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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft plans more cuts after closing several game studios, as the massive Activision acquisition has ramped up scrutiny on the Xbox division — Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative
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X: @dbakaba and @tomwarren
LinkedIn: Desirée Rincón and Jason Schreier
| 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, The Register, The Verge, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Reuters, Wired, Isomorphic Labs, The Guardian, Android Police, Ars Technica, The Decoder, Tech Startups, Maginative, Fast Company, MSPoweruser, Fortune, New York Times, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, STAT, and Invezz
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LinkedIn: Dex Hunter-Torricke, Leonardo De Marchi, Lila Ibrahim, and Anna Koivuniemi
Forums: r/longevity and r/science
| 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 … | 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/programming
| 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, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Wired, The Verge, ZDNet, and The Decoder
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LinkedIn: Adam Goldberg and Jason Wolfe
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| 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.| 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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Boeing confirms that LockBit attempted to extort a $200M ransom in October 2023; the company reportedly didn't pay any ransom after ~43GB of its data was posted — That attempt was one of multiple “extremely large” ransom demands made by LockBit over the years, authorities said.
X: @shah_sheikh
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
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LinkedIn: Brian Honan and Brian Krebs
| 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.| 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
| 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
| 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, About | Ascension, BleepingComputer, CRN, The Record, Cybernews.com, SiliconANGLE, CBS News, and Fierce Healthcare …
Forums: r/Detroit and r/baltimore
| 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: SiliconANGLE, The Information, Barron's Online, Arm, Bloomberg, and Financial Times
X: @thetranscript_, @maxwinebach, and @arm
| 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.
Mastodon: @jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, @natematias@social.coop, and @jvagle@mastodon.lawprofs.org
| 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 …
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, CleanTechnica, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Electrek, and The Information
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| 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| 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, Barron's Online, Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, Quartz, 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
More: Uber, New York Times, Fortune, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, The Motley Fool, New York Post, Financial Times, and The Verge
| 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, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, and CNET. Forums: r/MatterProtocol
| 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 … | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Bumble reports Q1 revenue up 10.2% YoY to $267.8M, vs. $265.5M est., total paying users of ~4M, up from 3.5M a year ago, and expects Q2 revenue below estimates — Bumble (BMBL.O) beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Wednesday helped by growth in its paying users …
More: Bumble Inc. and Fast Company
| 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.
More: New York Times, CNET, Bloomberg, The Verge, Variety, Pressroom, CNBC, IGN, The Streamable, BGR, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Adweek, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @benbajarin, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @azalben, @seannyberg, and @discussingfilm. LinkedIn: Emily Chau Dea. Forums: r/boxoffice
| 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 …
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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