In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly breaking even”, grew agitated over questions on hate speech, reflects on running the company, and more
The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC
Sources: Twitter is working on generative AI after buying around 10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; a source says the work involves an LLM
- CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …
Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System and seven critical RCE vulnerabilities
Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws.
Kaspersky: malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2K-$20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975
Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts
OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.
NPR “will no longer be active on Twitter” after the social network took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent
The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch
Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple, and other services to block developers training AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs
Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group …
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's efficiency drive, layoffs, Meta's absentee leadership, and focus on the metaverse have devastated employee morale
Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction. Mastodon: @profcarroll@federate.social . Tweets: @om , @chrismichel , @shiraovide , @matthewstoller...
Binance.US plans to delist the TRX token linked to Justin Sun's Tron from April 18 for failing to meet the expected standard of excellence; TRX drops ~4%
The Binance US exchange said the TRX token linked to Justin Sun's Tron crypto platform will be delisted from April 18, a move that spurred a decline in the digital asset.
LinkedIn partners with CLEAR to help US users verify their identity via a government ID and phone number or via company email
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday. Unlike with Twitter and Meta …
Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware :
Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599 with solid 1440p performance, but only 12GB of VRAM and struggles with 4K gaming
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Labor consultants say US companies, responding to labor shortages and rising wages, are outsourcing jobs overseas, expanding on pandemic remote work policies
Companies respond to labor shortages and rising wages by moving some positions abroad, labor consultants say
A US jury finds the former CEO, CFO, and president of digital pharma ad firm Outcome Health guilty of running a ~$1B scheme that defrauded clients and investors
Verdict caps fall of startup's executive team led by Rishi Shah, who could face years in prison
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its LLM released two weeks ago, and a dataset trained on 15K records generated by its employees
Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
Q&A with Alondra Nelson, former deputy director of Biden's OSTP who spearheaded the White House's AI Bill of Rights effort, on the AI policy challenge and more
I'm Ezra Klein. This is “The Ezra Klein Show.” — [MUSIC PLAYING] — It would be easy, listening to the discourse about A.I. …
Katie Cotton, who was Apple's VP of worldwide communications for 18 years and mostly worked directly for Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6
Raspberry Pi raised an undisclosed amount from Sony Semiconductor Solutions at a $500M valuation, the same valuation as its $45M raise in 2021, to work on AI
- Raspberry Pi has received fresh investment from Sony's semiconductor unit, in a deal that will let users and developers make visual sensory applications using its AI chips.
PitchBook: Silicon Valley startups raised $74.9B in 2022, the lowest US share since 2012, followed by NYC's $29.5B; Miami grew 278% from 2020-2022 to $5.39B
Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.
Video game illustrators in China say AI image generators are causing them to lose their jobs, as some employers encourage use of AI tools to boost productivity
“AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."
PitchBook: global VC funding for crypto startups fell to $2.4B in Q1 2023, down 80% from an all-time high of $12.3B in Q1 2022 and the lowest level since 2020
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg :
Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker
why didn't Apple warn us? Wall Street Journal : New Spyware Firm Said to Have Helped Hack iPhones Around the Globe Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity : New Zero-Click iOS Exploit Deploys Israeli Spyware Ed...
Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network
Intel Foundry Services partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm's designs access to Intel's A18 process to make their chips
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app's local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS
Recent autonomous vehicle snafus in San Francisco include five Waymo cars jamming an intersection and Cruise recalling software last week after an AV hit a bus
Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle :
Documents: the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the FTC over its Twitter privacy investigation, saying the agency failed to comply with an earlier request
Rep. Jim Jordan , the chair of the Judiciary Committee, said the FTC has made burdensome demands of Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk.
YouTube adds Premium features: enhanced bitrate 1080p support on iOS and the web for “extra crisp and clear” videos, support for Apple's SharePlay, and queuing
a16z releases State of Crypto 2023, which tries to explain the dichotomy between market and product cycles and has an index showing stable product development
Chart showing ~250-400 academic publications/mo mentioning “cryptocurrency"/"blockchain"/ etc. to claim that crypto is “a significant area of academic research” … Molly White / @molly0xfff@hachyderm.i...
Filings: FTX lawyers are exploring tax issues around rebooting FTX, billing $13.5M in February for recovering assets, exploring “long-term options”, and more
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg :
Despite bitcoin rallying to over $30K, El Salvador's total holdings of 2,546 bitcoin, acquired for around $108M, are worth just $77M
Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg :
Customs data: Russia imported $570M worth of US chips from Hong Kong and mainland China from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022, despite US sanctions
Nikkei Asia :
Australia-based Fivecast, whose AI-powered software can help companies and governments monitor potential threats, raised a ~$20M Series A led by Ten Eleven
Joseph Brookes / InnovationAus.com :
A profile of Andy Hunter and his ecommerce platform Bookshop.org, which helps indie booksellers set up a digital storefront instead of selling through Amazon
Kate Knibbs / Wired : Tweets: @knibbs , @mariskreizman , and @jurbed Tweets: Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Wrote about https://bookshop.org/ & its founder Andy Hunter, who might be the only genuinely humbl...
South Korea fines Google ~$32M for squeezing out a rival app store by allegedly asking local and Chinese companies to release games exclusively on Google Play
Heejin Kim / Bloomberg :
Sources: Thoma Bravo missed out on acquiring Qualtrics, which sold to Silver Lake and CPP for $12.5B in March, due to fears over a US antitrust investigation
Financial Times : Tweets: @antoinegara Tweets: Antoine Gara / @antoinegara : Big scoop from our deal team @EricGPlatt @JFK_America & myself on how Thoma Bravo missed out on the largest U.S. LBO of th...
IAC and PwC: 2022 US digital ad revenue rose 10.8% YoY to $209.7B, down from 35% growth in 2021; social media ad revenue rose 3.6% YoY, down from ~39% in 2021
winners include @amazon @netflix @hbomax as Retail Media & streamers win; social media ad biz slowing down (except @tiktok_us ) .. must read from @megancgraham https://www.wsj.com/... @mrdcohen : The ...
Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score”
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo :
NYC-based Clear Street, which is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, raised $270M in a second Series B tranche led by Prysm at a $2B valuation
Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks
Instagram gives brands access to parts of its creator marketplace via two APIs and expands access to the marketplace for brand agencies
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Sources: after Twitch cut ~15% of the staff who policed abusive or illegal content and folded an AI ethics team, ex-staffers worry content moderation will slip
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :
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