Rabbit R1 review: $199 is reasonable but emblematic of a trend of selling unfinished products at full price while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race”
AI in a Box. But a different box. R1 provided by Rabbit for review. So this is the rabbit R1 and it's another AI …
Beats announces $200 Solo 4 on-ear wireless headphones, with up to 50 hours of battery life, and $80 wireless Solo Buds shipping in June 2024, both without ANC
Beats just announced its new Solo 4, its latest in a long line of on-ear wireless headphones. The latest model, priced at $199.99, offers battery life of up to 50 hours.
The EU opens a DSA investigation into Meta over deceptive Facebook and Instagram ad and political content; sources say the probe is about a pro-Kremlin campaign
- Probe said to target pro-Putin Doppelganger campaign — Meta probe is under the EU's tough new Digital Services Act
The FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent”
The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators …
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a TikTok ban is “not excluded” and “we know exactly the danger of TikTok” during a 2024 election debate
The remark comes amid a streak of bad news for TikTok in Europe. — Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted …
How an empty, private AWS S3 bucket had ~100M PUT requests in a day, racking up a $1,300+ bill, due to a popular open-source tool using the same bucket name
Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound
Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.
Source: Apple is testing new Safari features including more advanced content blocking and an AI-powered Intelligent Search tool, expected to debut in 2024
Apple is testing a version of its Safari web browser that includes UI tweaks, advanced content blocking features …
Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden sue OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using copyrighted articles without permission to train generative AI products
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.
Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research; publishers hesitate to invest in nuanced reporting without a clear ROI
A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research. Can we fix it?
Since pleading guilty in November 2023, Changpeng Zhao has networked across the US to set up his next act; sources say CZ and Sam Altman exchanged text messages
but their fates couldn't be more different Mustafa Mulla / Coinpedia Fintech News : Former Binance CEO CZ Faces 3-Year Sentence - Shocking Twist Reveals Wealth Growth, Jail or No Jail Gene Johnson / A...
Ahead of Changpeng Zhao's April 30 sentencing, a look at the contrast between CZ/Binance and SBF/FTX, as Binance claims 40M+ new users in 2023, up 30% YoY
The ex-CEO is about to learn if he'll be the richest US inmate ever. But, with friends on the company's board …
In Congressional testimony, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say that hackers exploited a Citrix vulnerability to breach UnitedHealth on February 12
Hackers broke into UnitedHealth's (UNH.N) tech unit on Feb. 12 by exploiting a security vulnerability in software from private …
Analysis: Apple has poached at least 36 AI experts from Google since 2018 and has a secretive European laboratory in Zurich to develop AI models and products
iPhone maker also recruits generative AI experts into secretive Zurich lab as it prepares fightback against rivals
Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” to let employees build generative AI-powered apps based on company data
Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q …
Microsoft announces plans to invest $1.7B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia over four years and train 840,000 people with AI skills in the country
- CEO Nadella tours Southeast Asia in search for growth markets — Nvidia, Apple leaders also visited region before Nadella
The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023
Instagram updates its recommendation algorithms to demote aggregator accounts, hoping to promote original content and increase distribution to smaller accounts
Instagram is making significant changes to how its system recommends content, with a focus on original content and increased distribution for smaller accounts.
A profile of, and interview with, Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, on the origins of the R1, taking “10 minutes to design” the device, the AI gadget competition, and more
A Finnish court sentences hacker Julius Kivimäki to six years and three months, after he breached a healthcare database and attempted to blackmail 33,000 people
One of Europe's most wanted cyber criminals has been jailed for attempting to blackmail 33,000 people whose confidential therapy notes he stole.
Bumble redesigns its app and adds Opening Moves, to let women ask a question men can answer, a major shift that ends the requirement that women message first
As dissatisfaction with online dating grows, the app that put women in control is shifting course.
Enterprise browser startup Island raised $175M led by Sequoia and Coatue at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B in October 2023, taking its total funding to $487M
- Sequoia and Coatue lead $175 million investment in Island — Cisco-backed startup doubles in valuation since last year
NBCUniversal plans to raise the prices of Peacock Premium by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month from July 18, its second hike in a year
Todd Spangler / Variety :
GitHub unveils Copilot Workspace, a developer environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language
where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software in natural language. Anand Chowdhary / @anandchowdhary : Today, GitHub Copilot Workspace was announced, and it's the best GitHub product I've...
OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, letting ChatGPT Plus users tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats
here's what it means Isobel O'Sullivan / Tech.co : How to Turn On (and Off) ChatGPT's Newly Available Memory Feature Harsh Shivam New Delhi / Business Standard : Now, OpenAI's ChatGPT remembers detail...
Network security startup Corelight raised a $150M Series E led by Accel, in a deal valuing it at $900M, says it is on track to hit $100M in ARR within months
- Security startup is valued at $900 million in Accel-led round — Corelight combines cloud security and artificial intelligence
PayPal reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $7.7B, payment volume up 14% YoY to $404B, and transaction margin dollars up 4% YoY to $3.5B; PYPL rises 5%+
Paige Smith / Bloomberg :
SCOTUS rejects Elon Musk's appeal to overturn an SEC agreement from 2018 to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his X posts about Tesla, without giving a reason
Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of the Google News Initiative
Google has agreed to pay Wall Street Journal owner News Corp between $5 million and $6 million annually to develop new artificial intelligence …
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K developer accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022
Serious Warning For Millions Of iPhone, iPad Users The Economic Times : Google prevented 2.28 million apps from being published due to policy violations Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google on Play Store sa...
Huawei reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to ~$24.7B and net profit up 564% YoY to ~$2.7B, rising for the fourth consecutive quarter, buoyed by smartphone sales
Bloomberg :
In its first TikTok Shop Safety Report, TikTok reports 500K+ sellers in the US and 15M+ sellers worldwide in December 2023, adding 6M+ in H2 2023
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :
Internal Oracle documents: ~6,900 workers are assigned to California offices, compared to 2,500 in Texas, despite Oracle moving its HQ to Texas three years ago
Brody Ford / Bloomberg : X: @brodyford_ X: Brody Ford / @brodyford_ : Scoop: Oracle moved its HQ to Texas years ago and now wants to go to Nashville. but the largest chunk of its office workers are s...
Unredacted parts in Consensys' lawsuit vs. the SEC say the SEC on April 13, 2023 approved an internal order, which called ETH a security, to probe Ethereum 2.0
Tesla's FSD is set to face tough competition in China, after at least 10 automakers and suppliers announced driver-assistance systems over the past two years
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than the companies are now
Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center :
NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $33M Series B led by NEA, taking its total raised to $46.5M, and says the service has ~20K active newsletters
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computer, raises $940M from Australia and Queensland governments, via share purchases, grants, and loans
Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022
Zosia Wanat / Sifted :
Tether says it invested $200M in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech, via its newly established VC arm Tether Evo
NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Multiple US House aides say ByteDance's video editing app CapCut could also be subject to the same divest-or-ban requirement as TikTok
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
Sources detail Techstars under CEO Mäelle Gavet, facing departures of senior executives and corporate sponsors at times, and a $7.2M loss on operations in 2023
the story was a wild ride, and even I at times couldn't predict what would happen next https://techcrunch.com/...
Blaize, which designs AI chips for edge devices and data centers, raised $106M; the company announced in December 2023 plans to go public via a SPAC merger
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
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