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The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks (Meredith Whittaker/LPE Project)
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Huawei reports fastest growth in four years for 2023, as revenue up 9.63% to $97.48B, net profit up 144.5% to ~$12.04B, consumer revenue up 17.3% to ~$34.79B (David Kirton/Reuters)
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An inside look at Windows and Surface leadership changes that could help Microsoft capitalize on AI PCs and transition Surface devices to Arm chips (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Experts and documents: the US is years from having a reliable alternative source for time and navigation services if GPS signals are interrupted by adversaries (New York Times)
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South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)
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New York-based The Brandtech Group, which provides generative AI-based tools for advertising and marketing campaigns, raised a $115M Series C at a $4B valuation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
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Sources: the Biden administration is making a list of advanced Chinese chip factories barred from receiving key tools, which could be released in a few months (Reuters)
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NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
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In a lawsuit, four Canadian school boards seek damages of CA$4B+ from Meta, Snap, and TikTok for allegedly causing learning and mental health crises in students (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
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Sources detail Grindr's push to monetize, including plans for an AI chatbot that can engage users in sexual conversations and may be trained on opt-in user data (Zoë Schiffer/Platformer)
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How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
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Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts (Meir Orbach/CTech)
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AI21 Labs launches Jamba, an AI model that integrates two architectures: transformer and Mamba, which is based on the Structured State Space model (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas (Washington Post)
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Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, after soaring 30% on Monday, and finish the week at $49.30, below the first trading day close of $50.44 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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YouTube now lets creators share exclusive Shorts with paying viewers, says Shorts average 70B+ daily views and 25%+ of creator partners monetize via Shorts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information)
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A researcher finds that X is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to "kill" products and features with which he took issue (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
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Sources: Apple plans to launch new iPad Pro and iPad Air models in early May; iPad Pros will get OLED displays, while iPad Air will get a 12.9" screen option (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Amazon One launches apps that use AI to scan users' palm vein structure, letting them sign up for the palm-scanning service without visiting a physical location (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Google updates Search to show crypto wallet balances across bitcoin and Ethereum Virtual Machine networks Arbitrum, Avalanche, Fantom, Optimism, and Polygon (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+ (Reuters)
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Sources: the US and UK are reviewing $20B+ in Tether transactions made via Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex, as part of a crackdown on sanctions evasion (Bloomberg)
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Google's charitable wing Google.org debuts an accelerator for generative AI, to be funded by $20M in grants and starting with 21 nonprofits, including Quill.org (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Google plans to add Gemini Nano to the Pixel 8 as part of the next Pixel Feature Drop, weeks after saying the phone can't get Nano due to "hardware limitations" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Pelago, formerly Quit Genius, which provides virtual therapy sessions for treating addictions, raised a $58M Series C, bringing its total funding to $151M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
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Microsoft rolls out Azure AI Studio tools to stop users from tricking AI chatbots to behave in unintended ways, including "prompt shields" and falsehood alerts (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
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Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online (Wired)
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Analysis: in the past two years, Amazon committed to spending $148B over 15 years on data centers, including in Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by "Hey, Meta", are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong (New York Times)
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A look at an Indian court case over Byju Raveendran's control of Byju's, as investors, who voted to remove Raveendran last month, brace for a protracted battle (Financial Times)
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Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Galaxy Digital, and others invest $75M in crypto fund 1kx, which has raised ~$200M since 2022 and invested in Rarible and others (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
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At a May 1 event in DC, 100+ tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness toward China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
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Mandiant: Yevgeny Prigozhin-linked online influence operations are active months after his death in August 2023, and underwent subtle shifts in their targeting (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)
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NYC-based Coro, which offers SMB cybersecurity tools, raised a $100M Series D led by One Peak, sources say at a $750M post-money valuation, to expand in Europe (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Trump Media & Technology Group closed up 14% at $66.22 on March 27, for a $13.5B market cap, as small investors boost the stock; Trump's stake is worth ~$5.3B (Financial Times)
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The US OMB releases new AI guidance, requiring that all federal agencies submit an annual AI report and have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use (Emilia David/The Verge)
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A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
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A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and then fell apart (Fortune)
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How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy (Open Web Advocacy)
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Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal (Clara Murray/Financial Times)
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Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X console, which Microsoft plans to release in 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X (Álvaro/eXputer)
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Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
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GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, posts calling trans and gender nonconforming people "satanic", and more (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
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Poland's consumer watchdog fines Amazon ~$8M for allegedly misleading consumers, including via dark pattern design tricks, ending a probe from February 2023 (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
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Celestial AI, which develops optical tech for linking together processors and memory modules, raised a $175M Series C led by US Innovative Technology Fund (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
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NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using "parts pairing" to dictate what replacement components can be used (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
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