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Apple reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $94.84B, declining for a second quarter in a row but beating estimates of $92.96B, and net income down 3% YoY to $24.16B — Services revenue reaches new all-time high iPhone revenue sets March quarter record — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone up 2% YoY to $51.33B, Mac down 31% YoY to $7.17B, iPad down 13% YoY to $6.67B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 1% to $8.76B — - Apple reported second-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street's soft expectations for sales and revenue …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google releases a brief teaser video showing off the Pixel Fold, confirming that it will be officially revealed on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 event — / This is Google's first foldable phone. More details are coming at Google I/O on May 10th.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The White House announces plans to address AI's risks, including $140M for new research centers and draft guidelines for government agencies using AI safeguards — Vice President Kamala Harris also plans to meet with the chief executives of tech companies that are developing A.I. later on Thursday.
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| Financial Times: |
The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess the opportunities, guardrails, and principles for protecting competition — CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Google, which published AI papers prolifically, in February moved to sharing only after the work had been productized, due to OpenAI's ChatGPT launch — For years the tech giant published scientific research that helped jump-start its competitors. But now it's lurched into defensive mode.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Shopify sells its logistics unit to supply chain tech company Flexport, after building the operation for years and acquiring Deliverr for $2.1B in May 2022 — - Shopify is selling its logistics unit to supply chain technology company Flexport. — The Canadian e-commerce company …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD's AI chip expansion and working with the chipmaker on Microsoft's own processor for AI workloads, codenamed Athena — Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker's expansion into artificial intelligence processors …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Discord plans to drop the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others and force most users to pick a username with an @ prefix — Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens its Bing chatbot to all, removing the waitlist, and announces features like image and video results, persistent chat and history, and plug-ins — Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to ~$540M in 2022, and Sam Altman privately suggested the company may try to raise as much as $100B in the coming years — OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and hired key employees from Google …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Mozilla expands its Mastodon instance to a private beta with strict moderation, saying the company is “not building another self-declared ‘neutral’ platform” — If you want to be a member of Mozilla.Social, Mozilla's new Mastodon instance, you're not allowed to harass other users.| Bill Peters / MarketWatch: |
Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 34% YoY to $772.5M, vs. $655M est., net loss down 82% YoY to $78.9M, $145B in trading volume, vs. $147.7B est.; COIN jumps 8%+ — 'The crypto industry continues to be volatile, as evidenced most recently by the disruptions in the banking sector and ongoing regulatory uncertainty,' executives say
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A judge sentences ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan to three years of probation; he was convicted in October 2022 for not disclosing a 2016 data breach to regulators — The first corporate executive convicted of a crime related to a data breach by outsiders is sentenced to probation and fined
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Block reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to $4.99B, vs. $4.6B est., Square gross profit up 16% YoY to $770M, and Cash App gross profit up 49% YoY to $931M — Company raises full-year forecast on a profit metric — Block Inc. posted a big beat on an adjusted earnings metric for its most recent quarter as it … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems like GitHub Copilot, as part of their BigCode project — AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow's R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative …
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| Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $2.04B, vs. $1.93B est., net loss down 3% YoY to $162M, and total orders up 27% YoY to 512M — Food-delivery company's revenue grows 40% to $2.04 billion, topping Wall Street estimates — DoorDash sales surged in the latest quarter as consumers continued …
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