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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods — AlphaFold 3 aims to reveal biological secrets and boost drug search efforts — Google DeepMind has unveiled …
More: The Keyword, Nature, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Android Police, Reuters, Ars Technica, Wired, Engadget, The Guardian, VentureBeat, Isomorphic Labs, Maginative, The Decoder, Tech Startups, Fast Company, MSPoweruser, Fortune, New York Times, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, STAT, and Invezz
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LinkedIn: Leonardo De Marchi, Dex Hunter-Torricke, Lila Ibrahim, and Anna Koivuniemi
Forums: r/longevity and r/science
| Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware: |
Some Stack Overflow users say their account was suspended after they attempted to alter their posts in protest of its OpenAI partnership to supply data for AI — Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt. — Stack Overflow, a legendary internet forum for programmers and developers …
More: Build5Nines, BleepingComputer, Meta Stack Overflow, The Verge, and DEVCLASS
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X: @sergioaferreira and @benwerd
Forums: Hacker News and r/programming
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft plans to invest $3.3B to build a data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and train locals, alongside investing in a University of Wisconsin AI lab — Company has been on a global spending spree, trying to build infrastructure and goodwill for artificial intelligence| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at potential successors to Tim Cook; sources say Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus is the most likely long-term successor — John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering, is emerging as a potential successor to the CEO. — Tim Cook has transformed Apple Inc. since taking … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI publishes Model Spec, which specifies how its models should behave, including objectives, rules, and default behaviors, and asks the public for feedback — OpenAI isn't done trying to live up to the “open” in its name. — While not making any of its new models open source …
More: OpenAI, OpenAI, TechCrunch, The Verge, Wired, ZDNet, and The Decoder
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LinkedIn: Adam Goldberg and Jason Wolfe
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPad Pro ad “Crush”, which shows paints, toys, guitars, sculptures, and more being crushed to reveal the thin device, draws criticism on social media — The minute-long Apple ad showing art equipment and materials being crushed down into the new iPad Pro is being called heartbreaking, wanton, and creepy.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Jesse Pound / CNBC: |
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $618M, vs. $549M est., crypto transaction revenue up 232% to $126M, net income of $157M, vs. a net loss of $511M YoY — Shares of Robinhood rose in extended trading Wednesday afternoon after the retail brokerage announced stronger-than-expected first-quarter results.| BBC: |
Ofcom proposes new rules requiring tech companies to change their algorithms to hide “toxic” material from children, have more robust age checks, and more — Ofcom has warned social media sites they could be named and shamed - and banned for under-18s - if they fail to comply with new online safety rules.
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LinkedIn: Emma Wright and Emma Martins
Forums: Hacker News and r/unitedkingdom
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.14B, vs. $2.06B est., Nights and Experiences Booked up 9.5%, and Q2 guidance below est.; ABNB drops 8%+ after hours — In this photo illustration, the Airbnb logo is displayed on a computer monitor and cell phone on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.| Maggie Harrison / Futurism: |
An investigation into AdVon, the company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers, finds its AI content and fake authors at the LA Times, Miami Herald, and more — Remember that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers? We did some digging — and it's got tendrils into other surprisingly prominent publications.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: US prosecutors are examining if Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about Autopilot and Full Self-Driving — U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla (TSLA.O) committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers …
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| Reuters: |
Arm reports Q4 revenue up 47% YoY to $928M, vs. $875.6M est., royalty revenue up 37%, and forecasts FY 2025 revenue below est.; ARM drops 9%+ after hours — Chip designer Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F), gave a fiscal first-quarter revenue forecast on Wednesday that beat Wall Street's expectations …
More: The Information, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and Arm
X: @maxwinebach and @arm
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.9B, GMV up 23% to $60.9B, expects increased operating expenses and lower profit margins in Q2; SHOP closes down 18%+ — - Gross margins in current quarter are expected to narrow — President: ‘This is how you achieve long-term durable growth’
More: Shopify, Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, Barron's Online, Quartz, The Information, and Reuters
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $10.1B, gross bookings up 20% YoY to $37.7B, below $38B est., adjusted EBITDA up 82% YoY to $1.4B; UBER closes down 5.72% — - Bookings growth still tops 20% on rides, order frequency gains — Operating profit falls on anticipated legal fees, settlements| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
The Connectivity Standards Alliance releases Matter 1.3, adding support for more appliances, energy and water management, and new casting protocol features — The latest Matter spec brings a number of improvements to the smart home standard founded by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung.
More: CSA-IOT, MacRumors, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, iClarified, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, The Ambient, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, and CNET. Forums: r/MatterProtocol
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Instacart Q1: revenue up 8% YoY to $820M, vs. $794.5M est., gross transaction value up 11% to $8.32B; CFO Nick Giovanni is retiring, replaced by Emily Reuter — - Emily Reuter named CFO after joining Instacart six months ago — Instacart reports better-than-expected first-quarter results| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Intel expects its Q2 revenue to be “below the midpoint” of the company's previously guided $12.5B to $13.5B range because of a new US ban on Huawei chip exports — US Revokes Intel and Qualcomm Licenses to Sell Chips to Huawei — Intel Corp. expects second-quarter revenue …
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
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X: @senmarcorubio, @samirkhazaka, @julianku, @niubi, @jcawley01, @denisewu, @james_t_quinn, @james_t_quinn, @dimi, @jchengwsj, @kristinaparts, @jcawley01, @macaesbruno, and @nikstankovic_. Forums: Hacker News
| Reuters: |
Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering a new regulatory push to restrict the export of proprietary or closed source AI models to China — The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China with preliminary plans … | Pratik Jain / Reuters: |
US hospital operator Ascension reports disruptions to its clinical operations due to a suspected cybersecurity incident and engages Mandiant to help investigate — Hospital operator Ascension reported disruptions to its clinical operations on Wednesday due to a suspected cybersecurity incident …
More: CNN, BleepingComputer, About | Ascension, CRN, The Record, SiliconANGLE, CBS News, and Fierce Healthcare …
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Disney and WBD announce a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max, with ad-supported and ad-free plans, beginning this summer in the US, with pricing to come — Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are breaking ground in streaming with a bundled offering featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in a single package.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to add an auto-complete feature to Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the coming months that offers suggestions to add details to improve AI prompts — Microsoft is attempting to solve the problem of coming up with a good prompt for generative AI, aiming to turn everyone into a prompt engineer.
More: Neowin and Petri IT Knowledgebase
| The Guardian: |
An investigation finds a vast web of fake shops run from China touting designer brands that duped 800K+ people in Europe and the US into sharing personal data — Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests
More: Security Research Labs, The Register, and BleepingComputer
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Filing: Orlando-based lidar manufacturer Luminar says Tesla was its “largest LiDAR customer in Q1”, contributing 10%+ of its revenue, or ~$2.1M for the quarter — Elon Musk previously dismissed the laser sensor as a ‘crutch’ and said that any company relying on lidar to power self-driving was ‘doomed.’
More: Business Insider and Benzinga
Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/MVIS, r/RealTesla, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics: |
Google says “rare issues at Google Cloud” caused a week-long private cloud outage at UniSuper, an Australian pension fund for the education and research sectors — Google problems resulting in an inadvertent misconfiguration of UniSuper's systems
More: UniSuper, iTnews, and Network World
X: @seventhsec, @setheliot, @ajdlinux, @quinnypig, @gergelyorosz, and @jasonandrade
| Madeleine Ngo / New York Times: |
SIA and Boston Consulting Group: the US will triple its domestic chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, boosting its global chip making share to 14% from 10% now — The United States will triple its domestic chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, the largest increase in the world … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky details its product roadmap: an off-protocol DM system to facilitate one-on-one chats, improved custom feeds, anti-harassment tools, and video support — Bluesky has launched a new product roadmap for the coming months. The decentralized social network said on Tuesday that it is planning … Sponsor Posts
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