Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
How TikTok influencers helped a self-published author sell 1M+ copies of her book, including ~700K on the TikTok shop, showing how TikTok changed book marketing — Keila Shaheen’s “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.
Sources: a16z and other investors in the fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy in early May, were aware of recordkeeping discrepancies for years (Michael Roddan/The Information)
Michael Roddan / The Information:
Sources: a16z and other investors in the fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy in early May, were aware of recordkeeping discrepancies for years — Millions of consumers who kept their savings with digital banking startups such as Yotta or Juno have lost access to their money as a result …
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others (Emilia David/The Verge)
Emilia David / The Verge:
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others — AI search platform Perplexity is launching a new feature called Pages that will generate a customizable webpage based on user prompts.
Content creators are amassing audiences of thousands on Twitch by covering political news and raising funds for Palestinians, as other platforms eschew politics (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Content creators are amassing audiences of thousands on Twitch by covering political news and raising funds for Palestinians, as other platforms eschew politics — Dozens of content creators are leveraging the live streaming app to raise funds for Palestinians, circumventing political content bans on other platforms.
Content creators are posting videos on Douyin giving Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States through Latin America (April Xu/Documented)
April Xu / Documented:
Content creators are posting videos on Douyin giving Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States through Latin America — Xiong learned how to travel the path to the United States from Latin America through a community of migrants on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
What to expect at Computex 2024, where the CEOs of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and Arm are speaking, as AI hardware products like AI PCs take center stage (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
What to expect at Computex 2024, where the CEOs of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and Arm are speaking, as AI hardware products like AI PCs take center stage — – Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Arm chiefs all speaking at show — Computex popularity underscores Taiwan’s global importance
YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead (Politico)
Politico:
YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead — Venture capital firms are bringing San Francisco’s startup culture to Washington as they try to tip the regulatory scales away from giants in the sector.
Q&A with the pseudonymous Pliny the Prompter, who is well known in the AI community for jailbreaking leading LLMs, on what motivates them, their goals, and more (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Q&A with the pseudonymous Pliny the Prompter, who is well known in the AI community for jailbreaking leading LLMs, on what motivates them, their goals, and more — Around 10:30 am Pacific time on Monday, May 13, 2024, OpenAI debuted its newest and most capable AI foundation model …
Sources: Microsoft is discussing a deal with CISPE, which could include a multimillion-euro payment to get the cloud lobby to drop its EU antitrust complaint (Politico)
Politico:
Sources: Microsoft is discussing a deal with CISPE, which could include a multimillion-euro payment to get the cloud lobby to drop its EU antitrust complaint — Possible deal involves a multimillion-dollar payout to cloud association backed by Amazon. — Microsoft is closing …
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market — Indian conglomerate Reliance Group is making its boldest consumer-facing move yet into financial services with the launch of JioFinance …
