Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet outperformed his
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden's, Twitter's CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers
System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing
An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections
- Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
Speaking at a conference, Elon Musk says he is “guessing toward the end” of 2023 will be time for a new Twitter CEO as the company will be in “stable condition”
Elon Musk said he may need the rest of this year to put things right at Twitter Inc. before handing off …
Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius proposes a sale to investment firm NovaWulf, founded in 2021 by Wall Street dealmakers; smaller creditors may regain 70% of funds
- Proposed sale would see smaller creditors get around 70% of their money back — Larger creditors would become shareholders …
Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon, showing how AI can “hallucinate” to convey emotions, not facts
This was originally published as a Stratechery Update — Look, this is going to sound crazy.
Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its holdings of TSMC's American depositary shares by 86% last quarter to 8.29M, valued at $617.7M; TSMC's stock drops 3.5%+
Warren Buffett slashed his holding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just months after disclosing a major stake …
Lufthansa returns to normal operations after grounding all flights due to software issues caused by a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables being damaged
Deutsche Lufthansa AG grounded all of its flights on Wednesday after damage to a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables caused widespread IT problems.
Hyundai and Kia are offering free anti-theft software updates for 8M+ vehicles, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok
Hyundai and Kia are offering free software updates for millions of their cars in response to a rash of car thefts inspired …
ASML reported a breach to authorities after a former employee in China misappropriated proprietary data, resulting in possible export controls violations
ASML Holding NV, a critical cog in the global semiconductor industry, said a former employee in China stole data about its technology …
Sources: Apple plans to evaluate Pay Later borrowers based on spending history, the Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more
With Apple Inc. pushing into the lending business with a “buy now, pay later” service, the company is laying out rules for how it will approve transactions.
An in-depth look at how OpenAI's ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more
It's Just Adding One Word at a Time — That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially … Tweets: @stephen_wolfram , @friscojosh , @scobleizer , @krishnanrohit , @chr1s...
An ex-Google engineer and founder of AppSheet, acquired by Google, reflects on his time at Google, issues with its culture, a lack of urgency and mission, more
What ails Google. And how it can turn things around. … I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded …
Microsoft releases 77 security fixes, patching three actively exploited zero-day flaws in Windows and Office, and nine critical RCE vulnerabilities
Today is Microsoft's February 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 77 flaws.
Sources: FTX lawyers and hedge fund Modulo are negotiating the return of Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in Modulo, currently sitting in a JPMorgan account
The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.
Roblox reports Q4 net bookings up 17% YoY to $899.4M, beating estimates, a record 65M DAUs in January, and estimated bookings rose 19% to 21%; RBLX jumps 25%+
Roblox Corp. shares surged the most in nine months after the online video game platform reported bookings that beat analysts' estimates …
Superplastic, which creates “synthetic” influencers and other virtual characters, raised $20M led by Amazon's Alexa Fund and plans to work with Amazon Studios
Janky and Guggimon, ‘synthetic’ celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok and Instagram …
Tel Aviv-based Oligo Security, which offers security and observability tools to find and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, raised $28M in seed and Series A
Oligo Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect …
Snap launches ray tracing support for its AR Lens Studio globally, initially partnering with Tiffany & Co to let users try on and purchase bracelets
Snap has introduced ray tracing technology to its AR Lens Studio for developers around the world, the company announced on Wednesday.
Google launches Privacy Sandbox for Android in beta, starting with a “small percentage” of Android 13 devices, similar to Apple's App Tracking Transparency
Brazilian neobank Nubank reports Q4 revenue up 128% YoY to $1.45B and a $58M net income, up from a $66.1M net loss YoY, saying it ended 2022 with 74.6M users
Nu Holdings Ltd (NUN.MX) reported a surge in fourth-quarter gross profit on Tuesday, as customers flocked to the core lending products offered …
Descope raised a $53M seed from Lightspeed, GGV, and others to build a “developer-first” authentication and user management service
Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard.
After requests by regulators, the European Commission will review Adobe's $20B Figma deal, citing antitrust concerns, despite being under its revenue threshold
Mergers: Commission to assess proposed acquisition of Figma … Tweets: @eu_competition : EUMergerControl Commission 🇪🇺 to assess proposed acquisition of Figma by Adobe 🔗➡️https:// europa.eu/!KgfGVw htt...
Meta updates Facebook's “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool to include information about how users' on- and off-platform activity informs its ML models for ads
Sources: the EU plans to investigate Amazon's proposed $1.7B deal for Roomba-maker iRobot over privacy concerns, sending the company a set of detailed questions
Regulators have privacy concerns over acquisition of iRobot in sign of growing scrutiny of Big Tech dealmaking
Airbnb reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.86B est., $319M net income, up from $55M YoY, and says 2022 was its first profitable year; ABNB jumps 9%+
making 2022 our first profitable full year on a GAAP basis..We are excited to see the continued strong demand in Q1 2023” $ABNB +10.4% AH https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : AirBnB...
Apptopia: consumer interest in Lensa AI and other top AI-powered photo apps fell quickly after hitting peak downloads and in-app purchases in mid-December 2022
Is the AI photo app trend already over? Over the past several months, AI-powered photo apps have been going viral on the App Store …
A US jury convicts Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin for his role in a $90M insider trading scheme that hacked companies to get non-public financial data
Sean Lyngaas / CNN :
Uniswap token holders vote to deploy to Binance's BNB blockchain using the Wormhole bridge, with 66% in favor, a move a16z voted to oppose with its 15M UNI
their first vote was to deploy on Polygon. No surprise: Variant is an investor in Polygon, Aztec Network, Scroll, and Aptos. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
GitHub's enterprise AI code completion tool Copilot for Business hits general availability after the beta launch in December 2022, available for $19 per month
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
A profile of Flipkart and CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, as losses mount, competition from Amazon and others intensifies, and Modi's government tightens regulations
Mihir Dalal / Rest of World :
DARPA says its Air Combat Evolution developers used AI to successfully fly a modified F-16 test aircraft multiple times over several days in early December 2022
GlobalFoundries reports record Q4 revenue, up 14% YoY to $2.1B, net income up 1,453% YoY to $668M, and FY 2022 revenue up 23% YoY to $8.1B; GFS rises 8%+
Dan O'Shea / Fierce Electronics : Tweets: @globalfoundries Tweets: @globalfoundries : Below are highlights from our Q4 and full year 2022 financial results announced today. Read more at: https://inve...
Q&A with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on the company's history, battling Microsoft, working with rivals, generative AI, WebKit, iOS, Chrome, Mastodon, and more
and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech https://www.theverge.com/... @alexanderchopan : “the closed nature of mobile phones is absolutely worth looking at and being engaged in. ...
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6 with new and updated hardware and app tests that use datasets meant to be more representative of real-world workloads
How BandLab, a music production app and social network for creators, woos users through its SongStarter AI tool, which generates royalty-free instrumental ideas
A scion of Malaysia's richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire. See also Mediagazer
A look at Vietnam's plans to make Ho Chi Minh City a startup hub; report: Vietnam drew a record $2.6B in VC funding across 233 deals in 2021, up from $700M YoY
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Tel Aviv-based MDI Health, whose AI-powered service helps clinicians customize and manage medication for patients, raised a $20M Series A led by Intel Capital
Meir Orbach / CTech :
After a series of disastrous bets and a market downturn, SoftBank's future rests on a successful Arm IPO and turnaround at the mostly dormant Vision Funds
Kana Inagaki / Financial Times : Tweets: @financialtimes Tweets: @financialtimes : Arm now accounts for a bigger share of Softbank's net asset value than Alibaba, highlighting just how much the Japan...
Canada-based Descartes Systems Group, a logistics and supply chain software provider, acquires US-based final-mile logistics provider GroundCloud for ~$138M
Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit :
Paris-based Brigad, which connects self-employed hospitality professionals with short-term assignments, raised a €33 Series B led by Balderton Capital
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
At a recent event, senior execs at Tencent, NetEase, and other Chinese gaming companies said they plan to better promote China's culture, as regulations ease
South China Morning Post :
SandboxAQ, a startup spun out of Alphabet that is developing post-quantum cryptography and simulation software for drug and material development, raised $500M
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters :
Xiaomi's earlier mover advantages are eroding in India, where it is facing declining shipments, a tax investigation, and key top-level management departures
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.