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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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MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
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Google blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B ads and 6.7M advertiser accounts in 2022 (Nicola Agius/Search Engine Land)
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Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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NYC-based Hume, which offers a conversational AI that, Hume says, can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
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Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of its planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after investing $1.25B in September 2023 (CNBC)
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Google adds a tool that lets US users swipe left or right to rate apparel and accessories to get style recommendations on mobile browsers and Google app (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Source: the Google Pixel 9 will have three sizes, the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL; alleged Pixel 9 renders show two rear cameras and a compact body (Marcia Sekhose/91mobiles)
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A US judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, but dismisses one claim that Coinbase acted as an unregistered broker via Coinbase Wallet (Reuters)
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Amazon loses an EU legal bid to delay complying with DSA rules on making its online ad library publicly available, after a judge rejected Amazon's request (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)
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Affinity and Canva publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's design software "fair, transparent, and affordable", including its "perpetual licenses" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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A survey of 10,133 US adults: 43% of those aged 18-29 used ChatGPT in February 2024, up from 33% in July 2023, compared to 27% of 30-49 and 23% of all adults (Colleen McClain/Pew Research Center)
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Source: Salesforce paid $20M+ to license Einstein's image in October 2016, hoping to stand out in the AI space; the proceeds go to Jerusalem's Hebrew University (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
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Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
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