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Solana meme coin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have "burned" tokens set aside for an airdrop (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers, raised a $100M Series B led by Uber at a $750M valuation, up from $550M in August 2023 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Q&A with Lila Tretikov, who just joined NEA as a partner and head of AI strategy; Tretikov was previously Microsoft's deputy CTO and Wikimedia Foundation CEO (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Hollywood actors like Megan Fox, Idris Elba, and Keanu Reeves are leaping into video games, a once stigmatized medium now seen as a unique platform for stories (Just Lunning/New York Times)

Unity's 2024 Gaming Report: the number of multiplatform games up 40% since 2021, in-app advertising revenue up 26.7% YoY, 62% of studios are using AI, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Sources: TSMC and Intel suppliers have delayed construction of facilities in Arizona, citing surging construction costs, a labor shortage, and weak local demand (Nikkei Asia)

The Connectivity Standards Alliance launches a cybersecurity standard that aims to provide a globally recognized security certification for consumer IoT devices (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Nvidia announces a software framework built with its Omniverse Cloud APIs to let enterprise developers stream interactive 3D experiences into Apple Vision Pro (Wesley Hilliard/AppleInsider)

Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more (Samuel Tolbert/Windows Central)

Hippocratic AI, which is building an LLM for health care, raised a $53M Series A co-led by Premji Invest and General Catalyst at a $500M valuation (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Nvidia unveils Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, and Jetson Thor, a new computer designed specifically for humanoid robots (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Nvidia launches Quantum Cloud, a service that simulates a quantum computer and allows researchers to test out their quantum computing software (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

Nvidia announces NIM, a set of microservices designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Nvidia unveils the Earth-2 platform, letting users create AI-powered climate simulations ranging from global atmospheric conditions to local weather phenomena (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Crypto trading platform Bakkt names Andy Main as its CEO and president, as it faces being dropped from the NYSE for failing to maintain listing requirements (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Carlsmed, which is developing an AI-powered personalized surgery tool, raised a $52.5M Series C co-led by B Capital and US Venture Partners (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)

X's pivot to video mirrors past social media trends, but its reliance on user-generated videos from TikTok and other platforms may not ensure long-term success (John Herrman/New York Magazine)

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says, on his channel, that the company raised $330M through bond sales last week, and that the offering was oversubscribed (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Microsoft is holding a Windows and Surface AI event on May 20; sources: the event will include the consumer versions of Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 (The Verge)

After hearing oral arguments, SCOTUS appeared wary of curbing US government contacts with social media platforms to remove posts deemed misinformation (Reuters)

Searches for "As of my last knowledge update", a phrase used by ChatGPT, return 115 results on Google Scholar, suggesting the use of AI-generated text in papers (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

In partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, the US DHS rolls out pilot programs to test AI tech to help combat drug and human trafficking crimes, and more (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

The US SEC fines Delphia and Global Predictions a combined $400K for making "false and misleading statements" about their use of AI (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)

TikTok launches Creator Rewards, a creator monetization program that has payouts based on "search value", originality, play duration, and audience engagement (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Apple and Google partnering for an AI deal is beneficial for both, giving Apple a compelling AI story for investors and Google access to affluent users (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

App analytics company Sensor Tower acquires Data.ai for an undisclosed amount; Crunchbase: Data.ai raised $157M+ while Sensor Tower raised just $46M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Some GPT Store developers express disappointment over a lack of users and support from OpenAI on user analytics; OpenAI does not yet let developers charge a fee (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on the failed Adobe deal, competing with Adobe, the new multi-edit tool, building tools, AI, AGI, Dev Mode, the web, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Google Research details VLOGGER, an AI model that can generate lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing, and moving from a single still photo (Michael Nuez/VentureBeat)

A profile of Indian startup Yotta Data Services, which plans to buy ~20K Nvidia H100 chips by June 2024 to offer computing power to Indian companies to build AI (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

YouTube now requires creators to label when using AI to create realistic-looking videos via an upload checklist; clearly unrealistic videos do not need a label (Clare Duffy/CNN)

Figure Markets, a crypto trading platform developed by Figure Technologies, raised a $60M Series A led by Jump Crypto, Pantera Capital, and Lightspeed Faction (Danny Park/The Block)

The US says Poland, Ireland, Finland, Germany, Japan, and South Korea joined the US-led anti-spyware pact; Five Eyes and six countries signed the pledge in 2023 (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)

Respawn and EA postpone the North American Finals of Apex Legends, after an unknown user hacked the game and gave pros hacks like aimbots during the event (Paul Tassi/Forbes)

At an EU DMA hearing, an Apple lawyer fended off criticism over DMA compliance; Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, ByteDance, and Microsoft will now have similar hearings (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Reviewing Reddit's IPO filings: signs of slowing user growth, struggles to grow overseas, a dependence on Google, enticing brands, a new Class C stock, and more (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Google quietly refreshes its Fitbit branding, changing from "Fitbit by Google" to "Google Fitbit", similar to Google Pixel and Google Nest (Abner Li/9to5Google)

A profile of Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, who blends the personal and professional as CEO and must navigate a tepid IPO market for the unprofitable company (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

Filings: Reddit cancelled Steve Huffman's pay awards in December 2023 that were tied to hitting a $25B valuation, signalling reduced hopes of a blockbuster IPO (Financial Times)

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8S Gen 3, aiming to bring most 8 Gen 3 features, including on-device AI models, to mid-range smartphones in the "coming months" (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Behind the rise of AI ambient clinical documentation tools, which let doctors record and automatically turn conversations with patients into clinical notes (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

A look at the proliferation of gimmicky online crypto-certification programs, as the lack of a well recognized professional crypto accreditation leaves a vacuum (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to let Gemini power some new features coming to iPhone in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its model (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Inside generative AI music startup Suno, whose model can compose songs, including human vocals, using a text prompt, as it aims to democratize music making (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)

Sources: Sony made 2M+ PSVR2 units since the Feb. 2023 launch but paused production amid dropping sales; recently Sony said it was testing PSVR2 PC game support (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

In the years since Trump was booted from Facebook and Twitter after Jan. 6's Capitol attack, he and his allies have beaten down efforts to filter election lies (New York Times)

To settle a class action suit, Uber agreed to pay ~$178M to compensate taxi drivers in Australia who claimed they lost income when Uber entered the local market (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

Experts say forcing a TikTok US sale within 180 days, as the bill requires, would be too complicated and costly, and likely mean the app would be banned (Washington Post)

A profile of server maker Supermicro, whose flexibility in offering custom servers has been an advantage in the AI boom, as the company joins S&P 500 on Monday (Wall Street Journal)

xAI open sources the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license (xAI)

Sources: Reddit's IPO is currently between four and five times oversubscribed, making it more likely the company will reach its targeted $6.5B valuation (Echo Wang/Reuters)

A US judge rules Apple must face a class-action suit over AirTag stalking, as three plaintiffs made sufficient negligence and liability claims under CA law (Rachel Graf/Bloomberg)

An interview with Aaron Levie about Box's acquisition of Crooze, as Box embraces the content management industry's shift toward AI and workflow automation (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

A look at issues and monetization options for Apple CarPlay; sources: Apple plans to produce 20M-25M units of the entry and mid-tier AirPods launching this fall (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

How China's spending may swamp India's chip ambitions; TrendForce: China's share of global mature-node production will grow from 31% in 2023 to 39% in 2027 (Megha Mandavia/Wall Street Journal)

How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

A look at the collapse of dating apps' usability, which can be blamed on the paid subscription model and the near monopoly the apps have over the dating world (Magdalene J. Taylor/New York Times)

In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged "unease" among VMware customers and partners after making sweeping post-acquisition changes (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

FTX's collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant today, including a lack of decentralization and companies' persistent regulatory battles (Joshua Oliver/Financial Times)

A profile of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, whose trial begins on March 18 in SF, where federal prosecutors have accused him of defrauding HP of billions (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks (Michael Nuez/VentureBeat)

Epic's antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn's push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering (Benjamin Shestakofsky/IEEE Spectrum)

Lotte Rubk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of "turning a blind eye" to harmful content on Instagram (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)

How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn't a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino's thankless task of trying to assure brands (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

LinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Sources: US prosecutors in Virginia, with FDA's help, are investigating whether Meta's platforms are facilitating and profiting from the illegal sale of drugs (Wall Street Journal)

A look at a potential TikTok US sale, with an estimated valuation of $100B, or $40B without the algorithm, as Steven Mnuchin and others form investor groups (Axios)

Sources: SpaceX's Starshield is building a network of spy satellites under a classified, $1.8B contract with the US spy agency National Reconnaissance Office (Reuters)

Filing: SBF wrote a Google doc in which he floated "bad ideas" to improve his image, including going on Tucker Carlson and coming out "against the woke agenda" (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)

Two of the UK's biggest supermarket chains, Tesco and Sainsbury's, were hit with technical issues on Saturday; Sainsbury's blames a software update (Bloomberg.com)

Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16: sets the bar for foldables with a large 4:3 display and seamless centerfold, but the trackpad is prone to missed inputs (Joanna Nelius/The Verge)

Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000+ employees (The Economic Times)

How evangelicals proselytize using Bless Every Home, an app that lets users create neighborhood maps and data tables based on people's religion and ethnicity (Elle Hardy/New Republic)

Twitch plans to remove Prime Video Watch Party from April 2, 2024; Watch Party launched in 2020, allowing streamers to broadcast Prime Video content to viewers (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Reddit's down round IPO is a signal that rationality is slowly returning to VC and could encourage other tech companies looking to go public do the same (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)



Politics Headlines Today
[Tue-19-Mar-2024]

Updated: 32 mins ago

11 Bodies Recovered After Soldiers Invade Bayelsa Community - Leadership

170 Akwa Ibom rural women get a lift - The Nation

2 Days After Abduction, Gunmen Kill Bauchi Monarch - Leadership

2024 Edo guber: Tinubu presents APC flag to Okpebholo - Blueprint

2024 Edo Guber: Tinubu Presents APC Flag To Okpebholo, Optimistic Of Victory - Daily Independent

2027: You'll Struggle To Get 2% Votes In FCT, APC Tells Tinubu - Leadership

27,600 Benue Women To Benefit From BoA Grant - Leadership

35 women SANs out of 720 unacceptable, says Alli - The Nation

800 homeless in Nasarawa community - The Nation

A/Court dismisses Nnamdi Kanus suit against police, DSS - Nigerian Pilot

Abduction of 280 Kaduna Students: Ohaneze Ndigbo Says May be More Political than Criminal - Daily Independent

Abia secures $125m loan to implement 2024 budget - Punch

Abuja environment board barred from collecting refuse, sewage levies - The Nation

Addressing malnutrition amid acute hunger - New Telegraph

Afe Babalola Honours Diligent Contractors as Oyebanji Inuagurates ABUAD Multi System Hospital Annex in Ado-Ekiti - Daily Independent

African Championships : Nigerian Wrestlers clinch four gold - The Nation

African ESG bonds hit $4.4bn, says report - Punch

African Games: Golden Arrowstargethandballs goldfinal - The Nation

African Wrestling Championships 2024: Nigerian Wrestlers sweep 4 gold medal on day 1 In Egypt - Blueprint

After Fr Alia, another priest steps in to rule his people - Blueprint

After sacking seven, 12 more CBN directors to go - The Nation

Agency enlists youths in battle against domestic, gender violence - The Nation

AGF, NDF tackle green SME funding, climate hitches in Nigeria - The Nation

Akpabio And His Many Gaffes - Daily Independent

Akpabio: Our Legislative Agenda Will Enhance Standard of Living - Thisday

Alausa Mosque disburses N2m Zakat to 64 beneficiaries - The Nation

Alleged budget padding: I got over N1bn for constituency projects ' Sen Nwoko - Peoples Daily

Alleged N4.1b property fraud: EFCC recovers 324 Houses for Kano pensioners - The Nation

Alleged N6bn Power project fraud: Court dismisses Agunloyes suit against EFCC - Nigerian Pilot

Alleged Terrorism Financing: Court Orders Binance to Release Data to EFCC - Thisday

Alleged unpaid entitlements: 183 ex-Niger Delta agitators sue FG, PAP - Tribune

Anti-arbitral injunctions: implications of Section 64 of Arbitration & Mediation Act - The Nation

Anyaoku, Adebanjo, ex-govs call for new constitution - Daily Trust

Anyaoku, Ibori, Sanwo-Olu, Others Seek New Constitution - Daily Independent

Anyaoku, Sanwo-Olu, Bode George, ex-governors fault 1999 Constitution - Punch

APC council greets Abiru - The Nation

APC Holds Ondo Governorship Primary Election April 25 - Leadership

APC scribe, Basiru, urges Nigerians to support Tinubu's administration - Tribune

APC selects Idahosa as running mate for Edo govship - Daily Trust

APC to pioneer e- registration of members -Nze Duru - Peoples Daily

APC will lose FCT in 2027 over Wikes actions Party chieftains - Punch

APC Will Win Edo Guber Election, Tinubu Declares - Leadership

Arewa group backs Ningis suspension by Senate - Punch

Arik Air Receives Best In-Flight Service Award 2023 - Daily Independent

Army to Delta community: identify killers - The Nation

Asaba: Police wades into Okada riders protest against Task Force - Tribune

ATSSSAN Accuses Caverton Helicopters Of Infractions, Non-Remittance Of Sacked Worker's Benefits - Daily Independent

Awoniyi, Aina, Dennis Hit with Points Deduction as EPL Hammers Forest - Thisday

AXA Mansard Empowers 200 Female SMEs With Financial literacy, Digital Skills - Daily Independent

Babajide Salako emerges new CIPPON president - Tribune

Bala pledges support on implementation of World Banks LPRES project - Blueprint

Bandits abduct 86 in Kaduna - The Nation

Bandits again kidnap 87 in Kaduna! - Nigerian Pilot

BATN pays over N415b in taxes - The Nation

BDAN AdvocatesConducive Environment, Regulatory Framework - Thisday

Biden asks Netayahu to send team to Washington for talks on Rafah - The Nation

Blinken in Manila as South China Sea tensions rise - BBC

Blockbuster Joshua-Fury fighttohold in Saudi, Wembley - The Nation

BREAKING: Fire razes motorcycles section of Sokoto central market - Tribune

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