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Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks — Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out after her nomination stalled for 16 months, amid industry opposition
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple's upcoming 15-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro will feature an 8-core M3 chip, the same core count as the M1 and M2 — We've been hearing rumors about a new MacBook Air for a while, but some details about it remain unclear. 9to5Mac has now heard … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after eliminating 11,000+, or ~13% of its staff, in November 2022 in its first major layoff — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees …
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Meta tests returning messaging features to the Facebook app, nearly a decade after moving them to Messenger, hoping to “differentiate” Facebook from TikTok — New York CNN — — Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features …
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Apple announces a yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, 2023's spring color after the “alpine green” option on all iPhone 13 models in 2022, shipping on March 14 — Unlike last year, the new color variant won't be available for the Pro models and will only ship with the base iPhone 14 and the 14 Plus.
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| Harshit Rastogi / Counterpoint Research: |
Apple had eight of the top 10 best-selling smartphones in 2022, led by the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro Max; Samsung's Galaxy A13 was fourth and its A03 was 10th — - Apple captured eight spots in the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones for 2022. — The remaining two spots were taken by Samsung's Galaxy A13 and A03 models.
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
US senators unveil the bipartisan RESTRICT Act to let the US ban foreign-linked makers of apps and electronics the Commerce Dept. deems a national security risk — A dozen US senators unveiled bipartisan legislation Tuesday expanding President Joe Biden's legal authority to ban TikTok nationwide …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on rolling out a dedicated video feed, Google and search, moderation, AI, NFTs, growing its 500M+ MAUs, and more — Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline. … Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI tools to Customer 360, Tableau, MuleSoft, and Slack using data from its Data Cloud — - Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce.
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Many VCs question whether the generative AI startups attracting eye-watering valuations will make enough money, fearing a repeat of the crypto investment hype — Silicon Valley VCs fearing a repeat of falling crypto values warn against pouring cash into hype-fuelled start-ups
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FTX sues Grayscale, Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein, DCG, and DCG CEO Barry Silbert, citing $1.3B+ in “exorbitant management fees” and hoping to “unlock” $9B+ — - FTX' debtors are suing Grayscale Investment, its owners and its CEO over their handling …
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After Instagram added a Facebook cross-post prompt, sources say at Meta's request, some young adults are flummoxed why their photos and stories are on Facebook — Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to retire overlay ads on YouTube videos starting on April 6 to “improve the viewer experience and shift engagement to higher performing ad formats” — YouTube is changing the way some ads are shown on videos very soon with the removal of “Overlay ads” from content starting April 6.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Meta stands by its AI release strategy after LLaMA, an LLM the company gave to approved organizations and researchers, was leaked as a torrent by a 4chan user — The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society.| Andrew Marino / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence and producer Giles Martin on the Era 100 and 300 speakers, spatial audio, Atmos, sustainability, the Google lawsuit, and more — They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos' new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it.
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