An APK review suggests Rabbit's R1 runs Android, and its entire UI is powered by a single Android app; founder Jesse Lyu says “rabbit r1 is not an Android app”
The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is certainly powered by an Android app under the hood. — • — TL;DR
A US judge sentences Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison; Zhao pled guilty in November 2023
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to establish adequately anti-money laundering protections. Zhao, once the head …
Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024
Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year.
Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month
Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. — The generative artificial intelligence startup …
Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care citing “escalating operating costs”; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in 2021
Walmart isn't making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop.
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot that became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities as GPT-4
An advanced AI model with unknown origins turned heads this week as online communities unpacked a cryptic tweet from Sam Altman.
Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation
A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company's offices says the company retaliated …
Rabbit releases the R1's first software update, with “up to 5x” improved idle battery performance, a better music playback UI, more reliable Bluetooth, and more
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The US DOJ charges Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more to evade paying nearly $50M
The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with mail fraud and filing false tax returns.
Screenshots seem to show TikTok circumventing Apple's App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs
TikTok may be routing around the App Store to save money on commissions. According to new findings, the ByteDance-owned social video app …
Google Phone app beta rolls out “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting
The Google Phone app is picking up a new trick, with the app now rolling out “Audio Emoji” to some users.
Reuters/Ipsos poll: 58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”; 50% support a TikTok ban
- A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted …
DOJ v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was “very, very worried” in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella
- Google faces US antitrust case about its dominance in search — Microsoft's communications deemed relevant to defense by judge
US House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ether is a security
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says Gensler refused to discuss his view on ETH in testimony even after the SEC was investigating it as a security.
LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb
How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”? — LinkedIn, the professional network known …
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which rents out chips to help create AI systems, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, five months after raising $642M
Company raises $1.1 billion from investors including Fidelity, Magnetar Capital — CoreWeave, a cloud-computing company backed by Nvidia …
A look at GM's risky bet to replace Apple's CarPlay with its own infotainment system, gambling on its software group, as carmakers worry over Apple's power
The uneasy relationship between Detroit and Cupertino is on display in a flawed rollout of GM's new software.
LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after buying LastPass; the service suffered high profile hacks in 2022
It's been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the company now says it has separated from its parent company, GoTo.
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $143.3B, a $10.4B net income, vs. $3.2B YoY, $15.3B operating income, vs. $4.8B YoY, subscription sales up 11% to $10.7B
but fails to deliver dividend Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times : Amazon cloud sales growth accelerates as group prepares for more AI spending Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : AWS annual revenu...
Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $11.8B, vs. $11.7B est., driven by the growth of its Stores and Prime Video businesses
How all the bills under consideration in US states meant to address AI bias contain loopholes that would make it too easy for companies to avoid accountability
AI is potentially transformative. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on whether we set the right rules.
Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $25.04B, vs. $24.49B est., and AWS operating income of $9.42B, vs. $7.52B est., up from $5.12B YoY
How an informal supper club became a US tech lobbying force, helping draft the TikTok bill; sources: the group plans to draft an EO to reverse Biden's AI rules
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Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an experimental new AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify Bitcoin money laundering
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on …
Ofcom opens an investigation into OnlyFans over its measures to stop children from accessing porn, after reviewing its “response to formal information requests”
Britain's media regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into OnlyFans, it said on Wednesday …
In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized
The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor.
Changpeng Zhao's short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing referred to sealed documents and “cooperation”, perhaps over Binance user details
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Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023
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AMD reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.47B, vs. $5.46B est., Data Center revenue up 80% YoY to $2.3B, and a $123M net income, up from a $139M net loss YoY
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Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden, the second-largest US newspaper operator, sue OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using copyrighted articles to train AI
Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps, showing live streams and clips
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Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost
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Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses
Internal documents indicate Block processed crypto transactions for terrorist groups and Square processed transactions involving nations subject to economic sanctions.
Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're pretty bad at it? Th...
US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program
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AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $740M, vs. $700.3M est., MAUs up 12% YoY to 518M, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; PINS jumps 15%+
Q&A with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar on her role, working at DARPA, AI, showing ChatGPT to Biden, and more
Arati Prabhakar has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.
A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post : X: @postlocal , @paula_in_pwc , @montroseva , @jessefelder , @postlocal , and @postlocal X: @postlocal : Despite being a major source of tax revenue, there are conce...
Filing: API Holdings, the parent company of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its $5.6B peak valuation in 2021
Sources: Huawei moves Yu Chengdong, the high-profile chief of its consumer business who has held the job since 2012, to a new role as chair of the unit
Letter from US senators: only five of 14 automakers require police to have a warrant before requesting user data, and only Tesla tells users about such requests
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A Chinese seller details how he ships civilian electronics, which could be repurposed for military uses, to Russia via distributors and Russian e-commerce sites
Nikkei Asia : X: @nikkeiasia and @robertalanward X: @nikkeiasia : After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U.S. tech giants like Amazon and Apple extracted themselves from the country. But many...
Taiwan's KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions
Kelly Le / South China Morning Post :
Sam's Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members' purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores
China implements a revised State Secrets Law, requiring Tencent, Weibo, and other internet companies to delete leaked information and comply with investigations
Yukio Tajima / Nikkei Asia :
In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI's Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika
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IBM wins a US court decision overturning $1.6B in damages to pay to BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing AT&T, a mutual client
Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others
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