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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches GPT Store for paid users to share and find custom chatbots, says users made 3M chatbots so far, and it will launch a revenue share program in Q1 — The store will feature a bot leaderboard, and will eventually introduce payments. — OpenAI has launched an online store …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Team, a new subscription plan for teams up to 149 people, for $30 per user per month, or $25 per user per month billed annually — OpenAI is launching a new subscription plan for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot, aimed at smaller, self-service-oriented teams.
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| The Verge: |
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy confirms plans to cut 500+ jobs, or 35% of its staff, and says the workforce was oversized for its current position, after March 2023 cuts — Twitch is laying off more than 500 employees, or around 35 percent of its staff, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced this morning.
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Internal memo: Amazon Studios SVP Mike Hopkins says “several hundred roles” are being cut in its Prime Video and MGM Studios units; both had cuts in early 2023 — Division leader Mike Hopkins said “we've identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain areas” in a memo to staff on Wednesday.
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The SEC says it is working with the FBI in investigating the false X post about spot bitcoin ETFs — - The SEC spokesperson said the agency will provide updates as appropriate and said any agency action on exchange rule filings will be posted on the agency's website.
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Valve's Steam plans to add an “AI disclosure section”, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content, and to let gamers report illegal AI content — New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X has quietly removed the ability for paying subscribers to set an NFT as a profile picture, a feature Twitter launched in early 2022 — On Tuesday, Elon Musk's X wrote about a grand vision for the company in 2024, which includes launching peer-to-peer payments and more AI-powered tools.
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| New York Times: |
How RISC-V, the US-developed, open-source chip instruction set architecture, became a central tool for Chinese companies and governments, leading to US concerns — A U.S.-born chip technology called RISC-V has become critical to China's ambitions. Washington is debating whether and how to limit the technology.| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets — The union announced the deal with Replica Studios on Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union's executive director …
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| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Luminate's 2023 report: the global music industry passed 4T streams in 2023, a new record and up 34% from 2022; Taylor Swift had one in every 78 US streams — Listened to more music last year? You're not alone. — The global music industry surpassed 4 trillion streams in 2023 …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Humane laid off 10 staff, or 4% of its workforce, to cut costs and plans to lower budgets in 2024, as the company reshuffles some executive positions — Humane laid off 4 percent of employees this week in a move that was described as a cost cutting measure to those who were impacted …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Data.ai's State of Mobile 2023: global consumer app spending rose 3% YoY to $171B, non-game spending rose 11% YoY to $64B, and app downloads rose 1% YoY to 257B — After the app economy slowed for the first time ever in 2022, things picked up pace again over the past year.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Netflix Games downloads rose 180% YoY to 81.2M globally across the App Store and Google Play in 2023, with Q4 accounting for 53% of downloads — Just over two years ago, Netflix announced it would enter a new business: gaming. Amid a mobile gaming market dominated by free …
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| Andre Gee / Rolling Stone: |
Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff uploads its 50TB cache of 366,420 mixtapes and free albums to the Internet Archive, after a server crash in March 2023 — DatPiff uploaded its extensive free mixtape catalog to the Internet Archive to protect it for the foreseeable future| Financial Times: |
How UK online clothes shoppers shifting back to physical stores post-pandemic exacerbated online retailers' challenges, including logistics and new upstarts — The pandemic turbocharged internet clothing sales, but a return to stores has left the UK's ecommerce pioneers with serious challenges| New York Times: |
Sources: as US-China tensions rise, Microsoft debates what to do with its prized 800-person Beijing research lab, opened in 1998; Microsoft has added guardrails — Amid U.S.-China tensions, the company has faced questions over whether operating an advanced research lab in Beijing is politically tenable.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The US DOJ says SAP will pay over $220M to settle investigations into worldwide “recidivist” foreign bribery practices — - SAP, the $192 billion German enterprise tech company, will pay more than $230 million to settle investigations into worldwide “recidivist” foreign bribery practices … | Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
YouTube partners with Mass General Brigham and the Mexican Red Cross to show brief, step-by-step first-aid videos atop searches about heart attacks and more — If you search YouTube for what to do if someone is suffering a heart attack, the platform will now display credible first-aid explainer videos …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apple pulls Binance, Kraken, Mexc, KuCoin, and four other crypto exchanges from the App Store in India, after they were flagged for operating “illegally” — Apple has pulled apps of at least nine crypto exchanges including Binance and Kraken from its App Store in India … | Karen Gilchrist / CNBC: |
With half of the world's adults set to vote in 2024, the WEF's Global Risks Report 2024 ranks AI mis- and disinformation ahead of war, climate change, and more — - Concern over the impact of artificial intelligence in disrupting election outcomes has topped the list of the biggest risks for 2024, according to a new report.| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports December 2023 revenue down 8.4% YoY to ~$5.7B, Q4 revenue flat YoY to ~$20.1B, beating estimates, and 2023 revenue down 4.5% YoY to ~$69.56B — - Chipmaker's holiday period stopped bleeding of prior quarters — TSMC has advised cautious optimism about semiconductor rebound
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| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Documents: sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich quietly invested $63M+ in European startups via London VC firm Target Global between 2015 and 2021 — Venture capital fund Target Global managed tens of millions of dollars for Roman Abramovich and helped the now-sanctioned oligarch build …
X: @hkanji, @_iainmartin, @_iainmartin, @giacomotognini, and @_iainmartin
| Financial Times: |
Demis Hassabis, chief of DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, believes the company would halve drug discovery times after inking deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis — Chief of Google's AI unit and Isomorphic Labs spells out targets following $3bn Eli Lilly-Novartis partnerships| Nick Carey / Reuters: |
E-scooter rental startups Tier and Dott plan to merge, with their investors Mubadala, Sofina, and others putting in €60M, forming Europe's largest operator — E-scooter rental firms Tier Mobility and Dott said on Wednesday that they will merge to form the largest European operator …
More: Silicon Republic, Silicon Canals, Tech.eu, City A.M., Dott, Forbes, Sifted, and Zag Daily
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
SIA: global chip revenue rose 5.3% YoY to $48B in November 2023, the first YoY growth since August 2022; China sales rose 7.6% YoY and Americas rose 3.5% YoY — - Recovery among chip makers may be uneven as demand returns — Global chip sales rose for the first time in more than a year …
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