The UK CMA finds Microsoft's proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition will harm competition in the UK's gaming market and asks Microsoft for remedies
Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will harm competition in the UK gaming market …
Microsoft unveils an updated Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by a next-gen custom OpenAI LLM, calling the duo an “AI-powered co-pilot for the web”
Microsoft has announced a new version of its search engine Bing, powered by an upgraded version of the same AI technology that underpins chatbot ChatGPT.
Google's Bard announcement tweet had a GIF showing the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope; GOOG drops 8%+
Google published an online advertisement in which its much anticipated AI chatbot BARD delivered inaccurate answers.
Microsoft rolls out the “new Bing”, which uses a next-gen OpenAI large language model and Microsoft's new Prometheus Model, in “limited preview” at bing.com/new
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Hands-on with the new AI-powered Bing, which, when asked for the 2023 Grammys winners, made a list with citations in a minute; search will never be the same
CEO Satya Nadella explains why Michael Crider / PCWorld : How to try the new AI-powered Bing search Clare Duffy / CNN : I tried Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing. Here's what it's like Microsoft : Reinv...
At the State of the Union, Biden called for Congress to strengthen data privacy protections and antitrust enforcement to stop Big Tech from self-preferencing
President Joe Biden threw his support behind tougher rules regulating Silicon Valley during his Second State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
Google details AI updates: expanding multisearch globally on mobile, new features for EV drivers, Lens translation, and updates to Translate
Google announced a bunch of AI-enabled search, Maps, and Translate updates as part of its Google presents: Live from Paris event on Wednesday.
Google's AI demo event in Paris paled in comparison to Microsoft's “new Bing” announcement, highlighting Google's need to widely release its ChatGPT competitor
Google demoed its latest advances in AI search at a live event in Paris on Wednesday — but the features pale …
A live blog of the House Oversight Committee hearing with ex-Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, James Baker, and Yoel Roth on Hunter Biden laptop “censorship”
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A recap of Microsoft's event, where the company detailed the new Bing and Edge powered by OpenAI's next-gen model, AI progress, OpenAI partnership, and more
Twitter reinstates Republican Senator Steve Daines, banned for a hunting photo flagged for “graphic violence”, after Elon Musk stepped in and amended the rule
Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, says his account was blocked over a picture flagged for ‘graphic violence’
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the UK could lose out on thousands of jobs by blocking Microsoft's acquisition and accuses Sony of “trying to sabotage” the bid
Bobby Kotick appeals to ‘fragile’ government as video game maker awaits decision on $75bn sale
Mozilla says the company is doing “exploratory work” for a Gecko-based browser on iOS in case Apple drops its WebKit requirement, after a similar move by Google
Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again — UPDATED Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple …
The Bank of England publishes two papers on a new digital pound, seeming to favor centralized databases over a blockchain and limiting to £10K-£20K per person
The Bank of England has set out technical features of its central bank digital currency, which officials have said is likely to be needed.
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.6B, gross bookings rose 19% YoY to $30.7B, and a record 2.1B customer trips, up 19% YoY; UBER jumps 7%+ pre-market
The company, which was hit hard in the early stages of the pandemic, saw revenue jump 49 percent from the same period a year ago.
Google launches Immersive View for Maps in London, LA, NYC, San Francisco, and Tokyo and plans to release “glanceable directions” globally in the coming months
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
UK PM Rishi Sunak creates the standalone Department of Science, Innovation & Technology, led by Michelle Donelan, stripping the DCMS of its tech oversight
LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is creating a standalone science, innovation and technology department as part …
Google and Microsoft's race to add AI chatbots to search results comes loaded with risk; Bing shows results in a sidebar with citations, something Google lacks
Here's something you don't see everyday: Microsoft Corp. is serving up a snazzy web search tool.
Binance executive Leon Foong says a full audit will take “a longer time”, arguing accountants are still learning about crypto, after Mazars retracted its report
Binance Holdings Ltd., operator of the world's largest digital-asset exchange, indicated a full audit of its assets …
How pro-military groups in Myanmar are using Telegram channels, many with ~10K followers, to share abusive sexual videos and images of women and to doxx them
Editor's Note: This story is part of ‘Systems Error’, a series by CNN As Equals, investigating how your gender shapes your life online. Tweets: @pallabimunsi , @pvamplify , @chuckbaggett , @michaeljst...
Arm CEO Rene Haas says the company is committed to an IPO in 2023 after reporting Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $746M and upfront license revenue up 65% YoY to $300M
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
Masayoshi Son owes SoftBank ~$5.1B on side deals he set up to boost his compensation, as his unrealized losses grew ~$400M from three months before
Masayoshi Son is now personally on the hook for about $5.1 billion on side deals he set up at SoftBank Group Corp. to boost his compensation … Tweets: @pelstrom , @pelstrom , and @iamsamirarora Tweets...
Some US officials and researchers say TikTok's proposed algorithm oversight faces practical difficulties and may not yield answers on possible Chinese influence
Concerns mount over TikTok's plan to address potential Chinese influence over what videos Americans see — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company
Alibaba confirms the company is developing a ChatGPT-style AI tool, currently in internal testing, after Baidu's announcement of its Ernie chatbot on February 6
China's Alibaba Group (9988.HK) on Wednesday said it is developing a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence (AI) tool and that it was currently in internal testing.
Meituan plans to hire as many as 10K people this quarter as the company tries to fend off ByteDance's expanding delivery efforts in China; the stock drops 6%+
Meituan dived its most in two months after unveiling plans to hire as many as 10,000 people this quarter, as the Chinese food …
A look at India's pilots for a retail and a wholesale CBDC, set for a national launch by the end of 2023, and differentiating the project from the UPI system
here's all you need to know Anulekha Ray / The Economic Times : UPI payment extended to travellers coming from G-20 countries to India, says RBI Tweets: Michael Branch / @michael63140627 : India wants...
Zoom plans to cut ~1,300 staff, or ~15% of its workforce, offering US employees up to 16 weeks severance, including salary, health care, and bonus; ZM jumps 5%+
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
Science researchers are excited about AI chatbots like ChatGPT but apprehensive about their propensity to produce errors and misleading info on technical topics
Acceldata, a data observability service used by Oracle, Verisk, and others, raised a $50M Series C led by March Capital, bringing its total funding to $96M
Acceldata, the company behind a data observability platform used by multinational enterprises including Oracle and Verisk …
Samsung's Galaxy S23 series has a Game Booster feature that lets a plugged-in phone bypass the battery to use power directly from the charger and reduce heat
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Sources: Meta asks many of its managers and directors to transition to individual contributor jobs or leave the company, “flattening” the organization
Bloomberg :
TripActions rebrands as Navan, consolidates its travel, corporate card, and expense services into one app, and plans to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT
With the reset, the business-travel software startup is taking on market leader Concur with new tools, CEO says
Filing: eBay plans to lay off ~500 employees, or ~4% of its workforce, to create “space” to invest in “new technologies, customer innovations, and key markets”
On February 7, 2023, Jamie Iannone, Chief Executive Officer of eBay Inc. ("eBay" … Amy Larson / The Hill : eBay latest tech company to announce layoffs Aaron Drapkin / Tech.co : eBay Lays Off Hundreds...
Bengaluru-based Entropik, whose AI analyzes consumers' facial expressions, eye gaze, and more, raised a $25M Series B in equity and debt led by Bessemer and SIG
Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol :
Voice actors are increasingly being asked to sign away rights to their voices so clients can make synthetic AI versions that may eventually replace them
Joseph Cox / VICE :
Zeitview, formerly DroneBase, which offers drone imagery, software, and analytics for the energy and infrastructure sectors, raised a $55M Series E led by Valor
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Synergy Research: enterprise cloud spending in Q4 grew 21% YoY to $61.6B, but was “substantially hampered” by a strong US dollar and a restricted Chinese market
Dan Robinson / The Register :
Long an AI leader, Meta has been cautious with chatbots, closing Galactica in November over toxic content and misinformation, letting OpenAI take center stage
New York Times : Tweets: @cademetz , @rao2z , @pstasiatech , and @nytimestech Tweets: Cade Metz / @cademetz : Two weeks before the arrival of ChatGPT, Meta released its own bot. The reaction was very...
Atmosphere TV, which streams ad-supported video channels often without audio, raised a $65M Series D at a $1B valuation and names Blake Sabatinelli as its CEO
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Qustodio: kids aged 4 to 18 used TikTok for 107 minutes per day on average in 2022, up from 82 minutes in 2020, and 60% longer than YouTube's 67 minutes per day
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Magic, a code-generating tool similar to GitHub's Copilot, raised a $23M Series A led by Alphabet's CapitalG; Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, and Amplify also invested
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
On February 13, Google plans to remove a Search feature launched in August 2019 that let users play podcasts directly from results, in favor of recommendations
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Ushur, which automates companies' customer service workflows, raised a $50M Series C led by Third Point Ventures, bringing its total funding to $92M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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