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Sources: Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams, including its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to Mexico and India — Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month — Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. — The generative artificial intelligence startup …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income — The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …
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US v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was “very, very worried” in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella — - Google faces US antitrust case about its dominance in search — Microsoft's communications deemed relevant to defense by judge| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
In a US Senate hearing, the UnitedHealth CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA — UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and it'll take “several months” to notify victims — Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data … | Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times: |
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up — The company announced a new category of outlandish stays in partnership with brands and celebrities, building on the success of gimmicks like the Barbie Malibu DreamHouse.
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers GPUs in the cloud, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, up from $7B after raising $642M in December 2023 — Company raises $1.1 billion from investors including Fidelity, Magnetar Capital — CoreWeave, a cloud-computing company backed by Nvidia …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed — Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
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| Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: |
Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses — Internal documents indicate Block processed crypto transactions for terrorist groups and Square processed transactions involving nations subject to economic sanctions.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP — Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners.| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024 — Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” — During its Team '24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco — Game engine maker Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former COO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
LinkedIn debuts three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku- and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb — How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”? — LinkedIn, the professional network known …
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| Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator's chief data officer and director of its data division — Commodity Futures Trading Commission has promoted Ted Kaouk to the chief data and artificial intelligence officer role| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.34B est., handset sales up 1% YoY to $6.18B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon responds to a question during a keynote conversation at CES 2024, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 10, 2024.
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| Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol: |
Chennai-based CRM software maker Freshworks redesignates CEO Girish Mathrubootham as the executive chairman and names Dennis Woodside as his replacement — Mathrubootham will now be spending more time on the long-term product vision, innovation and AI strategy.
More: Business Today, Freshworks, Barron's Online, and SiliconANGLE
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack now lets writers paywall their Chat discussion spaces and says active Chat participants are 12% more likely to retain their subscriptions — Substack is launching the ability for writers to paywall their entire Chat or specific threads to paid or founding members only, the company announced on Wednesday.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify money laundering on Bitcoin's blockchain — Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on …
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DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.45B est., total orders up 21% YoY, and forecasts Q2 core profit below est.; DASH drops 9%+ after hours — DoorDash (DASH.O) projected second-quarter core profit below expectations on Wednesday despite beating first-quarter revenue estimates …
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Reuters/Ipsos poll: ~58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”, and 50% support banning TikTok — - A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted …
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