Sources: NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter
Twitter owner Elon Musk said earlier he had picked a new chief executive, without naming the person — NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become …
Riot Games names its global president A. Dylan Jadeja as the company's new CEO starting later in 2023, succeeding Nicolo Laurent, who will stay on as an advisor
Succeeding Nicolo Laurent. — IGN can reveal that Riot Games global president A. Dylan Jadeja will succeed Nicolo Laurent as the company's CEO later this year.
Anthropic expands Claude's context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI's GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens
Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI.
Elon Musk hires ex-NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter CEO, to focus on business operations; Musk will focus on “product design & new technology”
- Former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino will be Twitter's next CEO.
Elon Musk says he hired a CEO for X/Twitter and “she will be starting in ~6 weeks”; Musk will become “exec chair & CTO” overseeing “product, software, & sysops”
Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images
Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts …
Oppo closes its chip design unit Zeku due to global economic uncertainty; Zeku developed the MariSilicon X image-processing chip used in Oppo's flagship devices
Oppo, China's biggest domestic smartphone maker, is closing its chip design business as the global smartphone market extends a prolonged decline.
Google Bard, which expanded to 180 countries, is not available in the EU and Canada; Google says it will be made available “consistent with local regulations”
Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries.
Sources: Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao are exploring ways to cut Zhao's majority stake in the company, hoping to improve Binance's standing before US regulators
Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao, the crypto exchange's founder, majority owner and chair, have been exploring ways to reduce …
Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be Blue subscribers, group messages are not supported, and message metadata is not encrypted
Starting with Verified Users Jay Peters / The Verge : Twitter launches encrypted DMs behind a paywall Geoff Desreumaux / WeRSM : Twitter Launches Encrypted DMs, But Only For Paid Subscribers Tweets: E...
Coinbase apologizes for its newsletter calling Pepe the Frog a “hate symbol”, saying its overview “did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme”
Coinbase CLO responds to outrage after exchange associated Pepe with hate groups Naga Avan-Nomayo / Ethereum World News : Memecoin Army Extracts Coinbase Apology After Botched Pepe Newsletter Ben Weis...
The UK extradites Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch to the US to face fraud charges over HP's $11B acquisition of the software company in 2011
Mike Lynch, co-founder of UK software firm Autonomy, has been extradited to the United States to face criminal charges in a near decade-long legal battle …
Toyota says the vehicle data of 2.15M users in Japan, or almost all of its cloud service customers, has been public since November 2013 due to a human error
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base …
Document: the EU plans a €45M internet cable in the Black Sea to improve connectivity to Georgia and reduce its “dependency” on lines running through Russia
Move to improve connectivity to Georgia amid global concerns over spying and sabotage
A look at China's plans to “de-Americanize” its domestic chip industry, seven months after US curbs started, using billions in cash from Beijing and investors
Seven months after Washington unveiled tough curbs, Chinese companies are doubling down on homegrown supply chains …
A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who has become a divisive figure during the debate over CSAM and privacy
Ylva Johansson is on a personal mission to make the internet safer for children. Her opponents say her plans would wreck online privacy. Tweets: @alecmuffett , @vrateau , @alecmuffett , and @ylvajoha...
The US Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief on May 9 in the Coinbase v. SEC case, slamming the regulator for its “haphazard, enforcement-based approach”
not just crypto. The brief opens with: “As it stands today, nobody knows for certain which digital assets, if any, are ‘securities’ under federal law.” Exactly! @metalawman : 3/ The Chamber makes 3 ar...
Local media: a Montenegro court plans to release Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon from jail after accepting a €400,000 bail, pending a trial
Bloomberg reports: — “Crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon pleaded not guilty in a court in Montenegro … Tweets: @sassal0x : I guess he finally deployed that capital https://twitter.com/... Jacob Silverman /...
Review of the $700 Asus ROG Ally: fast performance and a smooth variable refresh screen, but Windows is hard to use on a handheld and the UI has major glitches
EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition use in public and predictive policing tools, and set transparency rules on generative AI; details must be finalized
Twitter appears to disable autocomplete in its search bar after users pointed out that the feature was recommending gory videos of animal abuse and war footage
Matthew Gault / VICE :
A US judge rules that nearly $300M in BlockFi's wallets belong to clients, not the bankrupt lender's estate; $375M in interest-bearing accounts is the estate's
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk :
Lyft discontinues pooled rides as “they take people out of their way”, one of many product changes CEO David Risher has made since taking over in April 2023
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg :
Germany's Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: Byju's raised $250M and is close to raising $700M at the $22B valuation that it has maintained throughout 2022, ahead of its subsidiary Aakash's IPO
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
WhatsApp rolls out back-end updates to tackle spam calls, particularly prevalent in India, using its AI and ML systems, hoping to reduce the spam calls by 50%+
A draft bill shows the EU plans to force crypto firms to give tax authorities details of their clients' holdings, which can be shared within the 27-nation bloc
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk :
Sensor Tower: Bluesky had 628K mobile downloads in April 2023, up 606% from March, when its Android app launched, in addition to iOS; Mastodon had 90K downloads
Crosspoint Capital Partners plans to acquire Canadian cybersecurity company Absolute Software for $657M, or a 34% premium to the US-listed stock's last close
Akash Sriram / Reuters :
Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q1 revenue down 21% YoY to $1.46B, vs. $1.44B est., and profit down 53% YoY to $267.1M, vs. $186.6M est.
Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos says a known cybercrime group accessed its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but failed to breach its internal network
Revolut CFO Mikko Salovaara plans to leave “for personal reasons” after two years; documents and LinkedIn show CEO James Radford left the company in March 2023
Sonos reports Q2 revenue down 24% YoY to $304.2M and forecasts its annual revenue between $1.63B and $1.68B, down from its prior $1.7B to $1.8B; SONO drops 20%+
Italy's AGCM opens an investigation into Apple over exempting its own apps from ATT, a day after the EU confirmed sending Apple Pay questionnaires to retailers
Microsoft releases 49 security fixes for Windows, Outlook, and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild
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