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Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film — …
Amazon launches "badge pay," which uses its Just Walk Out retail tech to let employees use their badges for payments, starting with a hospital in Savannah, GA (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon launches “badge pay,” which uses its Just Walk Out retail tech to let employees use their badges for payments, starting with a hospital in Savannah,…
Analysis: Google and Bing showed deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus "deepfakes", "fake nudes", and other terms (Kat Tenbarge/NBC News)
Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: Analysis: Google and Bing showed deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus “deepfakes”, “fake nudes”, and other terms — …
Dudesy, a podcast generated by AI and curated by humans, releases an hour-long comedy special featuring an AI recreation of George Carlin, who died in 2008 (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Dudesy, a podcast generated by AI and curated by humans, releases an hour-long comedy special featuring an AI recreation of George Carlin, who died in…
After spending $13M+ on US lobbying in the past decade, Huawei quietly shutters its in-house lobbying operation, ending an effort to overturn the US bans (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: After spending $13M+ on US lobbying in the past decade, Huawei quietly shutters its in-house lobbying operation, ending an effort to overturn the US bans — – Chinese firm…
After announcing the $199 R1 "Large Action Model" AI handheld at CES, Rabbit sold 10,000 units in one day; second batch orders should ship in April to May 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: After announcing the $199 R1 “Large Action Model” AI handheld at CES, Rabbit sold 10,000 units in one day; second batch orders should ship in…
London-based Hyperexponential, which offers math modeling tools to insurance companies to help price policies, raised $73M led by Battery Ventures (Martin Coulter/Reuters)
Martin Coulter / Reuters: London-based Hyperexponential, which offers math modeling tools to insurance companies to help price policies, raised $73M led by Battery Ventures — U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen…
PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in 2023 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in…
SVP of LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics says the luxury conglomerate is in discussions with TikTok on a plan for limiting counterfeit products sold on the app (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: SVP of LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics says the luxury conglomerate is in discussions with TikTok on a plan for limiting counterfeit products sold on the app …
A look at some of the most interesting tech from CES 2024: Roxi's interactive music video channels for linear TV, Samsung's Ballie AI robot projector, and more (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)
Chris Velazco / Washington Post: A look at some of the most interesting tech from CES 2024: Roxi’s interactive music video channels for linear TV, Samsung’s Ballie AI robot projector,…
Harvard spinout QuEra, a quantum computing startup, plans to release an error-corrected quantum computer with 10,000 physical and 100 logical qubits by 2026 (John Timmer/Ars Technica)
John Timmer / Ars Technica: Harvard spinout QuEra, a quantum computing startup, plans to release an error-corrected quantum computer with 10,000 physical and 100 logical qubits by 2026 — Company…
Google lays off hundreds of people working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as it explores integrating newer AI technology (Louise Matsakis/Semafor)
Louise Matsakis / Semafor: Google lays off hundreds of people working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as it explores integrating newer AI technology — Google…
Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams working on the Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams working on the Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google — …
A survey of 9,388 software engineers in December 2023 finds ~90% believe getting a job now is harder than pre-pandemic, 60%+ believe AI will lead to less hiring (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)
Maxwell Strachan / VICE: A survey of 9,388 software engineers in December 2023 finds ~90% believe getting a job now is harder than pre-pandemic, 60%+ believe AI will lead to…
Netflix says its ad tier has 23M+ MAUs globally, up from 15M+ in November 2023, and 85% of customers on the ad tier are streaming for over 2 hours per day (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix says its ad tier has 23M+ MAUs globally, up from 15M+ in November 2023, and 85% of customers on the ad tier are streaming for…
US SEC Chair Gary Gensler concedes that losing in court after rejecting Grayscale's spot bitcoin ETF left the agency with little choice but to approve such ETFs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: US SEC Chair Gary Gensler concedes that losing in court after rejecting Grayscale’s spot bitcoin ETF left the agency with little choice but to approve such…
The US ITC files its opposition to Apple's motion for the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales ban to be paused for the duration of Apple's appeal (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: The US ITC files its opposition to Apple’s motion for the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales ban to be paused for the duration of…
Sources: OpenAI is in talks with CNN and Fox Corp. to license text, video, and image content; Time says it "is in discussions with OpenAI" about an agreement (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is in talks with CNN and Fox Corp. to license text, video, and image content; Time says it “is in discussions with OpenAI” about an agreement — …
Sources: Amazon won't offer concessions to the European Commission in a bid to garner approval for its planned $1.4B takeover of iRobot (Politico)
Politico: Sources: Amazon won’t offer concessions to the European Commission in a bid to garner approval for its planned $1.4B takeover of iRobot — Amazon won’t offer concessions to the…
The US SEC approves 11 spot bitcoin ETFs, including those of Grayscale, Bitwise, and Hashdex (Reuters)
Reuters: The US SEC approves 11 spot bitcoin ETFs, including those of Grayscale, Bitwise, and Hashdex — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved 11 spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds,…