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Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook … | Meta - Investor Relations: |
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Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year” — - It appears the economy has begun a downturn, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, on the company's Q2 earnings call.| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Meta's Reality Labs division posts a $2.81B loss for Q2 2022, vs. $3.67B est., on $452M in revenue, compared to a $2.96B loss for Q1 2022 on $695M in revenue — Meta reported revenue of $452 million for the division, down from $695 million in the first quarter. — Jul 27, 2022| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
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The FTC files to block Meta's acquisition of VR company Within, saying Meta “chose to buy” instead of compete, the first antitrust lawsuit filed under Lina Khan — The move is a blow to Meta's metaverse efforts and signals a shift in how the Federal Trade Commission is approaching tech deals.| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 20+ people detail GTA developer Rockstar's attempts to change its “boys' club” workplace culture, starting in 2018, after complaints and burnout — In the summer of 2020, after a police officer killed George Floyd, Rockstar Games quietly shelved a mode of play … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google delays phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after deferring the plan from 2022 to 2023, citing the need for more Privacy Sandbox tests — Google was originally planning to get rid of third-party cookies in its browser by 2022, but that was later pushed back to 2023.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils new Chromebook productivity features, including video editing for Google Photos, PDF editing in Gallery, and the ability to save a virtual desk — Google today announced that it is adding a new movie editor and a few new video editing features to Google Photos … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify has “decided to stop further production of Car Thing units” and will take a €31M charge, citing factors like “product demand and supply chain issues” — Spotify's push to complement its music streaming with a big move into podcasting and related content appears … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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The US Senate passes the Chips and Science Act, including $52B+ for US chipmakers plus tax credits to encourage investment; the bill now heads to the House — - The Senate passed bipartisan legislation aimed to help the U.S. compete with China by injecting tens of billions of dollars into the domestic production of semiconductors.| Chris Stokel-Walker / Gizmodo: |
Internal TikTok PR documents reveal suggested responses to difficult questions, including downplaying AI, parent company ByteDance, and “the China association” — Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn't. — Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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Former US national security officials form Open Source Intelligence Foundation to promote analysis of public data like social media posts for intel-gathering — Social media, satellite images, mobile-phone data can yield as much insight as traditional espionage, but few rules exist| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue up 37% YoY to $10.93B, vs. $10.88B est., net income up 53% YoY to $3.36B, and chip segment revenue up 45% YoY to $9.38B — - Qualcomm reported third-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, slightly beating Wall Street expectations, but guidance … | Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter: |
Nostalgia for the “old”, chronological Instagram makes sense but belies changing norms around online sharing, communication, privacy, and engaging content — It isn't just the platform that has changed, we have too. — Over the past few days there's been a movement to “Make Instagram Instagram again.”| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, who was most recently Lamborghini's head of chassis and vehicle dynamics, to work on its self-driving electric car — Apple Inc. has enlisted one of Lamborghini's top car-development managers in a sign that it's stepping up work … | Ry Crist / CNET: |
Like Amazon's Ring, Google's Nest reserves the right to comply with emergency US law enforcement requests for video footage without a warrant or user consent — The law lets Ring and Google share user footage with police during emergencies without consent and without warrants. Here's everything you should know.| Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
Fantasy sports app Underdog has raised a $35M Series B at a $485M valuation, and plans to launch licensed sports betting in Ohio and Colorado next year — Startup is expanding into growing U.S. sports-betting industry — Fantasy-sports app Underdog said it has completed a second fundraising round … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Maps updates: photorealistic aerial views of nearly 100 landmarks, more detailed cycling route information, and location sharing notifications — Google — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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