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Coinbase plans to cut ~950 jobs, or ~20% of its workforce, aiming to reduce its operating expenses by 25% QoQ in Q1 2023, after laying off 18% in June 2022 — - Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June. — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed — Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
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Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation, taking 75% of OpenAI's profits until the investment is recouped and then owning 49% — Microsoft has been in talks to invest $10 billion into the owner of ChatGPT, the wildly popular app that has thrilled casual users …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft unveils VALL-E, a text-to-speech AI model trained on 60K hours of English speech that can simulate a person's voice from three seconds of sample audio — Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker's emotional tone and acoustic environment. — On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3, opting for an internal foldable screen, an external cover display, and a 180-degree hinge — Microsoft's next foldable phone will have an internal foldable display. — What you need to know
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple SVP of Services Eddy Cue says App Store developers have made $320B+ since 2008 and lists 900M paid subscriptions, 200+ Arcade games, 70B Shazams, and more — Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, has penned an open letter celebrating what he calls a “groundbreaking year for entertainment.”
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| Javier Paz / Forbes: |
A breakdown of Binance's known assets, using data from Nansen and others, estimates the exchange has around $50B, including ~$10B in BNB, down 24% from November — The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Changpeng Zhao indicated last month, and it's become considerably more severe since then, a Forbes analysis shows.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon plans to open Buy with Prime to all US merchants on January 31, letting them offer Prime benefits like free shipping and returns on their own apps — Amazon announced this morning it's expanding its Buy with Prime service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Developers flood Apple's App Store and Google Play with apps listing “ChatGPT” in titles and descriptions; OpenAI doesn't offer a public ChatGPT API or an app — ChatGPT is the hottest topic of discussion in the tech industry. OpenAI's chatbot that answers questions …
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
A look at Intel's struggles with launching Sapphire Rapids, originally slated for mid-2022, which Intel says has led to changes in product design and testing — The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to further limit ad targeting users under 18 in February 2023, including removing the options to target teens based on gender and in-app activity — Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram …
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Meta, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, The Drum, Digiday, Engadget, TechRadar, The Hill, Adweek, KnowTechie, The Independent, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @metanewsroom, and @nickclegg
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, met with US federal prosecutors last week to seek a cooperation deal — Former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh met with federal prosecutors in a bid to become the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle … | Adam Conway / XDA Developers: |
Google releases the Extension SDK for developers to bring features, like the Photo Picker API that launched with Android 13 and AdServices APIs, to Android 11+ — The Extensions SDK is what makes features like Photo Picker possible on older Android versions.
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Android Developers Blog, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, and Android Police
Tweets: @natisho and @mishaalrahman
| Financial Times: |
Meta contractor Sama plans to cut ~200 staff and close its east African content moderation hub in March 2023; Meta plans to keep 1,500 Sama staff to label data — Staff at Nairobi office were moderating graphic and harmful material — Meta's east African content moderation hub is shutting …
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Tweets: @billyperrigo, @odangaring, @madhumita29, @cristinacriddle, @satariano, and @romancingnope
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Scale AI, which labels data for ML algorithms and was valued at $7.3B in April 2021, lays off 20% of its staff; the startup had ~450 employees in February 2022 — Scale AI, the San Francisco-based company that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Common Sense Media survey of 1,358 US teenagers: 75% report having viewed porn online by 17, including 41% seeing images of nudity or sexual acts during school — Sexually explicit content has become so prevalent online that teenagers are deluged, according to a new report by a nonprofit child advocacy group.
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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
The Easy Company raised a $14.2M seed and launches a “social” crypto wallet in beta with an “Instagram-like experience” for viewing NFTs — The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet to help onboard more mainstream audiences … | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A New York judge sentences Nikhil Wahi, a brother of Coinbase PM Ishan Wahi, to 10 months for a scheme to trade on insider info on the timing of new listings — The brother of a former Coinbase Global Inc. product manager was sentenced to 10 months behind bars for his role in a scheme …
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