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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, affecting Intel and, sources say, also 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 — US Revokes Intel and Qualcomm Licenses to Sell Chips to Huawei — Intel Corp. expects second-quarter revenue …
| Reuters: |
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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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/politics, r/wallstreetbets, r/Law_and_Politics, r/BoomersBeingFools, r/law, and r/RealTesla
| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods — AlphaFold 3 aims to reveal biological secrets and boost drug search efforts — Google DeepMind has unveiled …
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AI breakthroughs in biology research could be a $100B+ business, commercialized via DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs — First AI-designed drugs may be ready for testing in “next couple of years,” Google's AI boss Demis Hassabis tells Bloomberg Television| 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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LinkedIn: Hailey Rojas, George Greer, Liz Chepul, and Jeff Gardiner
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPad Pro ad “Crush”, which shows paints, toys, guitars, sculptures, and more being crushed to reveal the thin device, draws criticism on social media — The minute-long Apple ad showing art equipment and materials being crushed down into the new iPad Pro is being called heartbreaking, wanton, and creepy.
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft plans to invest $3.3B to build a data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and train locals, alongside investing in a University of Wisconsin AI lab — Company has been on a global spending spree, trying to build infrastructure and goodwill for artificial intelligence| 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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| 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 5%+ — - Bookings growth still tops 20% on rides, order frequency gains — Operating profit falls on anticipated legal fees, settlements
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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 …
More: Inc.com, Search Engine Land, Thurrott, Hypebeast, and The Decoder
X: @carnage4life and @paul__walsh
Forums: r/singularity and r/ChatGPT
| 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” and calls US SEC 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.
More: US Securities …, Cryptonews, The Daily Hodl, and Crowdfund Insider
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| Reuters: |
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 … | 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
More: UniSuper, Network World, and The Register
X: @quinnypig, @gergelyorosz, @seventhsec, @setheliot, @ajdlinux, and @jasonandrade
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to add an auto-complete feature to Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the coming months that offers suggestions to add details to improve AI prompts — 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: Thurrott, PCWorld, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, Neowin, Fast Company, and Petri IT Knowledgebase
| 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: Inc.com and Benzinga
Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/MVIS, r/RealTesla, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| 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| 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, Cryptopolitan, KED Global, and Korea Joongang Daily
| 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: GOV.UK, The Record, The Register, and Sky News
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky details its product roadmap: an off-protocol DM system to facilitate one-on-one chats, improved custom feeds, anti-harassment tools, and video support — Bluesky has launched a new product roadmap for the coming months. The decentralized social network said on Tuesday that it is planning … | 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: r/singularity and Analytics India Magazine
| 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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Microsoft closes the engineering section of its Africa Development Center in Nigeria, two years after its opening, reportedly impacting 100+ engineers — The Lagos center, one of two on the continent - the other being in Kenya - was opened in 2022 to deliver high-end engineering solutions for Microsoft.| Ruth Olurounbi / Bloomberg: |
Nigeria's Information Ministry says Binance CEO Richard Teng “made false allegations of bribery” against unnamed Nigerian officials, after a $150M bribe claim — - Government says allegation ‘lacks any iota of substance’ — Binance under pressure amid focus on crypto role in naira woes
More: Nairametrics, Cointelegraph, Fortune, Reuters, and New York Times
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