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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting Apple's tradeoffs, and more — Now that it can be strapped to our faces and worn in strange places, opinions about Apple's Vision Pro are flying left and right.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
OpenAI starts testing a “memory” feature that is on by default and lets ChatGPT and custom GPTs remember info about users and their conversations over time — Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth …
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| The Information: |
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, leaves the company; Karpathy was developing a product that he described as an AI assistant — Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU ends its DMA investigation into iMessage and Microsoft Bing, Edge, and Advertising, deciding not to designate the services as gatekeepers — - Services not dominant enough to face Digital Markets Act … A probe concluded that the services don't hold a dominant enough position …
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| Vanessa Gera / Associated Press: |
Polish PM Donald Tusk says state authorities under the previous government used NSO's Pegasus spyware illegally against a “very long” list of hacking victims — Poland's new prime minister said Tuesday he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Walmart is in talks to buy smart TV manufacturer Vizio for $2B+, as the company looks to bolster its advertising business in its battle with Amazon — Retail giant discussing a more than $2 billion deal that would boost its advertising business in battle with Amazon| Alison Snyder / Axios: |
Cohere's nonprofit research lab releases its open-source multilingual LLM Aya, which the lab says can follow instructions in more than 100 languages — A new open-source generative AI model can follow instructions in more than 100 languages. … - It covers more than twice as many languages … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Waymo has issued a software fix for its cars, its first recall, after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix in December 2023 — Waymo is voluntarily recalling the software that powers its robotaxi fleet after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona, in December.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Foundry Group, an 18-year-old VC firm with nearly $3.5B in assets under management, has quietly decided to wind down and not raise any more funds — Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5 billion in assets under management, has quietly decided to shut down and not raise any more funds.
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Copilot for Microsoft 365 testers question the $30/seat price and find Copilot the most useful in Teams and the least in Excel; Dow and others plan big rollouts — Artificial-intelligence aide handles email, meetings and other things, but its price and limited use have some skeptical| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Slack 10 years after its launch: early success, going public in 2019, being acquired by Salesforce, and how the service changed work culture — A decade later, it's clear that Slack changed work culture, even at companies that don't use it. … Most enterprise software is shitty.
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| Alistair Barr / Business Insider: |
A typo in Lyft's Q4 release mistakenly forecast a 500 BPS of EBITDA margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge, before the error was corrected to 50 BPS — - Lyft mistakenly forecast 500 basis points of margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge.
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| Antonia Mufarech / Bloomberg: |
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
For the first time since 2002, Nvidia ended a trading day with a bigger market value than Amazon, as its market cap reached $1.78T, fueled by the AI boom — - Nvidia surpassed Amazon in market capitalization on Tuesday. — It's a sign of how strong demand is for chips that can run cutting-edge AI …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $803M, vs. $804M est., and plans to cut ~250, or ~7%, of its staff; three top execs are leaving for personal reasons — - Instacart on Tuesday announced it would lay off about 250 employees, or roughly 7% of the company, alongside reporting fourth-quarter earnings …
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| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge says OpenAI must face a claim of violating CA unfair competition law by using copyrighted books, but dismisses some claims like DMCA violations — Search by Law Firm Search by Topic Search by Company — OpenAI Inc. must face a claim that it violated California unfair competition law … | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
In a research paper, Apple researchers detail a new AI tool called Keyframer, which uses LLMs to animate static images through natural language prompts — Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI tool called “Keyframer,” which harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs) … | Bloomberg: |
Co-CEO of SoftBank Vision Funds Alex Clavel says the VC is “looking very carefully” at generative AI firms, as SoftBank embraces a cautious investment approach — Once known for bestowing ten-figure valuations, the firm is now embracing a more modest approach
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in its VPN, Relay, its Online Footprint Scrubber, and mozilla.social, shut down Hubs, and cut ~60 employees — After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/browsers, and r/technology
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
A Mozilla study of 11 AI romance chatbots finds that they harvest personal information extensively, and that 10 of them may sell or share the data they collect — The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.| Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$25.11B, operating income up 10% YoY to ~$3.1B, meeting est., and 8.2M PS5s sold, roughly 1M units lower than projected — - Company reversing course after taking the unit private in 2020 — Underwhelming PlayStation 5 sales led to sales outlook cutSponsor Posts
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