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Apple schedules WWDC 2023 for June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event with a June 5 keynote, where iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS 14 are expected — Apple today announced that its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 — Publisher of ‘Madden NFL’ and other videogame series is also making office-space reductions — White-Collar Recession: Why Job Cuts Are Hitting Professional Workers
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| Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: |
Docs: Binance's CEO and other executives hid the company's China ties for years, including an office used until 2019, despite saying Binance left China in 2017 — Company documents show crypto exchange relied on country long after it said it had left in 2017
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Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried is paying his mounting legal fees from a $10M+ tax-free gift he gave his father with money borrowed from Alameda in 2021 — While still CEO of now-collapsed FTX, Bankman-Fried transferred millions of dollars to his father. Some of those funds have since been used …
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Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and 1,000+ people sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months — We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. — Signatures
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| Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: |
Goldman Sachs research finds generative AI could increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period and expose 300M full-time jobs to automation globally — Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’ — The latest breakthroughs …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran — Google is launching a new ad transparency center that will let users search for verified advertisers and their campaigns across … | Justin Ling / Wired: |
Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys — Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.| Financial Times: |
As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about potential abuses, disinformation, and hallucination — Microsoft, Amazon and Google among those to cut ‘responsible AI’ teams as part of broader reductions
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded — Disney and Microsoft both closed projects tied to the digital realm this month — Watch: What's the Future of the Metaverse?
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find a flaw in Wi-Fi protocol IEEE 802.11 that could be exploited to inject malicious content into TCP packets and more, impacting routers and OSes — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Lemon8, ByteDance's Instagram rival launched in March 2020, hits the US App Store's top 10; data.ai: Lemon8 never before ranked in the US top 200 overall charts — As U.S. lawmakers move forward with their plans for a TikTok ban or forced sale, the app's Chinese parent company ByteDance … | Christopher M. Matthews / Wall Street Journal: |
Court records and messages from alleged hackers reveal a massive hacking campaign targeting thousands of environmental activists, dating back to at least 2017 — Charity of Rockefeller heirs among groups targeted by hackers; oil giant not accused of wrongdoing
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The SEC sues shuttered crypto exchange Beaxy and its execs for allegedly not registering and Beaxy Digital's founder for raising $8M via unregistered token BXY — - The SEC brought charges against crypto platform Beaxy on Wednesday for allegedly not registering as an exchange, broker or a clearing agency.| New York Times: |
How NetEase and Activision's 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China's tech crackdown, as filings show the deal was worth ~$750M in annual revenue — Activision Blizzard and NetEase could not agree on a new deal to distribute video games in China, cutting millions of players from the games in January.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to launch extreme heat alerts in Search, including telling users when a heat wave is expected to start and end, keeping safe, and tips to stay cool — Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves …
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Kate Brandt, Akshay Sriprasad, and Torsten Schuppe
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on open-source governance, business models, rejecting VC firms, running instances, ActivityPub, content moderation, and more — CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network. … Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Fetch.ai, which develops infrastructure to help “build, deploy, and connect smart agents to automate Web3 systems”, raised $40M from DWF Labs — AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based LeapXpert, which monitors staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, and iMessage for compliance, raised a $22M Series A+ led by Rockefeller — The pandemic brought with it a spike in work-from-home and hybrid work, which increased peoples' dependence on personal devices …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble — OpenAI's success in overtaking Google with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has achieved what seemed impossible in the past …
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@fmanjoo, @jon_victor_, @amir, and @amir
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK government publishes recommendations for AI and tasks regulators with issuing practical guidance to organizations on implementing them in their sectors — - The U.K. government has published a white paper for the artificial intelligence industry. — It calls on regulators to come up with …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Netflix's iOS app code suggests the company may expand its video game service to TV sets for the first time, using phones as controllers — Netflix Inc. is working to bring its nascent video-game service to television sets for the first time, moving beyond smartphones and tablets in a sign of its growing ambitions.
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