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Apple unveils App Store updates for the EU, including letting qualifying developers offer apps on their websites via a Web Distribution tool from spring 2024 — Last week, Apple released iOS 17.4 with big changes to the iPhone and App Store ecosystem to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the European Union.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: in summer 2023, Donald Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social, but no deal was made; Trump advisers say the pair have talked politics — The idea went nowhere, but the former president and the billionaire X owner have continued to communicate more than was previously known
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's Trump-era license to sell laptop chips to Huawei remains, despite pressure on Biden from AMD; source: AMD requested a similar license in 2021 — Intel has survived an effort to halt hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of chip sales to Huawei, two people familiar with the matter said …
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Self-driving startup Applied Intuition raised a $250M Series E led by Lux, Elad Gil, and Porsche at a $6B valuation and works with “18 of the top 20 automakers” — Autonomous vehicle software company Applied Intuition has raised $250 million in a round that values the startup at $6 billion … | Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Cognition AI, which offers a Copilot-like coding assistant that, the startup says, can finish whole projects, raised $21M from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, and more — A new startup called Cognition AI can turn a user's prompt into a website or video game. — A new installment of Silicon Valley's …
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Forums: r/singularity, r/programming, and r/technology
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Nigeria has held Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla in Abuja without any charges or their passports since February 26, per their families — Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft launch Speedometer 3.0, a benchmark to “create a shared understanding of web performance”; Speedometer 2.0 debuted in 2018 — Speedometer has long been Google's preferred benchmark, previously noting how it's the “most reflective of the real world” …
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Analysis: TikTok's app code shows a separate TikTok Photos app, a potential Instagram rival that syncs with the main app and may debut “soon” on iOS and Android — Tiktok has dominated the short form video market from a long time and other platform like Instagram and YouTube copied …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
An interview with Pavel Durov on running Telegram, which has ~50 full-time staff, its Dubai HQ, reaching 1B MAUs in 12-14 months, Russia, moderation, and more — As the messaging platform gears up for a potential stock market flotation, it is under pressure to curtail use by criminals
More: PYMNTS.com, The Register, The Crypto Times, Business Insider, The Information, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Nairametrics
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Epic plans to charge non-game developers $1,850 per seat per year to use Unreal Engine from late April with version 5.4, as opposed to a royalty-based game fee — Fortnite developer Epic Games will charge non-game developers an annual subscription of $1,850 “per seat” to use its Unreal Engine … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google confirms rolling out restrictions to limit Gemini surfacing answers on election queries globally; the update is live in the US and rolling out in India — If you want to ask Google's AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place.
More: PCMag, International Business Times, Reuters, CNBC, Moneycontrol, and Business Standard
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US teens: 38% say they spend too much time on their phone, vs. 27% for too much social media; girls are more likely to report too much time on both — Most teens at least sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don't have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious.
More: The Guardian, CNN, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, NBC News, Washington Post, NBC Bay Area, and Axios
| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
A profile of several AI “doomers”, including AI Impacts researcher Katja Grace, and “effective accelerationists”, as both make arguments about the future of AI — Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us.
More: TIME and New York Post
X: @nils_gilman, @robinhanson, @austinc3301, @bcmerchant, @manifoldmarkets, @haydnbelfield, @hkanji, @bengoldhaber, and @drtechlash
Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/OpenAI, r/politics, r/worldnews, r/singularity, r/slatestarcodex, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Empathy, a startup offering an AI-backed service to help users navigate the bereavement process, raised a $47M Series B, sources say at a nearly $400M valuation — Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn't make coping with it any easier …
More: Globes Online, FinSMEs, Perspectives, and VC News Daily
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