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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department revokes some export licenses that let companies ship chips and other goods to Huawei; sources say the move affects Intel and Qualcomm — Move marks latest effort by Biden administration to target the country's tech sector — The Biden administration …
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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Intel expects its Q2 revenue to be “below the midpoint” of the company's previously guided $12.5B to $13.5B range because of a new US ban on Huawei chip exports — Intel Corp. expects second-quarter revenue to fall below the midpoint of previously issued projections …
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Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering a new regulatory push to restrict the export of proprietary or closed source AI models to China — The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China with preliminary plans … | Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
Memo: Microsoft's Xbox plans to shut down multiple Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high-impact titles and invest in Bethesda's portfolio — Staff told via email. — Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin …
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Sources: US prosecutors are examining if Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about Autopilot and Full Self-Driving — U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla (TSLA.O) committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI is developing a ChatGPT feature that can search the web and show results with images alongside written responses and citations to sources — The feature would let ChatGPT users search the web and cite sources in its results. — OpenAI is developing a feature for ChatGPT …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.9B, GMV up 23% YoY to $60.9B, and expects gross margins to drop by ~50 basis points YoY in Q2; SHOP plummets 18%+ — - Gross margins in current quarter are expected to narrow — President: ‘This is how you achieve long-term durable growth’
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
The Connectivity Standards Alliance releases Matter 1.3, adding support for more appliances, energy and water management, and new casting protocol features — The latest Matter spec brings a number of improvements to the smart home standard founded by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung.
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| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
FTX says it will have as much as $16.3B to distribute after selling all of its assets; FTX owes ~$11B to 2M+ customers and other non-governmental creditors — - Crypto customers to get interest on what FTX owes them — Bankrupt firm updates plan to divide cash among creditors
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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev decries a “regulatory onslaught”, calling the SEC's actions “another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation” — Though Robinhood Crypto thought its “safety-first” approach was distinct, the SEC said that enforcement action is on its way.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $10.1B, Gross Bookings up 20% YoY to $37.7B, below $38B est., and adjusted EBITDA up 82% YoY to $1.4B; UBER falls 10%+ — - Bookings growth still tops 20% on rides, order frequency gains — Operating profit falls on anticipated legal fees, settlements
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| Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics: |
Google says “rare issues at Google Cloud” caused a week-long private cloud outage at UniSuper, an Australian pension fund for the education and research sectors — Google problems resulting in an inadvertent misconfiguration of UniSuper's systems
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft plans to invest $3B to build a data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and train locals, alongside investing in a new AI lab at Wisconsin University — Company has been on a global spending spree, trying to build infrastructure and goodwill for artificial intelligence
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Filing: Orlando-based lidar manufacturer Luminar says Tesla was its “largest LiDAR customer in Q1”, contributing 10%+ of its revenue, or ~$2.1M for the quarter — Elon Musk previously dismissed the laser sensor as a ‘crutch’ and said that any company relying on lidar to power self-driving was ‘doomed.’
More: Reuters, Forbes, Notebookcheck, and Bloomberg
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese government data: foreign-branded smartphones shipments, most of which are iPhones, grew 12% YoY to 3.75M in March, reversing a 37% drop in early 2024 — - The performance marks an improvement from the start of 2024 — The bounce emerged after Apple and its resellers cut prices
More: Reuters, PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, Quartz, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, Amwal Al Ghad, and Investing.com
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky details its product roadmap: an off-protocol DM system to facilitate one-on-one chats, custom feeds, anti-harassment tools, video support, and more — Bluesky has launched a new product roadmap for the coming months. The decentralized social network said on Tuesday that it is planning … | Financial Times: |
The UK is investigating “potential failings” at IT contractor SSCL, which was breached by suspected Chinese hackers to expose payroll records for 272K people — Grant Shapps announces investigation into attack by ‘malign actor’ that targeted up to 270,000 military personnel records
More: The Record, The Register, GOV.UK, and Sky News
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Electronics' medical device unit Samsung Medison plans to acquire Paris-based Sonio, which makes AI-powered ultrasound workflows software, for ~$92.7M — Samsung Medison, a medical device unit of Samsung Electronics that specializes in developing diagnostic imaging devices …
More: Samsung Newsroom, TNW, Cryptopolitan, Sammy Fans, KED Global, Korea Joongang Daily, and Tech Xplore
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
TikTok vs. US filing: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming owns a 21% stake in TikTok's parent company, and is living in Singapore while keeping Chinese citizenship — - Zhang has a 21% stake in the world's most valuable startup — Chinese tech founders have built up a presence on the island| Carsten Frauenheim / iFixit News: |
A look at LPCAMM2, a totally modular, repairable, and upgradeable memory standard for laptops that doesn't require soldering LPDDR chips to the motherboard — If you've ever tried to “future-proof” a purchase by paying for everything you might eventually need up front, you know it can be a sucker's game.
More: PCWorld, XDA Developers, iFixit on YouTube, and PC Gamer
Forums: Hacker News, r/applesucks, r/hardware, and r/framework
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
DatologyAI, which aims to help researchers better curate AI training datasets, raised a $46M Series A led by Felicis, after a $11.65M seed in February 2024 — For all that's leaked about the sizes and architectures of the advanced large language models developed by OpenAI and its ilk … | Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Data collaboration software maker Atlan raised a $105M Series C led by Singapore's GIC and Meritech at a $750M valuation, taking its total funding to $206M — Atlan said on Wednesday it had raised $105 million in a funding round led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC …
More: FinSMEs, TechCrunch, Entrackr, Livemint, DealStreetAsia, Atlan, and Inc42 Media
| The Guardian: |
An investigation finds a vast web of fake shops run from China touting designer brands that duped 800K+ people in Europe and the US into sharing personal data — Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI built the gpt2-chatbot, renamed to “im-also-a-good-gpt-chatbot”, per the gpt2-chatbot's 429 rate limit error message, which appeared in the LMSYS arena — gpt2-chatbot confirmed as OpenAI (via) The mysterious gpt2-chatbot model that showed up in the LMSYS arena a few days ago …
More: Analytics India Magazine and r/singularity
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to add a new auto-complete feature that offers suggestions to improve AI prompts to Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the coming months — Microsoft is attempting to solve the problem of coming up with a good prompt for generative AI, aiming to turn everyone into a prompt engineer.
More: PCWorld, ZDNet, Windows Central, Neowin, Fast Company, and Petri IT Knowledgebase
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Israeli drone startup Xtend, which lets operators orchestrate teams of drones and robots, raised $40M led by Chartered Group at a ~$110M post-money valuation — Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays …
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, RoboticsTomorrow.com, and Tech Funding News
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple unveils $999+ 11" and $1,299+ 13" iPad Pros, with M4, an OLED Ultra Retina XDR screen, up to 1,600 nits; the 13" is Apple's thinnest product yet, at 5.1mm — At its “Let Loose” virtual event this morning, Apple introduced its long-awaited iPad Pro updates.
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