Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's next-gen display and car teams were reportedly based
The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will crack down on password sharing in June 2024 in some countries and more broadly in September 2024; Disney+ isn't profitable
New York CNN — — Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.
Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit of $4.9B, up 931% YoY, and sales of $52.68B, up 11.4% YoY, as memory chip prices surge, hinting end of the chip downturn
World's biggest maker of memory chips beats expectations with strong first-quarter guidance — Samsung Electronics expects …
Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown
Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad …
How a TikTok whistleblower may have driven congressional concerns about the app despite working at TikTok for just six months and making improbable claims
Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable.
A look at Marissa Mayer's troubled startup Sunshine, which raised $20M, and its photo-sharing app Shine, which a source says had ~1K downloads on its first day
Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn't ready
Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board
- The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers …
Sources: FTX estate sold 25M to 30M locked-up SOL coins for $64 apiece, a deeply discounted price, to Galaxy Trading, Pantera, and others, raising up to $1.9B
- Galaxy raised $620 million fund to buy discounted SOL from FTX — Sales were done at big discount to SOL's current market price
OpenAI's COO says that ChatGPT Enterprise has 600K+ paying customers, up from ~150K in January, and 2024 will be “the year of adoption for AI in the enterprise”
- ChatGPT Enterprise now has more than 600,000 users signed up — COO says this ‘is going to be the year of adoption for AI’
Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for US' chip manufacturing plans
South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin
Ripple plans to launch a stablecoin later in 2024 that is “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents”
Today's edition is brought to you by BetterHelp … Brenda Ngari / ZyCrypto : XRP Eyes Mega Surge To High Prices As Ripple Readies To Storm $155 Billion Stablecoin Market Mehron Rokhy / The Daily Hodl :...
YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini
depending on how it trains its Sora video tool Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : YouTube CEO's warning to OpenAI over Sora training data could backfire spectacularly Cecily Mauran / Mashable : OpenAI's...
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use
It's almost like they need... A librarian. — https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Like Amazon, Google Books has also been infected with lots of AI-generated g...
Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money
and that's just from people who shared this information with authorities. … Halimah DeLaine Prado / Halimah DeLaine Prado : Today we filed litigation to protect our users and products from two crypto...
Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won't be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI
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Archetype, which is building AI models to help humans understand the data from sensors monitoring the physical world, launches with a $13M seed led by Venrock
Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using plain language …
OpenAI expands its Custom Model training program with “assisted fine-tuning”, letting organizations set up training data pipelines, evaluation systems, and more
You can now directly access training and validation metrics through the API for a clearer view of your fine-tuning job's performance. …
Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm
to do this, sustainable markets are table stakes. I'm fortunate to work with a talented team and thoughtful investors who believe we will achieve this ambitious mission. Mert / @0xmert_ : Two of the m...
Cohere releases Command R+, an AI model for business customers the startup says performs competitively against OpenAI and others on “business-critical” tasks
https://lnkd.in/... Vinod Devan : Really excited to partner with Microsoft Azure on our latest model release, Command R+. — Built for enterprise-grade applications … Rishit Dholakia : Proud to have ...
Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor
CCData: crypto trading volume on centralized exchanges hit an all-time high of $9.1T in March, with spot trading volume of $2.94T, the highest since May 2021
María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg :
Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Google expands Search Generative Experience to the UK, after launching the feature in preview in the US in May 2023, starting with some logged-in users
The EU and the US issue a joint statement affirming a desire to increase cooperation over AI, including AI safety and governance, as well as broader tech issues
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Filing: Meta rejects the FTC's bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :
India's IT minister says the country is looking to frame a “balanced” AI law that will protect news publishers and content creators while minimizing user harm
The Economic Times :
A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices
CB Insights: global VC investment in fintech fell 16% QoQ to $7.3B over 904 deals in Q1 2024, the lowest amount of funding the sector has seen since 2017
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
A look at tech giants' AI training data deals; Defined.ai: some are ready to pay $1-$2 per image, $2-$4 per short video, and $100-$300 per hour of long video
Reuters : X: @ppopiel , @jacordova1961 , and @reuters Forums: Hacker News and r/technews X: Pawel Popiel / @ppopiel : Data Gold Rush: “companies are generally willing to pay $1 to $2 per image, $2 to...
How Meta's VR bet has played out a decade after its acquisition of Oculus; the company's metaverse division lost $42B between the end of 2020 and Q1 2024
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
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