An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says that the @SECGov's “twitter account was compromised”, and that the agency has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs
The X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is deciding whether to approve bitcoin ETFs, “was compromised,” the regulator told CoinDesk.
X confirms the @SECGov account was compromised and says “the compromise was not due to any breach of X's systems” and that the account didn't have 2FA enabled
- X said late Tuesday it has completed a preliminary probe into the compromised account of the U.S. Securities … Source: @safety .
Sources: Twitch could cut ~500 employees, or ~35% of its staff, as soon as January 10, after concerns over company losses and several top executives leaving
Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year. — Amazon.com Inc.'s livestreaming site Twitch is poised …
Valve's Steam plans to add an “AI disclosure section”, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content, and to let gamers report illegal AI content
New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy confirms plans to cut 500+ jobs, or 35% of its staff, and says the workforce was oversized for its current position, after March 2023 cuts
Twitch is laying off more than 500 employees, or around 35 percent of its staff, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced this morning.
SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with AI voiceover company Replica Studios, requiring consent to create voice replicas for use in video games and safe storage of assets
The union announced the deal with Replica Studios on Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union's executive director …
HPE plans to acquire networking gear maker Juniper Networks for about $14B, or $40 per share, in an all-cash deal; JNPR jumps 21%+
- HPE is acquiring Juniper Networks for about $14 billion in cash, the companies said Tuesday. — Juniper shares had their best day in 20 years …
Source: Humane laid off 10 staff, or 4% of its workforce, to cut costs and plans to lower budgets in 2024, as the company reshuffles some executive positions
Humane laid off 4 percent of employees this week in a move that was described as a cost cutting measure to those who were impacted …
Internal memo: Amazon Studios SVP Mike Hopkins says “several hundred roles” are being cut in its Prime Video and MGM Studios units; both had cuts in early 2023
Division leader Mike Hopkins said “we've identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain areas” in a memo to staff on Wednesday.
Startup Rabbit debuts the R1, a $199 handheld AI device meant to be a virtual assistant to complete tasks without a smartphone, shipping in late March 2024
The startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns whatever digital errands you teach it. The interface is extra cute …
Google and Samsung merge their respective Nearby Share and Quick Share features under the Quick Share name, for a more unified cross-Android sharing experience
Apple has AirDrop, Android now has Quick Share. — At CES 2024 Tuesday, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration …
With half of the world's adults set to vote in 2024, the WEF's Global Risks Report 2024 ranks AI mis- and disinformation ahead of war, climate change, and more
- Concern over the impact of artificial intelligence in disrupting election outcomes has topped the list of the biggest risks for 2024, according to a new report.
Apple pulls Binance, Kraken, Mexc, KuCoin, and four other crypto exchanges from the App Store in India, after they were flagged for operating “illegally”
Apple has pulled apps of at least nine crypto exchanges including Binance and Kraken from its App Store in India …
Luminate's 2023 report: the global music industry passed 4T streams in 2023, a new record and up 34% from 2022; Taylor Swift had one in every 78 US streams
Listened to more music last year? You're not alone. — The global music industry surpassed 4 trillion streams in 2023 …
How RISC-V, the US-developed, open-source chip instruction set architecture, became a central tool for Chinese companies and governments, leading to US concerns
A U.S.-born chip technology called RISC-V has become critical to China's ambitions. Washington is debating whether and how to limit the technology. X: @basche42 and @anaswanson . Forums: Slashdot X: ...
Data.ai's State of Mobile 2023: global consumer app spending rose 3% YoY to $171B, non-game spending rose 11% YoY to $64B, and app downloads rose 1% YoY to 257B
After the app economy slowed for the first time ever in 2022, things picked up pace again over the past year.
Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff uploads its 50TB cache of 366,420 mixtapes and free albums to the Internet Archive, after a server crash in March 2023
DatPiff uploaded its extensive free mixtape catalog to the Internet Archive to protect it for the foreseeable future
TSMC reports December 2023 revenue down 8.4% YoY to ~$5.7B, Q4 revenue flat YoY to ~$20.1B, beating estimates, and 2023 revenue down 4.5% YoY to ~$69.56B
- Chipmaker's holiday period stopped bleeding of prior quarters — TSMC has advised cautious optimism about semiconductor rebound
How UK online clothes shoppers shifting back to physical stores post-pandemic exacerbated online retailers' challenges, including logistics and new upstarts
The pandemic turbocharged internet clothing sales, but a return to stores has left the UK's ecommerce pioneers with serious challenges Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @aservais1 and @cmroberson06 ...
Sources: as US-China tensions rise, Microsoft debates what to do with its prized 800-person Beijing research lab, opened in 1998; Microsoft has added guardrails
Amid U.S.-China tensions, the company has faced questions over whether operating an advanced research lab in Beijing is politically tenable.
OpenAI launches its GPT Store, with chatbots that users have chosen to share publicly, and says people have made 3M custom chatbots so far
The store will feature a bot leaderboard, and will eventually introduce payments. — OpenAI has launched an online store where people …
SIA: global chip revenue rose 5.3% YoY to $48B in November 2023, the first YoY growth since August 2022; China sales rose 7.6% YoY and Americas rose 3.5% YoY
- Recovery among chip makers may be uneven as demand returns — Global chip sales rose for the first time in more than a year …
E-scooter rental startups Tier and Dott plan to merge, with their investors Mubadala, Sofina, and others putting in €60M, forming Europe's largest operator
E-scooter rental firms Tier Mobility and Dott said on Wednesday that they will merge to form the largest European operator …
An investigation finds over 1,600 YouTube videos featuring celebrity deepfakes promoting Medicaid and Medicare scams; the videos have over 195M views in total
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X announces new shows with former CNN host Don Lemon, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and sports commentator Jim Rome, amid a push into video
welcome to the family!!! Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : Tulsi Gabbard, who once unsuccessfully sued Google for “silencing” her campaign's ad account, announces a video partnership with Musk's X Tuck...
Intel unveils AI-enabled SoCs for cars and agrees to buy Silicon Mobility, a French fabless silicon and software company that develops EV energy management SoCs
Intel Corp. is making an ambitious play for the automotive sector with the launch of specialist versions of its newest, artificial intelligence-enabled chips.
Documents: sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich quietly invested $63M+ in European startups via London VC firm Target Global between 2015 and 2021
Venture capital fund Target Global managed tens of millions of dollars for Roman Abramovich and helped the now-sanctioned oligarch build … X: @hkanji , @_iainmartin , @_iainmartin , @giacomotognini , ...
Demis Hassabis, chief of DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs, believes the company would halve drug discovery times after inking deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis
Chief of Google's AI unit and Isomorphic Labs spells out targets following $3bn Eli Lilly-Novartis partnerships X: @kymawhite . Forums: Slashdot X: Kimberly White / @kymawhite : Thanks to the team at ...
Pennsylvania becomes the first US state to use ChatGPT Enterprise in a pilot with OpenAI, in which state employees will use AI tools for daily operations
not a job replacer. @openai : Pennsylvania is piloting ChatGPT Enterprise for its workforce. Governor Josh Shapiro / @governorshapiro : Today, I'm announcing that my Administration is launching a firs...
YouTube partners with Mass General Brigham and the Mexican Red Cross to show brief, step-by-step first-aid videos atop searches about heart attacks and more
Amrita Khalid / The Verge :
A US federal judge temporarily halts the enforcement of a pending Ohio law that would require children to get parental consent to use social media apps
Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press :
Former Apple VP of finance Saori Casey will become CFO at Sonos, replacing Eddie Lazarus, who will take on the new role of chief strategy officer
At CES 2024, Walmart unveils a generative AI search tool and says it is developing a tool to help InHome users quickly add commonly ordered items to their carts
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In a first, the US FTC bans data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling phone location data and orders the company to delete all collected data
Aeva, founded by Apple veterans, reaches a $1B deal with Germany's Daimler Truck for self-driving sensors for trucks expected in 2027, but offers few details
Aeva Technologies (AEVA.N) on Tuesday said that it has reached a $1 billion deal with Germany's Daimler Truck (DTGGe.DE) …
Sensor Tower: Netflix Games downloads rose 180% YoY to 81.2M globally across the App Store and Google Play in 2023, with Q4 accounting for 53% of downloads
Just over two years ago, Netflix announced it would enter a new business: gaming. Amid a mobile gaming market dominated by free …
Bengaluru-based Impact Analytics, which offers retail, grocery, CPG, and supply chain planning and merchandising software, raised $40M led by Sageview Capital
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The FCC plans to shut down the two-year-old Affordable Connectivity Program, which currently has 23M enrolled households, as the GOP withholds funding
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Quora raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz and plans to accelerate the growth of Poe and pay bot creators through its creator monetization program
Quora's cofounder and CEO — is also on the board of OpenAI and played a role in both firing @sama & bringing him back. Ed Newton-Rex / @ednewtonrex : When the majority of a $75M AI investment round is...
Some startup founders are building up protections, including implementing supervoting shares or dual-class shares, to avoid getting ousted like Sam Altman
Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal :
Magnitt: startups in Saudi Arabia raised $1.4B in 2023, up 33% YoY, for a 52% share of VC funding in the MENA region, beating the UAE for the first time
- Saudi Arabia dominates tech scene with 52% share of funding — Overall regional funding drops 23% amid shifting landscape
Tampa-based Rewst, which provides robotic process automation services to managed service providers, raised a $31M Series B led by Meritech Capital
Stephen Pastis / Tampa Bay Business Journal :
Sources: Chinese companies are repurposing Nvidia's gaming chips for AI to counter US' sanctions; RTX 4090 is one of the most popular models to be repurposed
Qianer Liu / Financial Times :
SentinelOne acquires Bengaluru-based cloud security provider PingSafe, sources say at a $100M+ valuation; PingSafe had raised ~$3.3M from Peak XV and others
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Vietnam-based Be Group, which provides ride-hailing, delivery, and digital financial services, raised ~$30M from VPBank, in a bid to take on Grab and GoTo
Nguyen Kieu Giang / Bloomberg :
Meituan's market cap fell ~60% from ~$138.2B to ~$56.4B since the start of 2023, weighed down by rising competition and a slowdown in its food delivery business
Sheila Chiang / CNBC :
Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on generative AI, IP issues, cloud security, the Figma deal, regulation, antitrust, and more
Bank of America values Jio Platforms at $107B, up 64.6% from $65B in 2020 when the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate raised $20B+ from Meta and others
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
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