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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users say Google's Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks — This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
More: Wired, Financial Times, MSPoweruser, HotHardware, KnowTechie, iThinkDifferent, Trak.in, EnterpriseAI, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and The Verge
Threads: @reckless1280 and @lucaspuskaric
| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Google's Gemini video demo of its multimodal capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts — The tech giant's latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that's been out for eight months.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Information, Tech Brew, PYMNTS.com, MUO, Business Insider, Google for Developers Blog, Hackster.io, Cointelegraph, Tom's Guide, ITPro, and MediaNama
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and UK governments jointly accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a wide-ranging, global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in British elections — The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Montenegro Justice Minister Andrej Milovic has privately said he plans to extradite Do Kwon to the US rather than South Korea to face criminal charges — Alexander Osipovich and Marko Vešović — Montenegro's top justice official has privately said he plans … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla's Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla in November; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo — Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … | Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft says Russia-aligned propagandists duped at least seven Western celebrities via Cameo into recording videos used to attack Ukraine's President Zelensky — Microsoft found that celebrities were tricked into making videos used to attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
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| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Gene Levoff, the ex-Apple lawyer who pled guilty to insider trading from 2011 to 2016, to four years of probation; Apple fired him in 2018 — - Gene Levoff was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday — Judge said the Stanford Law graduate already lost his career| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
X rolls out xAI's snarky, anti-woke chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users; X CEO Linda Yaccarino describes Grok as “the ultimate ride or die” — Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday. — Elon Musk's snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok …
More: TechCrunch and Reuters
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony removing Discovery content due to licensing “arrangements” and unexpectedly banning PSN accounts are timely reminders that users don't own digital content — In less than a week, Sony has given us two timely reminders of the tenuousness of digital “ownership” — and both reminders involve things on PlayStation.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the “goal in firing Sam [Altman] was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to say why she and others voted to fire him — In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI's power struggle
More: Fortune, Los Angeles Times, The Decoder, The Verge, and TIME
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out tags on Threads, offering support for multiple words and spaces, and no # symbol; posts can only have one tag and the tag view is the search view — Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Block opens preorders for its self-custodial Bitcoin hardware wallet Bitkey in 95+ countries, coming to the US in early 2024 for $150, after a beta in June 2023 — Block, the payments company led by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Thursday that Bitkey, a physical device …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default for one-on-one chats and calls, fulfilling a yearslong promise; E2EE for group chats remains opt-in — Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally fulfilling …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tests a $9.99/month grocery subscription service for Prime members, offering unlimited Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh grocery delivery on orders over $35 — - Amazon is betting members of its Prime program will want to pay a separate monthly fee for unlimited grocery delivery on some orders.
More: The Verge, The Information, PYMNTS.com, and TechCrunch
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based ContactMonkey, which offers an internal communications tool that integrates with Outlook, Gmail, and more, raised a $55M Series A led by Updata — Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is. — Today, ContactMonkey … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify says CFO Paul Vogel plans to leave on March 31, 2024, and launches a search for a successor; Daniel Ek wants a CFO “with a different mix of experiences” — Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will leave the company next year and that it has launched a search to find a replacement.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers detail AutoSpill, a flaw in Android that can expose users' saved credentials from 1Password, LastPass, Keeper, and other popular password managers — A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps.
More: SC Media, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech.co, and Dark Reading
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft announces a major security leadership reshuffle as part of its Secure Future Initiative, replacing Bret Arsenault with Igor Tsyganskiy as Global CISO — Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant shakeup of its security team, with its long-time leader being put into a new role …
More: InfoRiskToday.com, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, and TechCircle
X: @benrothke, @arekfurt, and @ryanaraine
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood launches a commission-free crypto trading app, supporting 25+ cryptocurrencies, in the EU, a week after the company launched stock trading in the UK — - More than 25 tokens available to trade for free at launch — Launch comes as Bitcoin's price recovers to 19-month high
More: Robinhood Newsroom, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, Cryptopolitan, CryptoPotato, The Dark Side, CCN.com, TechCrunch, Finbold, Crowdfund Insider, Blockonomi, CNBC, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Fortune, Coinspeaker, and Reuters
X: @emilyjnicolle, @johannkerbrat, @robinhoodcrypto, and @robinhoodcrypto. LinkedIn: Dougal Weir. Forums: Hacker News
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on AI's business uses, Biden's EO, rolling out WatsonX in July 2023, growing IBM's AI business, falling behind in AI, and more — - IBM is angling hard for an AI comeback story, and CEO Arvind Krishna is counting on a recent pivot to enterprise AI tools in order to get there.
LinkedIn: Hayden Field
| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
TrendForce: the top 10 chip foundries' Q3 revenue rose 7.9% YoY to ~$28.29B; TSMC was first at ~$17B; Intel made the list for the first time in several quarters — The global foundry industry witnessed a substantial rise in demand in the third quarter of 2023, according to TrendForce.| Financial Times: |
A profile of Chinese whistleblower Tang Mingfang, who is still paying the price for calling out injustices at a Foxconn factory making Amazon devices in 2019 — Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed — except for him| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook estimates that at least ~3,200 private venture-backed US startups, which had raised a combined $27.2B in VC funding, have gone out of business in 2023 — After staving off collapse by cutting costs, many young tech companies are out of options, fueling a cash bonfire.
More: PYMNTS.com. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, @mimsical@mastodon.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
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