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The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change — Move sets up high-stakes legal clash with business groups over the agency's power — WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
The US Senate passes the TikTok divestment bill by a margin of 79-18; the legislation now heads to President Biden, who has committed to sign it into law — A bill that would force China-based company Bytedance to sell TikTok — or else face a US ban of the platform …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Legal scholars discuss how the TikTok divestment bill could survive a First Amendment challenge and why the US will likely rely on a national security argument — The First Amendment is a major obstacle, scholars say — but it isn't insurmountable — On Tuesday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions — When the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses launched last fall, they were a pretty neat content capture tool and a surprisingly solid pair of headphones.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get support for video calling via WhatsApp and Messenger, hands-free Apple Music controls, and a new frame style — Meta just announced a slew of new updates for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just dropped an Instagram reel showing off …
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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Sources: Apple cut 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400K-450K units, vs. a 700K+ market consensus, and US demand has “fallen sharply beyond expectations” — My latest survey is as follows: — Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400-450k units (vs. market consensus of 700-800k units or more).
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| Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer: |
The European Parliament adopts right-to-repair rules clarifying manufacturer obligations to provide repair services, consumer access to spare parts, and more — The new rules will give customers new ways to claim support for a product throughout its lifetime, and also aid independent repair shops.| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Not only has GM sold driving data to insurers without telling users, but a GM app “bug” meant users who were enrolled in Smart Driver were told they weren't — This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies …
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| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
For the third time, Google delays the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome, pushing back its plans to early 2025 amid regulatory scrutiny — Google is delaying the end of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser — again. In other unsurprising developments, water remains wet.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Tesla teases a ridehailing function in its app and says its robotaxi will be “purpose-built”, suggesting it will be built from the ground up to be self-driving — The company's CEO, Elon Musk, has said that Tesla will unveil a long-gestating robotaxi in August.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block says it has finished the development of its own 3nm bitcoin mining chip and is working through the design with a “leading global semiconductor foundry” — Jack Dorsey says that his payments company, Block (formerly Square), is expanding its bitcoin mining ambitions …
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Sources: IBM is nearing an acquisition of HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in the coming days; HashiCorp's stock jumps 22%+ — . — The details — A deal for HashiCorp could come together in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts Phi-3 Mini, a small 3.8B-parameter model about as capable as GPT-3.5, and plans Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium models with 7B and 14B parameters — Microsoft launched the next version of its lightweight AI model Phi-3 Mini, the first of three small models the company plans to release.
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| Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge: |
Apple schedules a “special Apple Event” for May 7 at 10am ET, where new iPads are expected; rumors suggest the iPad Pro will get an OLED display and an M3 chip — After kicking off 2024 with the launch of the Vision Pro, the next act in Apple's 2024 script is a May product launch event.
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Xaira Therapeutics, which aims to use AI models to find new drugs to treat diseases, emerged from stealth with $1B in commitments from Sequoia and others — - Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned from Stanford after controversy — New startup has backing from high-wattage tech investors
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI announces new enterprise-grade features for API customers, including enhanced security, administrative controls, and new Assistants API capabilities — Even as Meta's new Llama 3 has quickly rocketed up the charts of most-used and most customized large language models (LLMs) …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
NY-based Campus, which is building an online alternative to traditional community colleges, raised a $23M Series A extension following a $29M Series A in 2023 — Although many students in the United States enter community colleges intending to transfer to four-year universities … | Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues — Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant's Phoenix expansion.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Perplexity AI, which offers an AI chatbot that summarizes search results, raised ~$63M led by Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation, up from $520M in January 2024 — Perplexity's valuation has doubled in three months in a clear sign of investor enthusiasm for the company's artificial intelligence chatbot.
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