Japan's FTC says it does not expect the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal to stifle competition and closes its review without issuing a cease and desist order — Japan's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it did not expect a merger between Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Activision Blizzard …
The UK cancels plans to launch an NFT, proposed in 2022 by Rishi Sunak in a bid to make the UK a crypto hub, and says it will keep the proposal “under review” — Plans for a government backed non-fungible token (NFT) produced by the Royal Mint have been dropped, the Treasury has announced.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers and prosecutors agree on new bail terms, including giving SBF a phone without internet and a monitored laptop with limited functions — Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried said they reached an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on Monday on revised bail conditions …
A look at OBNbrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' Instagram accounts and demanding payment for reactivation — Just after midnight on Sept. 13, Kristian “Murda” Murphy was watching TV at home in Boca Raton, Florida, when his phone began buzzing.
Filing: some Twitter source code was leaked by a user called “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” on GitHub, which took it down to comply with a DMCA notice sent on Friday — The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.
A profile of Atlanta-based Yellow Card, Africa's largest centralized crypto exchange, which has done ~$1.75B in transactions since 2019 and raised $57M — - Yellow Card is the largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange in Africa. — For its nearly 1.4 million users across the continent …
Eight current and former Apple employees share concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, utility, and unproven market — The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
Sources: Apple demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for a group of its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite — Apple's push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch.
A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly “lifestyle bible” Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap — Known as China's “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap.
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI's iPhone moment, DGX Cloud service, export controls, Nvidia's position in the stack in an LLM world, and more — I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March's GTC conference, and again after last fall's GTC …
Email: Twitter offers new equity grants to staff, in addition to legacy equity, that will start to vest after six months and plans a liquidity event in a year — New stock will start to vest after six months, according to an email — Twitter Inc. is offering new equity grants to staff …
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI, with performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, more — The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.
Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but forcing it to divest its US operations could undermine TikTok's ability to fight adversarial threats — from the when-government-demands-backfire dept — Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting …
In his first visit to China since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple's “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid Apple's moves to diversify from the country — Chief executive's visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-worl...
