Sources: after closing several video game studios, Microsoft plans more cuts, as the massive Activision acquisition has ramped up scrutiny on the Xbox division
Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative
A look at potential successors to Tim Cook; sources say Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus is the most likely long-term successor
John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering, is emerging as a potential successor to the CEO. — Tim Cook has transformed Apple Inc. since taking …
Binance sources and docs: an internal investigator, dismissed in late 2023, found evidence of secret internal trading accounts and DWF Labs' market manipulation
Former company insiders say the firing of an internal investigator showed that the crypto exchange neglected evidence of market manipulation.
OpenAI publishes Model Spec, which specifies how its AI models should act, including objectives, rules, and default behaviors, and asks the public for feedback
OpenAI isn't done trying to live up to the “open” in its name. — While not making any of its new models open source …
Town hall: Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty discussed wanting small and prestigious games, after closing the studio behind small, prestigious hit Hi-Fi Rush
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios …
In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out
Amount of data captured from the device declined, although the patient and the Elon Musk-owned company still staged a successful demonstration
Disney and WBD announce a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max, with ad-supported and ad-free plans, beginning this summer in the US, with pricing to come
Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are breaking ground in streaming with a bundled offering featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in a single package.
Huawei Pura 70 Pro teardown: the 7nm Kirin 9010 is only marginally better than Kirin 9000S, and the majority of the chips are designed and manufactured in China
Huawei released the Pura 70 line of smartphones in April 2024 and it's already made a bit of a stir.
A Stack Overflow user says the site suspended his account for a week after he altered his posts in protest of its OpenAI partnership to use data for AI training
Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt. — Stack Overflow, a legendary internet forum for programmers and developers …
As part of its Model Spec release, OpenAI says it is considering letting developers and users “responsibly” generate “NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts”
Critics say ChatGPT creator's proposal to allow erotica, slurs and other adult content undermines its mission statement
An interview with Sundar Pichai on playing the long game on AI, how Gemini image generation “got it wrong”, AI search, the US DOJ lawsuits, layoffs, and more
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US hospital operator Ascension reports disruptions to its clinical operations due to a suspected cybersecurity incident and engages Mandiant to help investigate
Hospital operator Ascension reported disruptions to its clinical operations on Wednesday due to a suspected cybersecurity incident …
Apple's iPad Pro ad “Crush”, which shows paints, toys, guitars, sculptures, and more being crushed to reveal the thin device, draws criticism on social media
Sonos responds to criticism of its app redesign, saying it takes “courage to rebuild” a product from the ground up and it plans to reintroduce missing features
In the days since, customers have complained about missing features like sleep timers, broken local music library management …
Ofcom proposes new rules requiring tech companies to change their algorithms to hide “toxic” material from children, have more robust age checks, and more
It focuses on proposals for how internet services … Emma Martins : This draft Code is one of the first steps by Ofcom, UK independent communications regulator, in respect of its new duties and powers ...
Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $801M, bookings up 19% YoY to $923M, DAUs up 17% YoY to 77.7M, and cuts its full-year bookings forecast; RBLX drops 30%
Roblox (RBLX.N) cut its annual bookings forecast on Thursday, in a sign that people were dialing back on spending within …
TikTok plans to start automatically labeling some AI content, including from Dall-E and Adobe's Firefly, and joins the Adobe-led content credential coalition
Social media companies under pressure to identify deepfakes and prevent spread of misinformation
Dell warns customers of a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen data for ~49M customers, but says financial and payment data was not stolen
Dell is warning customers of a data breach, after a threat actor claimed to have stolen information for approximately 49 million customers.
A survey of 1,423 US teens: 85% play video games, including 41% daily, 72% say gaming is a way to spend time with others, and 80% think bullying in an issue
85% of U.S. teens say they play video games, and about four-in-ten do so daily. Teens see both positive and negative sides of video games …
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods
DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software … Glyn Moody / @glynmoody@mastodon.social : AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules - https:/...
Sources: Alphabet has been progressing in its talks to acquire marketing software provider HubSpot and has discussed deal terms; HubSpot has a $30B market cap
Alphabet has discussed terms of a potential deal with HubSpot, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5 and says 90K+ companies use its Qwen models; OpenCompass: Qwen2.5 beats GPT-4 in language and creation but not knowledge or reasoning
The logo of the Alibaba office building is seen in the Huangpu District in Shanghai, June 16, 2023.
Baidu VP Qu Jing posted several videos on Douyin demeaning staff, intended to promote Baidu, that reignited criticism of Chinese tech companies' work culture
Financial Times :
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $618M, vs. $549M est., crypto transaction revenue up 232% to $126M, and a $157M net income, vs. a $511M net loss YoY
Jesse Pound / CNBC :
Some Singaporean writers resist the government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and other issues
https://restofworld.org/... Nuurrianti Jalli, Ph.D / @nuurrianti : “So the Singapore government's approach stands out as unusually considerate of writers' rights. But writers understandably also want ...
RunPod, which offers a globally distributed GPU cloud platform for developing and deploying AI, raised a $20M seed co-led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies
James Thomason / VentureBeat :
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AI breakthroughs in biology research could be a $100B+ business, commercialized via DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.14B, vs. $2.06B est., Nights and Experiences Booked up 9.5% YoY, and Q2 guidance below est.; ABNB drops 8%+
net income of $264 million more than doubled from Q1 2023. We delivered a net income margin of 12% in Q1 2024, up from 6% in Q1 2023” $ABNB: -8.2% AH [image] Conor Sen / @conorsen : $ABNB a little sof...
Arm reports Q4 revenue up 47% YoY to $928M, vs. $875.6M est., royalty revenue up 37% YoY, and forecasts FY 2025 revenue below est.; ARM drops 9%+
SMIC reports Q1 revenue up 4.3% YoY to $1.75B, vs. $1.69B est., and a $71.8M net income, vs. $76.8M est., as consumer sentiment remains weak in China
Bloomberg :
Duolingo drops 10%+ after reporting DAUs up 55% YoY to 31.4M, above 31.1M est., gaining users at the slowest rate since Q3 2022, and revenue up 45% YoY to $168M
Gabriel Sanchez / Bloomberg :
An investigation into AdVon, the company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers, finds its AI content and fake authors at the LA Times, Miami Herald, and more
SIA and BCG: by 2032, the US will have the capacity to manufacture 28% of chips below 10nm, while China is expected to make only 2% of the most advanced chips
Nikkei Asia :
Sources: French AI startup Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise ~$600M at a $6B valuation, after raising $500M at a $2B+ valuation in December 2023
Wall Street Journal :
Bumble reports Q1 revenue up 10.2% YoY to $267.8M, vs. $265.5M est., total paying users of ~4M, up from 3.5M a year ago, and expects Q2 revenue below estimates
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters :
Boeing confirms that LockBit attempted to extort a $200M ransom in October 2023; the company reportedly didn't pay any ransom after ~43GB of its data was posted
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop :
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $820M, vs. $794.5M est., gross transaction value up 11% to $8.32B; CFO Nick Giovanni retires, replaced by Emily Reuter
Dear Shareholders, We delivered a very strong start to 2024. LinkedIn: Jeremy Fine : Congratulations to Emily Reuter (Maher) on her appointment as CFO of Instacart. Her combination of long-term, pati...
Hands-on with LinkedIn's new games Pinpoint, Crossclimb, and Queens: shamelessly following the NYT's formula, all three take ~10 minutes, and they are very fun
David Pierce / The Verge :
Microsoft plans to add an auto-complete feature to Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the coming months that offers suggestions to add details to improve AI prompts
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