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Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run — Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's next-gen display and car teams were reportedly based — The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
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Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board — - The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers …
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OpenAI's COO says that ChatGPT Enterprise has 600K+ paying customers, up from ~150K in January, and 2024 will be “the year of adoption for AI in the enterprise” — - ChatGPT Enterprise now has more than 600,000 users signed up — COO says this ‘is going to be the year of adoption for AI’| Bloomberg: |
Sources: FTX estate sold 25M to 30M locked-up SOL coins for $64 apiece, a deeply discounted price, to Galaxy Trading, Pantera, and others, raising up to $1.9B — - Galaxy raised $620 million fund to buy discounted SOL from FTX — Sales were done at big discount to SOL's current market price| Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will crack down on password sharing in June 2024 in some countries and more broadly in September 2024; Disney+ isn't profitable — New York CNN — — Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.
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How a TikTok whistleblower may have driven congressional concerns about the app despite working at TikTok for just six months and making improbable claims — Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable.| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit of $4.9B, up 931% YoY, and sales of $52.68B, up 11.4% YoY, as memory chip prices surge, hinting end of the chip downturn — World's biggest maker of memory chips beats expectations with strong first-quarter guidance — Samsung Electronics expects …
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A look at Marissa Mayer's troubled startup Sunshine, which raised $20M, and its photo-sharing app Shine, which a source says had ~1K downloads on its first day — Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn't ready| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI — As a devoted NBA fan, I only tune in to college basketball once a year—for March Madness—hoping to see the next big star.
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Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown — Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for US' chip manufacturing plans — South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin
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