New York's AG proposes the Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency and Oversight Act, or CRPTO, seeking broader enforcement authority over crypto companies
Proposed legislation would require crypto exchanges to have independent public audits of financial statements, among other new requirements
An independent researcher's data shows that out of the ~150K Twitter Blue subscribers in November 2022, just ~68,157 were still subscribed on April 30
The early birds cancel their subscriptions. — Twitter Blue's struggles since its launch nearly six months ago are more severe than previously revealed, new data suggests.
Sources: the US DOJ is investigating if Binance was used to let Russians skirt US sanctions, alongside a probe into its alleged use to evade sanctions on Iran
The Justice Department is investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. was used illegally to let Russians skirt US sanctions …
Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, incorporating short videos, social media posts, and conversations with AI
Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results
Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of IEEE's Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, more
“That's always an exciting place to be — a place where nobody's ever been before." — Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence …
An Idaho federal judge dismissed an FTC lawsuit against location data broker Kochava, saying the agency had not provided adequate evidence to show consumer harm
The ruling was a blow to the commission's intensifying efforts to crack down on the sale and use of sensitive personal information.
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted
The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company
Ex-staff say TikTok had a list, accessible internally via a dashboard, of users watching LGBTQ content; TikTok says it deleted the dashboard in the US in 2022
Company logged categories of content and users on app in effort to boost engagement; spokeswoman says TikTok has restricted access to that data
Brydge, an iPad, Mac, and Surface accessory maker, is shutting down; sources: Brydge has neither paid its staff salaries nor fulfilled orders since January 2023
Brydge launched in 2012 with a mission of turning your iPad into a MacBook Air … Jason Snell / Six Colors : Accessory maker Brydge ceases operations ↦ Mastodon : Brydge, the once-thriving startup maki...
Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI
warning the company doesn't have one in A.I. John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog : Google and Commoditization: Anyone Need a BackRub? Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post : Leaked Google Documen...
Google releases a brief teaser video showing off the Pixel Fold, confirming that it will be officially revealed on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 event
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content
From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet. LinkedIn: Theo Priestley . Mastodon: @willoremus@mastodon....
Source: Rapid, which runs an API marketplace, laid off 82% of staff in under two weeks, reducing headcount from 230 to 42; the startup was valued at $1B in 2022
Rapid (previously known as RapidAPI), a startup that built out an API marketplace valued at $1 billion last year …
A profile of Roger Lee, who runs Layoffs.fyi that has catalogued ~450,000 tech job cuts and Comprehensive.io that tracks compensation in tech job postings
Roger Lee has cataloged hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts on his site Layoffs.fyi. He still believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back. Tweets: @loracorkelley , @pkafka , @bmorrissey ,...
Smartphone shipments declined 14% YoY and 7% QoQ globally to 280.2M units in Q1 2023; Samsung declined 19%, Apple 2%, Xiaomi 22%, Oppo 10%, and Vivo 18%
Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research :
Tim Cook says Apple sees AI as “huge” but that “it's very important to be “deliberative and thoughtful” as there are “a number of issues that need to be sorted”
Amazon is working on AI tools to generate photos and videos for merchants' ad campaigns on its platform, as the company seeks to build a broader ad business
Amazon is building a team to work on artificial intelligence tools that will generate photos and videos for merchants to use … Tweets: @glenngabe , @theo_wayt , @refocusedmedia , and @coryweinberg Twe...
Slash, a Gen Z-focused neobank, raised $19M in seed and Series A funding from investors including NEA, Menlo Ventures, Connect Ventures, and Y Combinator
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Discord says it will let “high-visibility users” secure usernames to minimize the risk of impersonation, as some users criticize its plans to change usernames
Umar Shakir / The Verge :
In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac :
Coinbase plans to try a novel defense against a potential US SEC enforcement action by arguing the regulator bears some responsibility for approving its IPO
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal :
A review of the $250 JBL Tour Pro 2 wireless earbuds, whose case has a touchscreen for accessing earbud settings, along with extras like timers and a flashlight
and yes, the big draw is that touchscreen case. Is this the future? Will AirPods look like this someday? How long until you can just sync music onto your earbuds? Read more: https://www.theverge.com/....
Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 34% YoY to $772.5M, vs. $655M est., net loss down 82% YoY to $78.9M, $145B in trading volume, vs. $147.7B est.; COIN jumps 15%+
Amazon expands Inspire, its TikTok-like video and photo feed in the Shopping app that lets users buy from influencer and brand content, to all US customers
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Jakarta-based Praktis, which sells end-to-end supply chain software to direct-to-consumer brands and suppliers, raised a $20M Series A led by East Ventures
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
A look at the ByteDance investors who have billions in paper profits blocked by the US regulatory standoff over TikTok; source: Sequoia China holds a 10%+ stake
from a slowed secondary market to tens of billions in paper gains indefinitely locked up — for @Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/... Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Should ByteDance ever go public, it will...
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