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Sources: Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams, including its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to Mexico and India — Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income — The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and it'll take “several months” to notify victims — Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
In a US Senate hearing, the UnitedHealth CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA — UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month — Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. — The generative artificial intelligence startup …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed — Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
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| Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times: |
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up — The company announced a new category of outlandish stays in partnership with brands and celebrities, building on the success of gimmicks like the Barbie Malibu DreamHouse.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP — Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners.| Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: |
Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses — Internal documents indicate Block processed crypto transactions for terrorist groups and Square processed transactions involving nations subject to economic sanctions.| Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: |
The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks — A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution …
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers GPUs in the cloud, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, up from $7B after raising $642M in December 2023 — Company raises $1.1 billion from investors including Fidelity, Magnetar Capital — CoreWeave, a cloud-computing company backed by Nvidia …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco — Game engine maker Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former COO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member.
More: Video Games Chronicle, Mobilegamer.biz, and Unity Technologies
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” — During its Team '24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Intel's efforts to build Ohio One, a “mega fab” that could become the world's largest chip factory and for which the company has committed $28B — A few months ago, a tugboat set off from New Orleans, pushing a barge up the Mississippi River.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised brand-name routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks — How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet. — Cybercriminals and spies working … | Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024 — Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year.
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Forums: r/BatmanArkham, r/OculusQuest, r/Games, and r/BatmanArkham
| Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator's chief data officer and director of its data division — Commodity Futures Trading Commission has promoted Ted Kaouk to the chief data and artificial intelligence officer role
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Cybersecurity experts say responses to the new US data breach disclosure rules, which have raised legal risks for public companies and their CISOs, have varied — New US rules around the disclosure of data breaches are heaping more pressure on information security chiefs| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200,000 people with AI skills in the country — - Nadella announces plan for more AI infrastructure in Malaysia — Tech companies are targeting Southeast Asia as new growth area
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Reuters/Ipsos poll: ~58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”, and 50% support banning TikTok — - A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted …
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