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A US jury finds Terraform Labs and Do Kwon liable for fraud in a US SEC lawsuit, boosting SEC's efforts to assert greater control over the crypto industry — - Terraform 2022 failure wiped out $40 billion in investor funds — Kwon criminal trial on hold over extradition from Montenegro| Ryan Heath / Axios: |
Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board — - The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers …
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Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run — Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Marissa Mayer about her app development startup Sunshine, its new photo-sharing app Shine, the AI landscape, internet business models, and more — The Scene — About a week after Marissa Mayer's startup, app development company Sunshine, launched a new photo-sharing service, her co-founder Enrique Munoz Torres quit.| Platformer: |
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Apple updates App Store guidelines, allowing game emulators for the first time globally, and letting music streaming apps in the EU link to external websites — After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it's not satisfied with the changes the company made to comply …
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OpenAI's COO says that ChatGPT Enterprise has 600K+ paying customers, up from ~150K in January, and 2024 will be “the year of adoption for AI in the enterprise” — - ChatGPT Enterprise now has more than 600,000 users signed up — COO says this ‘is going to be the year of adoption for AI’
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Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas, to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for the 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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Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 — - Sales figures for the app released in FTC's antitrust lawsuit — Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue …
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Sources: FTX's estate sold 25M to 30M locked-up SOL coins for $64 apiece, a deeply discounted price, to Galaxy Trading, Pantera, and others, raising up to $1.9B — - Galaxy raised $620 million fund to buy discounted SOL from FTX — Sales were done at big discount to SOL's current market price
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Sources say Sundar Pichai is now making day-to-day decisions about adding generative AI to Google products even as some worry about his low-key leadership style — The Silicon Valley group has stumbled in the rollout of generative AI. Insiders say cultural and organisational issues are to blame| Reuters: |
A look at tech giants' AI training data deals; Defined.ai: some are ready to pay $1-$2 per image, $2-$4 per short video, and $100-$300 per hour of long video — At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world's top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services …
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Amazon adds a store called Bazaar to its Android app in India, featuring affordable fashion and lifestyle products, to compete with Flipkart and Reliance's Ajio — Amazon has quietly introduced a “special store” called Bazaar in India, featuring affordable and trendy fashion and lifestyle products … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than in previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI — As a devoted NBA fan, I only tune in to college basketball once a year—for March Madness—hoping to see the next big star.
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Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's next-gen display and car 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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