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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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| Counterpoint Research: |
iPhone sales in China fell 19.1% YoY to a 15.7% share in Q1 2024; Vivo fell 0.4% YoY to 17.4%, Honor rose 11.5% YoY to 16.1%, and Huawei rose 69.7% YoY to 15.5% — - China's smartphone sales grew 1.5% YoY and 4.6% QoQ in Q1 2024, marking the second consecutive quarter of positive YoY growth.
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| Washington Post: |
Google fires ~20 more staff the company says participated in protests denouncing an Israeli cloud contract; an activist workers' group says the total is now 50+ — Some employees protested the tech giant's contract with the Israeli government. They've been let go.
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| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
As Congress' TikTok bill moves ahead, US lawmakers must show on what grounds they are forcing a sale or ban of the popular and culturally significant platform — Congress must show the evidence to gain Americans' support for its proposed sale or ban of one of the world's most popular social networks.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop powered by its new Firefly Image 3 model, including Reference Image to inspire the AI's output, available in beta on desktop — Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to its Photoshop creative software that aim to give users additional ways to control the designs they generate.| Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: |
Sources: two SEC lawyers resigned after a US federal judge sanctioned and sharply rebuked the SEC for “gross abuse” of power in crypto platform DEBT Box's case — - Judge sanctioned regulator for ‘gross abuse of power’ in March — Utah crypto firm was put into receivership on staff's advice
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| The Citizen Lab: |
Analysis of pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi: flaws reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers — We urge users to install the latest updates to their keyboard apps and that they keep their mobile operating systems up to date.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest — Meta's Horizon OS, as it's now called, will bring Quest-alikes: Asus, Lenovo, and even an Xbox variant are coming. Here's what to expect.
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| Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge: |
Apple announces a “special Apple Event” on May 7, where new iPads will likely be unveiled — 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. Apple has started inviting members of the media to a …
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% YoY to 615M, below 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% YoY to 239M, and a €168M operating income — - Subscribers to paid Spotify tiers jumped 14% to 239 million — Swedish audio-streaming company posted record operating profit| Reuters: |
Analysis: 10 Chinese entities acquired advanced Nvidia chips embedded in Supermicro, Dell, and Gigabyte products between November 20, 2023 and February 28, 2024 — Chinese universities and research institutes recently obtained high-end Nvidia (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chips through resellers … | James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers — UnitedHealth Group paid ransom to hackers, person familiar with the cyber investigation said — 's Change Healthcare unit …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/technews
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Perplexity AI, which offers an AI chatbot to summarize 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.Sponsor Posts
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Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
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