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April 15, 2024, 8:25 PM

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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:

Adobe says it is in the early stages of developing a way to let Premiere Pro users tap AI models from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate video — Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday said it is in the early stages of allowing the use of third-party generative artificial intelligence tools …

More: Adobe Video & Motion on YouTube, Adobe Press Releases, The Adobe Blog, MacRumors, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, MobileSyrup, Maginative, Neowin, CoinGape, AppleInsider, ZDNet, WinBuzzer, Tech.co, Engadget, The Decoder, Android Headlines, Tech Monitor, Tom's Guide, Lifewire, and AndroidGuys

Threads: @benedictevans, @jakevk, and @life_with_benjamin

Mastodon: @mathew@universeodon.com and @stooovie@mas.to

X: @martin_casado, @karinaanglada, @icreatelife, @markchristiansn, @adobevideo, @beatlejase, @adobevideo, @adobe, @beatlejase, @danbarbera, @ericaddison, @tkexpress11, @bobodtech, and @valentinavee

LinkedIn: James Ratliff, Kyle Gesuelli, Ryan Sagare, and Todd Burke

Alex Koller / CNBC:

Adobe releases Acrobat AI Assistant to summarize documents and answer questions about them for $4.99/month, an “early access” rate, and a mobile version in beta

More: Adobe Press Releases, ZDNet, Fortune, PCMag, Thurrott, and Inc.com

X: @acrobat and @acrobat

Artificial Intelligence Index:

Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more — Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives …

More: Artifical Intelligence Index, PYMNTS.com, The Register, Stanford HAI, The Decoder, EnterpriseAI, Stanford HAI, San Francisco Chronicle, IEEE Spectrum, SiliconANGLE, and New York Times

X: @jordannovet, @stanfordhai, @stanfordnlp, @stanfordnlp, @jsevillamol, @stanfordhai, @russellwald, @benjaminklieger, @epochairesearch, @stanfordnlp, and @ankareuel

LinkedIn: Stanford Institute … and Heather E.. Forums: Slashdot

Financial Times:

The US awards Samsung up to $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

Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios:

Meta plans to launch a new education product for Quest that will let teachers access education apps for students ages 13+ and manage multiple headsets at once — - In time for the fall semester, it'll make available a suite of visually engrossing education apps that teachers can use with students ages 13+.

More: Meta, TechCrunch, UploadVR, Sky News, The National Pulse, The Daily Upside, Deseret News, Cointelegraph, WHDH-TV, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Neowin, The Metaverse Insider, and The Crypto Times

X: @nickclegg, @nickclegg, @castrotech, and @metanewsroom

LinkedIn: Gustavo Madrigal, M.A. Ed., Carl Boel, Juan Bossicard, Michael Lin, and Michel Buchner

David Pierce / The Verge:

Limitless launches the $99 Limitless Pendant, a wearable AI gadget that transcribes meetings and provides real-time notes and summaries, shipping in August — The Limitless Pendant doesn't exactly scream “AI.” As Dan Siroker, the CEO of the company behind the new device …

More: Tom's Guide, iMore, and Spyglass

Threads: @martinsfp and @hi.nixson. Mastodon: @peter@thepit.social. Bluesky: @mikalfm.bsky.social

X: @linusekenstam, @erondu, @nickadobos, @petergyang, @dsiroker, @stammy, @stammy, @scobleizer, @dsiroker, @dsiroker, and @gartenberg. Forums: Hacker News

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:

Impressions of Waymo's robotaxis after several rides: amazing tech that quickly feels “normal”, but it failed to understand a traffic cop's hand signals — An curved arrow pointing right. — Unlike other hyped-up tech, self-driving taxis look like they could be the real thing.

Threads: @emetelka, @joeypadge3, @nick_poitier, @motorcityadam, @pkafka, and @nemeseri

X: @noampomsky, @kazanjy, @alexia, and @pranay01

Forums: r/waymo and r/SelfDrivingCars

Vittoria Elliott / Wired:

ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts” — Misleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage from other conflicts have been viewed millions of times.

More: ISD. X: @decodingfoxnews, @ghonchehazad, @merlynthomas, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @arsenkeklikoglu, @shayan86, @talhagin, @eliothiggins, @shayan86, @shayan86, @shayan86, @vabvox, @shayan86, @shayan86, and @shayan86

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

CISA said locks from RealPage's Chirp Systems, reportedly on ~50K US dwellings, can be unlocked via a hack; Chirp was told in 2021 but is quiet about the flaw — The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials …

More: The Register. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, @lpar@infosec.exchange, @kurtseifried@infosec.exchange, and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

LinkedIn: Dirk Anderson, Brian Krebs, and Art Cooper

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg:

How scammers, often from Nigeria, are using sextortion to target teenage boys on social media in the US, leading to at least 20 suicides over an 18-month period — One word from a stranger on social media was all it took. “Hey,” she said. — Jordan DeMay read the Instagram message at 10:19 p.m. on a Thursday night in March 2022.

More: Bloomberg. X: @rfriedman305, @markmilian, and @livcarville

Bloomberg:

OpenAI opens a Tokyo office, releases a Japanese language GPT-4 model, and taps former President of AWS Japan Tadao Nagasaki to woo enterprises in the country — 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.

More: OpenAI, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Information, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, Tech in Asia, Cryptopolitan, Maginative, CCN.com, Cybernews.com, Silicon Republic, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and Reuters

X: @openai, @allgarbled, @borismpower, and @dyett. LinkedIn: Aliisa Rosenthal

Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune:

Sources detail how China-based ByteDance and US TikTok operations remain intertwined: some US staff effectively report to ByteDance, share user data, and more — In January, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced an intense grilling by skeptical U.S. lawmakers about his company's ties to Beijing and its alleged risk to national security.

More: The Information and The Daily Caller

Mastodon: @netblocks@mastodon.social. X: @drnealdunnfl2, @brendancarrfcc, @alexmacgregor__, and @gordongchang

IDC:

Global smartphone shipments grew 7.8% YoY to 289.4M in Q1 2024; iPhone fell 9.6% YoY, more than all top brands, Xiaomi grew 33.8% YoY, and Samsung retook first — 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).

More: Android Authority, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, HotHardware, The Guardian, ZDNet, Telegraph, Quartz, SamMobile, The Standard, ExtremeTech, The Hill, Sherwood News, TechRadar, PCMag, Computerworld, The Register, BGR, Cult of Mac, SHINE, CNET, Interesting Engineering, 9to5Google, RCR Wireless News, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, TechSpot, City A.M., iMore, Daily Mail, iMore, Associated Press, Fortune, Proactive, Thurrott, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Android Headlines, Forbes, Reuters, Gizchina, TechCrunch, iClarified, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, Engadget, The National, MySmartPrice, GSMArena.com, 24/7 Wall St., MacDailyNews, Phandroid, Sam Lover, PhoneArena, Livemint, Business Insider, Sammy Fans, CNBC, Benzinga, Forexlive, Financial Times, and Yahoo Finance

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @metacriticcap, @aeyakovenko, @matthewstoller, @swarajk_, @nabilapopal, @jamessurowiecki, @tomgara, @thestalwart, @alvinfoo, @idc, @dividendmaster, and @gurgavin

Forums: r/Android, r/wallstreetbets, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware's licensing conditions, following complaints from EU business users and a trade group — U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is being asked by EU antitrust regulators about changes to newly acquired cloud computing company …

More: Benzinga and Constellation Research

Billy Perrigo / TIME:

Google's Jigsaw expands Perspective API, a set of ML tools that help moderators and researchers identify toxicity, with seven attributes, including nuance — In the 1990s and early 2000s, technologists made the world a grand promise: new communications technologies would strengthen democracy …

X: @mer__edith, @prestonjbyrne, @billyperrigo, @jigsaw, @jigsaw, and @jigsaw. LinkedIn: Reza Ghazinouri

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CNN:

Source: UFC CEO Dana White has declined Trump's offer to become press secretary

Ethan Gach / Kotaku:

Valnet agrees to a $2M settlement to end a 2023 suit accusing it of misclassifying some workers as contractors rather than full-time employees to deny them pay

Washington Post:

Sources: Trump ally Laura Loomer was paid, including via wire transfers worth ~$60K, for political social media posts without publicly disclosing the payments

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Rachel Graf / Bloomberg:

Mark Zuckerberg wins his bid to avoid personal liability in about two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta and other companies of addicting children to their products

Ricardo Brito / Reuters:

Letter: X's lawyers tell Brazil's Supreme Court that the social media platform will comply with every ruling issued by the court or Brazil's top electoral court

Threads: @wolfgangbremer. X: @apagliar and @xdaily

Fred Lambert / Electrek:

Sources: Tesla is focused on building a giant Texas datacenter for its robotaxi project, which is now a top priority, after postponing work on a cheaper vehicle

More: W Media Research, Forbes, Brad Ideas, Notebookcheck, and CCN.com

Bluesky: @cathygellis.bsky.social. Forums: r/RealTesla and r/electricvehicles

Katie McQue / The Guardian:

As nine US states advance online child safety bills, a look at tech giants' lobbying efforts against the legislation, led by industry group NetChoice

X: @jason_kint, @blakersdozen, @zamaan_qureshi, and @ttp_updates

New York Times:

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice”

More: PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Social Media Today, Crowdfund Insider, and The Korea Herald

Threads: @mr.michaelmiller. Bluesky: @blowdart.me and @mikalfm.bsky.social

X: @sen_stackhouse, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @kateconger, @baekdal, @mikeisaac, and @baxiabhishek. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski

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Tony Romm / Washington Post:

AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon quietly lobby to weaken a $42.5B program to improve US internet access, aiming to block new rules on poor customers' bills

Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @tonyromm, @tonyromm, and @tonyromm. Forums: Slashdot

Bloomberg:

As Microsoft begins its most ambitious security reboot in two decades, critics question if the company has sufficient incentive to make deep and lasting changes

More: Wired and Dark Reading

Mastodon: @jvagle@mastodon.lawprofs.org. X: @kimzetter and @ericgeller. LinkedIn: Dina Bass

Forums: r/politics and r/technology

Meta:

Meta plans to temporarily shut down Threads in Turkey from April 29 to comply with a TCA interim order prohibiting data sharing between Threads and Instagram

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Social Media Today, Reuters, Android Headlines, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, Neowin, Bloomberg, News.ng, Cybernews.com, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, Turkish Minute, Balkan Insight, Duvar English, Daily Sabah, and Tech Xplore. Mastodon: @ahmetasabanci@mastodon.social

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:

Singapore-based used car marketplace Carro raised ~$100M in pre-IPO funding at a $1.5B+ valuation and reports its first annual operating profit

More: Tech in Asia

David Pan / Bloomberg:

Bitcoin's next halving, set for around April 20, will cut miners' earnings for validating transactions from 900 BTC to 450, costing them ~$10B in annual revenue

More: Decrypt, Blockworks, The Crypto Times, NewsBTC, The Block, Cybernews.com, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, and Cryptonews. LinkedIn: David Pan

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

More: San Francisco Business Times, Blocks and Files, and 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

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

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

Joseph Politano / Apricitas Economics:

Bureau of Labor Statistics data: California's percentage of US tech jobs has continued to steadily decline since 2020, now at the lowest levels in over a decade

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

Forums: Hacker News and r/Economics