The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators
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Angry constituents flood congressional offices with calls following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives about a possible ban
Tiktok is owned by an adversary of the US. But so is Microsoft, Meta, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and most of the other tech giants. … X: Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : Some Congressional offices ha...
TikTok's US popularity is not just a national security issue but also highlights the failure of the US tech industry to come up with an equally addictive app
Beijing won't say yes to a TikTok divestment. Washington should admit it's as much about a lack of tech innovation as it is about national security.
Donald Trump declares support for TikTok, saying a ban will double the business of “Facebook and Zuckerschmuck” and Facebook is the “true enemy of the people”
- Congress members were inundated with calls from angry constituents after TikTok told its users …
Microsoft says Russian state-sponsored hackers Midnight Blizzard accessed some of its “source code repositories and internal systems” following the January hack
Microsoft revealed earlier this year that Russian state-sponsored hackers had been spying on the email accounts of some members of its senior leadership team.
US data center demand for crypto mining and AI are putting new pressures on an overtaxed power grid, as bottlenecks mount and utilities struggle to keep up
AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America's power grid to the brink. Utilities can't keep up.
Google says Gemini Nano won't come to the Pixel 8 due to “some hardware limitations”, but plans to bring the LLM to more “high-end devices in the near future”
During The Android Show today, Google shared more about Gemini Nano, including how it won't be coming to the Pixel 8.
TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill
Tests show GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 systematically produce biases that disadvantage protected groups, based on their names, when screening and ranking job candidates
Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone
Apple's handling of Epic's account closure turned a US contract dispute into a DMA enforcement priority due to the appearance of a gatekeeper silencing critics
Context: Apple terminated an app developer account obtained by Epic Games' Swedish subsidiary in order to build an alternative iOS app store …
Sources say SMIC used equipment from California-based Applied Materials and Lam Research to manufacture an advanced 7nm chip in China for Huawei in 2023
- SMIC used Applied Materials and Lam equipment to make 7nm chip — US wants to further limit China's access to foreign chip tech
X unveils Articles, a feature for writing and sharing long-form content in a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers
Long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main. — Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.
Sources: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati brought questions about Sam Altman's management to the board in 2023, before he was ousted; a new board is expected imminently
Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, brought questions about Mr. Altman's management to the board last year before he was briefly ousted from the company.
UnitedHealth says electronic prescribing is restored and expects its payments platform back online by March 15, after a hack triggered disruptions two weeks ago
Electronic prescribing is now restored. The company's payments platform will be back online March 15, and testing …
Sensor Tower: Instagram's total app downloads grew 20% YoY in 2023 to 768M, making it the most downloaded app worldwide; TikTok's downloads grew 4% YoY to 733M
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Reddit tests Reddit Pro, a free suite of tools to let businesses improve their engagement, including the ability to see which subreddits are mentioning a brand
Reddit is piloting a free suite of tools designed to help businesses improve their engagement with consumers.
MacBook Air (2024) review: sturdy and sleek, fast M3 chip, excellent 13- and 15-inch displays, great keyboard, and solid speakers, but USB-C is only on one side
here's how it compares to MacBook Pro and Windows Andru Edwards / Andru Edwards on YouTube : M3 MacBook Air Unboxing: 5 New Features You NEED To See! Kimberly Gedeon / Mashable : 15-inch M3 MacBook Ai...
Sources: China is in the process of raising $27B+ for its largest chip fund to date to counter US curbs; the central government will only contribute a fraction
- Local government, SDIC may join China's biggest-ever chip fund — Washington urges allies to tighten China export controls
Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024's end and is working on a more “user-friendly” way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025
Kuo: Apple's only foldable device with a “clear development schedule” is the 20.3-inch MacBook, which is expected to enter mass production in 2027
before iPhone Flip AleksandarK / TechPowerUp : Apple Reportedly Developing 20.3-inch Foldable MacBook for 2027 Launch Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Kuo: Apple Planning 20-Inch MacBook With Foldable Scre...
Broadcom expects $10B in revenue from AI-related chips in 2024, as CEO Hock Tan says AI revenue, up 4x YoY to $2.3B in Q1, offset a cyclical business slowdown
A Montenegro court rules that Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to South Korea, reversing another court's decision to extradite him to the US
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Inflection launches Inflection-2.5, which for weeks has helped its chatbot Pi perform “neck and neck with” OpenAI's GPT-4, and says Pi has 1M DAUs and 6M MAUs
Super excited to see Inflection-2.5 now powering #Pi. Our new Inflection-2.5 model is competitive with #GPT4 …
India approves a ~$1.25B investment in AI projects over five years, including for optimizing compute infrastructure, LLM development, and education in AI
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Microsoft announces a New Era of Work event on March 21 at 9am PT, where updates to Windows 11, Microsoft Copilot, Surface Pro, and Surface Laptop are expected
Zac Bowden / Windows Central :
Denver-based Maybell Quantum, which is developing systems to make quantum tech more reliable, scalable, and accessible, raised a $25M Series A
Cassidy Ritter / Denver Business Journal :
Tel Aviv-based Sweet Security, which offers cloud runtime security tools, raised a $33M Series A, after emerging from stealth with a $12M seed in August 2023
Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek :
Amazon Lending, launched in 2011, discontinues underwriting new loans for sellers in the US and the UK, but third-party financing options will still be offered
fees piling up, profits slimming down, and now, one less financial lifeline for sellers. How does this move feel to you as a... [image] Jack Cahill / @jackcah39272126 : Amazon lending shutting down. W...
Spotify plans to raise its prices in France due to a new tax law that adds a 1.2% tax on streaming companies' revenue to help finance local music creation
After IAB Europe appealed a 2022 decision, the EU's highest court rules that IAB's online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR
Cynthia Kroet / Euronews :
Colorado Springs-based Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source software and AI applications for US national security systems, raised a $35M Series A
Filing: chipmaker Astera Labs, which offers cloud and AI connectivity hardware, plans to raise as much as $534M in its US IPO
Phil Serafino / Bloomberg :
How Netflix's stand-up specials, COVID-19, as well as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and podcasts have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians' reach
Addie Morfoot / Variety :
Sources: Temu became Meta's top advertiser by revenue in 2023 by spending nearly $2B on ads, and became one of Google's top five advertisers by spending in 2023
LinkedIn says its premium subscriptions unit hit $1.7B in revenue in 2023; COO Dan Shapero says premium subscribers rose 25% in 2023
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
Denver-based Todyl, a cybersecurity startup focused on SMBs, raised a $50M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $83.8M
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