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April 25, 2024, 12:45 PM
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Meta Investor Relations:
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B on average for March 2024  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says “tens of millions of people” have “tried” Meta AI but making money from generative AI in Meta's apps is likely going to take several years  —  The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don't expect it to create profits anytime soon.
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
On Meta's Q1 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that Threads now has more than 150M MAUs, up from more than 130M in February 2024
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Meta's stock drops 10%+ on weak Q2 revenue guidance and increasing FY 2024 capital expenditures from $30B-$37B to $35B-$40B due to AI infrastructure investments
Alex Koller / CNBC:
Meta's Reality Labs Q1: revenue up 30% YoY to $440M, vs. $512.5M est., a $3.85B operating loss, vs. $4.31B est.; Reality Labs has lost $45B+ since 2020's end
The Information:
Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to a non-tech company, and without the recommendation algorithm  —  ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok's U.S. business, preferably to companies outside …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance executives have previously considered TikTok's global operations to be worth ~50% of the Chinese company's overall value, or above $100B
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps  —  Let's say you start a call on your phone because you're not at your desk yet.  Once you get to a computer …
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC unveils A16, chip manufacturing tech featuring nanosheet transistors with “backside power rails” meant for producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026  —  Taiwan chip titan aims to secure leading position and capture AI demand  —  TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co …
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet  —  Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI  —  I'm stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity?  —  This makes it sound like I'm dying, but it's the opposite.
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to back an up to $125B investment to build a megafab in New York and a fab in Idaho over the next 20 years  —  Micron Technology MU -.60%decrease; red down pointing triangle is receiving up to $6.1 billion from the federal government …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances  —  Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in “money laundering and sanctions evasion”  —  - US prosecutors say Samourai Wallet was ‘haven for criminals’  — Europol has said crypto mixing services are a ‘top threat’
Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat:
Snowflake launches Arctic, an LLM optimized for enterprise tasks such as SQL generation, coding, and instruction following, under an Apache 2.0 license  —  Today, Snowflake announced the launch of Arctic, a large language model (LLM) optimized for complex enterprise workloads such as SQL generation …
Andy Chalk / PC Gamer:
Garry's Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop, covering “20 years of uploads”, after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo  —  Fans aren't happy, as you can imagine.  —  Following a takedown request issued by Nintendo …
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Reddit says its Dynamic Product Ads, which use “shopping signals” to automatically show relevant ads to users, are entering public beta globally  —  Reddit says its “communities are naturally commercial.”  —  Reddit has made it clear that it's an ad-first business.
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to acquire HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and set to close by the end of 2024  —  IBM will pay $35 a share for the cloud-software company in cash, giving it access to HashiCorp's roster of some 4,400 clients

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