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Apple reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $94.84B, declining for a second quarter in a row but beating estimates of $92.96B, and net income down 3% YoY to $24.16B — Services revenue reaches new all-time high iPhone revenue sets March quarter record — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 2% YoY to $51.33B, Mac down 31% YoY to $7.17B, iPad down 13% YoY to $6.67B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 1% to $8.76B — - Apple reported second-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street's soft expectations for sales and revenue …
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The White House announces plans to address AI's risks, including $140M for new research centers and draft guidelines for government agencies using AI safeguards — Vice President Kamala Harris also plans to meet with the chief executives of tech companies that are developing A.I. later on Thursday.
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The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess the opportunities, guardrails, and principles for protecting competition — CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google releases a brief teaser video showing off the Pixel Fold, confirming that it will be officially revealed on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 event — / This is Google's first foldable phone. More details are coming at Google I/O on May 10th.
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Shopify sells its logistics unit to supply chain tech company Flexport, after building the operation for years and acquiring Deliverr for $2.1B in May 2022 — - Shopify is selling its logistics unit to supply chain technology company Flexport. — The Canadian e-commerce company …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens its Bing chatbot to all, removing the waitlist, and announces features like image and video results, persistent chat and history, and plug-ins — Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Discord plans to drop the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others and force most users to pick a username with an @ prefix — Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Google, which published AI papers prolifically, in February moved to sharing only after the work had been productized, due to OpenAI's ChatGPT launch — For years the tech giant published scientific research that helped jump-start its competitors. But now it's lurched into defensive mode.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Mozilla expands its Mastodon instance to a private beta with strict moderation, saying the company is “not building another self-declared ‘neutral’ platform” — If you want to be a member of Mozilla.Social, Mozilla's new Mastodon instance, you're not allowed to harass other users.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD's AI chip expansion and working with the chipmaker on Microsoft's own processor for AI workloads, codenamed Athena — Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker's expansion into artificial intelligence processors …
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| Kate Morgan / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Gen Z Americans are buying flip phones like the $75 TCL Classic or the $90 Nokia 2780, seeking a break from endless social media and email notifications — Modern models are a bit smarter than those from the early 2000s, but still offer a needed break from endless notifications
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems like GitHub Copilot, as part of their BigCode project — AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow's R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative …
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| Bill Peters / MarketWatch: |
Coinbase reports Q1 revenue of $772.5M, down from $1.17B in Q1 2022, vs. $655M est., net loss of $78.9M, trading volume of $145B, vs. $147.7B est.; COIN up 6%+ — 'The crypto industry continues to be volatile, as evidenced most recently by the disruptions in the banking sector and ongoing regulatory uncertainty,' executives say
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| Alf Wilkinson / Financial Times: |
A Finder.com experiment using ChatGPT to pick 38 stocks finds the portfolio rose 4.9% over eight weeks, compared to an average 0.8% loss for 10 popular UK funds — Theoretical fund of 38 stocks do better than 10 most popular funds on Interactive Investor, finds finder.com — Latest news on ETFs| Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $2.04B, vs. $1.93B est., a $162M net loss, vs. $167M in Q1 2022, and total orders up 27% YoY to 512M — Food-delivery company's revenue grows 40% to $2.04 billion, topping Wall Street estimates — DoorDash sales surged in the latest quarter …
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Block reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to $4.99B, vs. $4.6B est., Square gross profit up 16% YoY to $770M, and Cash App gross profit up 49% YoY to $931M — Company raises full-year forecast on a profit metric — Block Inc. posted a big beat on an adjusted earnings metric for its most recent quarter as it … | Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to ~$540M in 2022, and Sam Altman privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100B in the coming years — OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and hired key employees from Google …
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