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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on Android at Google, dies after being stabbed in San Francisco on April 4 — Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco.
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LinkedIn:
David Baker, Jenny Lee, Wesley Chan, and Matthew King
Tweets:
@billbarhydt, @zoink, @jakeshieldsajj, @thepbxguy, @jakeshieldsajj, @brookejenkinssf, @yishan, @arrington, @mattocko, @thatrpb, @mattdorsey, @vsodera, @markfidelman, @wublockchain, @msquinn, @garrytan, @paulbohm, @zachtratar, @bradfordcross, @autismcapital, @amuse, @kelicallaghan, @html5cat, @ericmigi, @zainjaffer, @downi75, @iainthomson, @peterpham, @z, @starbuxman, @mgsiegler, @richardtitus, @saranormous, @om, @rsg, @tsmith, @loic, @proetrie, @arrington, @sallyshin, @haxor, @laparisa, @jbyttow, @davidnayfeld, @johnhering, @tjmanotoc, @wwwjim, @adamsinger, @scottadamssays, @katie_roof, @fern, @jeffnolan, @kevinweil, @jason, @sbuss, @crazyfoo, @benadida, @activeasian, @aboodman, @epsilontheory, @ai, @shipilev, @torrenegra, @zebulgar, @iamdansnow, @rstephens, @kylesgibson, @zachcoelius, @hemeon, @lucy_guo, @kristyt, @davidlee, @mbostock, @bgalbs, @doranimated, @abhay, @puncsky, @dennishegstad, @sfpd, @phil_lewis_, @tomgara, @gregosuri, @bcantrill, @zamn, and @joshmedia
| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that used NPR as an example of an exception — Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …
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| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Source: Sony is developing a PlayStation handheld, codenamed Q Lite, featuring Remote Play with the PS5, an 8-inch 1080p LCD touchscreen, and adaptive triggers — Following days of speculation, Insider Gaming can report that there's a new PlayStation Handheld in development.
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@benjisales, @jnlgame, @puertorock77_, @mcquack306, and @psplustracker
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, hoping to help researchers with computer vision and object identification — Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. said today that they're hoping to democratize a key aspect of computer vision.
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Meta AI, Reuters, Meta AI, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Ars Technica, GitHub, Social Media Today, Neowin, Voicebot.ai, TechCircle, PetaPixel, and ZDNet
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Kiryl Trembovolski. Tweets:
@metaai, @drjimfan, @tberzin, @jayhadhope, @anshelsag, @dariuschapman, @coolnalu, @dazzkraz, @xf1280, @marktenenholtz, @ericjang11, @jsotterbach, @alexandrecadrin, @tanayj, @iandanforth, @danfei_xu, @cyhsm, @jnack, @mascobot, @sgourley, @drjimfan, @drjimfan, @alphasignalai, @metaai, @notwaldorf, @benhammersley, @aayushjaiswal07, @jobvo, @ylecun, @khosravi_bardia, @hrafntho, @vjeux, @chombabupe, @simonw, @chris_j_paxton, @building_jarvis, and @dhruvbatradb
| Kazuyuki Okudaira / Nikkei Asia: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its proprietary generative AI in 2023 and is at the “very forefront” of the LLM field — Facebook parent expects tech to help clients better reach audiences, reduce costs — TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends …
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| Washington Post: |
Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor — The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
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Reuters and USA Today
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Phil Harrison, the head of defunct cloud gaming service Google Stadia, left the company in January 2023; Harrison joined Google as a VP in January 2018 — When Google launched Stadia, it put gaming industry veteran Phil Harrison at the lead. Now, it's been confirmed Harrison has left the company.
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Insider. More:
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@hughlangley, @henereyg, and @tomwarren
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: Binance rejected buying Tron founder Justin Sun's Huobi stake due to Huobi's alleged ties to China; Sun's Huobi involvement is shrouded in secrecy — Binance has no interest in buying Huobi due to its rumored ties to China, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Bloomberg, Ethereum World News, and CoinGape
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@justinsuntron, @justinsuntron, @wublockchain, @adamscochran, and @napgener
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Play Store apps that allow account creation will soon need to let users “initiate account and data deletion from within the app and online” — Google is continuing its work on Data safety in the Play Store by requiring that developers provide a way for users to delete their account data.
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Android Developers Blog, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, PCMag, Pocketables, Engadget, TechSpot, MobileSyrup, Neowin, Android Authority, The Verge, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Droid Life, XDA Developers, and BGR. Tweets:
@mishaalrahman
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack unveils Notes, letting users share posts, quotes, images, links, and more, shown in a short form feed that “may look like familiar social media feeds” — Substack announced today that it's introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas.
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On Substack, Fast Company, Mashable, and KnowTechie
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@hamishmckenzie, @simonowens, @alex, @rmac18, @joshcarlosjosh, @substackinc, @juddlegum, @kantrowitz, @hamishmckenzie, @ibogost, and @parkermolloy
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its approach to AI safety, including evaluating AI systems, improving safeguards based on real-world use, protecting kids, and respecting privacy — Ensuring that AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely is critical to our mission. — Authors — OpenAI — Safety & Alignment| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's gamble to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to address supply chain weaknesses — In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic …
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iClarified, The Apple Post, MacDailyNews, and AppleInsider
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@shiraovide, @carlquintanilla, @gdp1985, @jessefelder, @lisaabramowicz1, @niubi, and @news_by_nick
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
In a probe begun in October 2022, Ofcom finds Amazon, Microsoft, and Google may be harming UK cloud market competition and plans to refer the case to the CMA — Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country's digital regulator … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group plans to acquire US-based mobile game maker Scopely for $4.9B; Scopely was reportedly valued at $5.4B in October 2021 — Savvy Games Group announced an agreement to acquire Scopely, a maker of mobile games including “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “Marvel Strike Force …
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Savvy Games Group, Reuters, Scopely, Game Developer, Financial Times, TechCrunch, socaltech.com, The Information, Axios, GamesIndustry.biz, VentureBeat, dot.LA, Bloomberg, and GameSpot
LinkedIn:
Mike DeLaet, Bill Young, and Chirag Ambwani
Tweets:
@ankbul, @mjones, @nickstatt, and @domsplaying
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A week ahead of Ethereum's Shanghai and Capella upgrades, ETH is up 6% over the past three days, surpassing $1,900 to a nine-month high and outperforming BTC — - Ether is trading at a nine-month high and has outperformed bitcoin this week ahead of a major network upgrade.
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CoinDesk, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, CoinDesk, The Block, and CoinDesk. Tweets:
@coindesk
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue sales webpage in March 2023, only 116K signed up; less than 1% of monthly users subscribe to Blue — Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report.
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Mashable and The Information
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@aishacounts, @evan_rosenfeld, @mattbinder, @libshipwreck, @marketminute, @karengeier, @edzitron, @ashleylatke, and @randfish
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe processed $817B in transactions in 2022, up 26% YoY, vs. 60% growth from 2020 to 2021; new customers grew 19% YoY, of which 55% were outside of the US — Stripe, the payments and fintech giant currently valued at $50 billion, sometimes feels like it has been forever on the brink of a public listing.
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PYMNTS.com, Stripe, Inc., and American Banker
| Rachel More / Reuters: |
Germany's Bundeskartellamt designates Apple as a “company of paramount significance for competition across markets”, and is subject to “extended abuse control” — Germany's antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple (AAPL.O) …
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Bundeskartellamt, MacRumors, Patently Apple, Mobile World Live, Global Competition Review, Competition Policy …, iThinkDifferent, and Euractiv. Tweets:
@kartellamt
| Stephanie Li / DealStreetAsia: |
China-based SJ Semiconductor, which offers a 12-inch wafer bumping and testing service, raised a $340M Series C extension at a $1.8B valuation — Chinese chip maker SJ Semiconductor has raised nearly $340 million in its Series C extension round, according to a release.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's Ministry of Electronics and IT says the government does not plan to regulate AI growth, calling the sector “significant and strategic” for the country — India does not plan to regulate the growth of AI within the South Asian market, identifying the sector as a “significant and strategic” area for the nation.| Sam Roberts / New York Times: |
Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in 1982, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died in January at 79 — He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AWS' Center for Quantum Networking partners with De Beers' Element Six division to grow artificial diamonds, hoping they can revolutionize computer networks — Amazon.com Inc. is teaming up with a unit of De Beers Group to grow artificial diamonds, betting that custom-made gems could could help revolutionize computer networks.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
Zoho:
6 Tips to Unlock Revenue with Transactional Emails — This is a guest post by Tabular.You might think of transactional emails as boring necessities, but the truth is, they're far more powerful than you realize.
6 Tips to Unlock Revenue with Transactional Emails — This is a guest post by Tabular.You might think of transactional emails as boring necessities, but the truth is, they're far more powerful than you realize.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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