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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to make Magic Editor and other AI editing tools, previously limited to Pixel phones and paid users, available to all Google Photos users for free — Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited …
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
The FCC says all but the smallest ISPs must now publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all their plans, ending an eight-year battle between ISPs and the agency — Starting on Wednesday, all but the smallest ISPs will be required to publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, the regulator announced.
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| Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog: |
Google adds Gemma variants CodeGemma, for code completion and generation tasks, and RecurrentGemma, to offer researchers faster inference at higher batch sizes — In February we announced Gemma, our family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google's Cloud Next keynote was by far its most impressive presentation in the AI era, not least because the company put forward its infrastructure advantages — It was impossible to miss the leading message at yesterday's Google Cloud Next keynote: Google has the best infrastructure for AI.
More: Constellation Research and Beyond Search
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple assembled $14B worth of iPhones in India in the past fiscal year, doubling production YoY; Apple now makes as much as 14% of its iPhones in India — - It now assembles about 1 in 7 of its iPhones from India — That ramp-up suggests an accelerating shift from China| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it will stop paying developers to create Alexa apps and giving free AWS credits on June 30, 2024; developers can keep monetizing their apps via IAPs — - End of program scraps key element of effort to build app store — Google killed third-party apps for its Assistant in 2022| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips for AI training, and says MTIA v1 and the new chips are both now in production — Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance's EBITDA rose ~60% YoY in 2023 to $40B+ and its sales rose from $80B to nearly $120B, passing Tencent's revenue and profit for the first time — - Revenue at TikTok owner also grew substantially in 2023 — Company's US business is being challenged by lawmakers
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe updates Frame.io, adding new workflow and tagging capabilities for project management, in beta for Free and Pro customers on the web, iOS, and iPadOS — Adobe has introduced the latest version of Frame.io, overhauling the cloud-based media collaboration service with oodles of new workflow …
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| Reuters: |
Aloha Browser says its EU users jumped 250% in March 2024 after the DMA came into effect; Vivaldi, Ecosia, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Opera also saw user growth — Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet's Google … | Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Rakuten Kobo announces its first color e-readers, the $220 Kobo Libra Colour and the $150 Kobo Clara Colour, available for preorder now and shipping on April 30 — Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Madrid-based big data observability startup Onum, which launched in 2023, raised a $28M Series A led by Dawn Capital, with participation from Insight and Kibo — Big data observability startup Onum said today it's ready to accelerate its ambitious growth plans after closing on a $28 million early-stage round of funding.
More: Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, Onum, and Sifted
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Ukraine deemed US startups' drones glitchy and pricey, and turned to cheaper Chinese drones; PitchBook: ~300 US drone startups have raised ~$2.5B since 2022 — Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China
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| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance misled the Central Bank of Ireland in early 2023, after HSBC shut down the company's bank accounts following a money laundering probe — In early 2023, Irish banking regulators contacted ByteDance with a pointed question: Why was the Chinese internet giant and parent company … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce — Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was last valued at $5 billion in April 2022 …
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
NetEase and Microsoft say they plan to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the 14-year partnership in January 2023 — Chinese video games giant NetEase (9999.HK) said it is working with Microsoft (MSFT.O) to bring popular games including …
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| Vinod Khosla / Financial Times: |
The US is right to target TikTok and prevent a foreign adversary from controlling a platform to deploy “persuasive AI” that can manipulate US citizens and more — Chinese control of a powerful ‘persuasive AI’ tool cannot be tolerated — The writer is the founder of Khosla Ventures
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in its API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling — As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is the nexus of modern software development that sits atop tech platforms …
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Marketers complain about ad performance issues on Meta's platforms over the past few months, saying ad campaign costs are up significantly while sales are down — Marketers on Facebook and Instagram notice glitches, higher prices and poorer returns on the once-reliable network
More: HBR.org
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Guesty, a platform for accommodation managers to manage Airbnbs and more, raised $130M, sources say at a $900M valuation, after raising a $170M Series E in 2022 — Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world. Now, to underscore that surge …
More: PR Newswire, FinSMEs, PhocusWire, ctech, hoteltechnologynews.com, and Guesty
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to ~$18.5B and expects revenue to grow 20%+ in 2024, reversing 2023's slight decline, and a $28B to $32B capex in 2024 — That outperformance lends weight to expectations that the world's most valuable chipmaker will return to solid growth this year …
More: The Register, TSMC, Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, and Reuters
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Israeli cloud security startup Wiz acquires cloud detection and response startup Gem Security, sources say for $350M, after acquiring dev platform Rafft in 2023 — The first time Gili Raanan ever gave Assaf Rappaport a big check, it was in a gas station. — “It was a convenience store …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Collaborative Robotics, which is developing a Cobot to work alongside humans, raised a $100M Series B led by General Catalyst, taking its total funding to $140M — Humanoids have sucked a lot of the air out of the room. It is, after all, a lot easier to generate press for robots that look and move like humans.
More: Reuters, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, PR Newswire, and The Robot Report
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