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The product lead for Sora, Rohan Sahai, says OpenAI plans to integrate Sora into ChatGPT, but it may not offer the same level of control as Sora's web app
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: The product lead for Sora, Rohan Sahai, says OpenAI plans to integrate...
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Mimic, which offers a platform to detect, deflect, and facilitate recovery from ransomware attacks, raised a $50M Series A, bringing its total funding to $77M
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Mimic, which offers a platform to detect, deflect, and facilitate recovery from...
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The FBI says North Korea was responsible for the $1.5B Bybit Hack, referring to this particular form of North Korean malicious cyber activity as “TraderTraitor”
Justin McCurry / The Guardian: The FBI says North Korea was responsible for the $1.5B Bybit...
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Researchers find fine-tuning AI models like GPT-4o on examples of insecure code resulted in the models misaligned on a range of topics unrelated to coding
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Researchers find fine-tuning AI models like GPT-4o on examples of insecure...
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Meta for Education, launched in beta in Nov. 2024, is generally available, offering schools Quest 3 for $630 or 3S from $400, with two years of managed services
David Heaney / UploadVR: Meta for Education, launched in beta in Nov. 2024, is generally available,...
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Microsoft unveils the 3.8B-parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform similar-sized models in certain tasks
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft unveils the 3.8B-parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform...
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London-based parcel delivery startup Relay, whose customers include Temu, TikTok, Vinted, and UK retailers like THG Fulfil, raised a $35M Series A led by Plural
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: London-based parcel delivery startup Relay, whose customers include Temu, TikTok, Vinted, and...
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Gemini says the SEC closed its investigation into the crypto exchange and won't pursue an enforcement action, after Gemini received a Wells notice in May 2024
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Gemini says the SEC closed its investigation into the crypto exchange and...
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iPhone 16e review: reliable performance, good camera, the C1 modem “seems fine”, but no MagSafe, no ultrawide camera, and $599 feels $100 too high
Allison Johnson / The Verge: iPhone 16e review: reliable performance, good camera, the C1 modem “seems...
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Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet reportedly cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train, similar to Claude 3.5 and cheaper than GPT-4, which cost over $100M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet reportedly cost “a few tens of millions of...
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Canada's broadcast regulator says that Google will be charged a fee to recover regulatory costs related to Canada's online news law, starting April 1
Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: Canada's broadcast regulator says that Google will be charged a...
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Cellebrite suspends Serbia as a customer after a report alleged authorities used its tools to unlock phones of a journalist and an activist and plant spyware
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Cellebrite suspends Serbia as a customer after a report alleged authorities used...
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Meta's Oversight Board says it will weigh in on Meta's hate speech policies, changed before Trump's inauguration, in a test of the enforceability of its powers
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta's Oversight Board says it will weigh in on Meta's hate speech...
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Source: Instagram considers launching a standalone Reels app, improving recommendations, and distributing more three-minute-long videos, to compete with TikTok
The Information: Source: Instagram considers launching a standalone Reels app, improving recommendations, and distributing more three-minute-long...
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IBM releases its Granite 3.2 LLM family, featuring optional reasoning capabilities, a new vision model optimized for document processing, and time series models
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: IBM releases its Granite 3.2 LLM family, featuring optional reasoning capabilities,...
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Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 28% YoY to $943.3M, vs. $915.8M est., and forecasts FY 2026 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 8%+ after hours
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 28% YoY to $943.3M, vs. $915.8M...
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eBay reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.6B, GMV up 4% YoY to $19.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below expectations; EBAY drops 7%+ after hours
Juby Babu / Reuters: eBay reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.6B, GMV up 4%...
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Analysts expect Amazon to spend up to $25B of its $100B capex in 2025 on its retail network, focusing on automation and efficiency, amid the AI spending boom
Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: Analysts expect Amazon to spend up to $25B of its $100B...
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Sources: in July 2024, Microsoft told top GOP officials that Chinese hackers had accessed the RNC email system for months; the RNC chose not to alert the FBI
Wall Street Journal: Sources: in July 2024, Microsoft told top GOP officials that Chinese hackers had...
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Access Now: 54 countries imposed internet shutdowns at least 296 times in 2024, led by Myanmar, displacing India from the top spot for the first time since 2018
Ina Fried / Axios: Access Now: 54 countries imposed internet shutdowns at least 296 times in...
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Documents and source: Indonesian agritech eFishery misrepresented financial figures for years; backers like SoftBank likely to recover under 10% of investments
Bloomberg: Documents and source: Indonesian agritech eFishery misrepresented financial figures for years; backers like SoftBank likely...
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How hackers of the $1.5B Bybit crypto heist used UI manipulation of employee devices and social engineering to gain control of ETH multisig cold wallets
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: How hackers of the $1.5B Bybit crypto heist used UI manipulation...
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Sensor Tower: in 2024, TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, became the first non-game app to reach $6B in annual in-app purchase revenue
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: in 2024, TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, became the...
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Sources: Mira Murati's new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is aiming to raise $1B at a ~$9B valuation; the round is in progress and details could change
Business Insider: Sources: Mira Murati's new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is aiming to raise $1B at...