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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Developer logs: Apple is testing a laptop with a CPU similar to current models, likely a 15" MacBook Air with the same screen resolution as the 14" MacBook Pro — Apple Inc. is ramping up testing of fresh Macs with processors on par with the current M2 chip, making headway on key new machines that could help reverse a sales decline.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI won't train GPT-5 for “some time” and the letter to pause AI development missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause” — In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO and co-founder …
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| Associated Press: |
Court docs show FBI used billing records provided by Discord to help identify Jack Teixeira, the alleged leaker of classified Pentagon documents — A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of highly classified military documents appeared in court Friday as prosecutors unsealed charges …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Parlement Technologies sells Parler to digital media company Starboard, which plans to temporarily shut down the right-wing social network ahead of a relaunch — Social network popular with conservatives will be overhauled for a relaunch — Parler, a social network that was popularized …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Musk plans a new startup to rival OpenAI, is talking to Tesla and SpaceX investors, may use Twitter for training data and Tesla for computing resources — Billionaire seeks to hire engineers, attract investors and acquire chips needed to build large language model
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Intel becoming a chip foundry is its biggest business shift in nearly 40 years, meaning US industrial policy rests on one of tech's most complex turnarounds yet — Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech's most complex turnrounds
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives — Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram updates Reels with a section for trending audio and hashtags, expands gifts to more countries, enhances its editing tools, adds new metrics, and more — As governments around the world express growing concerns about TikTok, its rival Instagram Reels is getting a series of new updates aimed at creators.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material — Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material — The European parliament …
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| Callie Holtermann / New York Times: |
BeReal fights to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app's daily users fell to under 6M in March 2023 from ~15M in October 2022 — BeReal was pitched as Gen Z's safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long.
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@benedictevans, @kerrymflynn, @sapna, @delia_cai, @cailen, @gavinmuellerphd, @mattnavarra, @carnage4life, and @michaelbtech
| @twitterwrite: |
Twitter increases the tweet length for Blue subscribers to 10,000 characters, up from the 4,000 set in February 2023, and adds bold and italic text formatting — We're making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features, and apply to enable... https://twitter.com/...
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Toby Bartlett. Tweets:
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Sensor Tower: Twitter's top 50 advertisers spent $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, Volkswagen, and Stellantis haven't returned — Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies …
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Fast Company, Search Engine Land, and Thurrott
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@max_uf, @epro, @reuters, and @mattnavarra
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more — Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 …
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Mark Stockx. Tweets:
@munster_gene, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @jimcramer, @modestproposal1, @mattmday, @jamestitcomb, and @ldignan
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
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Lauren Larscheid, Matthieu Fouchard, Adam Selipsky, Andy Jassy, Howard Wright, Daniel DuPlessis, and Matt Garman
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@stevesi, @amnonshashua, @cnbc, @sarbjeetjohal, @jgarzik, @ajassy, @sarthakgh, @jordannovet, @b_fung, @kantrowitz, @jennifercobbe, and @vboykis
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