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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features — The world's largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022, after awarding him a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more in his annual letter — Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Ethereum successfully completes its Shanghai, or Shapella, update, letting users withdraw staked ether; around 1.2M ETH are expected to be withdrawn in a week — The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade.
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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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| 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's price more than doubled. FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed spectacularly in November …
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple made $7B+ worth of iPhones in India in the FY ended March 2023, exporting ~$5B worth; India accounts for ~7% of iPhones made, up from ~1% in 2021 — Apple Inc. assembled more than $7 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal year, tripling production in the world's fastest …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
How the US is making arrests and seizing crypto funds, like James Zhong's 50K+ bitcoin, using Chainalysis and other tools to identify criminals via transactions — Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Discord says it is cooperating with US law enforcement's investigation into the classified material breach — Instant messaging platform Discord said on Wednesday it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement's investigation into a leak of secret U.S. documents that has grabbed attention around the world.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, adding 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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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources say Apple is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand and the company has been mass producing the Apple Watch in the country for over a year — U.S. tech giant turning out Apple Watch in Southeast Asian country — For Apple and other tech companies … | Financial Times: |
Filings: SoftBank sold ~$7.2B of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022; BABA drops 5%+ — Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes
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| Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: |
An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building a “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without knowing the ramifications — The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report
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| Nate Rogers / The Ringer: |
A profile of Paul Dochney, the man behind pseudonymous character @dril that emerged from Something Awful to become one of the most influential Twitter accounts — Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act?
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A study finds that assigning ChatGPT a persona using its API, like “a bad person” or a certain historical figure, increases the chatbot's toxicity sixfold — It's no secret that OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things.
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| 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 … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google plans to shut Currents, its Google+ replacement for G Suite launched in 2019, on August 8 so users don't have to work in a “separate, siloed destination” — / It'll wind down starting in 2023 and be replaced with Spaces … Google has announced that it'll shut down Currents …
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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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David Lingholm. Mastodon:
@PeterR@mastodon.social, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @timkmak@journa.host, @mimsical@mastodon.social, and @georgetakei@universeodon.com
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@npr, @elonmusk, @oliverdarcy, @kevincollier, @gbrumfiel, @bobbyallyn, @itswolfgangruth, @npr, @kurtwagner8, @keithedwards, @elonmusk, @davidcorndc, @benjaminnorton, @timcast, @phil_lewis_, @jangles, @mikeisaac, @scottdetrow, @keithboykin, @chrisgorham, @rudygiuliani, @jbenton, @edgeofsports, @pt, @mfcannon, @nerdjpg, @tweetsbyparker, @davidmackau, @esqueer_, @adamweinstein, @jaycaspiankang, @davidsirota, @_cingraham, @aniceburrito, and @phil_lewis_
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@jamin2g, @disclosetv, @censoredmen, @elonmusk, @notabigjerk, @elonmusk, @jamesclayton5, @paulg, @vprasadmdmph, @ggreenwald, @farzyness, @davidsacks, @karlbode, @rubinreport, @micsolana, @rmac18, @wfkars, @richlightshed, @mattnavarra, @bydavidgardner, @elonmusk, @parismarx, @elonmusk, @crawf34, @paleofuture, @realmattcouch, @nandiniwhy, @charliekirk11, @rmac18, @rmac18, @rmac18, @charlesarthur, @farzyness, @rvawonk, @mattbinder, @mattbinder, @memeghnad, @mattbinder, @rvawonk, @drewb, @coloradotravis, @ankaman616, @lorakolodny, @unusual_whales, @faizsays, @sabaeitizaz, @washingtonpost, @esqueer_, @washingtonpost, and @farhip
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