The US SEC approves applications from Nasdaq, Cboe, and the NYSE to list spot ether ETFs, potentially paving the way for them to begin trading later in 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday approved applications from Nasdaq, CBOE and NYSE to list exchange-traded funds …
Screenshots of Google's AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick to a pizza
- Google's AI Overviews feature suggested a user put glue on pizza so the cheese would stay put.
Spotify tells customers that its Car Thing dashboard accessory will stop working on December 9, less than a year after it went on sale, without offering refunds
Spotify's brief attempt at being a hardware company wasn't all that successful: the company stopped producing …
Apple says that users' deleted photos that resurfaced after installing iOS 17.5 weren't synced to iCloud Photos and could have persisted after restoring backups
Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to address a rare problem where deleted photos would reappear on a user's device after installing iOS 17.5.
iFixit and Samsung end their repair partnership after two years; iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens says that “Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale”
iFixit and Samsung are parting ways. … “Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale,” …
Leaked contract: Samsung requires independent repair shops to notify Samsung, share customer data, and “immediately disassemble” devices with aftermarket parts
US DOJ and state AGs sue to break up Ticketmaster parent Live Nation over alleged antitrust violations, following a DOJ probe and Taylor Swift fan complaints
Here's a Detailed Look at the 124-Page Filing Alexander Mallin / ABC News : Justice Department and 30 states seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster through major antitrust suit Business Insider : Th...
OpenAI releases a majority of past employees from nondisparagement agreements tied to their exit contracts, and says it won't seek to cancel their vested equity
- AI startup is changing policies for outgoing employees — OpenAI apologized for restrictions in exit contracts
AI startup Cohere's nonprofit research arm Cohere for AI open sources the weights of Aya 23, a family of multilingual 8B- and 35B-parameter language models
Today, Cohere for AI (C4AI), the non-profit research arm of Canadian enterprise AI startup Cohere, announced the open weights release of Aya 23 …
Ukrainian officials say Russia is deploying more advanced tech to disrupt Starlink, raising questions about its reliability against sophisticated adversaries
Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk's satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said … Bluesky: @curtis.wilde.one . X: @andreasharsono Bluesky: Curtis Wilde / @curtis.w...
Kuo: Apple is targeting a full-screen foldable MacBook launch in 2026 and considering a 20.25" or a 18.8" panel, with an M5 chip and Vision Pro-level price
the full-screen foldable MacBook survey update Kyle Barr / Gizmodo : Apple Rumored to Have a Creaseless Folding MacBook in the Works Michael Simon / Macworld : We could be less than two years away fro...
A look at Daylight Computer's DC1, a 10.5-inch, $729 tablet that feels like a hybrid of an iPad and a Kindle and runs on a custom Android-based OS called SolOS
already compatible with #Obsidian and the new e-ink mode I created for it. X: Ian Harber / @ianharber : “It's a tool, not a master... it doesn't try to consume you... technology that feels a little bi...
PE firm Hg agrees to buy AuditBoard, a risk and compliance cloud software provider for large businesses, at $3B+ including debt
Hg has agreed to buy AuditBoard in a deal valuing the risk management software provider at more than $3 billion including debt.
Sources: Samsung's HBM3 and HBM3E chips have yet to pass Nvidia's tests for use in the US company's AI processors due to heat and power consumption problems
Samsung Electronics' (005930.KS) latest high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips have yet to pass Nvidia's (NVDA.O) tests for use …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's 3.5%+ stake in the company grew from ~$3B to $90B+ in five years, as the stock grew 28x, including more than doubling so far in 2024
Five years ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang owned a stake in his chipmaker worth roughly $3 billion.
A Nigerian court adjourned a money laundering trial against Binance and two of its executives to June 20 due to health issues of one executive, Tigran Gambaryan
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Email: Foursquare lays off 105 employees as the company seeks to “streamline” its operations; source: the layoffs represent about 25% of the company's employees
Foursquare, the location-focused outfit that in 2020 merged with Factual, another location-focused outfit … X: @nejsnave and @counternotions X: Jennifer Evans / @nejsnave : Foursquare still has 300 em...
A profile of Lin Rui-siang, a 23-year-old Taiwanese accused by the US DOJ of running a $100M+ dark-web drug market who had an alter ego as a crypto crime expert
The strange journey of Lin Rui-siang, the 23-year-old accused of running the Incognito black market, extorting his own site's users … X: @lorenzofb , @secondringszn , and @a_greenberg . Forums: r/True...
Atropos Health, whose AI chatbot helps clinicians generate observational studies on real world data rapidly and at scale, raised a $33M Series B led by Valtruis
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Google invests nearly $350M in Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup Flipkart, as part of a ~$1B funding round led by Walmart, which invested $600M in 2023
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Users reported a massive Microsoft outage that impacted Bing, Copilot on the web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT's internet search, DuckDuckGo, and more
The US House passes the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, which would create a regulatory framework for digital assets
Google details Umoja, the first fiber optic cable that would connect Africa and Australia, starting in Kenya and running via the DRC and others to South Africa
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Sources: Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI have talked to Hollywood studios about licensing content for AI video generation tools; Disney and Netflix aren't interested
They just think they can get away with it when they steal from normal people. [embedded post] @causamdicere.bsky.social : How soon before everyone gets cheery “welcome to the Matrix! You're gonna lo...
A bill strengthening the UK Competition and Markets Authority to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google heads toward approval before the UK's July election
https://techcrunch.com/... Wouldn't have happened if not for the continuing efforts of @owa and in-kind contributions from Apple's legal team. Nothing pulls people together like a megacorp acting li...
Sources: Nvidia is selling its China-specific H20 chip at a 10%+ discount to Huawei's Ascend 910B, highlighting Nvidia's challenges in China amid US sanctions
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A Texas federal jury orders Micron to pay $445M to computer memory company Netlist for willfully infringing on two patents related to improving memory modules
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MARSHALL DIVISION NETLIST, INC., Chris Mellor / Blocks and Files : Micron hit with $445M Netlist damages award Shivani Kumaresan /...
The White House issues a call to action seeking companies' voluntary commitment to curb the creation, spread, and monetization of nonconsensual sexual AI images
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Sources: Alibaba raised $4.5B from a convertible bond sale in one of the largest such offerings in recent years, after rival JD.com's recent $1.75B offering
Bloomberg :
Sources: Meta is considering charging users for a more advanced version of Meta AI and is developing AI agents that can complete tasks without human supervision
Absolute parasites. — “You have the right to object to Meta using your personal info to train AI...” — [BUT] — “...We may still process information about you to develop and improve AI at Meta, e...
Google increases the Play Store's app price limit to $999.99 or the local equivalent, a 150% jump from the previous price limit of $400 set in October 2015
Who will be the first to release a meme app that costs $1,000? — https://www.androidauthority.com/ ...
X Director of Engineering Haofei Wang says “we are making likes private” in an update happening “soon”, as “public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior”
Sources: a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Tribe Capital commit to joining xAI's new funding round, in which the company seeks to raise ~$6B at an $18B valuation
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An interview with Microsoft Windows and Devices head Pavan Davuluri on his vision, Copilot AI, Windows Copilot Runtime, streaming Windows to devices, and more
Truecaller partners with Microsoft's Azure AI Speech to let its AI Assistant users create an AI version of their voice based on a recorded clip to answer calls
Sources: Helsing, which provides AI tools to militaries, is raising a $400M+ Series C led by General Catalyst at a ~$4B valuation, after raising $200M+ in 2023
Systems at US hospital operator Ascension, which has ~140 hospitals, remain down indefinitely after a May 8 cyberattack, in a hack similar to Change Healthcare
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