In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting Apple's tradeoffs, and more
Now that it can be strapped to our faces and worn in strange places, opinions about Apple's Vision Pro are flying left and right.
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$25.11B, operating income up 10% YoY to ~$3.1B, both meeting est., and 8.2M PS5 units sold, roughly 1M lower than est.
- Company reversing course after taking the unit private in 2020 — Underwhelming PlayStation 5 sales led to outlook cut
Sources: Bart Andre, Apple's longest-serving senior industrial designer, told colleagues in February that he's retiring; Andre joined in 1992 alongside Jony Ive
- Bart Andre retiring after three decades on design team — Departure marks near-complete turnover of group since Ive era
Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers, including Russian, North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese-backed groups, are already using LLMs to refine and improve cyberattacks
Microsoft and OpenAI are revealing today that hackers are already using large language models like ChatGPT to refine and improve their existing cyberattacks.
OpenAI starts testing a “memory” feature that is on by default and lets ChatGPT and custom GPTs remember info about users and their conversations over time
Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth …
Nvidia Chat with RTX hands-on: 35GB installer, Mistral 7B and Llama 2 are 70GB, great at summarizing details and targeted questions, but no follow-up questions
NVIDIA's AI chatbot runs locally on your PC, and it works with the data you provide. — NVIDIA does a lot of interesting things around AI …
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI's founding members, leaves the startup; Karpathy was developing a product that he had described as an AI assistant
Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed.
A Mozilla study of 11 AI romance chatbots finds that they harvest shockingly personal information, and that 10 of them may sell or share the data they collect
The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.
Samsung announces an upcoming Galaxy S24 series update, adding a Vividness display slider after users complained of a dull display under the default settings
- Samsung has announced that the upcoming February update for the Galaxy S24 series will improve its display and camera experiences.
DuckDuckGo adds a Sync & Backup tool to its browser that syncs passwords, bookmarks, and favorites without requiring an account, and says the data is E2EE
DuckDuckGo has added a new “Sync & Backup” feature to its privacy-first browser that will keep passwords, bookmarks …
A look at Slack 10 years after its launch: its early success, its direct listing in 2019, being acquired by Salesforce, and how the service changed work culture
A decade later, it's clear that Slack changed work culture, even at companies that don't use it. … Most enterprise software is shitty.
A typo in Lyft's Q4 release mistakenly forecast a 500 BPS of EBITDA margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge, before the error was corrected to 50 BPS
- Lyft mistakenly forecast 500 basis points of margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge.
In a research paper, Apple researchers detail a new AI tool called Keyframer, which uses LLMs to animate static images through natural language prompts
Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI tool called “Keyframer,” which harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs) …
Uber and Lyft drivers in at least 17 US cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, plan to strike today over pay; UK-based food app couriers also plan to strike
Thousands of drivers for ride-share platforms Uber and Lyft, as well as the food delivery service DoorDash are expected to strike on Wednesday …
Slack rolls out AI features that summarize threads, offer channel recaps, let users ask questions, and more to Enterprise users, after testing Slack AI in 2023
and it's promising to save you hours of stress
Sen. Ron Wyden details the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign, which allegedly tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations
The details in Wyden's letter, sent Tuesday morning, reveal what's believed to be the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign.
An interview with Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen, as Tencent's Finnish mobile gaming group seeks its next big hit; Clash of Clans had $10B+ in revenue in 10 years
Mobile games maker chief Ilkka Paananen says Finnish group will explore new genres having not released a title in years
Google's TAG says a pro-Palestinian hacking group targeted Israeli software engineers to download malware ahead of October 7, in an attack dubbed Blackatom
Apple's Longest-Serving Designer to Depart Company, Adding to Exodus — Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU's Big Tech Crackdown
Lyft reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $1.2B, net loss of $26.3M, vs. $588.1M YoY, active riders up 10% to 22.4M, and Q1 forecast above est.; LYFT jumps 10%+
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UK water utility Southern Water confirms hackers stole data on as many as 470K customers; Russia-linked ransomware gang Black Basta claimed credit in January
U.K.-based water utility Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of as many as 470,000 customers in a recent data breach.
Stability AI details Stable Cascade, a new image generation model built on a different architecture to SDXL to improve performance and accuracy, now in preview
Stability AI, the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion text-to-image generative AI technology is now previewing a new image generation model called Stable Cascade.
Google partners with the Environmental Defense Fund to help track and attribute methane emissions observed by the MethaneSAT satellite, set to launch in March
The tech company will work with the Environmental Defense Fund to track some of the world's most devastating and avoidable emissions observed by the nonprofit's satellite.
TikTok plans to launch an in-app local language Election Centre in March 2024 in all 27 EU countries, to fight misinformation ahead of the Parliament elections
ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok said on Wednesday it will ramp up its fight against fake news and covert influence operations …
YC releases a new list of 20 types of startups the accelerator wants to join its program, the biggest overhaul of its Request for Startups since 2018
The prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator overhauled its list of promising startup sectors. — Silicon Valley institution Y Combinator …
How Reddit, after the catastrophic online manhunt to find the Boston Marathon bomber, quietly became a civilized place to discuss news, due to strong moderation
Twitter had been our place. Where journalists gathered and pored over news in as near to real time as possible. X: @jamesrbuk . Forums: r/Journalism X: James Ball / @jamesrbuk : Want to discuss news ...
Uber plans to buy back $7B in shares, a first for the company, after achieving operating profit and consistent positive free cash flow in 2023; UBER rises 4%+
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Cohere's nonprofit research lab releases its open-source multilingual LLM Aya, which the lab says can follow instructions in more than 100 languages
Train — Deploy — Use in Transformers — Model Card for Aya 101 X: @cohereforai : Today, we're launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represen...
Polish PM Donald Tusk says state authorities under the previous government used NSO's Pegasus spyware illegally against a “very long” list of hacking victims
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press :
Sources: Walmart is in talks to buy smart TV manufacturer Vizio for $2B+, as the company looks to bolster its advertising business in its battle with Amazon
Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in its VPN, Relay, its Online Footprint Scrubber, and mozilla.social, shut down Hubs, and cut ~60 employees
Mozilla, which it pays to be Firefox's default search — does so little with the money. Endlessly chasing shiny objects and delivering almost nothing of value Mastodon: Dan Lyke / @danlyke@researchbuz...
ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the chip market “has now reached the lowest point of the dip” and “the recovery is nascent”; ASML's top client spent €8.78B in 2023
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg :
Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $803M, vs. $804M est., and plans to cut ~250, or ~7%, of its staff; three top execs are leaving for personal reasons
Waymo has issued a software fix for its cars, its first recall, after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix in December 2023
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch :
Airbnb reports Q4 revenue up 17% YoY to $2.22B, vs. $2.16B est., Nights and Experiences Booked up 12% YoY to 98.8M, and announces a $6B share buyback
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
Copilot for Microsoft 365 testers question the $30/seat price and find Copilot the most useful in Teams and the least in Excel; Dow and others plan big rollouts
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal :
Sierra, an enterprise-focused conversational AI startup co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, launches with $110M in funding led by Sequoia and Benchmark
Sydney-based quantum computing startup Diraq extends its Series A to $35M led by Quantonation, taking its total funding to $120M+, to build quantum processors
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Chinese factories that transformed rural communities by selling goods on Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall are turning to rival platforms like Pinduoduo to stay afloat
Financial Times :
A US judge says OpenAI must face a claim of violating CA unfair competition law by using copyrighted books, but dismisses some claims like DMCA violations
For the first time since 2002, Nvidia ended a trading day with a bigger market value than Amazon, as its market cap reached $1.78T, fueled by the AI boom
Kif Leswing / CNBC :
GlobalFoundries reports Q4 revenue down 12% YoY to $1.85B, vs. 1.85B est., net income down 58% YoY to $278M, forecasted sales of $1.52B in Q1, vs. $1.77B est.
Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily :
Foundry Group, an 18-year-old VC firm with nearly $3.5B in assets under management, has quietly decided to wind down and not raise any more funds
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
A US federal judge sets the trial date for an FTC antitrust lawsuit against Amazon for October 2026
Co-CEO of SoftBank Vision Funds Alex Clavel says the VC is “looking very carefully” at generative AI firms, as SoftBank embraces a cautious investment approach
right at the start of a generative AI boom. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Amy Thomson / @athomson6 : SoftBank's Vision Fund, once known for splashy ten-figure valuations, now plans to start investing ...
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