Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox having no major 2022 releases, 2023 momentum, layoffs, the Activision deal amid the FTC lawsuit, and more
Xbox's CEO talks about the recent Developer Direct, 2022 struggles, layoffs, and what 2023 could hold.
The White House publishes a roadmap for mitigating risks posed by cryptocurrencies and urges Congress to hasten efforts to create a crypto regulatory framework
Four senior Biden officials penned a note Friday urging lawmakers to hasten their efforts to create a regulatory framework for crypto. Source: The White House .
The US Federal Reserve rejected Custodia Bank's application to become a Federal Reserve System member, citing safety risks with the bank's crypto-focused model
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Friday rejected crypto-focused Custodia Bank's application to become a member of the Federal Reserve System …
Researchers detail how ProGen, an LLM trained on 280M proteins, designed proteins with anti-microbial properties that were tested in real life and shown to work
An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a subset of the proteins and found some did the job
Court filing: the US DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging FTX US' general counsel and a potential witness, and asks a judge to limit his communications
The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive's attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster on AI due to the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside
Google, Facebook and Microsoft helped build the scaffolding of AI. Smaller companies are taking it to the masses, forcing Big Tech to react.
How the “enshittification” cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others
Today's links — Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
Q&A with Princeton CS professor Arvind Narayanan on why he calls ChatGPT a “bullshit generator”, his worries over its boom, developing his AI taxonomy, and more
Hello, friends, — If you have been reading all the hype about the latest artificial intelligence chatbot … Mastodon: @JeroenJeremy@mastodon.green . Tweets: @random_walker , @juliaangwin , @random_wa...
Amazon will charge US Prime members variable fees for Amazon Fresh grocery delivery orders under $150 from February 28, dropping free deliveries on $35+ orders
here's how to avoid them Carrie Mihalcik / CNET : Amazon Fresh Grocery Delivery Is Going to Cost More Starting Next Month The Information : Amazon Fresh Hikes Grocery Delivery Fees Bethany Biron / Ins...
OpenWeb, which helps outlets target readers with ads and manage comments, acquires Jeeng, an audience management service used by over 650 publishers, for $100M
The Israeli-founded unicorn, which raised $170 million at a $1.5 billion valuation three months ago, completed its third acquisition in a year …
Twitter plans to take “less severe actions” against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets, and reserve suspensions for severe violations
Mitchell Clark / The Verge :
Analysis: Florida startups raised $9.7B in 601 deals in 2022 vs. $7.8B in 652 deals in 2021; VC funding fell 40%+ in 2022 in California, Massachusetts, and NY
Last year could not top the banner year venture capital saw in 2021 — at least in most geographies.
Some ShareChat employees and investors detail the company's leadership crisis and say revenue has not kept pace with cash burn and its ~$5B valuation in 2022
Over the last few weeks we have been thinking a lot about the layoffs in tech. Payal Ganguly / YourStory.com : ShareChat Co-founders Farid Ahsan, Bhanu Pratap Singh step aside from their active roles ...
As the GOP assumes US House leadership, the antitrust subcommittee shifts its focus from bipartisan efforts to curb Big Tech's power to free speech issues
Bloomberg :
Gaggle, which offers a tool to monitor online student communications, plans to stop flagging LGBTQ keywords in school assignments, after discrimination concerns
especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @evan_greer : In a world where LGBTQ+ youth are being attacked and crimin...
Toronto-based Smile CDR, which offers services for health and clinical data interoperability, raised a ~$30M Series B led by UPMC Enterprises and others
LinkedIn posts indicate Smile Digital Health quietly let people go last year. — Toronto-based health data company Smile CDR …
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall
Tim Harford / Financial Times : Tweets: @johnkoetsier , @pkedrosky , @ftweekend , @prashanth_krish , @profjohnturner , @thecompoundnews , and @financialtimes Tweets: John Koetsier / @johnkoetsier : W...
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI told a San Francisco federal court to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit against Copilot, citing fair use of open-source code
Blake Brittain / Reuters :
Meme-stock mania companies, including GameStop and AMC Entertainment, have raised $4.7B since the hype began in January 2021, but failed to boost performance
Financial Times : Tweets: @edgecliffe Tweets: @edgecliffe : “Some bubbles do not really translate themselves into the real economy, but some bubbles do.” @JennHughes13 and I crunch the numbers on how...
Intel says the European Commission revisited its antitrust case against the company and may level another fine, after the General Court overturned a €1.06B fine
Table of Contents Organization of Our Form 10-K The order and presentation …
NYC-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to simplify and speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A
Maureen Farrell / New York Times :
Jawbone's successor All.health seeks to dismiss a lawsuit from investment firm Polymath for alleged fraud; the startup has raised $65M+, per a 2019 filing
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : https://all.health/, a medical device startup created by the former CEO of Jawbone, is at odds with one of its investors. https://www...
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