| 11:20 PM • | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Pura 70 uses a 7nm chip, similar to the Mate 60, and a Kirin 9010 processor, a newer version of the Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000s |
| 9:55 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: the US is urging Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands to tighten export controls to China, including stopping engineers from servicing Chinese fabs |
| 9:25 PM • | Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: New rules that allow UK law enforcement agencies to seize, destroy, or transfer crypto holdings used for crime before making an arrest take effect |
| 7:50 PM • | Katie Robertson / New York Times: Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his new company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the site |
| 7:30 PM • | CoinDesk: Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the “unlawful seizure of authority” over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product |
| 6:00 PM • | Chris Miller / Financial Times: The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia |
| 5:00 PM • | Bloomberg: In a subpoena, Elon Musk asked Helen Toner to hand over documents about her departure from OpenAI's board and how OpenAI decides when a technology achieves AGI |
| 4:55 PM • | Jennifer Maas / Variety: Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 |
| 4:50 PM • | Scott Farquhar / Work Life: Atlassian's co-CEO Scott Farquhar plans to step down on August 31, 2024, after 23 years at the company; he will remain a board member and a special advisor |
| 4:38 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.19B, vs. $1.12B est., DAUs up 10% YoY to 422M, a net loss of $305M, compared to $329M YoY; SNAP jumps 20%+ |
| 4:35 PM • | Akash Sriram / Reuters: Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend, $0.20 per share on June 17, and authorizes the repurchase of up to an extra $70B of its Class A and Class C shares |
| 4:30 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube's Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total to date |
| 4:26 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft reports Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 21% YoY to $26.71B, vs. $26.26B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 31% YoY |
| 4:21 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Intel reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $12.72B, vs. $12.78B est., Data Center and AI up 5% to $3B, and Q2 revenue guidance below est.; INTC drops 10%+ |
| 4:20 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Q3: Windows OEM revenue up 11% YoY, devices revenue down 17% YoY, overall gaming revenue up 51% YoY, and Xbox content and services revenue up 62% YoY |
| 4:06 PM • | Alphabet: Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5%; GOOG jumps 10%+ |
| 4:03 PM • | Microsoft: Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10% |
| 3:55 PM • | Toby Sterling / Reuters: As ASML shareholders approve Christophe Fouquet as CEO, he faces a tricky balancing act to guide ASML, Europe's largest tech firm, through the US-China chip war |
| 3:35 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Nagomi Security, which has developed a proactive security and threat exposure management platform, emerges from stealth with a $23M Series A and a $7M seed |
| 2:45 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018 |
| 1:50 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, and emoji; Threads is also testing a way to mute notifications and controls for quote posts |
| 1:30 PM • | Reuters: Sources: ByteDance prefers a TikTok shutdown in the US rather than a sale if legal options fail, deeming TikTok's algorithm as core to overall ByteDance systems |
| 1:10 PM • | CNBC: Cloud data management startup Rubrik closes up 16% at $37 per share in its NYSE debut, after raising $752M at a $5.6B valuation |
| 12:25 PM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate the US' net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet |
| 12:00 PM • | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Sublime, which monitors emails of companies and political campaigns to spot AI-generated phishing attacks, raised a $20M Series A, taking total funding to $30M |
| 11:10 AM • | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Movement Labs, which is building Movement L2, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain based on the Move programming language, raised a $38M Series A led by Polychain |
| 10:25 AM • | The Information: Sources: a Huawei-led consortium, backed by Chinese government funding, aims to compete with Nvidia by making high-bandwidth memory chips, used in GPUs, by 2026 |
| 9:15 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft is prioritizing security over new features to win back consumer trust, as it scrambles to respond to new attacks from Russia-linked hackers |
| 8:30 AM • | The Information: Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to a non-tech company, and without the recommendation algorithm |
| 8:15 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices without hanging up via its Android, iOS, and web apps |
| 6:30 AM • | Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: Garry's Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop, covering “20 years of uploads”, after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo |
| 6:05 AM • | Financial Times: Interviews with 24+ current and ex-ByteDance staff: the Beijing-based company has tightened its grip on TikTok over the past two years, causing a culture clash |
| 5:40 AM • | Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI |
| 5:15 AM • | Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: Franco-Italian chip company STMicro reports Q1 revenue down 18% YoY to $3.47B, below $3.63B est., and expects Q2 sales down 26% YoY to $3.2B, below $3.79B est. |
| 5:05 AM • | Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to back an up to $125B investment to build a megafab in New York and a fab in Idaho over the next 20 years |
| 4:10 AM • | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Lenovo survey of 750 CIOs: 96% expect increased AI investment in the next 12 months and 42% don't expect to show return on AI investments for the next two years |
| 2:35 AM • | New York Times: A look at Saudi Arabia's spending blitz to become an AI superpower, which has put the kingdom in the middle of an escalating global competition over AI |
| 2:30 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Swiggy, which has a ~45.8% share of the Indian food delivery market, secures shareholder approval for a potential $1.25B IPO, slated for later in 2024 |
| 2:25 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance executives have previously considered TikTok's global operations to be worth ~50% of the Chinese company's overall value, or above $100B |
| 1:40 AM • | Financial Times: K Krithivasan, the CEO of Indian IT giant TCS, says there will be “minimal” need for call centers in as soon as one year, due to AI chatbots taking on the work |
| 1:15 AM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: On Meta's Q1 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that Threads now has more than 150M MAUs, up from more than 130M in February 2024 |
| 12:20 AM • | Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Snowflake launches Arctic, an LLM optimized for enterprise tasks such as SQL generation, coding, and instruction following, under an Apache 2.0 license |
| 12:00 AM • | Alex Heath / The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg says “tens of millions of people” have “tried” Meta AI but making money from generative AI in Meta's apps is likely going to take several years |
| 11:10 PM • | Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: TSMC unveils A16, chip manufacturing tech featuring nanosheet transistors with “backside power rails” meant for producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026 |
| 10:25 PM • | Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Reddit says its Dynamic Product Ads, which use “shopping signals” to automatically show relevant ads to users, are entering public beta globally |
| 8:55 PM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue of ~$9B, more than doubling YoY, and ~$2B in operating income, above estimates of ~$1.3B and the biggest quarterly profit since 2022 |
| 8:40 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Memo: Thrasio CEO Greg Greeley plans to resign and five other senior executives will “step down when Thrasio emerges from Chapter 11 in the coming weeks” |
| 7:45 PM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished |
| 6:55 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $22M Series A led by Lachy Groom, bringing its total funding to $27M |
| 6:10 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AI coding assistant startup Augment emerges from stealth with a $227M Series B at a $977M post-money valuation, following a $25M Series A led by Sutter Hill |
| 5:50 PM • | CNBC: Cloud data management startup Rubrik priced its NYSE IPO at $32 per share, above its expected $28 to $31 range, raising $752M and valuing the company at $5.6B |
| 5:15 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Meta's stock drops 10%+ on weak Q2 revenue guidance and increasing FY 2024 capital expenditures from $30B-$37B to $35B-$40B due to AI infrastructure investments |
| 4:40 PM • | Alex Koller / CNBC: Meta's Reality Labs Q1: revenue up 30% YoY to $440M, vs. $512.5M est., a $3.85B operating loss, vs. $4.31B est.; Reality Labs has lost $45B+ since 2020's end |
| 4:35 PM • | Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: IBM agrees to acquire HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and set to close by the end of 2024 |
| 4:25 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $14.46B, vs. $14.55B est., software revenue up 5.5% YoY to $5.9B, and net income up 73% YoY to $1.6B; IBM drops 8%+ |
| 4:08 PM • | Meta Investor Relations: Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B on average for March 2024 |
| 4:05 PM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances |
| 3:55 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: TikTok suspends the rewards program in TikTok Lite while the company tries to resolve EU concerns over the potentially addictive nature of Lite for children |
| 3:45 PM • | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: US prosecutors charge two founders of Samourai Wallet, saying the crypto mixing service facilitated more than $100M in “money laundering and sanctions evasion” |
| 3:15 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Stripe says some of its products will be available to companies that are using other payments providers, and unveils new embedded finance features and AI tools |
| 2:50 PM • | Brian McGleenon / The Block: Worldcoin subsidiary World Assets plans to sell WLD tokens to meet the demand for orb-verified World IDs and support Worldcoin network growth; WLD drops 7%+ |
| 2:15 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: WhatsApp rolls out passkey support on iOS, removing the need for users to deal with SMS one-time passcodes, six months after introducing the feature on Android |
| 1:30 PM • | Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Apple researchers share OpenELM, a family of LLMs with 270M to 3B parameters, designed to run on-device, and pre-trained and fine-tuned on public datasets |
| 12:50 PM • | Kate Clark / The Information: Source: Cognition, which offers an AI coding assistant, raised $175M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation, a month after a Series A at a $350M valuation |
| 12:30 PM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20 |
| 11:40 AM • | Monica Alba / NBC News: Biden's re-election campaign plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, with “enhanced security measures”, to help “meet voters where they are” |
| 11:15 AM • | M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Whether TikTok is banned or not, this is the end as we know it for the money-losing app, which may lose focus due to advertiser, creator, and staff uncertainty |
| 11:00 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Klarna partners with Uber to power Uber and Uber Eats payments, adding its Pay Now option in the US, Germany, and Sweden, but not installment-based payments |
| 10:35 AM • | Will Oremus / Washington Post: Meta, Google, Snap, and Amazon all benefit from the US' TikTok ban; Mark Zuckerberg criticized TikTok's Chinese roots in 2019, part of Meta's broader campaign |
| 10:25 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Nvidia acquires AI infrastructure orchestration and management service Run:ai, a source says for ~$700M; Run:ai, founded in 2018, had raised $118M to date |
| 10:20 AM • | Charlie Demerjian / SemiAccurate: Sources: Qualcomm is cheating on Snapdragon X Plus and Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press; the numbers are not achievable with the claimed settings |
| 10:05 AM • | New York Times: How a tiny group of US lawmakers and aides wrote the TikTok divestment bill, hiding their efforts to avoid TikTok's lobbying, alongside the DOJ and White House |
| 9:40 AM • | Wall Street Journal: US companies racing to build data centers to serve AI demand is causing a shortage of parts, property, and power; cooling system lead times are now 5x longer |
| 9:15 AM • | Joanna Nelius / The Verge: Qualcomm details its Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite chips; benchmarks from a demo suggest the chips match Apple's M3, Intel's Core Ultra 9, and AMD's Ryzen 9 |
| 8:25 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Dublin-based Tines, which offers no-code automation tools for security teams, raised a $50M Series B extension, sources say at a near $600M post-money valuation |
| 7:35 AM • | Brian X. Chen / New York Times: Hands-on with the Meta AI chatbot: fails at basic search queries, stinks at counting, excels at editing existing paragraphs, quickly creates images, and more |
| 7:10 AM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Parloa, which uses conversational AI to automate call center operations, raised a $66M Series B led by Altimeter, after a $21M Series A in 2023 |
| 6:55 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft begins rolling out Windows 11 Start menu ads that show app “recommendations” from “a small set of curated developers”; users can disable the ads |
| 6:40 AM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US DOJ argues Binance founder Changpeng Zhao should spend three years in prison and pay $50M for helping Binance violate sanctions and money laundering laws |
| 6:25 AM • | Brian Schwartz / CNBC: Filings: in 2024, ByteDance and TikTok spent $7M+ combined on lobbying against the US' TikTok bill; AdImpact: TikTok spent $4.5M+ on TV and digital ads in 2023 |
| 6:05 AM • | Joyce Lee / Reuters: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$3.86B to build a new DRAM chip facility in South Korea, starting construction this month and aiming for completion by November 2025 |
| 5:50 AM • | Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees a divestiture as a last resort |
| 5:35 AM • | Keith Stuart / The Guardian: An interview with Apple Arcade Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all “critical metrics” in 2023 and will feature Vision Pro games |
| 5:20 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments |
| 5:05 AM • | James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: An interview with Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors on criticism over mass layoffs and studio closures, splitting the company into three, rising debt, and more |
| 4:50 AM • | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: How Palantir, which doesn't have a traditional salesforce, is using software boot camps to attract customers, hosting an average of about five per day in 2024 |
| 4:20 AM • | Adam Iscoe / New Yorker: A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price |
| 4:00 AM • | The Pragmatic Engineer: A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem |
| 2:35 AM • | Mary Jo Foley / Directions on Microsoft: Microsoft must take security seriously again by being transparent about breaches and no longer charging subscribers for core security and compliance features |
| 2:30 AM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Paris-based FlexAI, which is developing an on-demand cloud service for AI training, emerges from stealth with $30M in seed funding |
| 2:25 AM • | Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: Mobvoi, a Google-backed Chinese smartwatch and AI company, fell as much as 22% in its first day of trading, after raising $41M in its Hong Kong IPO |
| 2:10 AM • | Edward Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: Emails released as part of US v. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money |
| 2:00 AM • | Bloomberg: China approves the US listing of self-driving startup Pony.ai, which plans to sell up to 98M shares and list on Nasdaq or NYSE, signaling an easing crackdown |
| 1:20 AM • | Reuters: Huawei unveils Qiankun, a new business unit focused on providing self-driving systems, marking the company's latest push to become a major EV industry player |
| 12:40 AM • | Bloomberg: SenseTime's stock rises 30%+ after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; its stock is down 80%+ since its 2021 Hong Kong IPO |
| 12:30 AM • | Nami Matsuura / Nikkei Asia: Samsung starts mass production of its 9th-generation 286-layer 3D NAND memory chips, which increases data I/O speeds by 33% compared to 8th-gen 236-layer chips |
| 12:15 AM • | Tom Matsuda / Sifted: Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton |
| 10:50 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: NYC-based Campus, which is building an online alternative to traditional community colleges, raised a $23M Series A extension, following a $29M Series A in 2023 |
| 10:25 PM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: Legal scholars discuss how the TikTok divestment bill could survive a First Amendment challenge and why the US will likely rely on a national security argument |
| 9:51 PM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk |
| 9:20 PM • | Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Xaira Therapeutics, which aims to use AI models to find new drugs to treat diseases, emerged from stealth with $1B in commitments from Sequoia and others |
| 9:05 PM • | Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: As software gets better at labeling photos, CAPTCHA designers are adopting more difficult logic-based prompts to thwart nefarious bots |
| 7:00 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Block says it has finished developing its own 3nm bitcoin mining chip and is working through the design with a “leading global semiconductor foundry” |
| 6:55 PM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Letter: the US Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's work in open-source RISC-V chip technology |
| 6:10 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Tesla teases a ridehailing function in its app and says its robotaxi will be “purpose-built”, suggesting it will be built from the ground up to be self-driving |
| 5:45 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Larry Ellison says Oracle is moving its world headquarters from Austin to Nashville to be closer to a major healthcare epicenter |
| 5:35 PM • | Seb Joseph / Digiday: Google delays deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome for the third time, pushing back its Q4 2024 plans to early 2025, after the UK CMA expressed concerns |
| 5:10 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: OpenAI announces new enterprise-grade features for API customers, including enhanced security, administrative controls, and new Assistants API capabilities |
| 5:00 PM • | Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer: The European Parliament adopts right-to-repair rules clarifying manufacturers' obligations to provide repair services, consumer access to spare parts, and more |
| 4:25 PM • | Forbes: Taser company Axon launches an AI tool that turns body cam audio into police reports to save time; critics worry it will introduce errors into crucial evidence |
| 4:17 PM • | Wall Street Journal: The US FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economywide change |
| 3:45 PM • | Sara Dorn / Forbes: The US Senate advances the bill forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, preparing for a final vote on the bill as soon as Tuesday evening |
| 3:36 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: IBM is nearing an acquisition of HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in the coming days; HashiCorp's stock jumps 22%+ |
| 3:00 PM • | Kali Hays / Business Insider: Apptopia: Threads is now consistently surpassing X in US DAUs, up to ~28M in April, after it first began eclipsing X in Dec. 2023, but X still has more US MAUs |
| 2:50 PM • | Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues |
| 2:28 PM • | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Not only has GM sold driving data to insurers without telling users, but a GM app “bug” meant users who were enrolled in Smart Driver were told they weren't |
| 2:00 PM • | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed “toxicity testing”, but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face |
| 1:35 PM • | Chris Morris / Fortune: Taylor Swift's new album smashed streaming records; Spotify says it had 300M+ streams on launch day and became 2024's most-streamed album within just 12 hours |
| 1:15 PM • | Ming-Chi Kuo: Sources: Apple cut 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400K to 450K units, compared to a 700K+ market consensus, and US demand has “fallen sharply beyond expectations” |
| 1:05 PM • | Victoria Song / The Verge: Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get support for video calling via WhatsApp and Messenger, hands-free Apple Music controls, and a new frame style |
| 12:45 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sources: AI search engine Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5B to $3B valuation; previous backers NEA and IVP are among those looking to invest |
| 12:00 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Repairable laptop maker Framework Computer raised a $17M Series A-1, after an $18M Series A in early 2022, to expand into new product categories |
| 11:45 AM • | Victoria Song / The Verge: Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions |
| 10:25 AM • | Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge: Apple schedules a “special Apple Event” for May 7 at 10am ET, where new iPads are expected; rumors suggest the iPad Pro will get an OLED display and an M3 chip |
| 9:40 AM • | Dave Lee / Bloomberg: As Congress' TikTok bill moves ahead, US lawmakers must show on what grounds they are forcing a sale or ban of the popular and culturally significant platform |
| 9:25 AM • | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: Meta, Google, OpenAI, and other AI companies and organizations sign on to an initiative committing to guard against the creation and spread of AI-generated CSAM |
| 9:15 AM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos updates its Android and iOS apps, rebuilding them to become more reliable, and plans to discontinue its Windows and macOS apps in favor of web apps |
| 9:10 AM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Perplexity AI, which offers an AI chatbot that summarizes search results, raised ~$63M led by Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation, up from $520M in January 2024 |
| 8:25 AM • | The Citizen Lab: Analysis of pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi: flaws reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers |
| 7:20 AM • | Washington Post: Google fires ~20 more staff the company says participated in protests denouncing an Israeli cloud contract; an activist workers' group says the total is now 50+ |
| 7:05 AM • | Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: Sources: two SEC lawyers resigned after a US federal judge sanctioned and sharply rebuked the SEC for “gross abuse” of power in crypto platform DEBT Box's case |
| 6:45 AM • | Counterpoint Research: iPhone sales in China fell 19.1% YoY to a 15.7% share in Q1 2024; Vivo fell 0.4% YoY to 17.4%, Honor rose 11.5% YoY to 16.1%, and Huawei rose 69.7% YoY to 15.5% |
| 6:25 AM • | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify Q1: revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% to 615M, vs. 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% to 239M, and a €168M operating income; SPOT closes up 11.41% |
| 6:20 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe adds AI tools powered by its new Firefly Image 3 model to Photoshop, including Reference Image to inspire the AI's output, available in beta on desktop |
| 5:55 AM • | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Kaiko: in the past year, Binance's bitcoin trading share outside the US fell from 81.3% to 55.3%, OKX's rose from 3% to 7.3%, and Bybit's rose from 2% to 9.3% |
| 5:40 AM • | Reuters: Analysis: 10 Chinese entities acquired advanced Nvidia chips embedded in Supermicro, Dell, and Gigabyte products from November 20, 2023, to February 28, 2024 |
| 5:25 AM • | Mike Cherney / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk criticizes Australia's order to remove a video of a religious leader's stabbing, after the eSafety commissioner took X to court and the PM weighed in |
| 5:11 AM • | Bloomberg: French electrical equipment maker Legrand agrees to acquire Dutch health software company Enovation from PE firm Main Capital Partners, sources say for €500M+ |
| 4:45 AM • | Emilia David / The Verge: Microsoft debuts Phi-3 Mini, a small 3.8B-parameter model about as capable as GPT-3.5, and plans Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium models with 7B and 14B parameters |
| 4:15 AM • | Financial Times: A look at Jeff Yass' Susquehanna International Group, which has a ~15% ByteDance stake worth ~$40B and has invested $3.5B+ into 350+ China startups since 2005 |
| 2:25 AM • | Financial Times: Q&A with BCG CEO Christoph Schweizer, who says the consulting firm expects 20% of its 2024 revenue and 40% of its 2026 revenue to come via helping integrate AI |
| 12:30 AM • | Akila Quinio / Financial Times: Revolut plans an ad sales push, expects to derive a “proper chunk” of its revenue from targeted ads, and hires an ex-TikTok executive to lead its media strategy |
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