Elon Musk names ex-NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's 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.
A former ByteDance executive in the US sues the company for wrongful termination, saying ByteDance stole its rivals' content and gave the CCP “supreme access”
The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content …
Binance announces its exit from Canada, saying the country's “new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits” makes the market “no longer tenable”
The world's largest crypto exchange by volume said new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits prompted the exit.
A look at Apple's unusual approach to building its MR headset, which took seven years to develop and which will still be an experimental product at launch
Apple's soon-to-be-revealed mixed-reality device will likely cost $3,000, requires a separate battery pack and is still experimental
A profile of Linda Yaccarino, who has vast experience in ad partnerships, praised Elon Musk publicly, and told colleagues that people get hung up on his tweets
many of them spurred by Elon Musk himself: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : “.. She is well-known among CEOs and marketing executives and can serve as a ‘Band-Aid’ t...
An interview with Sundar Pichai on the future of Search, AI being one of the deepest platform shifts, his vision for Google, merging DeepMind, and more
AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google's CEO, and he's not worried about being first. — Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet.
Germany plans to spend billions to subsidize its chip industry and secure the “oil of the 21st century”, as some believe the move does not make economic sense
The Scholz government is spending billions subsidising the country's semiconductor industry. Some believe it does not make economic sense
The open-source AI boom is precarious because it is built on top of giant models like LLaMA and GPT-3, and could collapse if Meta and OpenAI decide to shut shop
Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop.
OpenAI says it is rolling out web browsing and 70+ third-party plugins in beta to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week
Uncover new possibilities with ChatGPT web browsing and plugins beta features. Available to ChatGPT Plus users who opt-in for experimental features.
Netflix has become an avatar for the striking writers' complaints, as the streaming era eroded working conditions, stagnated wages, and disrupted residual pay
Fear of protests prompted the streaming giant to shift an anticipated presentation for advertisers to a virtual event and a top executive to skip an honorary gala.
Indian streaming service JioCinema adds a Premium subscription plan, offering content from HBO and more for ₹999 per year
JioCinema has introduced a new Premium subscription plan, providing its users with access to a broader range of content. The streaming platform gained …
Law firms and companies' legal teams are experimenting with AI tools that can handle work done by entry-level lawyers, potentially reducing billable hours
Lawyers start to use GPT-4 technology to do legal research, draft documents and analyze contracts — Big law firms … LinkedIn: Elizabeth Smith , Damien Riehl , and Dazza Greenwood Tweets: @tprstly , ...
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
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
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Doc: India launched a probe into Google after a complaint from Match Group and Indian startups that Google's new User Choice Billing system is anti-competitive
India's competition watchdog has begun an inquiry into Google after some companies alleged the service fee the U.S. firm charges …
Numerator: Amazon has a 3% US grocery market share including branded stores and Whole Foods; UBS: physical stores accounted for ~90% of US grocery sales in 2022
Amazon is still barely scratching the surface of the grocery market despite years of efforts. Tweets: @alephblog and @carlquintanilla Tweets: David Merkel / @alephblog : Amazon hasn't taken over your ...
Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images
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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
what you need to know Matt Milano / WebProNews : Toyota Data Breach Exposed Location Data of 2 Million Customers for a Decade Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press : Toyota: Data on more than 2 million veh...
Google Search changes could significantly decrease publishers' traffic and affiliate revenue, but the Perspectives section may highlight individual journalists
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NYC-based Tessera, the collective NFT ownership and governance service that launched as Fractional with $20M from Paradigm and others, plans to shut down
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Sources, former sellers, and court records shed light on “No. 1 BC”, a company that loads an encrypted messaging app on phones for use by organized crime groups
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Sources: e-commerce marketing platform Klaviyo confidentially files for a US IPO; source: the firm seeks to raise $750M+; Klaviyo was valued at ~$9.5B in 2021
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A look at The Athletic's live audio rooms, a Twitter Spaces-like feature in the outlet's app for beat reporters to have postgame conversations with subscribers
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Current and former employees say Foxconn has hired ~10K contract workers in Chennai, India, since November 2022, paying between ~$190 and ~$225 per month
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World : Tweets: @tarykuh , @the_bongrel , and @nilchristopher Tweets: @tarykuh : every saturday, a clutch of engineering colleges in south India turns into venues for wal...
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro will lay off 30% of its workforce, or ~340 people, as part of a restructuring; Nuro laid off 20% of its staff in November 2022
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