Techmeme
May 14, 2024, 12:35 PM

Top News

Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, replaced by Matt Garman, effective June 3; Selipsky joined AWS in 2005 and became CEO in 2021  —  Matt Garman, the SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO.
Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz:
Sony Interactive Entertainment announces two new CEOs: Hermen Hulst, who will lead studios, and Hideaki Nishino, who will lead platforms, effective June 1  —  Hulst will lead the Studios business, while Nishino takes charge of the platform side  —  News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Square Enix's stock falls 16%, its biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its AAA games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short  —  - Big titles released on PlayStation fell short, president says  — Games development overhaul seen taking time to bear fruit
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$22.4B, above ~$18.5B est., operating profit up 57% YoY to ~$1.5B, and 20.8M PS5 units sold in FY 2023, below guidance  —  Sony on Tuesday reported a 7% drop in annual profits in the fiscal year 2023, dragged down by a decline in its financial services division.
OpenAI on YouTube:
Ina Fried / Axios:
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Ina Fried / Axios:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price”  —  Get ready for the next cable-like streaming bundle: Comcast later this month will launch a three-way bundle …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: gorgeous screen, thin, the M4 is fast, and the front camera is in the right spot on the side, but iPadOS lags behind the hardware  —  Apple's latest high-end tablet is a marvel of hardware design still in need of the software and accessories to really make it sing.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
The US plans to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China, including chips, EVs, and batteries, impacting $18B of products; chip tariffs will double from 2025  —  Action designed to protect American jobs, as Joe Biden campaigns for votes across rustbelt  —  The Biden administration …
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not share any plans to ship such a build  —  Google privately demoed this capability to other companies recently.  —  •  —  TL;DR  — Google has developed a method to run Chrome OS on its Pixel devices.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform detection of unwanted tracking devices, EU app downloads from websites, News+ features like offline mode, and more  —  Apple today released iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, major updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September.
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk:
A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months for money laundering; Pertsev was first jailed in August 2022  —  Alexey Pertsev was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022.  — Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in jail for money laundering
Reuters:
The US orders China-linked crypto mining company MineOne to sell its property near an Air Force base in Wyoming within 120 days, citing national security risks  —  The White House on Monday gave a Chinese-linked company and its partners 120 days to sell property they had bought near …
Bloomberg:
Polymarket, a decentralized prediction and betting market with a focus on elections, has raised $70M across two rounds, the most recent led by Founders Fund  —  - Founders fund, Buterin Back $70 Million Polymarket fundraising  — Polymarket has become a major platform for election bettors
Toby Sterling / Reuters:
TSMC plans to start building its first European facility in Q4 2024, ahead of production in 2027; TSMC unveiled plans for an $11B factory in Germany last August  —  Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) plans to start construction of its first European facility in the fourth quarter of 2024, it said on Tuesday.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Anthropic launches its Claude chatbot and subscription plans in Europe, available to individuals and businesses through the web and via an iPhone app  —  Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon, said Monday it's launching its generative AI assistant Claude in Europe on Tuesday.
Chris Kerr / Game Developer:
SEC filing: Unity Create CPO and CTO Marc Whitten is stepping down on June 1, less than one year after becoming entangled in the company's Runtime Fee fiasco  —  Unity executive Marc Whitten is stepping down on June 1, 2024, less than a year after becoming entangled in the company's Runtime Fee fiasco.

Sponsor Posts

Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few  —  Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
5 common accounting mistakes  —  This is a guest post by Yaali Bizappln Solutions.  A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms.  This disconnect often leads to missed invoices …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 11/21 - What The DOJ Wants Google To Do
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:35 PM ET, May 14, 2024.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

Ian King / Bloomberg:

Earlier Picks

Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Georgia Gee / Wired:
Kenrick Cai / Forbes:
Washington Post: