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Wall Street Journal:
Google unveils ARM-based Axion chips for AI, claiming they have up to 30% better performance over the top ARM rivals, coming to Google Cloud customers in 2024  —  Tech giant develops new chips to cut reliance on outside vendors as the AI arms race intensifies
Bloomberg:
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveils AI updates: corporate Gemini users can “ground” responses in reliable sources, Search as a Gemini answer source, and more  —  The company unveiled updates to its AI offerings at its annual cloud conference  —  Google unveiled a host …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces Vids, an app to help companies and consumers make collaborative, shareable video, powered by Gemini, launching in public beta in summer 2024  —  For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks.  Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google debuts its Find My Device network in the US and Canada, initially for lost Android phones and tablets; third-party tracker tag support is coming in May  —  Google is launching its new Find My Device (FMD) network in the US and Canada starting today.  It will initially find lost Android phones …
Wall Street Journal:
An investigation finds a shadowy supply chain for Starlink terminals to US foes in Russia and Sudan via Africa, Asia, and the UAE; SpaceX has not shut them off  —  The satellite-internet devices are helping Russian fighters in Ukraine and paramilitary forces in Sudan; SpaceX hasn't shut them off
More: PCMag and Benzinga
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Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Monad Labs, which is building a Layer 1 blockchain to rival Ethereum and Solana, raised $225M led by Paradigm and plans to launch its mainnet by the end of 2024  —  With crypto markets roaring back, different blockchains are jockeying to become the solution that hoovers up demand in the next wave …
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is expected this summer  —  Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee.
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Sources: the US plans to award Samsung $6B+ next week to build four chip facilities in Taylor, Texas, including a $17B plant, as part of the $52B CHIPS Act  —  The Biden administration plans to announce it is awarding more than $6 billion to South Korea's Samsung (005930.KS) …
Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
Filing: Tesla settles a lawsuit over Apple engineer Walter Huang's 2018 fatal Autopilot crash a day before the trial started; details were not disclosed  —  The settlement amount was not disclosed, court documents say.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla settled a long-running lawsuit over the 2018 death …
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, as the app's growth in Europe slows  —  TikTok's growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it's rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos.
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The Internet Archive is hosting the new Aruba Collection, which contains 100K+ items from Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions  —  By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding …

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Committee to Protect Journalists:
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation

Variety:
Netflix scores the most 2026 Golden Globe nominations, with 35 nominations across film and TV; Warner Bros. and HBO got a combined 31 nominations

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Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:
Google rebrands Studio Bot, its AI-powered app development chatbot for Android Studio, to “Gemini in Android Studio”, and upgrades its model to Gemini 1.0 Pro
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Vista Equity Partners acquires Model N, a public company focusing on helping health companies automate pricing and compliance decisions, for $1.25B
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
IDC: the global PC market grew 1.5% YoY in Q1 2024 to 59.8M shipments, despite weaker demand in China, following two years of decline
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Docs: after months of employees sniping about the Israel-Hamas war, Google removes “thumbs down”, post metrics, and more from its internal message board Memegen
More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, and TIME
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is confident upcoming Windows laptops with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips will beat an M3-powered MacBook Air in CPU and AI performance
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting Android and iOS users generate and revise playlists using text prompts
Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review:
US lawmakers post a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more
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