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Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023 — - Amazon will lay off 9,000 more employees in the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Microsoft plans to launch an app store for Android and iOS games as soon as 2024 if regulators clear its $75B Activision bid and the EU's DMA rules take effect — Xbox boss Phil Spencer says store could launch as soon as next year if regulators clear Activision Blizzard deal
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| ABC News: |
An interview with Sam Altman on how “people should be happy” OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, GPT-4's rollout, large-scale disinformation, and more — “This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Runway, which helped make Stable Diffusion, unveils its Gen 2 system for creating three-second video snippets from text-based prompts, available via a waitlist — Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images. For months, services like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Netflix plans to launch 40 games in 2023 and has a further 70 in development with its partners, after releasing 55 titles since adding games in November 2021 — Netflix has announced that it has 40 games slated for launch this year and has 70 in development with its partners.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Microsoft speech recognition subsidiary Nuance debuts Dragon Ambient eXperience Express, which uses GPT-4 to generate clinical note drafts after patient visits — - Microsoft and its Nuance Communications subsidiary announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, a clinical notes application …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of famous people or fictional characters — It's only a matter of time until rights holders notice that new AI tools are playing a little loose with their intellectual property.
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| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
The FDIC plans to break up SVB and hold an auction for its traditional deposits unit and another for its private bank, after failing to find a buyer last week — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Monday decided to break up Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and hold two separate auctions …
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The FDIC plans to sell all of Signature Bank's 40 branches to Flagstar Bank, as well as some Signature loans and deposits not in its digital banking business — A subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (NYCB.N) has entered into an agreement with U.S. regulators to purchase deposits and loans …
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| Washington Post: |
CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Elon Musk's acquisition — Happy Monday! If you thought it was a busy news cycle last week, buckle up. Send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
TikTok announces its video app has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M MAUs in August 2020; in September 2021, TikTok reported 1B+ MAUs globally — TikTok said on Monday the short-video sharing app now has 150 million monthly active users in the United States, up from 100 million it said it had in 2020.| Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times: |
Sources: in 2021, the phone of a US and Greek national who worked on Meta's security and trust team was infected with Predator spyware from an Athens-based firm — Artemis Seaford, a dual U.S.-Greek national, was targeted with a cyberespionage tool while also under a wiretap by the Greek spy agency …
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