Wall Street Journal:
News Corp and OpenAI announce a multiyear agreement to bring News Corp’s news content to OpenAI; sources: the deal could be worth $250M over five years — Agreement could generate over $250 million over five years for News Corp in cash and credits — Wall Street Journal owner News Corp struck …
Bluesky now lets users send DMs and says it’s working on adding support for messages with images and end-to-end encryption (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bluesky now lets users send DMs and says it’s working on adding support for messages with images and end-to-end encryption — Bluesky will now let you send a direct message to other users. For now, you can only send messages containing text, but Bluesky is working on adding support for images and videos.
Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $828.7M, product revenue up 34% YoY to $789.6M, vs. $749M est., and projects Q2 product revenue above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $828.7M, product revenue up 34% YoY to $789.6M, vs. $749M est., and projects Q2 product revenue above estimates — – Data software company raises annual product revenue outlook — Quarterly report is the first under new CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy
US FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel proposes requiring the disclosure of content generated by AI in political ads on radio and TV, citing the use of deepfakes (David Shepardson/Reuters)
David Shepardson / Reuters:
US FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel proposes requiring the disclosure of content generated by AI in political ads on radio and TV, citing the use of deepfakes — U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday proposed requiring disclosure of content generated …
Sources: AI chip startup Groq has told investors it wants to raise about $300M by the end of month; Groq previously raised more than $367M at a $1B+ valuation (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: AI chip startup Groq has told investors it wants to raise about $300M by the end of month; Groq previously raised more than $367M at a $1B+ valuation — Groq, an Nvidia rival that develops specialized server chips and software for artificial intelligence, has told investors it wants …
Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the NYSE, agreed to pay $10M to settle SEC allegations that it failed to immediately tell the agency about a hack in 2021 (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)
Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg:
Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the NYSE, agreed to pay $10M to settle SEC allegations that it failed to immediately tell the agency about a hack in 2021 — The SEC said that in April 2021 ICE learned that its virtual private network had been hacked by a “threat actor.”
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet says she is leaving at the end of May for health reasons; Techstars co-founder and board chairman David Cohen will become the new CEO (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet says she is leaving at the end of May for health reasons; Techstars co-founder and board chairman David Cohen will become the new CEO — Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet announced on LinkedIn that she is leaving the company at the end of the month for health reasons.
Doc: WhatsApp staff warned of traffic analysis flaws where attackers may reveal who is in a conversation; Meta calls them theoretical and not unique to WhatsApp (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Doc: WhatsApp staff warned of traffic analysis flaws where attackers may reveal who is in a conversation; Meta calls them theoretical and not unique to WhatsApp — In March, WhatsApp’s security team issued an internal warning to their colleagues: Despite the software’s powerful encryption …
Zuckerberg creates the Meta Advisory Group with Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Tobi Lütke, and Charlie Songhurst, to advise on tech and growth opportunities (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg creates the Meta Advisory Group with Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Tobi Lütke, and Charlie Songhurst, to advise on tech and growth opportunities — – Stripe’s Collison, Shopify’s Lütke among new advisers — Group to guide Meta on tech, strategic growth opportunities
TikTok launches its Symphony AI suite for brands, using generative AI to let marketers write scripts, produce videos, and enhance current assets (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches its Symphony AI suite for brands, using generative AI to let marketers write scripts, produce videos, and enhance current assets — TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for brands.
