Trump Media & Technology Group closed down 21% on April 1, wiping out its gains from last week's debut, after disclosing a $58M+ loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenue
Shares of Donald Trump's social media company plunged 21% on Monday, wiping out the gains from its debut last week …
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan on his Apple podcast by saying “please don't talk to her”
- “Apple's conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech.
The US and the UK sign an agreement on how to test and assess risks from emerging AI models, marking the first bilateral arrangement on AI safety in the world
Allies reach world's first bilateral deal as global governments seek to assess and regulate risks from emerging technology
Yahoo plans to acquire the tech behind news app Artifact, started by Instagram co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, for an undisclosed sum
Instagram's co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale.
OpenAI no longer requires an account to use ChatGPT, but with “slightly more restrictive content policies”, starting in a few markets and rolling out globally
OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven't bothered making an account.
Apple debuts Spatial Personas in beta, letting up to five Vision Pro users participate together within compatible apps without being in the same physical space
Apple Vision Pro is above and beyond other mixed reality headsets, but even with the highest quality passthrough camera tech …
A profile of hiking app AllTrails, which exploded during the pandemic, has raised $225M+, and now focuses on helping users “find your outdoors”, not just trails
Fourteen years and one Apple App of the Year award in, AllTrails has become something rare: a tool that works for both experts and newbies. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @ckopf1 , @alltrails , a...
Sources: Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot that can automate support tasks via an “embodied AI character”, as part of larger Xbox AI efforts
Microsoft is currently testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot that can be used to automate support tasks.
As Amazon plans more grocery stores after an 18-month pause, it will use Dash Carts, where shoppers can scan items as they shop, instead of Just Walk Out tech
Amazon's grab-and-go checkout system, Just Walk Out, has been a centerpiece of its ambitions to transform bricks-and-mortar supermarkets.
A profile of MIT labor economist David Autor, an unlikely AI optimist who says AI may help restore “the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market”
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization. X: @progresschamber , @noemamag , and @mitsloan . Forums: r/neolib...
Filing: to settle a 2020 class action lawsuit over Chrome's Incognito mode, Google agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected
Over 100 Billion Private Browsing Records To Be Deleted Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide : Google Incognito mode was never private — and now Google's being forced to delete all the data Grace Eliza Goodwin...
To show an attack vector, a researcher made a package with a name hallucinated by ChatGPT that had 30K+ downloads in three months and appeared in many repos
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Cloud data management startup Rubrik files for a NYSE IPO under the symbol RBRK, reporting a net loss of $354M on revenue of $628M for the year ended January 31
We are on a mission to secure the world’s data. Cyberattacks are inevitable. Kyle Alspach / CRN : Rubrik Files IPO Plans, Reports $784 Million In ARR Lindsay Clark / The Register : Rubrik files to ...
AltStore, an alt iOS app store coming to the EU thanks to the DMA, plans to use a Patreon integration to let developers tie app access to users' Patreon pledges
going around Apple's App Store Stephen Warwick / iMore : Apple's new EU rules will give users a completely new way to pay for iPhone apps: Patreon Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : AltStore to offer iPhone ...
Sources: Tiger raised ~$2.2B for its latest fund, well short of the $6B target and its smallest fundraising haul in about a decade, after raising a $12.7B fund
Hema Parmar / Bloomberg :
Flip, a marketplace with product review videos by shoppers, raised a $144M Series C led by Streamlined at a $1.05B valuation, including $50M from AppLovin
- Ad software firm AppLovin invested $50 million in commerce app — App features video reviews of products made by other shoppers
Apple researchers detail an AI system that can resolve references to elements displayed on a screen, in some cases better than GPT-4 can when given screenshots
new AI model could make Siri way faster and smarter Nickie Louise / Tech Startups : Apple's new AI model ReALM outperforms GPT-4 Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Apple might have just given us a sneak peek at ...
Read AI, which uses generative AI to summarize meetings, emails, and other messages, raised a $21M Series A led by Goodwater Capital
Read AI, a leader in AI-powered meeting summaries, today announced a $21 million Series A financing round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from existing investor Madrona Venture Group.
Luminance, which offers generative AI tools for lawyers, raised a $40M Series B led by March Capital and says 600 organizations in 70 countries use its tools
Luminance facilitated the first use of AI at London's Old Bailey. — Luminance has raised $40M for its Series B round.
Israel-based AI chipmaker Hailo raised a $120M Series C extension from Israeli firms and family offices at a $1.2B valuation, taking its total funding to $340M
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
NYC-based Web3 infrastructure company Xion raised $25M, reportedly a Series A, from Animoca Brands, Laser Digital, Multicoin, Arrington Capital, and others
MK Manoylov / The Block :
TikTok brings its dedicated STEM content feed to Europe, starting in the UK and Ireland, and says 33% of users enabled the feed since its US debut in March 2023
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Binance names its first board of directors, which has seven members including CEO Richard Teng and three other Binance executives
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg :
An interview with outgoing ASML CTO Martin van den Brink on the company's rise to dominance, its Chinese competitors, Moore's Law, hyper-NA technology, and more
MIT Technology Review : X: @freiheitsfreund . LinkedIn: Eloy Sasot X: Arian Kriesch / @freiheitsfreund : It has been 40 years since the founding of @ASMLcompany. Congratulations to our Dutch partner ...
Japan approves up to $3.9B in subsidies to chip venture Rapidus, as the company tries to close the gap with TSMC in cutting-edge fabrication technology
Yuki Hagiwara / Bloomberg :
Sources: the US asks South Korea to add China chip export restrictions similar to Commerce Department rules, including on chips beyond 14nm and DRAM beyond 18nm
covering equipment for making logic chips more advanced than 14nm & DRAM memory chips beyond 18nm w/ @samkimasia https://www.bloomberg.com/... @sino_market : The US is trying to reach an agreement bef...
An interview with Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer on AI's role in the industry, licensing concerns with TikTok, working with Sony for over two decades, and more
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Telegram now lets Premium users turn their account into a business account, with options like a custom start page, greeting and away messages, and chatbots
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Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years
Canadian payments company Nuvei agrees to be acquired and taken private by private equity firm Advent International in a $6.3B deal
Q&A with Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on the core business of email, acquiring Mailchimp in 2021, generative AI, shutting down TinyLetter, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Threads: @snazzyq Threads: Quinn Nelson / @snazzyq : Intuit it the top 5 worst companies ever.
AI search engine Perplexity, whose website said that search should be “free from the influence of advertising-driven models”, says the startup plans to sell ads
Filing: Sam Altman no longer controls the OpenAI Startup Fund, which has a $325M+ gross asset value; Ian Hathaway, who has helped manage the fund, is in charge
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