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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to cut another 10,000 jobs and withdraw around 5,000 open roles, just four months after cutting 11,000 jobs — Meta plans to cut its workforce by another 10,000 people and withdraw around 5,000 open roles that it had yet to fill, company co-founder …
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
Meta plans to wind down its work on NFTs “for now” to focus on other ways of supporting creators and will continue working on Meta Pay — - Meta is ditching its NFT efforts, for now, according to executive Stephane Kasriel. — Meta is ditching its pursuit of NFTs as the company looks …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google announces AI-powered features for Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides, and other Workspace apps, helping users generate text, summarize topics, and create images — Google has announced a suite of upcoming generative AI features for its various Workspace apps, including Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides.
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| Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FDIC is planning another SVB auction, after failing to find a suitor on March 12; at least one offer had been made, which was rejected by the FDIC — Auction comes after failed attempt to find suitor on Sunday — The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: What You Need to Know| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Email: SVB's new CEO Tim Mayopoulos says SVB NA, a new, FDIC-run “bridge-bank” with deposits protected by the FDIC, is “open and conducting business as usual” — The former Fannie Mae exec says new deposits will be protected by the FDIC
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| David Enrich / New York Times: |
Signature's and SVB's collapse was aided by GOP-led Dodd-Frank reforms that raised the “stress test” threshold from $50B to $250B, pushed for by SVB executives — Officials with Signature and Silicon Valley banks, which regulators seized in recent days, called for looser financial requirements for midsize banks.
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Sources: Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams that was tasked with assessing the risks associated with integrating OpenAI's tech into its products — As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone — I.
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| Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft signs a 10-year deal with Boosteroid to distribute Call of Duty if the Activision deal is approved, the third such deal; Boosteroid has ~4M users — Agreement is part of push to convince regulators that the planned $75 billion acquisition won't harm the videogame industry
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Sources and documents: India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removing pre-installed apps and mandate screening major OS updates via new security rules — India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple announces Shop With a Specialist Over Video, a live video session available from 7am to 7pm PT on its website for US customers looking to buy an iPhone — Apple today announced that customers in the U.S. can now connect with an Apple Specialist over a live video session while shopping for an iPhone on the company's online store.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon reveals a range of consumer terminals that connect to Project Kuiper, starting at under $400, and now plans to launch the first satellites in H1 2024 — Amazon has revealed a range of customer terminals that connect to its broadband satellite network, Project Kuiper.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: US prosecutors are scrutinizing Telegram group chats between Jump, Jane Street, and Alameda employees in May 2022 over the TerraUSD stablecoin collapse — US prosecutors are scrutinizing chat-group conversations among prominent trading firms including Jump Trading Group and Jane Street Group …
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to add 3D avatars for all Teams users in May 2023, after announcing the feature in 2021 and testing the functionality privately in recent months — Microsoft originally announced the avatars feature in 2021 and has been testing it privately in recent months.
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UK bank NatWest restricts transfers to crypto exchanges to £1,000 per day and £5,000 per month, citing a rise in scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC — NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers' crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class.| Rest of World: |
An in-depth look at tech's terrible 2022 in numbers: VC deal value down 38%, IPOs falling, an 85% drop in new unicorns, layoffs impacting 280,000+, and more — Reduced investment and large-scale layoffs have created dark times for tech globally. — In March 2022, the future of Muni, a Colombian e-commerce startup, looked bright.| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Experts say that, in the short term, the promise and perils of generative AI may be more modest than the headlines about tools like ChatGPT makes them seem — Hype and fear collide in the tech industry's latest boom — If you listen to its boosters, artificial intelligence is poised …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: multiple women accuse TikTok of mishandling sexual harassment allegations against London-based former executive Steve Ware, a pattern at the company — Woman's employment contract terminated after internal probe into complaint about advances made by senior manager
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| Janko Roettgers / The Verge: |
A look at the shift to the ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard, still not available in many major markets since its 2017 launch, as free streaming TV channels surge — Antenna television is back. In recent years, millions of cord-cutters have rediscovered antennas as a reliable … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok adds a STEM content feed alongside the Following and For You feeds, rolling out to US users in the coming weeks, as part of an ongoing topic feeds test — TikTok is introducing a new feed dedicated to STEM content in honor of Pi Day, the company announced on Tuesday.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator scales back its late stage team, laying off 17 employees, or ~20% of YC staff, calling late stage investing a “distraction from our core mission” — Y Combinator will be writing less checks toward late-stage companies, a scale back that also cost 17 team members …
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