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Sources: Meta delayed finalizing multiple teams' budgets while preparing a fresh round of job cuts, slowing down projects even for the metaverse and advertising — Mark Zuckerberg's aim of wrestling costs in his ‘year of efficiency’ causes disruption at the social media company
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Opera says it is testing a new ChatGPT-powered “shorten” feature in its browser that provides bulleted summaries of articles or webpages in the sidebar — The feature, called “shorten,” is part of the company's broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft's doing with Edge.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: PayPal is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase their scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and its key partner Paxos faces a probe in New York — PayPal Holdings Inc. is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and a key partner …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Inside Apple's efforts to develop new financial services, which have suffered from slow progress and missed deadlines due to engineering and technical setbacks — Apple's slate of new financial services — including “buy now, pay later” offerings, savings accounts and an iPhone subscription program — have hit delays.
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| Benedict Evans: |
A 2023 overview of macro tech trends, focusing on the e-commerce slowdown, layoffs, Amazon, advertising, and generative AI opportunities beyond text and images — Presentations Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. This year, ‘The New Gatekeepers’.
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| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
A look at “liquid” neural nets, which change their underlying algorithms based on observed inputs, making them more flexible than standard ML neural networks — “Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
Tweets: @quantamagazine, @mit_csail, @quantamagazine, @quantamagazine, @ramin_m_h, @glenngabe, and @quantamagazine
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The City of Oakland confirms reports of a ransomware attack on its networks but says that 911, financial data, and fire and emergency resources weren't impacted — The City of Oakland confirmed reports that its networks had been hit with ransomware after rumors emerged online that several agencies …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC has told crypto firm Paxos it plans to sue the company, alleging the Binance USD token, which it issues and lists, is an unregistered security — The agency has been intensifying its enforcement of major crypto players — The Securities and Exchange Commission … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google staff criticize company leadership over the Bard announcement, calling the unveil “botched”, “myopic”, and “un-Googley” on the internal forum Memegen — - Google employees took to Memegen this week, filling the message repository with criticisms … | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic — Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.| Charlotte Van Campenhout / Reuters: |
An advertising joint venture by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone to rival Meta and Google wins unconditional EU antitrust approval — Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), Orange (ORAN.PA), Telefonica (TEF.MC) and Vodafone (VOD.L) on Friday secured unconditional EU antitrust approval …
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
How Rumble, which claims to have 71M MAUs, became the only success story in right-wing social media by letting creators who are banned elsewhere monetize video — For a moment, the right's longtime dream of an alternative social media seemed within reach. Various companies had been trying …
Tweets: @ggreenwald, @ben_kew, and @jwherrman
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