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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Disney plans to invest $1.5B for a stake in Epic Games and collaborate on a new “universe” connected to Fortnite with content from Disney, Pixar, and more — - Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Epic Games in its biggest jump yet into the gaming world.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Games
| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
In his new book, a16z GP Chris Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale — Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists. — 1×
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X: @danielgkuhn, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @jackivaughan, @tomphilpott, @mattschaar, @molly0xfff, and @billywhizz1970. Forums: r/Buttcoin
| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
SEC filing: NYSE-listed Bakkt, a crypto trading platform backed by the Intercontinental Exchange, warns that it might not be able to stay in business in a year — The institutional digital asset trading platform unveiled in 2018 amid huge fanfare has just disclosed it “might not be able to continue as a going concern.”| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand advisory: China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon has had access to some major US infrastructure for over five years — China-backed hackers have had access to some major U.S. critical infrastructure for “at least five years,” according to an intelligence advisory released Wednesday.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates Copilot with a redesigned look, a new AI model for Copilot's Balanced mode called Deucalion, and new AI image creation and editing features — In a startling move, Microsoft today announced a redesigned look for its Copilot AI search and chatbot experience on the web …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Meta challenges the EU's DSA supervisory fee of 0.05% of Meta's annual net income that cover regulators' costs, disagreeing with how the fees are calculated — Meta Platforms (META.O) has challenged a supervisory fee amounting to .05% of its annual worldwide net income aimed … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The Danish data protection authority orders schools to stop sending student data to Google via Chromebooks and Workspace, after an over four year investigation — The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has issued an injunction regarding student data being funneled to Google through …
More: The Verge, The Privacy Dad's Blog, Cybernews.com, and NewsBytes
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is developing two types of agent software: one to automate tasks by effectively taking over a user's device, and the other for web-based tasks — OpenAI's first major product, ChatGPT, proved so popular that it sparked a generation of wannabes.
More: Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, and Reuters
| Josh Boak / Associated Press: |
The Biden administration names White House economic adviser Elizabeth Kelly to lead the NIST's newly formed AI Safety Institute to develop AI testing standards — The Biden administration on Wednesday named a top White House aide as the director of the newly established safety institute for artificial intelligence.| Michelle Nichols / Reuters: |
The UN is probing 58 suspected cyberattacks worth ~$3B by North Korea on crypto companies; the stolen crypto allegedly helped fund the country's nuclear weapons — United Nations sanctions monitors are investigating dozens of suspected cyberattacks by North Korea that raked in $3 billion …
Forums: r/Buttcoin
| Reuters: |
Arm reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $824M, vs. $761.6M est., and forecasts Q4 sales and adjusted profit above expectations; ARM jumps 21%+ — Arm Holdings on Wednesday forecast fiscal fourth-quarter sales and adjusted profit above Wall Street expectations as customers aim to design new chips … | Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Q3 net profit of $6.4B, after four quarters of losses, lifted by a T-Mobile US shares windfall; the Vision Fund unit reported a ~$2.85B gain — - Investor logs first profit in five quarters on T-Mobile stake — Vision Funds turn profitable, helped by TikTok owner ByteDance
More: Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, SoftBank Group Corp., SoftBank Group Corp., Livemint, and Proactive. X: @deepsekharc
| Kara Swisher / New York Magazine: |
An excerpt from Kara Swisher's upcoming book, Burn Book: covering digital media in the '90s, Facebook and Google becoming information gatekeepers, and more — My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe. — In the early 1990s, I was a reporter at the Washington Post.
More: The Overspill. Threads: @laurengoode and @crumbler
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A leaked image allegedly shows the Google Pixel Fold 2, including a narrower cover screen, a squarer inner screen aspect ratio, and redesigned camera bump — Here's a very early look at what could be Google's second-generation foldable phone. — • — TL;DR
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Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/Android, and r/PixelFold
| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based payments giant Adyen reports H2 2023 net revenue up 23% YoY to €887M and processed volume up 29% YoY to €544.1B; ADYEN.AS jumps 16%+ — Adyen staged a comeback after facing a record slowdown in revenue last year, which resulted in a stock meltdown.
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
PitchBook: in 2021, 223 male-founded video game startups raised $4.1B, five women-founded startups raised $1.2M, and 62 mixed-gender startups raised $400.9M — ‘There is a massive disparity on how funding is allocated in the industry’ — Investors and publishers spend billions of dollars …
X: @sweetpotatoes, @megan_nicolett, and @sweetpotatoes
| Reuters: |
A look at AI use in Indonesia ahead of the February 14 elections, as vendors and campaigns push the limits of guidelines issued by OpenAI, Midjourney, and more — Fika Juliana Putri, a 19-year-old shopkeeper in East Jakarta, plans to vote in Indonesia's presidential election next week for a once-feared former special forces commander.| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise; the phones are in early development and not set for production in 2024 or 2025 — Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise like a clamshell, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.
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