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Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Sources: Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams, including its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to Mexico and India -
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income -
Bloomberg: US v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was “very, very worried” in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella -
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: In a US Senate hearing, the UnitedHealth CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA -
Hayden Field / CNBC: Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month -
Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed -
Umar Shakir / The Verge: Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers -
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks -
Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times: Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up -
Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP -
Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses -
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers GPUs in the cloud, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, up from $7B after raising $642M in December 2023 -
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco -
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” -
Bloomberg: A look at Intel's efforts to build Ohio One, a “mega fab” that could become the world's largest chip factory and for which the company has committed $28B -
New! Sofia Barnett / Wired: Anonymous social media app Sidechat has become both a place for dialog and a breeding ground for hate speech amid US college protests over the Israel-Hamas war -
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised brand-name routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks -
Ash Parrish / The Verge: Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024 -
Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator's chief data officer and director of its data division -
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Cybersecurity experts say responses to the new US data breach disclosure rules, which have raised legal risks for public companies and their CISOs, have varied