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Google debuts a ChatGPT rival named Bard and says the “experimental conversational AI service” will be “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks” — It's official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Internal Twitter document: just ~180,000 US users paid for Blue and other subscriptions as of mid-January, implying ~$28M annual subscription revenue globally — Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
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| CNBC: |
Gemini plans to provide up to $100M to Genesis' bankruptcy recovery, mainly for its Earn users, who had ~$900M of assets frozen when Genesis paused withdrawals — - Crypto exchange Gemini will contribute $100 million in cash to a recovery plan for bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.
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| Financial Times: |
Filings: Digital Currency Group begins selling shares in investment vehicles run by its subsidiary Grayscale at a steep discount, seeking to repay creditors — Digital assets conglomerate sells down holdings in prized investments at a discount to pay creditors
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu's stock jumps 15%+ after the company announced plans to add its ChatGPT-like service “Wenxin Yiyan”, or “Ernie Bot” in English, to search in March 2023 — Baidu Inc. surged more than 15% after affirming it's on track to publicly roll out its ChatGPT-like service in March …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
ChatGPT users are finding various “jailbreaks” that get the tool to seemingly ignore OpenAI's evolving content restrictions and provide unfettered responses — - Reddit users have engineered a prompt for artificial intelligence software ChatGPT that tries to force it to violate its own programming on content restrictions.
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Binance plans to “temporarily” suspend US dollar bank transfers on February 8 and says that 0.01% of its monthly active users rely on USD bank transfers — USD bank transfers comprise only a tiny bit of monthly active users, the exchange said. — Join the most important conversation …
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| Apurva Venkat / CSO: |
The US, France, Italy, and others warn about a ransomware attack on VMware ESXi servers, despite a February 2021 patch; Censys: 3,200+ servers have been hacked — A global ransomware attack has targeted thousands of servers running the VMware ESxi hypervisor, with many more servers expected to be affected …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung Galaxy S23 users say the smartphone uses ~60GB of its storage for Android and pre-installed apps, four times more than the Google Pixel 7 Pro's ~15GB — Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's—twice the size of Windows 11. — As a smartphone operating system …
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WhatsApp updates Status, adding a Private Audience Selector, Status Reactions, 30-second Voice Status messages, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and web — WhatsApp has just announced a set of new features for status updates, which will be available to users on both iOS and Android devices over the coming weeks.| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports a ~$5B loss for its Vision Fund in Q3, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups — SoftBank Group Corp.'s first earnings report without founder Masayoshi Son went a lot like those he presided over the past few years …
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| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M — Nintendo Co. cut its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, underscoring uncertainty around its aging Switch console and the global gaming environment.
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| Reuters: |
An FTC official says the agency does not plan to appeal its US federal court loss over Meta's Within acquisition, but could still appeal to an internal judge — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it will not appeal its loss in federal court in its fight to stop Meta Platforms …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers on M2, building on M1, transitioning from Intel, the future of Mac gaming, Metal APIs, and more — On M2 chips, Mac mini and how the Mac will thrive in gaming — Apple's M series chips were incredibly well telegraphed when they arrived in late 2021.
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| John Ourand / Sports Business Journal: |
The 2023 Super Bowl will not have crypto ads after FTX and others backed out despite buying spots early; crypto companies had around five spots in 2022's game — Fox Sports officially sold out Super Bowl LVII inventory, selling its final in-game spot in the week before the NFL conference championship games.
| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Meta plans to revamp Horizon Worlds, including opening the app to users aged 13-17, seeking to improve user retention as competition intensifies — Memo highlights social-media giant's plan to revitalize app, boost users in 2023 — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META -0.25%decrease … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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