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Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check's screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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Sources describe Nigeria's detention of two Binance officials, including US compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan, on charges of tax evasion and money laundering (New York Times)
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Web design and hosting platform Webflow acquires Intellimize, which had raised $50M+ and uses AI to personalize websites, a source says for "eight-figures" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Meta is restricting certain election-related keywords for Meta AI in India due to the ongoing elections; Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India last week (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Mistral is in talks to raise as much as €500M at a €5B+ valuation from VCs and wealth funds, after raising ~€400M at a €2B valuation in December 2023 (Financial Times)
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A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
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Sophos researchers find "crude" ransomware starter kits sold on the dark web from $20 to ~$13K, enabling inexperienced freelancers to easily launch attacks (James Reddick/The Record)
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UK ICO internal draft: Google's Privacy Sandbox must do more and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine the privacy of users who should remain anonymous (Wall Street Journal)
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Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
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Washington, DC-based Cape, which is developing a mobile service that doesn't ask for customers' personal data, raised a $40M Series B co-led by A-Star and a16z (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview (Ryan Morrison/Tom's Guide)
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100s for Reels' launch, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
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Digital marketing software company Ibotta closes up 17% at $103.25 per share in its trading debut, after raising ~$577.3M in an IPO priced above marketed range (Bloomberg)
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Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams from Research to DeepMind (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
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Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January 2024 (Kris Holt/Engadget)
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Netflix plans to stop reporting subscriber numbers and Average Revenue per Membership from Q1 2025, as time spent is its "best proxy for customer satisfaction" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.37B, vs. $9.28B est., paid users up 16% YoY to 269.6M, vs. 264.2M est., and net income $2.3B, up from $1.3B YoY (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
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Meta claims both Llama 3 models beat similarly sized models like Gemini, Mistral, and Claude 3 on certain benchmarks; humans marked Llama 3 higher than GPT-3.5 (Emilia David/The Verge)
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A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his "code is law" claim (Crystal Kim/Axios)
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Short-form video app Triller is merging with Hong Kong financial services company AGBA; Triller shareholders will own 80% of the combined company valued at $4B (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide)
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DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Meta rolls out real-time AI image generation, which changes the image as the user types a prompt, in beta on WhatsApp and Meta AI on the web in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 (The Information)
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Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters (Alex Heath/The Verge)
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Meta to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in 12+ countries, expanding beyond the US, powered by its new Llama 3 models (New York Times)
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TSMC says the earthquake that hit Taiwan on April 3 caused ~$92.44M in estimated losses in Q2 and there were no power outages or structural damage to its fabs (Reuters)
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Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh (David Pierce/The Verge)
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The US House Speaker plans to bundle the TikTok divestiture bill, with a longer sale deadline, in a Ukraine/Israel aid bill set to clear the House on April 20 (Bloomberg)
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Brave Search introduces Answer with AI, which shows answers synthesized from multiple sources for informational queries, appearing above organic search results (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Intel Foundry completes the assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool, a day after ASML set an EUV system record by printing 10nm dense lines (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
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Spend management startup Ramp raised a $150M Series D extension at a $7.65B valuation, up from $5.8B after raising $300M in 2023 but down from $8.1B in 2022 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
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US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok's complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass' failed real estate venture (New York Times)
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Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
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Nothing unveils the $149 Nothing Ear and $99 Nothing Ear (a), offering improved sound, personalization, and battery life; Nothing plans to integrate ChatGPT (Chris Welch/The Verge)
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TSMC CEO CC Wei says the company plans to charge more for making chips outside of Taiwan, citing higher costs due to a "fragmented globalization environment" (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
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A look at Apple's device recycling, including shredding robots and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for ~$22.6M in a case that has not seen any updates (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
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Investigation: Amazon sells ~$1M per year in goods on eBay, Shopify, Walmart, and Amazon via its "Big River" arm, to get data on pricing, logistics, and more (Wall Street Journal)
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Twitch plans to roll out its TikTok-style discovery feed later in April, letting users scroll clips and livestreams, after testing the feature for a year (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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An interview with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on the company's roadmap: faster load times, new moderator and developer tools, and AI translation (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
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French B2B software company Planisware raised €278M in a Paris IPO; its shares jumped up to 33% to ~€21 on its debut, giving Planisware a €1.1B valuation (Thyagaraju Adinarayan/Bloomberg)
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Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries (Amanda Lee/Wall Street Journal)
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Huawei releases its Pura 70 series, available for ~$760 to ~$1,380; reviewers show high-end models have a Kirin 9010 chip, an update to the Mate 60 Pro's 9000s (Bloomberg)
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Document: Microsoft added 500+ megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
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How one author gained a limited copyright for the "selection, coordination, and arrangement of text" from AI, as the US Copyright Office wrestles with AI law (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
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Crypto miners are stockpiling bitcoins ahead of the halving on April 20; TheMinerMag: Marathon Digital, CleanSpark, and Bitfarms hoarded ~$2B worth of bitcoins (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)
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TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to ~$18.87B, vs. ~$18B est., net income up 8.9% YoY to ~$6.97B, vs. ~$6.6B est., and expects strong AI chip demand in Q2 (Sheila Chiang/CNBC)
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An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but users can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful (Molly White/Citation Needed)
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Research suggests GPT-4 surpassed or achieved the same scores as all but top-scoring specialist medics in assessing ocular problems and suggesting treatments (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
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Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
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AWS discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers transport large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities (CNBC)
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