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Former staff say Twitter needs to update its systems to enact Elon Musk's asks, but the mass layoffs have brought code freezes and vast concurrent code changes — Twitter's outage on Wednesday, which saw the site rendered unusable for most users by blocking people from tweeting within the app …
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Sources: Microsoft cuts jobs in its Surface, HoloLens, and Xbox units; heavy cuts to the HoloLens hardware team raise questions about the third goggles version — Microsoft Corp., implementing the layoff of 10,000 workers announced last month, on Thursday cut jobs in units including Surface devices …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say Twitter's API paywall will jeopardize the study of influence campaigns and platform manipulation — For years, Twitter, like other social media platforms, has freely given its platform data to independent researchers …
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Analysis: Apple's 2020-2022 revenue per new hire was $2.51M, up from $1.17M during 2017-2019, and above Meta's $0.79M, Microsoft's $1.06M, and other peers — There's a reason why Apple Inc. is under less pressure than tech peers to slash jobs during the current slowdown: It hired more efficiently in the first place.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Times Internet to acquire MX Player, a top VOD streaming service in India; Times Internet acquired MX Player for $140M in 2018 — Amazon is engaging with Times Internet to explore the acquisition of MX Player, one of the largest on-demand video streaming services in India … | Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Researchers: some Reddit usernames and other keywords cause ChatGPT to give bizarre responses, likely due to the web data OpenAI scraped to train its model — Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. — Chloe Xiang
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| Ted Chiang / New Yorker: |
As ChatGPT and other LLMs repackage info into superficial approximations, like lossy compression for images, the web will become a blurrier version of itself — OpenAI's chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? — In 2013, workers at a German …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Lyft's stock opens down 32% after the company forecast $975M in Q1 revenue vs. $1.09B est.; Lyft CFO blamed “seasonality and lower prices” for the weak guidance — - Shares of Lyft fell on Friday, a day after the company reported guidance for its first quarter of 2023 that was short of analyst expectations.| Kathryn Hardison / Wall Street Journal: |
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JD.com plans to launch an “industrial version” of a ChatGPT-like tool called ChatJD for retail and finance, after Alibaba's and Baidu's chatbot announcements — - JD.com said it will release an “industrial version” of ChatGPT called ChatJD. — It will be a chatbot product focused on the fields of retail and finance.
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| Michael Wayland / CNBC: |
GM signs a long-term deal with GlobalFoundries to establish exclusive production capacity at the chipmaker's New York facility for the automaker's key suppliers — - GM has signed a long-term agreement with GlobalFoundries to establish exclusive production capacity of U.S.-produced semiconductor chips …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Light Field Lab, which develops modular holographic displays for commercial venues, raised a $50M Series B led by NCSoft, bringing its total funding to $85M — Light Field Lab has raised $50 million to manufacture and commercialize its SolidLight holographic display platform.| Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: |
A look at Otonomo and Wejo, two struggling startups trying to monetize connected car data; Otonomo plans to merge with roadside assistance tech startup Urgently — Auto companies promising billions in new software revenue by the end of the decade have been hiring engineers left and right … | CNBC: |
PayPal says its CEO and president Dan Schulman will retire and leave the company at the end 2023; Schulman, who became CEO in 2015, will stay on PayPal's board — - Schulman became PayPal CEO after the company's split from eBay in 2015. — PayPal said on Thursday that CEO and president Dan Schulman … Sponsor Posts
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