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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters — Meta's AI assistant is being put everywhere across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Meanwhile, the company's next major AI model, Llama 3, has arrived.
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| New York Times: |
Meta to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in 12+ countries, expanding beyond the US, powered by its new Llama 3 models — Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta's latest artificial …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out real-time AI image generation, which changes the image as the user types a prompt, in beta on WhatsApp and Meta AI on the web in the US — As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you'll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create.| Emilia David / The Verge: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh — AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try to make it happen even faster.
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.37B, vs. $9.28B est., paid users up 16% YoY to 269.6M, vs. 264.2M est., and net income $2.3B, up from $1.3B YoY — LOS ANGELES — Netflix reported earnings that beat on the top and bottom line after the bell Thursday. — Here are the results:
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its “best proxy for customer satisfaction” — Netflix will no longer report subscriber numbers — a key metric for streaming services for years — beginning with the first quarter of 2025.
More: ComingSoon.net, Digital Trends, Deadline, The Streamable, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others — The LabHost phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has been disrupted in a year-long global law enforcement operation …
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| Crystal Kim / Axios: |
A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his “code is law” claim — - He used the inflated futures holdings as collateral to borrow other cryptocurrencies on the platform … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January — The base 128GB headset will cost $199 from now on. — For the second time this year, Meta has given the Quest 2 a permanent price cut.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023 — The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot's seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) …
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| Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel — Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …
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| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to ~$18.87B, vs. ~$18B est., net income up 8.9% YoY to ~$6.97B, vs. ~$6.6B est., and expects strong AI chip demand in Q2 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday beat revenue and profit expectations in the first quarter … | The Information: |
Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 — Cybersecurity startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire Lacework, one of its largest private competitors, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks.
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| Bloomberg: |
Huawei releases its Pura 70 series, available for ~$760 to ~$1,380; reviewers show high-end models have a Kirin 9010 chip, an update to the Mate 60 Pro's 9000s — - Huawei building out portfolio with fresh upgrades and design — New phones likely to add further pressure on iPhone in China
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| Bloomberg: |
The US House Speaker plans to bundle the TikTok divestiture bill, with a longer sale deadline, in a Ukraine/Israel aid bill set to clear the House on April 20 — - Johnson to include measure in aid package for Ukraine, Israel — Biden has said he would sign bill forcing ByteDance to divest
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| Amanda Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries — Apple seeks to diversify its supply chain amid rising U.S.-China tensions and global concerns of decoupling trade| Daniel Tencer / Music Business Worldwide: |
Short-form video app Triller is merging with Hong Kong financial services company AGBA; Triller shareholders will own 80% of the combined company valued at $4B — Financially troubled social media app and TikTok competitor Triller is merging with a Hong Kong financial services company … | Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's device recycling, including shredding robots and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for ~$22.6M in a case that has not seen any updates — Apple touts its network of shredding robots and contractors as a greener way to reuse old gadgets.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nothing unveils the $149 Nothing Ear and $99 Nothing Ear (a), offering improved sound, personalization, and battery life; Nothing plans to integrate ChatGPT — Nothing is churning out new earbuds at a faster clip than smartphones. The company just introduced the Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a), priced at $149 and $99, respectively.
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but users can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful — AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a “kind of useful” tool justifies the harm. — /1311.164082 — 1×
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: Amazon sells ~$1M per year in goods on eBay, Shopify, Walmart, and Amazon via its “Big River” arm, to get data on pricing, logistics, and more — Staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called ‘Big River.’ The mission …
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