Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Databricks says it will acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and more, for over $1B — Data analytics software maker Databricks said in a statement on Tuesday that it’s acquiring Tabular, a startup that helps optimize data stored in the cloud.
Meta rolls out an update to “significantly” reduce Quest 3 passthrough distortion and warping, an experimental option to use wrist-mounted menu buttons, more (David Heaney/UploadVR)
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Meta rolls out an update to “significantly” reduce Quest 3 passthrough distortion and warping, an experimental option to use wrist-mounted menu buttons, more — The Quest v66 update “significantly” reduces Quest 3’s passthrough distortion and warping, according to Meta.
Google’s chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, will depart the tech giant after 13 years; Matthew Bye, director of competition law, is also leaving (Forbes)
Forbes:
Google’s chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, will depart the tech giant after 13 years; Matthew Bye, director of competition law, is also leaving — Keith Enright is leaving Google after 13 years as the tech giant restructures its privacy and compliance teams. Matthew Bye, director of competition law, is also departing.
BrightEdge: Google’s AI Overviews now shows in less than 15% of search queries but on 63% of health care-related queries, more than any other industry category (Danny Goodwin/Search Engine Land)
Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land:
BrightEdge: Google’s AI Overviews now shows in less than 15% of search queries but on 63% of health care-related queries, more than any other industry category — Google’s AI Overviews (when it was known as Search Generative Experience in Labs) once showed 84% of the time. — Chat with SearchBot
Sources: Apple was in talks in 2023 to debut Apple TV+ in China via a deal with China Mobile, which would make TV+ the only US video streaming service in China (Wayne Ma/The Information)
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple was in talks in 2023 to debut Apple TV+ in China via a deal with China Mobile, which would make TV+ the only US video streaming service in China — Apple was in talks last year to launch its Apple TV+ video streaming service in China via a deal with China Mobile …
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebrities like CNN and Paris Hilton, are getting hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebrities like CNN and Paris Hilton, are getting hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM — The compromised accounts include CNN and Paris Hilton — and all users have to do to be hacked is open a DM.
Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s chip deals, and diverted “12k of shipped H100 GPUs” for Tesla to X (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s chip deals, and diverted “12k of shipped H100 GPUs” for Tesla to X — Elon Musk claims he can grow Tesla into “a leader in AI & robotics,” an ambition that he’s said will require a lot …
A group of nine current and former OpenAI staff, and two Google DeepMind staff, blow the whistle on what they say is a culture of recklessness and secrecy (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A group of nine current and former OpenAI staff, and two Google DeepMind staff, blow the whistle on what they say is a culture of recklessness and secrecy — Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI’s governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees …
An interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on the Ace headphones, the controversial ground-up app redesign, expanding beyond speakers, and more (Parker Hall/Wired)
Parker Hall / Wired:
An interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on the Ace headphones, the controversial ground-up app redesign, expanding beyond speakers, and more — CEO Patrick Spence sits down with WIRED to explain just how the company will reach beyond speakers to rule every part of your aural existence.
Shutterstock CEO Paul Hennessy says the company’s licensing business with AI companies made $104M in revenue in 2023 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Shutterstock CEO Paul Hennessy says the company’s licensing business with AI companies made $104M in revenue in 2023 — – Reka AI is latest customer to announced deal with Shutterstock — OpenAI, Meta, among others using Shutterstock images for AI
