshuapack and @blakejakely
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Redis, the popular in-memory data store, switches from the open source 3-clause BSD license to a controversial dual-license model — Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open-source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent …
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
BeReal's challenges show the difficulty for new consumer apps to break out absent a big platform shift, as users lack the time to try additional consumer apps — The recent reports that BeReal is struggling with either a fundraise or growth or both, is a bummer.
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022 — X usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks. — The number of people using X daily is falling …
Threads: @crumbler, @kurtwag8, @lorakolodny, @georgescriban, @clarajeffery, @chancerydaily, @goldengateblond, @parkermolloy, @jjackyliang, @drewharwell, @guillecummings, @simondowens, @datadrivenmd, @davechensky, @zerocool6687, and @darkzuckerberg
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X: @kenklippenstein, @carnage4life, @joshconstine, @noahpinion, @swannmarcus89, and @danlehnermusic. LinkedIn: Josh Sternberg
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, r/TheAllinPodcasts, r/Twitter, and Beehaw
| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
Microsoft's deal with Inflection is a further sign that the emerging AI economy will probably be dominated by the US tech giants, as the AI talent war heats up — Microsoft's agreement with two founders of Inflection is the latest sign that deep-pocketed companies are scooping up much of the expertise in AI
More: The Verge, On my Om, ITPro Today, Tech Startups, and Maginative
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: |
Q&A with ex-CEO of CrowdTangle Brandon Silverman about the founding principle of the research tool, Meta's decision to close it in an election year, and more — Meta announced this month that in August it will be closing CrowdTangle, the platform monitoring tool the company bought in 2016.| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
GM says it has stopped sharing driving data with two data brokers, after a report showed GM and others collecting and sharing data without clear consent — G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers.
More: Detroit Free Press, Ars Technica, and The Verge
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Bluesky: @babyboomerwriter.bsky.social and @mariaq.bsky.social
X: @wbm312, @senmarkey, and @kashhill
LinkedIn: Brian Jackson, Eric Starkman, and Philip Koopman
Forums: Hacker News, r/cars, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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Threads: @lorakolodny, @timfullerton, @drewharwell, @jbholston, @kevin.c.oneil, @gtconway3, @elizspiers, @drewharwell, and @jw. Bluesky: @chickenpuppet.bsky.social
Forums: r/Impeach_Trump, r/technology, r/law, and r/politics
| Reuters: |
Didi Q4: revenue up 55.4% YoY to ~$6.83B, a ~$113.15M net income, up from a ~$131.8M loss YoY, as the company continues its recovery after regulatory challenges — Didi Global, China's largest ride-hailing company, on Saturday reported a fourth-quarter profit, indicating …
More: Bloomberg and DiDi Global
| Reuters: |
Source: Spain's High Court orders the suspension of Telegram after media companies complained it was allowing users to upload their content without permission — Spain's High Court has ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram's services in the country after media companies complained … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won't say how its users' data was leaked — Three years after a hacker first teased an alleged massive theft of AT&T customer data, a breach seller this week dumped the full dataset online.
More: Tech.co, PhoneArena, and The Verge
| Yuichi Shiga / Nikkei Asia: |
The Philippines' new undersea internet cable network is expected to bring jobs to remote islands, boosting the country's BPO sector, which employed 1.7M in 2023 — Project expected to bring stable internet and new jobs to more remote islands — InfiniVAN holds a cable pulling ceremony on the island of Boracay in November 2022.
X: @nikkeiasia
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