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| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
Google's Bard announcement tweet included a GIF of the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope; GOOG drops 7%+ — Google published an online advertisement in which its much anticipated AI chatbot BARD delivered inaccurate answers.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google shares AI updates across its services: expanding multisearch globally on mobile, Maps features for EV drivers, Lens AR translation, and Translate context — Google announced a bunch of AI-enabled search, Maps, and Translate updates as part of its Google presents: Live from Paris event on Wednesday.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Immersive View for Maps in London, LA, NYC, San Francisco, and Tokyo and plans to roll out “glanceable directions” globally in the coming months — Google is launching new updates for Maps that are part of its plan to make the navigation app more immersive … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA finds Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition would harm competition in the UK's gaming market, suggests and asks Microsoft for remedies — Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will harm competition in the UK gaming market …
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| Financial Times: |
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the UK could lose out on thousands of jobs by blocking Microsoft's acquisition and accuses Sony of “trying to sabotage” the bid — Bobby Kotick appeals to ‘fragile’ government as video game maker awaits decision on $75bn sale
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google's AI demo in Paris paled in comparison to Microsoft's “new Bing” event, highlighting why Google needs to widely release its ChatGPT rival service Bard — Google demoed its latest advances in AI search at a live event in Paris on Wednesday — but the features pale in comparison …
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
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| @twitterblue: |
Twitter lets US Blue subscribers tweet up to 4,000 characters; in timelines, longer tweets will be capped at 280 characters and have an option to “Show more” — need more than 280 characters to express yourself? we know that lots of you do... and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to Tweet everything all at once. we get that. so we're introducing longer Tweets! you're gonna want to check this out. tap this 👉... https://twitter.com/...
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| Washington Post: |
A live blog of the House Oversight Committee hearing with ex-Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, James Baker, and Yoel Roth on Hunter Biden laptop “censorship” — A congressional hearing Wednesday represents a moment of political reckoning more than two years in the making …
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| David Friend / Canadian Press: |
Netflix rolls out its long-anticipated password sharing rules in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain; other countries will be added in the next few months — Under new rules, premium and standard account holders will be given option to add extra members for $7.99 per month| Brian Fung / CNN: |
NetBlocks: Turkish ISPs limit Twitter access two days after a major earthquake; Turkish police detain 18 people for sharing “provocative posts” on social media — Access to Twitter has been restricted in Turkey, according to reports by an internet monitoring company …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Clay Bavor, a Google veteran of 18 years who recently led the company's AR/VR efforts, leaves to start an AI company with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor — For the past few years, Google's AR and VR efforts have been led by Clay Bavor. The longtime executive is now set to leave the company next month.
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Clay Bavor, The Information, TechCrunch, The Verge, and CNBC
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Microsoft plans to embed Adobe's Acrobat PDF tech in Edge for Windows 10 and Windows 11 starting in March 2023 and remove Edge's legacy PDF engine in March 2024 — Microsoft announced today that it is partnering with Adobe to bring Acrobat PDF capabilities to the Microsoft Edge web browser on Windows.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Mozilla says the company is doing “exploratory work” for a Gecko-based browser on iOS in case Apple drops its WebKit requirement, after a similar move by Google — Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again — UPDATED Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple …
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Computerworld, BetaNews, Macworld, Tom's Guide, iThinkDifferent, and Thurrott
| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Chiliz, the crypto startup behind fan token service Socios, launches its Layer 1 blockchain Chiliz Chain 2.0, a BNB Chain fork, shifting away from Ethereum — Marking its fifth anniversary, sports-focused crypto startup Chiliz has officially unveiled its own layer-1 EVM-compatible blockchain.
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Chiliz, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, and CoinDesk
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.6B, gross bookings up 19% YoY to $30.7B, MAUs up 11% YoY to 131M, and customer trips up 19% YoY to a record 2.1B — The company, which was hit hard in the early stages of the pandemic, saw revenue jump 49 percent from the same period a year ago.
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Gizmodo, The Information, Tech Xplore, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Uber, Financial Times, and Fast Company
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Apple names Carol Surface as its first chief people officer, removing human resources responsibilities from its head of retail Deirdre O'Brien — Apple Inc. is hiring its first chief people officer and removing human resources responsibilities from its head of retail … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands Gifts, a monetization feature that lets fans tip Reels creators using its virtual currency Stars, to more US creators, after a test in 2022 — Instagram announced today it's expanding access to a new monetization feature called Gifts to more creators across the U.S. The feature …
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Instagram for Creators, Meta, Social Media Today, and Neowin
Tweets: @mosseri, @talk2trav, and @mattnavarra
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
At the State of the Union, Biden called for Congress to strengthen data privacy protections and antitrust enforcement to stop Big Tech from self-preferencing — President Joe Biden threw his support behind tougher rules regulating Silicon Valley during his Second State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
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The Hill, The White House, Wired, Gizmodo, TIME, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @brianstelter, @swiftstories, @c_barraud, @garyshapiro, @time, and @charliekirk11
| Bloomberg: |
Masayoshi Son now owes SoftBank ~$5.1B on side deals he set up to boost his compensation, after his unrealized losses grew by ~$400M from three months prior — Masayoshi Son is now personally on the hook for about $5.1 billion on side deals he set up at SoftBank Group Corp. to boost his compensation …
Tweets: @pelstrom, @pelstrom, and @iamsamirarora
| Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter reinstates Republican Senator Steve Daines, banned over a hunting photo flagged for “graphic violence”, after Elon Musk amended a rule for showing blood — Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, says his account was blocked over a picture flagged for ‘graphic violence’Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
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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