Sony Interactive Entertainment announces two new CEOs: Hermen Hulst, who will lead studios, and Hideaki Nishino, who will lead platforms, effective June 1
Hulst will lead the Studios business, while Nishino takes charge of the platform side — News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
A recording of OpenAI's Spring Update event, where the company unveiled GPT-4o and ChatGPT for macOS; the app demo included real-time screen sharing with GPT-4o
We'll be streaming live at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.
Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: gorgeous screen, thin, the M4 is fast, and the front camera is in the right spot on the side, but iPadOS lags behind the hardware
Apple's latest high-end tablet is a marvel of hardware design still in need of the software and accessories to really make it sing.
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o — We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, replaced by Matt Garman, effective June 3; Selipsky joined AWS in 2005 and became CEO in 2021
Adam Selipsky is stepping down, according to an internal memo. … AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3rd …
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$22.4B, above ~$18.5B est., operating profit up 57% YoY to ~$1.5B, and 20.8M PS5 units sold in FY 2023, below guidance
Sony on Tuesday reported a 7% drop in annual profits in the fiscal year 2023, dragged down by a decline in its financial services division.
Square Enix's stock falls 16%, its biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its AAA games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short
- Big titles released on PlayStation fell short, president says — Games development overhaul seen taking time to bear fruit
Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform detection of unwanted tracking devices, EU app downloads from websites, News+ features like offline mode, and more
Apple today released iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, major updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September.
OpenAI's new ChatGPT voice assistant jokes, chides, apologizes, pretends to blush, and deals with interruptions, thanks to training GPT-4o on speech end-to-end
here's how to get access James Morales / CCN.com : ChatGPT-4o Can Speak With You, OpenAI Admits Voice Features “Present a Variety of Novel Risks” Mark Wilson / TechRadar : ChatGPT's big, free update w...
OpenAI rolls out GPT-4o's text and image capabilities to ChatGPT Plus and Team users, with the voice version coming soon; the mysterious gpt2-chatbot was GPT-4o
Ina Fried / Axios :
The US plans to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China, including chips, EVs, and batteries, impacting $18B of products; chip tariffs will double from 2025
Action designed to protect American jobs, as Joe Biden campaigns for votes across rustbelt — The Biden administration …
A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months; Pertsev was jailed in August 2022 over alleged money laundering
Alexey Pertsev was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022. — Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in jail for money laundering
The US orders China-linked crypto mining company MineOne to sell property the company bought near an Air Force base in Wyoming, citing a national security risk
The White House on Monday gave a Chinese-linked company and its partners 120 days to sell property they had bought near …
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast will launch StreamSaver, a bundle with Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly discounted price”
Get ready for the next cable-like streaming bundle: Comcast later this month will launch a three-way bundle …
Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not share any plans to ship such a build
Google privately demoed this capability to other companies recently. — • — TL;DR — Google has developed a method to run Chrome OS on its Pixel devices.
Anthropic launches its Claude chatbot and subscription plans in Europe, available to individuals and businesses through the web and via an iPhone app
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon, said Monday it's launching its generative AI assistant Claude in Europe on Tuesday.
Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 6.6% YoY to ~$30.7B, above $30.4B est., a ~$452M net income, down 86% YoY from ~$3.2B in Q4 2023, and announces a $4B dividend
- Shares slide as core business manage just single-digit growth — Alibaba is in the middle of a longer-term turnaround effort
Polymarket, a decentralized prediction and betting market with a focus on elections, has raised $70M across two rounds, the most recent led by Founders Fund
- Founders fund, Buterin Back $70 Million Polymarket fundraising — Polymarket has become a major platform for election bettors
OpenAI opens its GPT Store to all users for free, including the ability to create custom GPTs; OpenAI debuted GPT Store for paid users on January 10
Meta announces Travel Mode for the Quest 2 and Quest 3 in beta under “Experimental features”, as a way to optimize the headset for use on moving vehicles
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Intel announces another Foundry leadership change, naming Marvell executive Kevin O'Buckley as SVP, replacing longtime executive Stu Pann, in the role a year
Ian King / Bloomberg :
SEC filing: Unity Create CPO and CTO Marc Whitten is stepping down on June 1, less than one year after becoming entangled in the company's Runtime Fee fiasco
Unity executive Marc Whitten is stepping down on June 1, 2024, less than a year after becoming entangled in the company's Runtime Fee fiasco.
The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Alphabet's Waymo, covering an estimated 444 vehicles and following 22 reports of 22 incidents, including 17 collisions
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$22B, above ~$21.95B est., and net profit up 62% YoY to ~$5.8B, above ~$4.8B est., boosted by new WeChat monetization
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
How a new generation of tech founders and VCs are quietly pilgrimaging to the Gulf states' sovereign wealth funds, after some shunned Middle Eastern funding
The Biden administration has brokered the tech industry's ties to the region as a bulwark against China, helping spur a generation … Forums: Hacker News Forums: Hacker News : Silicon Valley once chafe...
Foxconn reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to ~$40.9B, net profit up 72% YoY to ~$679M, and consumer electronics was 48% of its revenue while cloud was 28%
Uber announces plans to acquire Delivery Hero's Foodpanda business in Taiwan for $950M in an all-cash deal, expected to close in the first half of 2025
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg :
TSMC plans to start building its first European facility in Q4 2024, ahead of production in 2027; TSMC unveiled plans for an $11B factory in Germany last August
Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) plans to start construction of its first European facility in the fourth quarter of 2024, it said on Tuesday.
Mexico-based BNPL startup Aplazo raised a $45M Series B led by QED Investors, bringing its total raised to $100M+ in equity and $75M in committed debt
Anna Heim / TechCrunch :
Rumble sues Google, saying Google owes Rumble $1B+ in damages for lost ad revenue and for exploiting its ad tech dominance to hamper Rumble's ability to compete
This time it's alleging Google exploited its ad tech dominance against Rumble as a customer and rival. — Rumble first sued Google in 2021 over illegally favoring YouTube videos in search results. More...
Sources: Meta plans to shut down its enterprise Workplace tool in September 2025, becoming read-only until May 2026, and will announce the move as soon as today
Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today …
Video game publishers are facing a wave of lawsuits that accuse the industry of profiting from intentionally promoting mass addiction and causing health issues
and inevitable lawsuits https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW LinkedIn: Alexandra Walsh : Fascinating article in Bloomberg News today on the addictive nature of video games. Parents, clinicians and, ...
Kyle Vogt, who resigned as Cruise CEO six months ago, raised $150M for The Bot Company, a household robot startup, sources say at a $550M post-money valuation
Kenrick Cai / Forbes :
Internal emails: how Evolv's gun-detection AI system made its way to NYC subway stations, despite Evolv saying the system is not designed for that environment
the scanners produced false positives 85 percent of the time during the seven-month pilot. https://www.wired.com/... @casaverde83 : “Cohen, former NYPD Dep Commissioner of intelligence, also sits on E...
Pepper, which provides tools for order management, invoicing, and more for independent food distributors, raised a $30M Series B led by Iconiq Growth
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Google partners with HP to ship 3D video conferencing service Project Starline in 2025 and is working to support Zoom and Meet; Google unveiled Starline in 2021
Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employees on Outlook and Teams better coordinate in-office time, with Copilot integration coming in 2024
Google's rollout of AI generated summaries in search will threaten web publishers; Gartner predicts traffic to the web from search engines will fall 25% by 2026
Washington Post :
Q&A with Walt Mossberg and YouTuber Marques Brownlee on tech reviews, handling pushback, YouTube, the issues with paid content, earning people's trust, and more
New York Magazine : Threads: @karaswisher , @mossbergwalt , and @mossbergwalt . Forums: r/mkbhd Threads: Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : What a privilege to bring together and legend and a legend to be...
AI startups in the Bay Area raised $27B+ in 2023, more than 50% of global AI funding, up from $14B in 2022 when the region accounted for 29% of all AI funding
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News : X: @richard_florida , @crunchbasenews , @mrp , and @benwerd X: Richard Florida / @richard_florida : The Bay Area is the world's undisputed leader in AI talent & startup...
German companies are increasingly experimenting with AI tools to become more productive and efficient, but some say the gains AI promises could be years away
Nina Kienle / Wall Street Journal :
Chinese lidar maker Hesai sues US DOD for adding it to a list of firms accused of aiding China's military, saying it only serves civilian and commercial market
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