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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years and will be replaced by her longtime lieutenant Neal Mohan; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon because the AI is attempting to communicate emotions, not facts — Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn't really, really, think it was worth it.
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Tweets: @movingtothesun, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @marvinvonhagen, @jjvincent, @ruchowdh, @kevinroose, @natfriedman, @marvinvonhagen, @solomania, @benbajarin, @sama, @matthewamiller, @aelfred_d, @davidpepper, @anthony, @ylecun, @maxaltl, @benshapiro, @tomgara, @elonmusk, @dkbrereton, @repligate, @dkthomp, @elonmusk, @joannastern, @simonw, @fmanjoo, @amasad, @kevinroose, @ylecun, @mattzeitlin, @timnitgebru, @nkulw, @tante, @deliprao, @tomgara, @parmy, @benthompson, @tedgioia, @shanselman, @mmitchell_ai, @stevemoser, @lindaholmes, @stevemoser, @nxthompson, @leerzeit, @pfau, @shiraovide, @marshallk, @jyarow, @beenwrekt, @stevesi, @thomas_woodside, @carnage4life, @leerzeit, @russellbrandom, @hausfath, @togelius, @jamesrbuk, @garrytan, @desnyt, @grady_booch, @arunkrishnan_, @deliprao, @byronyork, @nedwards, @timsoret, @jonathanshedler, and @random_walker
| Bing Blogs: |
Microsoft reflects on the new Bing: 71% gave AI answers a thumbs up, Bing can become repetitive after 15+ questions, a few sessions over two hours, and more — A little over a week ago, we shared an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and integrated Chat, that we think of as Your Copilot for the Web.
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| Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: |
A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency — Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment — Remember when we were all going to ditch our humdrum lives … | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
PlayStation VR2 review: excellent OLED displays, comfortable, solid controllers, and immersive headset haptics, but pricey and limited games at launch — The PlayStation VR 2 is the virtual reality upgrade console gamers have been waiting for — but is it really worth $550?
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
DocuSign plans to cut around 10% of its workforce, or around 680 people, after cutting 9% of staff in September 2022; DocuSign had 7,461 staff in January 2022 — - E-signature software company DocuSign on Thursday announced plans to cut around 10% of its workforce.
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| Shane Huntley / The Keyword: |
Analysis of the cyber threat landscape one year after Russia invaded Ukraine shows Russia's aggressive multi-pronged plan across five phases with mixed success — One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Google TAG, Mandiant, and Trust & Safety provide insights into changes in the cyber threat landscape triggered by the war.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: spooked by a growing regulatory crackdown, US banks are backing away from crypto companies and re-evaluating their exposure, no matter how small — SEC and banking overseers step up scrutiny following collapse of FTX — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained. Here's Why.
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple postponed the introduction of its MR headset from around April to June 2023, at its annual WWDC, after testing found hardware and software issues — Apple Inc. has postponed a planned introduction of its first mixed-reality headset from around April to June …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @parkerortolani, @value_invest12, @sadlyitsbradley, @hmltn, and @rsgnl
| Bloomberg: |
A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, a roommate to Sam Bankman-Fried at MIT who is cooperating with the US, as insiders say he may have key insights — They'd come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.
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Reuters. Tweets: @cduhaime, @misyrlena, @ritholtz, @emilyjnicolle, @antoniabmassa, @antoniabmassa, @annairrera, @sidcoins, and @avabmorrison
| Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal: |
Jaime Rogozinski, who created r/WallStreetBets, sues Reddit, arguing the company breached its contract by removing him as a moderator in 2020 — Jaime Rogozinski says site ousted him without claim; Reddit calls suit frivolous — WallStreetBets' founder is suing the site where it all began.| Clive Thompson / MIT Technology Review: |
A brief history of Rust, a programming language that emerged from a side project and has been instrumental in driving the shift toward memory safe programming — For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. — Many software projects emerge because …
Tweets: @billatnapier, @richgel999, and @denelledixon
| Reuters: |
A German court rules that police use of Palantir's automated data analysis to prevent crime in some states was unconstitutional, after a rights group complained — A top German court ruled on Thursday that police use of automated data analysis to prevent crime in some German states was unconstitutional …
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| Anup Roy / Bloomberg: |
The Reserve Bank of India publishes a list of 32 entities, including Google Pay and Amazon Pay, that can act as online payment aggregators in the country — The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday published a list of 32 entities, including Alphabet Inc.'s Google Pay, Amazon.com Inc.'s Amazon Pay …
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rbi.org.in, Techlusive, Tech in Asia, MediaNama, Moneycontrol, and Rise & Shine ☀
| Game Developer: |
Activision Blizzard plans to require employees to come to the office three days per week starting on April 10 for Activision Publishing and July 10 for Blizzard — Remote work is reportedly ending across Activision Blizzard. According to a developer at Blizzard Entertainment …
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Video Games Chronicle and Fortune
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Binance Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann says the company expects to pay monetary penalties to settle US regulatory and law enforcement investigations — DOJ, CFTC have been probing world's largest cryptocurrency exchange — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange …
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CoinDesk, TechCrunch, ZyCrypto, crypto.news, The Crypto Basic, Crowdfund Insider, Blockworks, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tile debuts an anti-theft mode to limit misuse of its trackers, which requires biometric data, a government ID, and a ToS letting Tile share info with police — Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts …
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Tech Advisor, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Pocket-lint, and Digital Trends
| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Filing: China Renaissance says chairman Bao Fan, a high-profile tech investor, dealmaker, and banker in China, has been unreachable for over two days — Investment bank China Renaissance says it has been unable to contact its founder — China's top tech dealmaker Bao Fan has gone missing …
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Wall Street Journal and Caixin Global
Tweets: @doveywan, @doveywan, @donweinland, @doveywan, and @therealjoshye
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
CoinMarketCap data shows the crypto market is struggling with an “Alameda gap” after new coin applications fell from 10,264 in Q1 2022 to 6,350 in Q4 2022 — Data from CoinMarketCap shows a precipitous decline in applications for token listings as liquidity dries up.
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Switzerland-based Unisers, which is developing a way to detect extraneous extremely small particles during chip production, raised $14M led by Intel Capital — Switzerland-based microchip toolmaker Unisers said on Thursday it had raised $14 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to those 18 and over in the US with a $500K price pool — TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on OpenAI's ChatGPT, the advantage of LLMs, companies using AI, Deep Blue and chess, practical uses of generative AI, and more — IBM led some of the 20th century's most pioneering projects in artificial intelligence and supercomputing …
Tweets: @carlquintanilla and @hare_brain
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