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April 15, 2024, 5:55 AM

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IDC:

Global smartphone shipments in Q1 2024 grew 7.8% YoY to 289.4M units; iPhone shipments fell 9.6% YoY, more than any other top brand, and Xiaomi grew 33.8% YoY — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker , global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% year over year to 289.4 million units in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24).

Financial Times:

The US awards Samsung $6.4B in CHIPS Act funding and says the company plans to make 2nm chips at its Taylor, Texas plant by 2026, two years ahead of TSMC — South Korean group set to outdo rival TSMC with cutting-edge 2nm chip production in US by 2026 as part of $40bn investment

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Bloomberg:

OpenAI opens a Tokyo office, releases a Japanese language GPT-4 model, and taps former president of AWS's Japan arm Tadao Nagasaki to lead an enterprise push — OpenAI named the former president of Amazon Web Services's Japan arm to spearhead its push to woo enterprise clients in the world's fourth-largest economy.

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X: @dyett and @openai

Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority:

Source: Google's new Pixel 9 series, next-generation Pixel Fold, and an under-development 5G tablet will use a new Samsung modem that has satellite connectivity — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdwN- WKDVec — Most people don't consider the modem when considering buying a new phone, and why should they?

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X: @trytechtips, @howtomen, and @yukitan0121

Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, and r/Android

Joseph Politano / Apricitas Economics:

An overview of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which shows California's percentage of US tech jobs has continued to steadily decline since 2020 — The Golden State Used to Dominate Tech Employment—But Its Share of Total US Tech Jobs has Now Fallen to the Lowest Level in a Decade — Thanks for reading!

X: @sasboomstick, @takisk, @__sangheetha__, @josephpolitano, @josephpolitano, @soquelcreek, @binarybits, @arpitrage, @josephpolitano, @jm_mcgrath, @_giacomo_volpe_, @josephpolitano, @makeabuck2, @josephpolitano, and @josephpolitano. LinkedIn: Jeroen de Jong

Forums: Hacker News and r/Economics

TechCrunch:

Meta is testing its Meta AI chatbot with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa; Meta announced chatbot plans in February 2023 — Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp …

More: Business Standard, PhoneArena, Windows Report, Social Media Today, Trak.in, Engadget, TalkAndroid.com, Pakistan Observer, News.ng, Gizchina, Livemint, and Inc42 Media

X: @onthegrapevine, @garymarcus, @brianlfrye, and @wadhwa

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Elon Musk's xAI previews Grok-1.5 Vision, its first multimodal model, and says the AI model will be available soon to “early testers and existing Grok users” — Elon Musk's OpenAI rival has introduced its first multimodal model. Not only can it understand text …

Emma Jacobs / Financial Times:

LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of AI position or a chief AI officer (CAIO) has almost tripled globally in the past five years — As boards grapple with the opportunity and risk of generative artificial intelligence, companies are leaning into a new role: the chief AI officer.

Bluesky: @jakewertz.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Ajay Bhaskar and James Pomeroy

Echo Wang / Reuters:

Source: cloud data management startup Rubrik plans to sell 23M shares priced between $28 and $31 each, raising up to $713M and reaching a $5.4B valuation — Cybersecurity software firm Rubrik, which counts Microsoft (MSFT.O) among its prominent investors, is aiming to raise as much as $713 million …

More: Bloomberg

Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic:

A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter — Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a lost era when social media was still fun — A few years ago, Stephanie Williams and her husband fielded …

Mastodon: @jezlyn@mastodon.social and @clive@saturation.social

X: @chefboiyardie, @thedallas, @kristyt, @joshuaogundu, @abetterboulder, @itsneenzjeez, and @theatlantic

LinkedIn: Anika Collier Navaroli, Japhy Grant, and Tara Turk-Haynes

Nicole Sperling / New York Times:

As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency — Dan Lin, the streaming service's new film chief, wants to produce a more varied slate of movies to better appeal to the array of interests among subscribers.

More: Tom's Guide and Dexerto

Bluesky: @mizmulligan.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Stuart Falk, Jonas Barnes, and Dedi Felman

Forums: r/oscarrace and r/boxoffice

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:

Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:

The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:

Sources: the tenure of Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, Fortune's outgoing CEO, was marked by turmoil over a clash with Victor Pang, a lawyer for the company's owner

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Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia:

A look at chip design companies like Oppstar that aim to push Malaysia, the world's sixth-largest semiconductor exporter, to the higher end of the value chain

X: @tsubasa_nikkei, @nikkeiasia, and @imnormgoh. LinkedIn: Tengku Zafrul Aziz

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:

Q&A with Ukraine's Cyberpolice Department chief Yevhenii Panchenko on his role after Russia's invasion, battling pro-Russian hacking groups, and more

X: @haje and @lorenzofb

Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg:

Analysis: software and services companies have issued almost $30B of debt that is classed as distressed, the most in any industry apart from real estate

X: @thomaspower and @trengriffin

Pilita Clark / Financial Times:

An analysis of 200M+ student papers submitted over the past year: ~11% of papers showed signs of AI help and ~3% of papers contained at least 80% AI writing

More: Wired and Turnitin

X: @linkletter, @wired, @briandunning, @turnitin, and @turnitin

LinkedIn: Emily Isaacs and Sharon Richardson, PhD. Forums: Slashdot

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

A look at Vana, which raised $20M to let users get paid to share their Reddit posts and other data to train AI models; Reddit banned Vana's subreddit

X: @edzitron. Forums: r/technology

Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:

Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years

Threads: @taylorlorenz. Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange. X: @viacristiano, @viacristiano, @nsqe, @realrussbaker, @viacristiano, @wolfejosh, @michaelsobolik, @cat_zakrzewski, and @viacristiano

Forums: Hacker News and r/politics

Earlier Picks

Wes Davis / The Verge:

Bluesky says it is now allowing heads of state to sign up, and adds features including hashtags in profile bios and the ability to long press a link to share

More: TechCrunch and Engadget

Bluesky: @bsky.app, @marxcobalt.bsky.social, @dranzone.net, @rhcmuts.bsky.social, @libraryvines.bsky.social, @gingermike55.bsky.social, and @araphel.wtf. X: @bluesky

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; the app is invite-only

Zoë Schiffer / Platformer:

A look at the book The Anxious Generation, as some say author Jonathan Haidt falls short in showing that social media is causing a teen mental health crisis

More: Vox and Washington Post

Threads: @drewharwell, @nichcarlson, and @crumbler

X: @borrowed_ideas, @borrowed_ideas, @mausellmoli, @derekeb, and @binarybits. LinkedIn: Bob Gower. Forums: r/skeptic

New York Times:

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about AI models costing ~$10B to train, why AI models are close to being “able to replicate and survive in the wild”, more

More: Music Ally, The Decoder, and Constellation Research

Threads: @pkedrosky. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @ldignan, @royalts, and @aisafetymemes. LinkedIn: Matt Greenfield

Sherwood News:

Twitch has become a major Spanish-language platform, with streamers like TheGrefg and Ibai Llanos hosting live sporting events that attract massive audiences

X: @joshuatopolsky

Ben Dickson / VentureBeat:

Google researchers detail a technique that gives LLMs the ability to work with text of infinite length while keeping memory and compute requirements constant

More: MarkTechPost, arXiv, and Analytics India Magazine

X: @_akhaliq and @arankomatsuzaki. LinkedIn: Maarten Ectors