Raymond Wong / Inverse:
A profile of and interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, on the origins of the R1, taking “10 minutes to design” the device, the AI gadget competition, and more — Everyone seems entranced by Jesse Lyu, the new AI prophet. — Clad head to toe in black, Lyu stands on stage …
Rabbit R1 review: good price, but emblematic of a trend of selling barely finished products at full price, while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race” (Marques Brownlee/Marques Brownlee on YouTube)
Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube:
Rabbit R1 review: good price, but emblematic of a trend of selling barely finished products at full price, while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race” — AI in a Box. But a different box.Get a dbrand skin and screen protector at https://dbrand.com/rabbitMKBHD Merch …
Blaize, which designs AI chips for edge devices and data centers, raised $106M; the company announced in December 2023 plans to go public via a SPAC merger (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Blaize, which designs AI chips for edge devices and data centers, raised $106M; the company announced in December 2023 plans to go public via a SPAC merger — Startup Blaize Inc., which supplies artificial intelligence chips for edge devices and data centers, today disclosed that it has raised $106 million in fresh funding.
Multiple US House aides say ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut could also be subject to the same divest-or-ban requirement as TikTok (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Multiple US House aides say ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut could also be subject to the same divest-or-ban requirement as TikTok — ByteDance’s CapCut editing app made it easy to edit short-form video. The legislation that could ban TikTok also applies to CapCut, congressional aides say.
Samsung Q1: revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., and operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound (Sheila Chiang/CNBC)
Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
Samsung Q1: revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., and operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound — Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.
NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years — NBCUniversal is looking to wring more money out of Peacock subscribers, with the streamer set to raise prices this summer …
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than it is now (Monica Anderson/Pew Research Center)
Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center:
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than it is now — Most think social media companies have too much influence in politics and censor political viewpoints they object to – both sentiments are growing among Democrats
NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops …
Sources describe Techstars under CEO Mäelle Gavet, facing departures of senior execs and corporate sponsors at times and, last year, a $7.2M loss on operations (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Sources describe Techstars under CEO Mäelle Gavet, facing departures of senior execs and corporate sponsors at times and, last year, a $7.2M loss on operations — A year of financial losses, employee cuts and dirty kitchens — Last spring, founders from all over the world began …
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 — Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user’s security.
