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Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations (Kate Irwin/PCMag)

Source: Google's Pixel 8a will have a 6.1" 120Hz OLED display, Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort output support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a (Kamila Wojciechowska/Android Authority)

Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund discussed a potential partnership with a16z and others to create a fund of about $40B to invest in AI in H2 2024 (New York Times)

Inflection won't shut down Pi but will no longer focus on its consumer business, instead working with commercial customers to create, test, and tune AI systems (New York Times)

After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu's GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows (Jing Yang/The Information)

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a "trending now" page for users in the US, visible under the search bar (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)

The SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn (Adam James/The Block)

Microsoft says Mustafa Suleyman and Karn Simonyan are joining to form Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Suleyman will be CEO (Satya Nadella/The Official Microsoft Blog)

In an interview, Jensen Huang estimates Nvidia's GB200 Blackwell chip could cost $30,000 to $40,000, and R&D budget for the processor totaled around $10B (Alex Koller/CNBC)

Inflection AI says co-founder Karn Simonyan will join Mustafa Suleyman at Microsoft AI, names Sean White as CEO, and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure (Inflection)

Google DeepMind debuts TacticAI, a prototype AI soccer tactician built alongside Premier League club Liverpool, using geometric deep learning on 7K corner kicks (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

The UK sentences a man to 66 weeks in prison over cyberflashing under the Online Safety Act; he was the first conviction after the OSA took effect on January 31 (Jamie Grierson/The Guardian)

An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how the company's early decisions led to its AI boom, why Nvidia's ubiquity will not be easy to replicate, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Airbus ends talks with Atos on a deal worth ~1.8B for its big data and security unit, imperiling efforts by Atos to avoid going into debt restructuring (Financial Times)

Asus Zenbook Duo review: sleek design, two great displays, and solid battery life, but pricier than a clamshell and Windows 11 isn't optimized for two screens (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)

Ethiopia's central bank says "a glitch" let Commercial Bank customers withdraw more cash than was in the account for hours; local media says $40M+ was withdrawn (Kalkidan Yibeltal/BBC)

Source: Ant CEO and Chair Eric Jing says Han Xinyi will become Ant Group president and some units plan to set up their own boards to operate more independently (Casey Hall/Reuters)

Filing: Reddit says Nokia accused the company of infringing some of its patents, and is evaluating Nokia's claims, ahead of its planned IPO this week (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)

Singapore-based online shopping rewards app ShopBack cuts 195 jobs, or 24% of its staff, to become self-sustainable; ShopBack raised a $200M Series E in 2022 (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

At an EU DMA hearing, a Meta lawyer says the company has offered to cut its EU subscription fee from 9.99 to 5.99 per month after discussions with regulators (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$10.2B, above ~$10.1B est., net income up 50% YoY to ~$653M, and plans to diversify its business by launching EVs (Bloomberg)

Sources: senior DOJ officials plan to hold closed-door Senate briefings on March 19 and 20 to advance a TikTok divestiture, as opposed to an outright US ban (Bloomberg)

On the first day of his trial, US prosecutors portray Mike Lynch as "a controlling, dominating, intimidating boss" and "driving force behind [a] massive fraud" (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

A look at Playtron, which raised a $10M seed to build a Linux-based, platform-agnostic gaming OS to replace Windows or SteamOS, starting with handheld consoles (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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)



Entertainment Headlines Today
[Fri-29-Mar-2024]

Updated: 15 mins ago

"I'm the only person to come back to number one after cancellation" Kanye West writes as he says he's the "only GOAT" - Linda Ikeji

17 Slain Soldiers: You Don't Have Right to Declare Suspects Wanted Falana Tells Army - Tori

17-year-old Girl R*ped And Strangled To Death By Her Cousin In South Africa - Tori

17-year-old girl raped and strangled to death by her cousin in South Africa - Linda Ikeji

18 years after Charles Soludo's bank recapitalisation, Nigerian banks are facing the same plan again, as the new CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso, announced his readiness to recapitalise Nigerian banks. - Pulse

400 Lvl Nasarawa Varsity Student Declared Missing After Palliative Stampede - Tori

42-year-old Man Remanded For Allegedly Defiling And Impregnating 11-year-old Girl In Lagos - Tori

50 Cent denies ex Daphne Joys r@pe and abuse allegations as he seek sole custody of their son - Linda Ikeji

50 Cent's babymama, Daphne Joy accuses him of rape - DailyPost

50 Cents Babymama, Daphne Joy Accuses Him of R3pe - Gistlover

50 Cents Babymama, Daphne Joy Accuses Him of R3pe - Tori

A Cheating Husband That Provides For His Family Is Better Than A Faithful Husband That Cannot Put Food on the Table Nigerian Lady - Tori

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), inflation measures the increase in price for a set of goods and services over a certain period, usually a year. - Pulse

Actor Osita Iheme Reveals How He Feels About His Memes Circulating The Social Media - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Actress Eniola Alao Tenders Apology Over Failed PR Stunt For New Movie + Gifts 2 Million To 2 Actresses - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Africa Magic Showcase to screen on GOtv - The Nation

An Artist, a Trailblazer & a Pioneer: This Weekend on #BNSCONVOS, Find Out What Success Means to Women from Their POV - Bellanaija

APC Dissolves Stakeholder Committees Across 34 LGAs In Katsina - Tori

Are you going to allow what happened to Mohbad, happen to us Mohbads wife cries out to Nigerians, addresses her father-in-law (Video) - Kemi Filani

Barrister Bida prayed to God to protect Tinubu and all Nigerians from harm and guide them towards success and righteousness. - Pulse

BBNaija: Deji Get Licensed as A Pharmacist In USA, Days After Miracle Graduates from Aviation School - Gistlover

Bello was a consummate professional with more than 25 years of work experience in consulting, financial services and academia. - Pulse

Beverly Naya Opens Up On Why She Almost Quit Acting - New Telegraph

Bisi Alimi tenders apology to the LGBTQ community following Bobriskys recent award saga - Kemi Filani

Bobrisky finally opens up on how he successfully changed to woman - Gistlover

Boredom Eliminating Post - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Breakup With Burna Boy Hurts Me So Much, Still Find It Hard to Move On British Rapper Stefflon Don Finally Spills - Gistlover

CBN increased capital base for commercial banks - Kemi Filani

Celebrity Album -Real Housewife Of Lagos Star Faith Morrey Shares Red HOT Photos - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Charles Inojie and Ali Nuhu call on communities to speak against domestic violence - Tribune

Chronicle Of Blog Visitor Narrative - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Conjoined twins, Abby Hensel gets married toher fiance, Josh Bowling in a private ceremony (Video) - Gistlover

Conjoined Twins, Abby Hensel Married in a Private Ceremony (Video) - Tori

Court remands man,42, for allegedly defiling and impregnating 11-year-old girl in Lagos - Linda Ikeji

Darkness covers Nigeria as national grid collapses - Kemi Filani

DHQ May Place Bounty On Suspected Killers Of Soldiers In Delta State - Tori

Do you know that some drinks stain your teeth - Pulse

Don't curse Nigeria. Change bad leaders in next election - Tinubu urges Nigerians - Linda Ikeji

Drama As Zimbabwean Workers Beat Up Their Chinese Boss Over Salary - Tori

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu Confirms 'New Twist' As Auditions For Big Brother Naija Season 9 Begins - Information Nigeria

Edo Guber: Peter Obi Meets Olumide Akpata (Photos) - Tori

Educative, Entertaining And Inspirational - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Eniola Ajao Bows To Pressure, Presents New 'Best Dressed Female' Winners - Information Nigeria

Eniola Ajao Dumps Bobrisky As Best-Dressed, Announces New Winners With '1m Gift - Channels TV

Essiet told the beneficiaries that the Federal Government was standing with them and committed to ameliorating the sufferings of the ordinary people. - Pulse

Favourite Celeb Instagram Photos - Stella Dimoko Korkus

FG Condemns KFC For Discriminating Against Former Gov's Son - Tori

Finally, Nancy Isime Opens Up on BBL Allegations & unhealthy Weight Loss - Gistlover

fmfn, Strained, Midsummer Night, Others Coming To Netflix April - New Telegraph

Frequently Asked /Answered Questions On SDK Blog - Stella Dimoko Korkus

Fuji Icon, K1 De Ultimate Set To Return To School At 67 - Information Nigeria

Get court order, I'm ready for DNA test ' Late Mohbad's wife tells father-in-law - DailyPost

Get Court Order, Im Ready for DNA Test Late Mohbads Wife Tells Father-in-Law - Gistlover

Get Court Order, Im Ready for DNA Test Late Mohbads Wife Tells Father-in-Law - Tori

GOTHAD plans big for 2024 World Drummers Day - The Nation

He Is Busy Posting And Making His Money Blessing Ceo Slams Tunde Ednut for Abandoning VDM - Tori

He is busy posting and making his money Relationship therapist, Blessing CEO blasts Tunde Ednut for abandoning VDM - Gistlover

He said hes no longer interested Nigerian lady cries out as lover dumps her over facial tribal marks - Gistlover

He said that the official opening ceremony would be held later, combined with the launch of the coastal road project when the President visits. - Pulse

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