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Apple updates App Store guidelines, allowing game emulators for the first time globally, and letting music streaming apps in the EU link to external websites — After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it's not satisfied with the changes the company made to comply …
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FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 — - Sales figures for the app released in FTC's antitrust lawsuit — Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue …
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A US jury finds Terraform Labs and Do Kwon liable for fraud in a US SEC lawsuit, boosting SEC's efforts to assert greater control over the crypto industry — - Terraform 2022 failure wiped out $40 billion in investor funds — Kwon criminal trial on hold over extradition from Montenegro
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Source: Jony Ive and Sam Altman's AI device startup is in funding talks with Emerson Collective and Thrive Capital; Ive wants to raise up to $1B in funding — A mysterious company started by former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to launch an artificial intelligence-powered personal device …
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Sources: ByteDance, which was directly involved in countering US efforts to ban TikTok in 2020, has let the US TikTok team lead the response this time around — - Beijing-based ByteDance has left the US TikTok team to lead its own response in countering legislation that would kick it out of domestic app stores, sources say| Ryan Heath / Axios: |
Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board — - The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers …
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel on its Explore page, after Elon Musk promised “real-time customized news for you created by Grok AI” — The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers — Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney … | Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Google, Yahoo, Perplexity, and other search companies are working on understanding user intent to decide whether to show generative AI answers or just links — Yahoo is one of the most visited websites on the planet. It's the most popular news site in the U.S., with more than 3 billion visits each month.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources say Sundar Pichai is more involved in decisions about Google's AI products, but some worry this involvement can be a distraction from his duties as CEO — The Silicon Valley group has stumbled in the rollout of generative AI. Insiders say cultural and organisational issues are to blame| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run — Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
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Forums: r/technews, r/UkrainianConflict, r/JordanPeterson, r/technology, r/worldnews, and r/politics
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Marissa Mayer about her app development startup Sunshine, its new photo-sharing app Shine, the AI landscape, internet business models, and more — The Scene — About a week after Marissa Mayer's startup, app development company Sunshine, launched a new photo-sharing service, her co-founder Enrique Munoz Torres quit.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon adds a store called Bazaar to its Android app in India, featuring affordable fashion and lifestyle products, to compete with Flipkart and Reliance's Ajio — Amazon has quietly introduced a “special store” called Bazaar in India, featuring affordable and trendy fashion and lifestyle products … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: FTX's estate sold 25M to 30M locked-up SOL coins for $64 apiece, a deeply discounted price, to Galaxy Trading, Pantera, and others, raising up to $1.9B — - Galaxy raised $620 million fund to buy discounted SOL from FTX — Sales were done at big discount to SOL's current market price
More: Cointelegraph, The Block, Crypto Adventure, ZyCrypto, Fortune, crypto.news, Unchained, CryptoSlate, Milk Road, and CoinGape
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Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas, to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for the US' chip manufacturing plans — South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin
More: Engadget, New York Post, KXAN Austin, PCMag, and Bloomberg
| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
More: Samsung Newsroom, PhoneArena, CNBC, ZDNet, SamNews 24, Android Headlines, Benzinga, MSPoweruser, Barron's Online, SamMobile, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, GSMArena.com, TradingView, Reuters, Korea Joongang Daily, The Chosun Daily, BBC, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, and KED Global. Forums: r/korea
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