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Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet outperformed his — After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden's, Twitter's CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
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Speaking at a conference, Elon Musk says he is “guessing toward the end” of 2023 will be time for a new Twitter CEO as the company will be in “stable condition” — Elon Musk said he may need the rest of this year to put things right at Twitter Inc. before handing off …
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Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers — System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing
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An in-depth look at how OpenAI's ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more — It's Just Adding One Word at a Time — That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially …
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An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections — - Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
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Sources: Apple plans to evaluate Pay Later borrowers based on spending history, the Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more — With Apple Inc. pushing into the lending business with a “buy now, pay later” service, the company is laying out rules for how it will approve transactions.
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Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius proposes a sale to investment firm NovaWulf, founded in 2021 by Wall Street dealmakers; smaller creditors may regain 70% of funds — - Proposed sale would see smaller creditors get around 70% of their money back — Larger creditors would become shareholders …
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Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its holdings of TSMC's American depositary shares by 86% last quarter to 8.29M, valued at $617.7M; TSMC's stock drops 3.5%+ — Warren Buffett slashed his holding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just months after disclosing a major stake …
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ASML reported a breach to authorities after a former employee in China misappropriated proprietary data, resulting in possible export controls violations — ASML Holding NV, the Dutch company behind the leading chip-making technology, said that a former employee in China misappropriated data …
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Hyundai and Kia are offering free anti-theft software updates for 8M+ vehicles, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok — Hyundai and Kia are offering free software updates for millions of their cars in response to a rash of car thefts inspired …
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| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Brazilian neobank Nubank reports Q4 revenue up 128% YoY to $1.45B and a $58M net income, up from a $66.1M net loss YoY, saying it ended 2022 with 74.6M users — Nu Holdings Ltd (NUN.MX) reported a surge in fourth-quarter gross profit on Tuesday, as customers flocked to the core lending products offered … | Bloomberg: |
Lufthansa grounded all flights after damage to a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables caused widespread IT disruptions; the timeline for a fix is unclear — Deutsche Lufthansa AG grounded all of its flights on Wednesday after damage to a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables caused widespread IT problems.
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Sources: the EU plans to investigate Amazon's proposed $1.7B deal for Roomba-maker iRobot over privacy concerns, sending the company a set of detailed questions — Regulators have privacy concerns over acquisition of iRobot in sign of growing scrutiny of Big Tech dealmaking
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Apptopia: consumer interest in Lensa AI and other top AI-powered photo apps fell quickly after hitting peak downloads and in-app purchases in mid-December 2022 — Is the AI photo app trend already over? Over the past several months, AI-powered photo apps have been going viral on the App Store … | Bloomberg: |
A look at Vietnam's plans to make Ho Chi Minh City a startup hub; report: Vietnam drew a record $2.6B in VC funding across 233 deals in 2021, up from $700M YoY — On a recent morning, Vinnie Lauria found himself weaving through the clogged, narrow streets of Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike …
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| Catherine Wang / Forbes: |
How BandLab, a music production app and social network for creators, woos users through its SongStarter AI tool, which generates royalty-free instrumental ideas — A scion of Malaysia's richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire.| Praveen Seshadri: |
An ex-Google engineer and founder of AppSheet, acquired by Google, reflects on his time at Google, issues with its culture, a lack of urgency and mission, more — What ails Google. And how it can turn things around. … I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded …
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SandboxAQ, a startup spun out of Alphabet that is developing post-quantum cryptography and simulation software for drug and material development, raised $500M — Sandbox AQ, a startup spun off from Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) last year, said on Tuesday it raised $500 million as it helps customers prepare for a quantum computing future.
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Google launches Privacy Sandbox for Android in beta, starting with a “small percentage” of Android 13 devices, similar to Apple's App Tracking Transparency — Here's a preview of the Privacy Sandbox, the newfangled way companies will follow you around the web that's supposed to be better for your privacy.
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| Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
After a series of disastrous bets and a market downturn, SoftBank's future rests on a successful Arm IPO and turnaround at the mostly dormant Vision Funds — Chip designer now accounts for a bigger percentage of the technology group's net asset value than Alibaba
Tweets: @financialtimes
| Mihir Dalal / Rest of World: |
A profile of Flipkart and CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, as losses mount, competition from Amazon and others intensifies, and Modi's government tightens regulations — Flipkart was Walmart's biggest acquisition. Will it be able to stay India's e-commerce leader? — • BENGALURU, INDIA| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Uniswap token holders vote to deploy to Binance's BNB blockchain using the Wormhole bridge, with 66% in favor, a move a16z voted to oppose with its 15M UNI — Uniswap's community wants to bring the exchange to BNB Chain before copycats can launch identical competitors.
Tweets: @chrisblec, @hsakatrades, @wublockchain, and @defiignas
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on the company's history, battling Microsoft, working with rivals, generative AI, WebKit, iOS, Chrome, Mastodon, and more — Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker on competing — and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech.
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