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Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet outperformed his — After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden's, Twitter's CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
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Speaking at a conference, Elon Musk says he is “guessing toward the end” of 2023 will be time for a new Twitter CEO as the company will be in “stable condition” — Elon Musk said he may need the rest of this year to put things right at Twitter Inc. before handing off …
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Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers — System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon, showing how AI can “hallucinate” to convey emotions, not facts — This was originally published as a Stratechery Update — Look, this is going to sound crazy.
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An in-depth look at how OpenAI's ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more — It's Just Adding One Word at a Time — That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially …
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An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections — - Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
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Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius proposes a sale to investment firm NovaWulf, founded in 2021 by Wall Street dealmakers; smaller creditors may regain 70% of funds — - Proposed sale would see smaller creditors get around 70% of their money back — Larger creditors would become shareholders … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to evaluate Pay Later borrowers based on spending history, the Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more — With Apple Inc. pushing into the lending business with a “buy now, pay later” service, the company is laying out rules for how it will approve transactions.
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ASML reported a breach to authorities after a former employee in China misappropriated proprietary data, resulting in possible export controls violations — ASML Holding NV, a critical cog in the global semiconductor industry, said a former employee in China stole data about its technology …
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Lufthansa returns to normal operations after grounding all flights due to software issues caused by a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables being damaged — Deutsche Lufthansa AG grounded all of its flights on Wednesday after damage to a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables caused widespread IT problems.
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Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its holdings of TSMC's American depositary shares by 86% last quarter to 8.29M, valued at $617.7M; TSMC's stock drops 3.5%+ — Warren Buffett slashed his holding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just months after disclosing a major stake …
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Sources: FTX lawyers and hedge fund Modulo are negotiating the return of Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in Modulo, currently sitting in a JPMorgan account — The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.| Praveen Seshadri: |
An ex-Google engineer and founder of AppSheet, acquired by Google, reflects on his time at Google, issues with its culture, a lack of urgency and mission, more — What ails Google. And how it can turn things around. … I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Oligo Security, which offers security and observability tools to find and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, raised $28M in seed and Series A — Oligo Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect …
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Superplastic, which creates “synthetic” influencers and other virtual characters, raised $20M led by Amazon's Alexa Fund and plans to work with Amazon Studios — Janky and Guggimon, ‘synthetic’ celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok and Instagram …
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SandboxAQ, a startup spun out of Alphabet that is developing post-quantum cryptography and simulation software for drug and material development, raised $500M — Sandbox AQ, a startup spun off from Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) last year, said on Tuesday it raised $500 million as it helps customers prepare for a quantum computing future.
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Brazilian neobank Nubank reports Q4 revenue up 128% YoY to $1.45B and a $58M net income, up from a $66.1M net loss YoY, saying it ended 2022 with 74.6M users — Nu Holdings Ltd (NUN.MX) reported a surge in fourth-quarter gross profit on Tuesday, as customers flocked to the core lending products offered … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 77 security fixes, patching three actively exploited zero-day flaws in Windows and Office, and nine critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's February 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 77 flaws.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia: consumer interest in Lensa AI and other top AI-powered photo apps fell quickly after hitting peak downloads and in-app purchases in mid-December 2022 — Is the AI photo app trend already over? Over the past several months, AI-powered photo apps have been going viral on the App Store …
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
After requests by regulators, the European Commission will review Adobe's $20B Figma deal, citing antitrust concerns, despite being under its revenue threshold — Adobe Inc.'s proposed $20 billion takeover of design firm Figma Inc. risks a lengthy European Union probe after the bloc's …
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How BandLab, a music production app and social network for creators, woos users through its SongStarter AI tool, which generates royalty-free instrumental ideas — A scion of Malaysia's richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Vietnam's plans to make Ho Chi Minh City a startup hub; report: Vietnam drew a record $2.6B in VC funding across 233 deals in 2021, up from $700M YoY — On a recent morning, Vinnie Lauria found himself weaving through the clogged, narrow streets of Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike …
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