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Filing: Fidelity marks down its Twitter stake, estimating that Twitter is now worth about 33% of the $44B that Elon Musk paid, down from 44% in November 2022 — Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Eclypsium: a firmware flaw in 271 Gigabyte motherboards could let hackers install malware when the PC restarts; Gigabyte plans a fix, but problems could persist — Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple touts an Analysis Group study saying App Store ecosystem generated $1.1T in 2022, up 29% YoY, with $910B coming from sales of physical goods and services — Ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference next week, the company is offering an update on its app ecosystem with the release …
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says he was humbled and outraged by toxic workplace claims and blames “outside forces” for most of Activision's image issues — Bobby Kotick has a secret: He was ready to buy Time Warner a few years ago.The CEO of Activision Blizzard drops this nugget early …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
After a fake image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon went viral, Twitter adds Community Notes to images, set to appear on “recent and future matching images” — Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly …
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A look at the BabyLM Challenge, which aims to create language models with datasets that are less than one-ten-thousandth the size of those used by advanced LLMs — Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. — When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.
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| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Torrent site RARBG, founded in 2008, shuts down and stops its content releases, citing COVID-related health problems, the Russia-Ukraine war, and inflation — RARBG, one of the world's largest torrent sites, has said “farewell” to millions of users. The site, which was a prominent … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Magic, which offers SDKs to help companies create and maintain bespoke on-chain crypto wallets, raised $52M led by PayPal Ventures at a sub-$500M valuation — The biggest crypto wallet you've never heard of is flourishing. San Francisco-based Magic announced on Wednesday that it's raised $52 million …
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised ~$240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more — If you've been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of Papa.
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| Jenny Surane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Plaid, valued at $13.4B, and co-founder Zach Perret, after a $58M data scraping settlement in 2022, as the startup expands and fights a PNC lawsuit — Zap $50 to a friend via Venmo. Trade Bitcoin on Robinhood. Get a student loan with SoFi.
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A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company attempts to take Nvidia's AI chip crown — AMD's CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker's stock price up nearly 30-fold in less than a decade.
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@alexrkonrad, @hkanji, and @richardjnieva
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration is split on how to regulate generative AI; some support the EU's model while others want to avoid a competitive disadvantage — Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings — The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Garmin launches the $800 Fenix 7 Pro and $900 Epix 2 Pro in 42mm, 47mm, and 51mm sizes, both with an LED flashlight, better heart rate sensor, and improved maps — Garmin's joining the Pro bandwagon. On Wednesday, it's launching the Epix 2 Pro and Fenix 7 Pro, which both come with a boatload …
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How Taiwan became indispensable in the electronics supply chain, creating Taiwanese, Chinese, and US interdependence that has deepened even as tensions rise — In the days after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year, Taiwanese suppliers to U.S. tech giants including Apple …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based Hostaway, which offers vacation rental management tools, raised $175M led by PSG Equity, after raising less than $3M since its founding in 2015 — Tourism and travel have come roaring back into business post-pandemic, and today a startup called Hostaway that's building technology …
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Filing: Amazon's Ring agrees to pay $5.8M to settle FTC allegations that until 2017 Ring gave employees and third-party contractors access to customers' videos — Amazon.com Inc.'s Ring unit agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations Wednesday its doorbell cameras spied on users.
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
After raising $730M+, UK chip startup Graphcore reported $5M+ in 2021 revenue and a $183M loss; Microsoft, an investor, reportedly declined to use its chips — Nvidia is riding the AI wave to absurd heights. Its UK rival: not so much. But first... If your company sells components designed … | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon Echo Pop review: a $40 bargain, nice design, good sound for its size, and speedy responses, but fewer hardware features and less voice aware than the Dot — As the latest entry-level Alexa smart speaker, the $40 Echo Pop packs a lot of value into a small package.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Reddit client Apollo's developer says Reddit plans to charge $12K for 50M API requests and that he would need to pay $20M per year to keep operating the app — Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing.
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| Iain Withers / Reuters: |
Monzo reports FY 2023 revenue up 131% YoY to £355.6M, and net loss down 2% YoY to £116.3M; CEO TS Anil says an IPO in NYC or London is “some ways down the road” — British digital bank Monzo marginally narrowed its annual loss in the year to February 2023 …
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