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Apple updates App Store guidelines, allowing game emulators for the first time globally, and letting music streaming apps in the EU link to external websites — After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it's not satisfied with the changes the company made to comply …
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A US jury finds Terraform Labs and Do Kwon liable for fraud in a US SEC lawsuit, boosting SEC's efforts to assert greater control over the crypto industry — - Terraform 2022 failure wiped out $40 billion in investor funds — Kwon criminal trial on hold over extradition from Montenegro
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| Ryan Heath / Axios: |
Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board — - The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers …
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Source: Jony Ive and Sam Altman's AI device startup is in funding talks with Emerson Collective and Thrive Capital; Ive wants to raise up to $1B in funding — A mysterious company started by former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to launch an artificial intelligence-powered personal device …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers — Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney … | Matt Binder / Mashable: |
X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel on its Explore page, after Elon Musk promised “real-time customized news for you created by Grok AI” — The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.
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| Bloomberg: |
FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 — - Sales figures for the app released in FTC's antitrust lawsuit — Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue …
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run — Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Google, Yahoo, Perplexity, and other search companies are working on understanding user intent to decide whether to show generative AI answers or just links — Yahoo is one of the most visited websites on the planet. It's the most popular news site in the U.S., with more than 3 billion visits each month.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources say Sundar Pichai is more involved in decisions about Google's AI products, but some worry this involvement can be a distraction from his duties as CEO — The Silicon Valley group has stumbled in the rollout of generative AI. Insiders say cultural and organisational issues are to blame| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Marissa Mayer about her app development startup Sunshine, its new photo-sharing app Shine, the AI landscape, internet business models, and more — The Scene — About a week after Marissa Mayer's startup, app development company Sunshine, launched a new photo-sharing service, her co-founder Enrique Munoz Torres quit.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: FTX's estate sold 25M to 30M locked-up SOL coins for $64 apiece, a deeply discounted price, to Galaxy Trading, Pantera, and others, raising up to $1.9B — - Galaxy raised $620 million fund to buy discounted SOL from FTX — Sales were done at big discount to SOL's current market price| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon adds a store called Bazaar to its Android app in India, featuring affordable fashion and lifestyle products, to compete with Flipkart and Reliance's Ajio — Amazon has quietly introduced a “special store” called Bazaar in India, featuring affordable and trendy fashion and lifestyle products … | Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's COO says that ChatGPT Enterprise has 600K+ paying customers, up from ~150K in January, and 2024 will be “the year of adoption for AI in the enterprise” — - ChatGPT Enterprise now has more than 600,000 users signed up — COO says this ‘is going to be the year of adoption for AI’
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| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit up 931% YoY to ₩6.6T ($4.9B) and sales up 11.4% YoY to ₩71T, as high memory chip prices imply the chip downturn's end — World's biggest maker of memory chips beats expectations with strong first-quarter guidance
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