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Tue Apr 30
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted "maybe a third" of Americans and notifying victims will take "several months" (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out "soon" and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
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US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
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Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
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Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly "Chat with RTX", to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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eBay reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $2.56B, vs. $2.53B est., GMV up 1% to $18.6B, net income down 23% to $439M, and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
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DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.45B est., total orders up 21% YoY, and forecasts Q2 core profit below est.; DASH drops 9%+ after hours (Reuters)
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Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.34B est., handset sales up 1% YoY to $6.18B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Substack now lets writers paywall their Chat discussion spaces and says active Chat participants are 12% more likely to retain their subscriptions (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
18h
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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 (Orlando Mayorquín/New York Times)
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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 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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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 (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
20h
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Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and "complete projects" (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
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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 (Steven Levy/Wired)
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Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses (Gretchen Morgenson/NBC News)
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LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after acquiring LastPass; the service suffered high-profile hacks in 2022 (Wes Davis/The Verge)
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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 (Hayden Field/CNBC)
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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 (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
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Reuters/Ipsos poll: ~58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to "influence American public opinion", and 50% support banning TikTok (Reuters)
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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 (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
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LinkedIn debuts three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku- and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
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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 (Emilia David/The Verge)
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Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify money laundering on Bitcoin's blockchain (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
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How an informal supper club became a US tech lobbying force, helping draft the TikTok bill; sources: the group plans an EO for Trump to reverse Biden's AI rules (Washington Post)
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Changpeng Zhao's short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing referred to sealed documents and "cooperation", perhaps over Binance user details (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
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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 (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
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Ofcom opens an investigation into OnlyFans over its measures to stop children from accessing porn, after reviewing its "response to formal information requests" (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
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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 (Bloomberg)
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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 (Bloomberg)
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Sources: Huawei moves Yu Chengdong, the high-profile chief of its consumer business who has held the job since 2012, to a new role as chair of the unit (Reuters)
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Rabbit releases the R1's first software update, with "up to 5x" improved idle battery performance, a better music playback UI, more reliable Bluetooth, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
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China implements a revised State Secrets Law, requiring Tencent, Weibo, and other internet companies to delete leaked information and comply with investigations (Yukio Tajima/Nikkei Asia)
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How bills under consideration in various US states to address AI bias contain loopholes that would make companies avoiding accountability easier (Politico)
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A Chinese seller details how he ships civilian electronics, which could be repurposed for military uses, to Russia via distributors and Russian e-commerce sites (Nikkei Asia)
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Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more (David Gilbert/Wired)
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Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care citing "escalating operating costs"; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in 2021 (Justine Calma/The Verge)
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A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry (Antonio Olivo/Washington Post)
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In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI's Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika (Financial Times)
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Taiwan's KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions (Kelly Le/South China Morning Post)
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Google Phone app beta rolls out "Audio Emoji", letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
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Filing: API Holdings, the parent company of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its $5.6B peak valuation in 2021 (Entrackr)
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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 as GPT-4 (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
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Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others (FinSMEs)
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Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (Kwan Wei Kevin Tan/Business Insider)
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The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ETH is a security (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
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Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
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AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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