Sources: Andy Jassy picks 14-year Amazon veteran Eric Rimling as his technical adviser, a prestigious two-year position; Jassy was Bezos' adviser in the 2000s — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has picked Eric Rimling, a 14-year veteran of the company's fulfillment operation, as his new technical adviser …
Filing: SMIC-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing Electronics Shaoxing plans to raise $1.4B in an IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market as Beijing battles US curbs — A chip foundry backed by China's top semiconductor firm is set to raise $1.4 billion in Asia's biggest initial public offering so far this year …
Elon Musk posts a screenshot showing 24.7K Twitter subscribers, or ~0.018% of his 136M+ followers, paying for tweets, Spaces, and more, earning him ~$100K/month — Musk is making around $100,000 from Twitter users subscribing to his paywalled content. — After this weekend's Twitter Blue drama …
Elon Musk seems to have revealed a burner Twitter account, @ErmnMusk, created in November 2022 and featuring bizarre tweets like “Do you like Japanese girls?” — Musk tweeted a screenshot on Monday evening which appeared to show him signed into a second account.
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss — Audiostreaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled
The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, an ex-OpenSea product manager accused of insider trading in NFTs, begins this week, one of the first cases for digital assets — U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens …
Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech startups, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns haven't raised funds since 2021 — The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to $200M+ — The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money.
A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann — In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox.
Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips — White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing
Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more — A conversation with Katherine Forrest — Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : India extends a deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any company's share of transactions on UPI payment...
