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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters — Meta's AI assistant is being put everywhere across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Meanwhile, the company's next major AI model, Llama 3, has arrived.
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LinkedIn: Brandon Spence, Sayeed Choudhury, Nabil Tayeb, Hitesh Patel, Diego Guerra Orozco, Stuart Pitts, Amit Sangani, and Denny Lee
| New York Times: |
Meta to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in 12+ countries, expanding beyond the US, powered by its new Llama 3 models — Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta's latest artificial …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out real-time AI image generation, which changes the image as the user types a prompt, in beta on WhatsApp and Meta AI on the web in the US — As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you'll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create.| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh — AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try to make it happen even faster.
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LinkedIn: Francisco Jeronimo, John Solomon, and Sameer Samat
Forums: Hacker News, r/GooglePixel, r/Android, and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others — The LabHost phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has been disrupted in a year-long global law enforcement operation …
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.37B, vs. $9.28B est., paid users up 16% YoY to 269.6M, vs. 264.2M est., and net income $2.3B, up from $1.3B YoY — LOS ANGELES — Netflix reported earnings that beat on the top and bottom line after the bell Thursday. — Here are the results:
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its “best proxy for customer satisfaction” — Netflix will no longer report subscriber numbers — a key metric for streaming services for years — beginning with the first quarter of 2025.
More: PYMNTS.com, IGN, ComingSoon.net, Digital Trends, The Streamable, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter
Threads: @pkafka. X: @sherman4949, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @tvmojoe, and @sherman4949. Forums: r/netflix
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January — The base 128GB headset will cost $199 from now on. — For the second time this year, Meta has given the Quest 2 a permanent price cut.
More: The Verge, Meta, UploadVR, Ars Technica, Road to VR, Pocket-lint, IGN, Neowin, and How-To Geek
| Crystal Kim / Axios: |
A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his “code is law” claim — - He used the inflated futures holdings as collateral to borrow other cryptocurrencies on the platform … | The Information: |
Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 — Cybersecurity startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire Lacework, one of its largest private competitors, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks.
More: CTech, TechCrunch, and InfoRiskToday.com
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023 — The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot's seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) …
More: Edwards Air Force Base, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Decoder, TechEBlog, and PCMag
| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
TSMC CEO CC Wei says the company plans to charge more for making chips outside of Taiwan, citing higher costs due to a “fragmented globalization environment” — World's largest chipmaker says ‘incremental cost’ of setting up plants abroad should be shared
More: Tom's Hardware, Engadget, PCMag, Seeking Alpha, Club386, ExtremeTech, and 9to5Mac
| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
| Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel — Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …
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LinkedIn: Elliot Horowitz, Timnit Gebru, and Animah Kosai
| Bloomberg: |
The US House Speaker plans to bundle the TikTok divestiture bill, with a longer sale deadline, in a Ukraine/Israel aid bill set to clear the House on April 20 — - Johnson to include measure in aid package for Ukraine, Israel — Biden has said he would sign bill forcing ByteDance to divest
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| Bloomberg: |
Huawei releases its Pura 70 series, available for ~$760 to ~$1,380; reviewers show high-end models have a Kirin 9010 chip, an update to the Mate 60 Pro's 9000s — - Huawei building out portfolio with fresh upgrades and design — New phones likely to add further pressure on iPhone in China
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| Bloomberg: |
Digital marketing software company Ibotta closes up 17% at $103.25 per share in its trading debut, after raising ~$577.3M in an IPO priced above marketed range — - Founder and CEO Leach to have 71% of the voting power — Digital marketing firm's backers include Koch Industries arm
More: PYMNTS.com, Axios, The Information, Reuters, Axios, Quartz, TechCrunch, Proactive, Fortune, Associated Press, and Forbes
| Amanda Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries — Apple seeks to diversify its supply chain amid rising U.S.-China tensions and global concerns of decoupling tradeSponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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