Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25; users won't be able to access or manage Twitter accounts through Microsoft's tool
Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API. — Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform.
Sources: Google released Bard despite staff concerns; one employee called the chatbot “a pathological liar” and one said its answers may cause “injury or death”
Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool.
After Microsoft Advertising said it was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” over training “illegally using Twitter data”
Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants …
The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, with rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024
European lawmakers on Thursday gave their final blessing to an ambitious law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry.
Coinbase says it received a license to operate in Bermuda; source: the company plans to launch an offshore derivatives exchange in Bermuda as soon as next week
Coinbase has received a license to operate in the off-shore haven of Bermuda, signaling that the company is doubling-down on plans …
Internal presentation: Google plans to deploy generative AI in ads, allowing advertisers to supply creative material which will be “remixed” to create campaigns
Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
Analysis: Google's C4 dataset, used to train LLMs like Meta's LLaMA, has troubling content from 4chan, Kiwi Farms, white supremacist site Stormfront, and more
AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …
Imgur plans to ban explicit images from May 15; it will allow artistic nudity but expects problems as it switches to a mix of automatic and human moderation
Image hosting platform Imgur is set to ban explicit images on its platform from May 15. The company updated its terms of service …
Bluesky for Android is now available on the Play Store, after first launching on iOS in February 2023, but the service is still invite-only
Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized Twitter alternative, now has an Android app. The launch follows the release of the service's iOS app, which came out in late February.
NCC Group measured a record 459 ransomware attacks in March 2023, up 91% MoM and 62% YoY, saying the surge is likely due to exploits of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks …
Microsoft starts naming threat actor groups after weather events, like typhoon, sandstorm, and blizzard; each name represents a nation state or a motivation
Microsoft has started naming hackers after the weather in a new naming taxonomy update. Hackers will now be named after events like storms …
OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes
The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
Imgur says it will delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that's not tied to a user account, starting on May 15
Your use of the App or Website is subject to these Terms … Emanuel Maiberg / VICE : Imgur Is About to Wipe a Ton of Porn From the Internet Anna Iovine / Mashable : Imgur to remove explicit images and ...
Seagate agrees to settle with the US Department of Commerce for $300M over shipping $1.1B+ worth of hard drives to Huawei, a violation of US export control laws
April 19 Reuters) - Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (STX.O) has agreed to pay a $300 million penalty in a settlement …
Meta's Oversight Board supports Meta's content moderation actions during the pandemic but asks Meta to assess its impact on public health and human rights
Meta's Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions …
Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products
Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules — It sounded like a dream partnership …
Amazon launches the Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange that lets retailers label and track counterfeits, to make it difficult for counterfeiters to move among stores
Amazon (AMZN.O) has launched its Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange (ACX), an initiative to help retail stores label …
Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
lob insults at Ben Shapiro CT Jones / Rolling Stone : He Reported on a Twitter Hack. Musk's Free Speech Haven Kicked Him Out Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast : Journalist Banned From Twitter After Re...
Snap expands its revenue share program to accept creators with 50K+ followers and 25M+ monthly views, and says its TikTok rival Spotlight has 350M monthly users
VC funding for Web3 startups fell to $1.7B in Q1 2023, down 81% YoY from $9.1B in Q1 2022; the number of announced deals fell from 770 to 333
Editor's Note: For more Web3 coverage, please visit Crunchbase's Web3 Tracker, a site to look at startups, investors and funding news concerning …
Snap expands My AI to all users for free and says the chatbot can now be added to group chats and recommend AR filters or places, and will soon generate photos
The “My AI,” chatbot is integrated with OpenAI's GPT technology and is customized for Snap's users. … Tweets: Alex Heath / @alexeheath : Snapchat is releasing its “My AI” chatbot (powered by OpenAI) t...
A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs on which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more
New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn. But there are privacy and data protection concerns Tweets: @akothari , @lakshmishaks , @wadehrarajiv , @...
The EU is taking a pragmatic approach to TikTok, treating it the same as its American rivals, in contrast to the “theatrical” approach being taken by the US
Europe is taking a different approach from the US toward TikTok. But first... • Instagram will cut or relocate its London employees
Docs: Tiger Global told investors that its $12.7B fund had a 20% paper loss as of December 2022, vs. an 11% loss as of September 2022 and 8% as of June 2022
Tiger Global Management's $12.7 billion venture fund, launched near the peak of the tech stock boom in October 2021 …
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.4% YoY to $14.25B, vs. $14.35B est., net income up 26% YoY to $927M, and software revenue up 2.6% YoY to $5.92B, vs. $5.83B est.
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
The US, the UK, and Cisco warn Russian hacking group APT28 is deploying custom malware on Cisco IOS routers, allowing unauthenticated access to the devices
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit plans to launch zero-fee spot trading of BTC, ETH, and USDC on April 24, 2023, after Binance ended its zero-fee campaign
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Sources: Microsoft plans to release its first ARM-powered Surface Go, the Surface Go 4, in 2023, and is working on a smaller Surface Pro with an 11-inch display
NYC-based CoreWeave, which provides access to SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M
CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues …
Stability AI debuts StableLM, its first suite of instruction fine-tuned LLMs, in alpha, starting with 3B and 7B parameters, with 15B to 65B versions to follow
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
The UK CMA opens a consultation on Google's proposal to let developers use alternative payment methods for IAP and reduce its cut to settle an antitrust probe
all while pretending to be tough on Big Tech. https://www.techmeme.com/... @cmagovuk : 📱 We're consulting on proposed commitments from #Google to change their rules to allow certain #app developers to...
P2P.org, which provides staking infrastructure for Ethereum, Cardano, Cosmos, and 47 other blockchain programs, raised a $23M Series A to expand its portfolio
Jonah Elkowitz / Decrypt :
Sketchpad creator Ivan Sutherland and other experts say the US should seize the superconducting electronics opportunity, as CMOS chip making nears atomic limits
John Markoff / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @vishalgulati_ , and @dealbook Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : “There is really the potential of creating the equivalent of the human brain using...
Snap, which reported 100M MAUs in India in October 2021, says the number has since doubled; in 2022, time on Spotlight grew 175% YoY and on Shows grew 55%+ YoY
The Economic Times :
Berachain, a bear-themed tri-token crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, raised $42M in a private token round led by Polychain Capital
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
GlobalFoundries sues IBM for allegedly sharing confidential IP and trade secrets with Rapidus, a Japanese chip consortium working with IBM to produce 2nm chips
Atlassian launches Atlassian Intelligence, an AI assistant that uses the company's LLMs and OpenAI's, to offer AI features for Confluence and Jira in the cloud
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, plans to provide credit scores for individuals applying for loans on blockchain-based protocols
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk :
Source: Meta plans to cut or relocate London-based Instagram staff, and Instagram head Adam Mosseri, who moved to London in 2022, plans to move back to the US
EdgeQ, which makes chips that power the base stations for 5G telecom towers, 5G access points, and more, raised a $75M Series B at a valuation of less than $1B
Jane Lee / Reuters :
Sources: NYC-based event ticketing startup SeatGeek confidentially filed for a US IPO in April; a source says the company expects $500M+ in revenue in 2023
Cory Weinberg / The Information :
In a joint statement, the FBI, Interpol, and 13 other law enforcement agencies say Meta's plan to expand the use of E2EE in its apps “blindfolds” them to CSAM
Microsoft and decentralized data service Space and Time, in which M12 invested, partner to offer developers real-time blockchain data from the Azure Marketplace
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk :
Ditto, which offers a database to let developers sync data P2P across mobile and edge devices, emerges from stealth with a $45M Series A led by Acrew Capital
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