Memo: BuzzFeed plans to rely on OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize its content while humans offer ideas, “cultural currency”, and “inspired prompts”
CEO Jonah Peretti intends for artificial intelligence to play a larger role in the company this year
Intel reports Q4 revenue down 32% YoY to $14B, vs. $14.46B est., Data Center and AI down 33% YoY, and Q1 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 9%+
Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street targets on Thursday, slammed by a worsening PC market …
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says Elon Musk “doesn't seem like” the right owner for Twitter and that Musk has reversed morale and content policy improvements
Biz Stone, one of quartet who set up company, says positive changes he oversaw have been undone by Tesla chief executive
An analysis of hundreds of ads on Truth Social shows diet pills, miracle cures, gun accessories, and Trump-themed trinkets while major brands are nonexistent
Truth Social, the social network started by former President Donald J. Trump, has struggled to attract large brands.
A look at crypto money laundering in 2022: illicit addresses sent nearly $23.8B, up 68% YoY, four addresses got $1B+ combined, DeFi got record funds, and more
The 2023 Crypto Crime Report — Money laundering is crucial to all financially motivated crime because it's what enables criminals …
The FBI, US DOJ, Secret Service, Europol, and others seize ransomware gang Hive's site and decryption keys; the FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022
using lawful means, we hacked the hackers.” Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley : Since infiltrating the network the FBI in July it was able to help 1,300 victims with decryption keys, preventing what the FBI...
The European Commission says Google agreed to update its Store, Play Store, Hotels, and Flights to provide clear and accurate information complying with EU laws
Many of Google's offerings will soon be updated to provide clear and accurate information in compliance with consumer protection laws in the EU.
Donald Trump and Facebook have both decayed since his ban, and despite his unpredictability and tech's recent wild swings, his reinstatement may not matter much
Trump is key to social media company's success Travis Gettys / Raw Story : Trump official: Former president would look ‘pathetic’ if he returns to Facebook — and destroy his ‘useless’ Truth Social pla...
Sources: Apple is developing tools to let non-coders use Siri in its MR headset to build AR apps and is working on AR content emphasizing health and wellness
Apple is developing software that offers an easy way for users of its upcoming mixed-reality headset to build their own augmented reality apps …
Sources describe how Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin has become the chief executor of Elon Musk's whims, even when they go against established protocols
On a day hundreds of Twitter Inc. employees were debating whether to resign, Ella Irwin showed up with a pep talk.
Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, doesn't let LLMs like ChatGPT be credited as an author but allows AI to help write papers, if disclosed
Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, has clarified its policies on the use of AI writing tools in scientific papers.
A 116-page bankruptcy document lists FTX's creditors, including AWS, Apple, Meta, LinkedIn, Netflix, Binance, the WSJ, and the Prime Minister of the Bahamas
Over 100 Israeli tech groups let staff join a “warning strike” over controversial government plans to curb judiciary powers, the latest warning from businesses
Executives say new government's move to curb judicial powers will scare away vital investment to the self-styled Startup Nation
Sources: Amazon plans to launch an NFT initiative in April 2023, and has looked at layer-1 blockchains, blockchain-based gaming, and digital asset exchanges
Someone please tell me this is not true. Tweets: Michael Bodley / @michael_bodley : NEW details on Amazon's big, brewing NFT push: — Teaming up w/ L-1s & exchanges, plus blockchain gaming companies — ...
Munich-based smart thermostat startup tado raised €43M led by Trill Impact Ventures, after its plans to go public via a SPAC merger fell apart in September 2022
Smart home energy startup Tado has raised €43 million ($46.9 million) in a round of funding led by Trill Impact Ventures …
New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on its alleged facial recognition use to deny access to some ticket holders
then the facial recognition debate ignited Ashley King / Digital Music News : NY Attorney General Questioning Madison Square Garden about Facial Recognition Tech Noah Sheidlower / CNBC : NY AG Letitia...
Sources: Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison told staff their goal is to go public or let employees sell shares in private markets within the next year
After losing billions on mobile bets, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten raised ~$1.9B for mobile and plans to sell stakes of its banking and securities units
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group Inc. sold 250 billion yen ($1.9 billion) of bonds on Friday, giving the company …
New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to require that Uber and Lyft have zero-emission fleets by 2030, potentially affecting an estimated 100K+ for-hire vehicles
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Documents and sources: Meta sees a path to recovery using AI tools that help ad targeting systems dependent less on user data, boost Reels viewership, and more
After the roughest year in its history, Meta is starting to bounce back. Users are watching its short-form videos …
Indian gig economy workers for Uber, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy, and others deal with blocked accounts for up to weeks, after speaking out on poor working conditions
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
NYC-based Pearl Health, which helps primary care doctors using data science, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z and Viking, bringing its total funding to $100M+
AlleyWatch :
Yandex says the company's systems were not hacked and blames a former employee for leaking a code repository, after 44.7GB of files appeared on a hacking forum
Medium updates its standards to welcome “the responsible use” of AI-assistive technology and to require stories created with AI assistance to be clearly labeled
Scott Lamb / The Official Medium Blog :
Crowdbotics, a software development platform with a library of prebuilt app architectures, raised a $40M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $68M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Substack introduces private publications, search improvements, chat updates, post duplication, publication toggling, inline footnotes, LaTeX support, and more
At Substack, we believe great writing is valuable. Lulu Cheng Meservey / Flack : How to grow your newsletter audience Mashable : Substack launches ‘private’ newsletters Tweets: @substackinc : We're fo...
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