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May 12, 2023, 4:15 PM

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Washington Post:
A profile of Linda Yaccarino, who has vast experience in ad partnerships, praised Elon Musk publicly, and told colleagues that people get hung up on his tweets  —  Twitter has struggled to generate revenue since Musk took over as CEO, as advertisers have fretted over his sweeping rollbacks of content moderation.
Bloomberg:
Oppo closes its chip design unit Zeku due to global economic uncertainty; Zeku developed the MariSilicon X image-processing chip used in Oppo's flagship devices  —  Oppo, China's biggest domestic smartphone maker, is closing its chip design business as the global smartphone market extends a prolonged decline.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google Bard is now available in 180 countries but not in the EU or Canada; Google says the chatbot will be made available “consistent with local regulations”  —  Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries.
Rosie Perper / CoinDesk:
NYC-based Tessera, the collective NFT ownership and governance service that launched as Fractional with $20M from Paradigm and others, plans to shut down  —  Co-founder Andy Chorlian tweeted that the decision was made after “carefully analyzing possible market scenarios, our company structure and our financial situation.”
Aidan Ryan / The Information:
Sources: Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao are exploring ways to reduce Zhao's majority company stake, hoping to improve Binance.US' standing before US regulators  —  Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao, the crypto exchange's founder, majority owner and chair, have been exploring ways to reduce his stake …

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