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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)

Self-driving startup Waabi unveils Copilot4D, a generative AI model trained on lidar data to predict traffic flow around a vehicle 5-10 seconds into the future (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

The TikTok divestment bill's progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor (New York Times)

Game developer Scopely says Monopoly Go crossed $2B in revenue in February 2024, just 10 months after launching and three months after hitting $1B in revenue (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)



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