YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee
One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
The SEC sues Terraform Labs and Do Kwon, accusing them of selling unregistered securities and perpetrating a fraudulent scheme that lost $40B+ in market value
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to sue the company behind TerraUSD, a crypto stablecoin whose collapse …
OpenAI plans to improve ChatGPT's behavior to reduce biases, allow more user customization, and get more public input into decision-making about system defaults
We're clarifying how ChatGPT's behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization …
Apple's iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 betas add support for Safari web apps on the homescreen to send push notifications and show notification badges
Apple's new iOS and iPadOS 16.4 betas will let Safari web apps on your homescreen send you push notifications, according to a new post on the WebKit blog.
Documents: Binance used secret access to Binance.US' Silvergate bank account to move $400M+ in Q1 2021 to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's trading firm Merit Peak
Microsoft says it is looking at limiting Bing chatbot conversation length and adding tools to let users restart conversations or get more control over tone
The company knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems. But users have prodded surprising and unnerving interactions.
The SEC says Do Kwon and Terraform Labs have withdrawn $100M+ in fiat currency from a Swiss bank since June 2022, after moving 10K+ Bitcoin out of a cold wallet
Crypto fugitive Do Kwon and the firm he founded transferred over 10,000 Bitcoin out of their doomed project and turned …
Filing: the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund's Savvy Games Group now owns 8.3% of Nintendo, the largest outside stake, up from ~6% at the start of 2023
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund became the largest outside shareholder of Nintendo Co. on Friday, in the latest move by the Gulf state to lower its reliance on oil.
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz with a $500K prize pool hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to US users aged 18 and older
TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.
Source: Binance is considering de-listing USDC and other tokens and ending relationships with US partners, including VC investments, amid regulatory scrutiny
Crypto giant Binance Holdings Ltd. is considering ending relationships with US business partners as regulators turn up the heat.
Under the Digital Services Act, online platforms disclose their MAUs in the EU: YouTube has 401M, Facebook 255M, Instagram 250M, TikTok 125M, Twitter 101M
TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have now confirmed they will face the strictest rules under the EU's content-moderation law, the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Sources: Meta gave ~10% of staff subpar ratings in recent performance reviews, a sign of more workforce reductions, and cut a bonus metric to 85% of its target
The performance-review process is expected to set the stage for more workforce reductions this year — Why Tech Layoffs Don't Reflect the Job Market
Fitbit plans to remove adventures, challenges, and open groups from its app and replace Studio with an SDK; Google says the features were of “limited use”
Fitbit users: better one-up your friends in challenges while you still can. Starting March 27th, Fitbit will remove all adventures …
Microsoft authorizes Parallels Desktop 18 to support Windows 11 on Apple's M1 and M2 Macs, after previously only licensing ARM versions of Windows to OEMs
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Source: Microsoft is demoing Bing chatbot to ad agencies, saying it plans paid links within the chatbox responses and industry-specific ads
Kevin Roose at the New York Times had a long chat … Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google Mastodon: Jesse Baer / @misc@m...
OpenAI, Stanford, and Georgetown researchers warn disinformation campaigns could use LLMs and propose governments could restrict training data and AI hardware
Chloe Xiang / VICE : Tweets: @motherboard , @lorakolodny , @marshallk , @leahmcelrath , @tante , @mistresssnowphd , and @danmcquillan Tweets: @motherboard : The researchers also propose stricter cont...
DoorDash announces a $750M stock buyback program and says Chief Financial Officer Prabir Adarkar will replace President and COO Christopher Payne on March 1
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Sources: Tencent cuts its 300-strong metaverse unit and drops VR hardware plans due to trouble achieving quick profitability and the need for a big investment
Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) is abandoning plans to venture into virtual reality hardware, as a sobering economic outlook prompts …
Meta launches Instagram Channels, a broadcast chat feature that lets select US creators share public, one-to-many text, images, and more with their followers
they just arrive in DMs instead of the feed. Insta is benjamin buttoning into Facebook https://techcrunch.com/... Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Instagram Channel is like followers retention program...
DoorDash reports Q4 revenue up 40% YoY to $1.8B, vs. $1.77B est., a $642M net loss, vs. $265M est., up from $155M YoY, and 32M+ MAUs, up from 25M+ YoY
People are spending more on food delivery even as prices rise — DoorDash Inc.'s DASH -1.95%decrease; red down pointing triangle revenue rose …
Source: the UK CMA is investigating a deal in which Google pays Apple a portion of search revenue generated by people using Chrome on iOS
Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari — EXCLUSIVE Google has been paying Apple a portion …
In an email, Google's Search SVP tells staff to rewrite Bard's bad responses in a “neutral tone” and to “not imply emotion” as the tool “learns best by example”
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
The US launches an initiative of non-legally binding guidelines promoting international cooperation on militaries' responsible use of AI and autonomous weapons
Mike Corder / Associated Press :
TikTok quietly launches its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun, Revolve, and Willow Boutique seem to be among the pilot partners
Erika Wheless / Ad Age :
A patent and a job listing suggest Meta is working on an advanced smart glasses assistant; docs show staff have tested a proactive assistant on Ray-Ban Stories
Janko Roettgers / Lowpass :
Analysis: 24% of the 40,521 tokens launched in 2022 that “got traction” saw a 90%+ price drop in their first week of trading, suggesting pump-and-dump activity
Chainalysis :
Snap says Snapchat now has 750M+ MAUs, up 25% from April 2022, 150M of which are in North America, Snapchat+ for $3.99/month has 2.5M subscribers, and more
Bulgaria and London-based Dronamics, a startup claiming to have a license to operate autonomous, long-range, cargo drones in Europe, raised a $40M pre-Series A
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Tile debuts an anti-theft mode that requires biometric data, a government ID, and a ToS letting Tile share info with police, to limit the misuse of its trackers
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Lenovo reports Q3 revenue down 24% YoY to $15.3B, its largest revenue decline in 14 years, net income down 32% YoY to $437M, and warns of spending and job cuts
Josh Ye / Reuters :
Sources: ByteDance's Slack-like collaboration tool Feishu, which reportedly had 9.3M MAUs in November 2022, hit $100M subscription revenue in 2022, up 270% YoY
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal :
The FTC launches an Office of Technology, increasing the number of technologists on staff to ~22, up from the current 10, ahead of legal battles with Big Tech
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post :
The FCC is investigating whether ISPs exaggerated their coverage to authorities preparing to distribute billions in subsidies for broadband in underserved areas
Bloomberg :
Zurich-based Unisers, which is building tech to detect extraneous extremely small particles that ruin chips during production, raised $14M led by Intel Capital
Baltimore-based Apkudo, whose service manages connected devices, raised a $37.5M Series C, sources say at a ~$300M valuation, bringing its total funding to $75M
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