Tech Transparency Project:
A probe finds a black market for Facebook accounts that have received approval to run political ads during India’s general election, raising interference fears — Facebook hosts a thriving black market for fake and stolen accounts. Some sellers are offering accounts that can run political ads in India …
An interview with Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo on adding AI tools, supporting developers on Quora’s chatbot platform Poe, Quora’s relationship with OpenAI, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
An interview with Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo on adding AI tools, supporting developers on Quora’s chatbot platform Poe, Quora’s relationship with OpenAI, and more — Last November, Adam D’Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry.
Sources: Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model that has ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Sources: Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model that has ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI — For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models …
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI will be available by the end of June (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI will be available by the end of June — OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks.
AT&T completes divestiture of its cybersecurity services group and forms LevelBlue, with staff in 10 countries focused on managed cybersecurity services (Robert Lemos/Dark Reading)
Robert Lemos / Dark Reading:
AT&T completes divestiture of its cybersecurity services group and forms LevelBlue, with staff in 10 countries focused on managed cybersecurity services — AT&T completed its divestiture of its cybersecurity services group and formed a joint venture with more than 1,000 employees …
The increase of stock sales in privately held companies leads to tensions with startups like Stripe; the market is estimated to rise 40% YoY to $64B in 2024 (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
Erin Griffith / New York Times:
The increase of stock sales in privately held companies leads to tensions with startups like Stripe; the market is estimated to rise 40% YoY to $64B in 2024 — The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.
Filing: Robinhood’s crypto arm got a Wells notice from the SEC on May 4; Robinhood says it has already ended support for tokens named in previous SEC lawsuits (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
Filing: Robinhood’s crypto arm got a Wells notice from the SEC on May 4; Robinhood says it has already ended support for tokens named in previous SEC lawsuits — The trading platform previously ended support for all tokens that were named in SEC lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase.
YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead, which uses AI to let users jump to parts of a video where most viewers skip ahead, to all US Premium members using its Android app (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead, which uses AI to let users jump to parts of a video where most viewers skip ahead, to all US Premium members using its Android app — It’s currently available in the US on the YouTube Android app. — • — TL;DR — YouTube Premium members in the US …
Hugging Face launches LeRobot, an open-source robotics code library, after hiring former Tesla scientist Remi Cadene to lead its open-source robotics project (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Hugging Face launches LeRobot, an open-source robotics code library, after hiring former Tesla scientist Remi Cadene to lead its open-source robotics project — Earlier this year, in March 2024, the AI developer-focused startup Hugging Face — known for maintaining the largest online repository …
iPhone 15 Pro Max was Q1’s best-selling smartphone; Pro phones were 50% of Apple’s sales, up from 24% in 2020; Apple and Samsung each had five phones in top 10 (Counterpoint Research)
Counterpoint Research:
iPhone 15 Pro Max was Q1’s best-selling smartphone; Pro phones were 50% of Apple’s sales, up from 24% in 2020; Apple and Samsung each had five phones in top 10 — – Apple and Samsung dominated the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones in Q1 2024. — This was the first quarter in which the top 10 smartphones were all 5G capable.
