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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The stocks of Apple suppliers Cirrus Logic and AAC fall 12%+ and 14%+, respectively, after Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models won't have solid-state buttons — - Shares of Cirrus Logic fell after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the next iPhone wouldn't feature expanded use of Cirrus' technology …
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Ming-Chi Kuo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Supercharged, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, Reuters, investors.com, Pocket-lint, fpt., and SlashGear
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@thurrott, @tme_michael, and @rsgnl
| New York Times: |
NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent — The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
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NPR, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Axios, Variety, BBC, The Hill, Bloomberg, Axios, The Verge, Engadget, RAIN News, Newser, KnowTechie, Tech Xplore, Insider, New York Post, Financial Times, Mashable, Gizmodo, NBC News, and CNBC
Mastodon:
@georgetakei@universeodon.com, @PeterR@mastodon.social, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @timkmak@journa.host, and @mimsical@mastodon.social
Tweets:
@npr, @oliverdarcy, @elonmusk, @gbrumfiel, @kevincollier, @bobbyallyn, @itswolfgangruth, @elonmusk, @phil_lewis_, @npr, @scottdetrow, @keithboykin, @timcast, @davidsirota, @aniceburrito, @tweetsbyparker, @nerdjpg, @pt, @esqueer_, @jaycaspiankang, @mikeisaac, @kurtwagner8, @keithedwards, @rudygiuliani, @adamweinstein, @davidcorndc, @davidmackau, @mfcannon, @edgeofsports, @_cingraham, @phil_lewis_, @jbenton, and @chrisgorham
| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly break even”, grew agitated over misinformation and hate speech questions, which he avoided, and more — The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC
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Reuters, BBC, The i Paper, BBC, SiliconANGLE, The Daily Dot, Bloomberg, Insider, New York Times, Insider, TechCrunch, Insider, Snopes, BBC, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Forbes, Social Media Today, The Hill, City A.M., Pirate Wires, MobileSyrup, Gizmodo, BBC, CNBC, and Politico
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@KarlBode@masto.ai, @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot, @mattnavarra@mastodonapp.uk, @pbump@journa.host, and @mattnavarra@mastodonapp.uk
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@jamin2g, @disclosetv, @censoredmen, @jamesclayton5, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @notabigjerk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @bydavidgardner, @davidsacks, @mattbinder, @crawf34, @charliekirk11, @realmattcouch, @memeghnad, @drewb, @mattbinder, @rmac18, @wfkars, @micsolana, @charlesarthur, @ggreenwald, @rmac18, @farzyness, @richlightshed, @karlbode, @vprasadmdmph, @paleofuture, @nandiniwhy, @coloradotravis, @mattbinder, @rubinreport, @rvawonk, @rmac18, @parismarx, @rmac18, @farzyness, @mattnavarra, @rvawonk, @ankaman616, @lorakolodny, @unusual_whales, @faizsays, @sabaeitizaz, @washingtonpost, @esqueer_, @washingtonpost, and @farhip
| Paul Glynn / BBC: |
Twitter changes its label on the main BBC account from “Government Funded Media” to “Publicly funded media”, after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate — Twitter has changed a label on the main BBC account, saying it is “publicly-funded” instead of …
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The Guardian and The Hill
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@assedbaig, @bbcnews, @bruce_arthur, @bgonthescene, and @drewb
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
FTX's attorneys say the company recovered $7.3B in liquid assets and is considering using creditors' holdings to reopen the exchange; FTX's FTT token jumps 70%+ — FTT jumped 55%. — Featured SpeakerBrett Harrison — Founder and CEOArchitect — Don't miss “FTX: What Happened” …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, SolanaFloor NFT Analysis …, Fox Business, The Block, Tech Startups, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, FXStreet, Ethereum World News, and Watcher Guru
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@danawrey, @gaborgurbacs, @reuterslegal, @haileylennonbtc, @smtuffy, @wublockchain, @adamscochran, and @ericbalchunas
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Warner Bros. Discovery officially announces Max as the new name of its flagship streaming service, launching in the US on May 23 with HBO and Discovery+ content — It's not HBO Max — soon it's just going to be Max. … The company announced the name change at a press event Wednesday …
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Pressroom, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Android Police, The Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, Ars Technica, Light Reading, 9to5Google, Neowin, Associated Press, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, BGR, Liliputing, CNET, The Streamable, Mashable, Adweek, Engadget, GameSpot, USA Today, XDA Developers, Android Central, Appleosophy, PCMag, Thurrott, Deadline, iClarified, MacRumors, Gizmodo, and New York Post
LinkedIn:
Bill Young, Steve Tate, and Amir Satvat
Tweets:
@andylevy, @xpangler, @paulswhtn, @sonnybunch, @mattdpearce, @mikeisaac, @helenkennedy, @mattgoldich, and @abnormalreturns
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent back arrow, per-app language preferences, and more — Google's Android development cycle runs on a rather predictable cadence these days. Today, after two developer previews …
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@androiddev
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR — LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday.
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LinkedIn, The Verge, Microsoft Security Blog, Wired, The Information, Social Media Today, ZDNet, PCMag, BGR, Thurrott, CNET, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and BigTechWire
LinkedIn:
Ken Y., Jay Singh, Jason Morris, and Matt Navarra
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@chrismessina, @dwhate, @ambercadabra, and @tomwarren
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM explores selling its weather unit in a deal that could be valued at $1B+; IBM reportedly paid $2B+ for The Weather Company's digital assets in 2015 — Weather.com owner could fetch more than $1 billion in a sale — International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a sale … | New York Times: |
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's “year of efficiency”, Meta's layoffs, absentee leadership, and the big metaverse bet have devastated employee morale — Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction.
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Insider. Mastodon:
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users' ages and get a parent's consent for users under 18 — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage …
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Associated Press, Engadget, State of Arkansas, Design It For Us, Bloomberg Law, KATV-TV, and Fox News
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its instruction-following LLM released two weeks ago, with a dataset of 15K+ records generated by its staff — Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
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Databricks, Reuters, Chip Huyen, The Information, SiliconANGLE, and TechCrunch
LinkedIn:
Sharon Goldman. Tweets:
@simonw, @rxin, @peteskomoroch, and @databricks. Thanks:@lindsayklife
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple Music, and other services to block developers training AI bots from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs — Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group …
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City A.M., PCMag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Gizmodo, TechSpot, and MacDailyNews
LinkedIn:
Caroline Giegerich. Tweets:
@1br0wn, @rasmus_kleis, @mariuswatz, @pgeuder, @annaknicolaou, and @sarthakgh
| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems — Alexandr Wang briefly became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 24 by supplying artificial intelligence companies with the one thing they all need: humans.| Financial Times: |
Filings: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the Chinese company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022 — Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes
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Bloomberg, The Information, Reuters, and CNBC
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@equitybrian, @tabby_kinder, and @giuliapompili
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599, solid 1440p performance, and DLSS 3, but 12GB of VRAM and poor 4K gaming performance — The RTX 4070 is the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet, with solid 1440p performance.
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Nvidia Newsroom, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, CNET, Ars Technica, Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer, Tom's Hardware, Polygon, SlashGear, Windows Central, BabelTechReviews, GameSpot, Techgage, Kotaku, ExtremeTech, Forbes, Polygon, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, VentureBeat, Engadget, and Engadget
Tweets:
@techjournalist and @tomwarren
| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs visited Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar in recent weeks to woo sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch — Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
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The Hill and PYMNTS.com
LinkedIn:
Michael Jackson. Tweets:
@jsphctrl, @techwontsaveus, @dr_ulrichsen, @johnthornhillft, @alex_callinicos, @aliresfahani, @hshaban, @jasonnjoku, @tariqpanja, @farukb44, @jenn_elias, @lizzadwoskin, @pkedrosky, @sarthakgh, @hshaban, @peter_atwater, @workmj, @anujchopra, @gbrew24, @katie_martin_fx, @muradahmed, @refsrc, @digbijaymishra1, and @themmagraham
| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
PitchBook: VC investment from 2020 to 2022 grew 278% to $5.4B in Miami, 231% to $10.2B in Chicago, 123% to $3.8B in Denver, and 19% to $74.9B in Silicon Valley — Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel's Foundry Services unit partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm's designs access to Intel's A18 process to make their chips — Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd …
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Intel, Reuters, ServeTheHome, Neowin, Windows Central, XDA Developers, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Phone Scoop, Engadget, PCMag, Notebookcheck.net, Thurrott, PCWorld, Android Authority, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, Patently Apple, Bloomberg, Forbes, and The Register
Tweets:
@intelnews, @pgelsinger, @arm, @benbajarin, @patrickmoorhead, and @jonmasters
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
NYC-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service startup that aims to make economic data more accessible, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake — Cybersyn, a New York-based company offering data-as-a-service for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $62.9 million in Series A funding.
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SiliconANGLE, Tech Startups, Cybersyn, Towards Data Science, and Reuters
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