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Sources: Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams, including its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to Mexico and India — Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month — Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. — The generative artificial intelligence startup … | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers GPUs in the cloud, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, up from $7B after raising $642M in December 2023 — Company raises $1.1 billion from investors including Fidelity, Magnetar Capital — CoreWeave, a cloud-computing company backed by Nvidia …
More: The Information, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, CNBC, CoreWeave, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Proactive, and VC News Daily. X: @andrewcurran_
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
In a US Senate hearing, the UnitedHealth CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA — UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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| Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: |
Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses — Internal documents indicate Block processed crypto transactions for terrorist groups and Square processed transactions involving nations subject to economic sanctions.
More: Decrypt, Engadget, The Block, crypto.news, Investor's Business Daily, Protos, Reuters, Proactive, and The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
DOJ v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was “very, very worried” in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella — - Google faces US antitrust case about its dominance in search — Microsoft's communications deemed relevant to defense by judge| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
LinkedIn debuts three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku- and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb — How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”? — LinkedIn, the professional network known …
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024 — Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” — During its Team '24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify money laundering on Bitcoin's blockchain — Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on …
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| Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times: |
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up — The company announced a new category of outlandish stays in partnership with brands and celebrities, building on the success of gimmicks like the Barbie Malibu DreamHouse.
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| Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters: |
Ofcom opens an investigation into OnlyFans over its measures to stop children from accessing porn, after reviewing its “response to formal information requests” — Britain's media regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into OnlyFans, it said on Wednesday …
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| Reuters: |
Reuters/Ipsos poll: ~58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”, and 50% support banning TikTok — - A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
An APK review suggests Rabbit's R1 runs Android, and its entire UI is powered by a single Android app; founder Jesse Lyu says “rabbit r1 is not an Android app” — The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is certainly powered by an Android app under the hood. — • — TL;DR
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at GM's risky bet to replace Apple's CarPlay with its own infotainment system, gambling on its software group, as carmakers worry over Apple's power — The uneasy relationship between Detroit and Cupertino is on display in a flawed rollout of GM's new software.
More: Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and The Verge
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar on her role, working at DARPA, AI, showing ChatGPT to Biden, and more — Arati Prabhakar has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.| Emilia David / The Verge: |
In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized — The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care, citing “escalating operating costs”; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in May 2021 — Walmart isn't making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after acquiring LastPass; the service suffered high-profile hacks in 2022 — It's been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the company now says it has separated from its parent company, GoTo.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack now lets writers paywall their Chat discussion spaces and says active Chat participants are 12% more likely to retain their subscriptions — Substack is launching the ability for writers to paywall their entire Chat or specific threads to paid or founding members only, the company announced on Wednesday.| Politico: |
How all the bills under consideration in US states meant to address AI bias contain loopholes that would make it too easy for companies to avoid accountability — AI is potentially transformative. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on whether we set the right rules.
More: Politico. X: @cendemtech, @gracegedye, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @stevenoverly, @workedfineindev, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @gracegedye, and @cradvocacy
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program — Officials say Starlink's satellites will probably fill gaps in the Biden administration's $42 billion push to hook every American home up to high-speed internet| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot that became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities to GPT-4 — An advanced AI model with unknown origins turned heads this week as online communities unpacked a cryptic tweet from Sam Altman.
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