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Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September — New York CNN — — Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.
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Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's display and car research teams were reportedly based — The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
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Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit of $4.9B, up 931% YoY, and sales of $52.68B, up 11.4% YoY, as memory chip prices surge, hinting end of the chip downturn — World's biggest maker of memory chips beats expectations with strong first-quarter guidance — Samsung Electronics expects …
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YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini — The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI's text-to-video generator would be a infraction of the platform's terms of service …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown — Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won't be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops — Users have been prompted to withdraw Bitcoin NFTs from Binance by May 18. — Trading volume for NFTs is at multi-year lows.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use — Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”| Reuters: |
Sources: Alphabet is considering an offer for the marketing software company HubSpot, which has a $35B market cap, in what would be its largest acquisition yet — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot (HUBS.N) …
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Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for US' chip manufacturing plans — South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin
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India's IT minister says the country is looking to frame a “balanced” AI law that will protect news publishers and content creators while minimizing user harm — Global AI regulation discussions intensify as companies seek fair compensation for AI data training from publishers.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices — Last week, Ernie Smith, the publisher of the website Tedium, got a “copyright infringement notice” … | Platformer: |
A look at the rocky launch of Shine, the photo-sharing app developed by Marissa Mayer's startup Sunshine whose cofounder Enrique Muñoz Torres resigned this week — Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn't ready
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