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Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts Phi-3 Mini, a small 3.8B-parameter model about as capable as GPT-3.5, and plans Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium models with 7B and 14B parameters  —  Microsoft launched the next version of its lightweight AI model Phi-3 Mini, the first of three small models the company plans to release.
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Survey: Apple cut 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400K-450K units, vs. a 700K+ market consensus, and US demand has “fallen sharply beyond expectations”  —  My latest survey is as follows:  — Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400-450k units (vs. market consensus of 700-800k units or more).
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions  —  When the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses launched last fall, they were a pretty neat content capture tool and a surprisingly solid pair of headphones.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get support for video calling via WhatsApp and Messenger, hands-free Apple Music controls, and a new frame style
Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge:
Apple schedules a “special Apple Event” for May 7 at 10am ET, where new iPads are expected; rumors suggest the iPad Pro will get an OLED display and an M3 chip  —  After kicking off 2024 with the launch of the Vision Pro, the next act in Apple's 2024 script is a May product launch event.
Counterpoint Research:
iPhone sales in China fell 19.1% YoY to a 15.7% share in Q1 2024; Vivo fell 0.4% YoY to 17.4%, Honor rose 11.5% YoY to 16.1%, and Huawei rose 69.7% YoY to 15.5%  —  - China's smartphone sales grew 1.5% YoY and 4.6% QoQ in Q1 2024, marking the second consecutive quarter of positive YoY growth.
Dave Lee / Bloomberg:
As Congress' TikTok bill moves ahead, US lawmakers must show on what grounds they are forcing a sale or ban of the popular and culturally significant platform  —  Congress must show the evidence to gain Americans' support for its proposed sale or ban of one of the world's most popular social networks.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Perplexity AI, which offers an AI chatbot that summarizes search results, raised ~$63M led by Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation, up from $520M in January 2024  —  Perplexity's valuation has doubled in three months in a clear sign of investor enthusiasm for the company's artificial intelligence chatbot.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe adds AI tools powered by its new Firefly Image 3 model to Photoshop, including Reference Image to inspire the AI's output, available in beta on desktop  —  Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to its Photoshop creative software that aim to give users additional ways to control the designs they generate.
Reuters:
Analysis: 10 Chinese entities acquired advanced Nvidia chips embedded in Supermicro, Dell, and Gigabyte products from November 20, 2023, to February 28, 2024  —  Chinese universities and research institutes recently obtained high-end Nvidia (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chips through resellers …
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% YoY to 615M, below 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% YoY to 239M, and a €168M operating income  —  - Subscribers to paid Spotify tiers jumped 14% to 239 million  — Swedish audio-streaming company posted record operating profit
Washington Post:
Google fires ~20 more staff the company says participated in protests denouncing an Israeli cloud contract; an activist workers' group says the total is now 50+  —  Some employees protested the tech giant's contract with the Israeli government.  They've been let go.
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Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues  —  Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant's Phoenix expansion.
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Repairable laptop maker Framework Computer raised a $17M Series A-1, after an $18M Series A in early 2022, to expand into new product categories  —  Framework Computer was ahead of the curve.  The company was founded in 2019, as 20 U.S. states began exploring potential right to repair bills.

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Wall Street Journal:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide changeFind
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Sara Dorn / Forbes:
The US Senate advances the bill forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, preparing for a final vote on the bill as soon as Tuesday eveningFind
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: IBM is nearing an acquisition of HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in the coming days; HashiCorp's stock jumps 22%+Find
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Kali Hays / Business Insider:
Apptopia: Threads is now consistently surpassing X in US DAUs, up to ~28M in April, after it first began eclipsing X in Dec. 2023, but X still has more US MAUsFind
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Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issuesFind
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Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
Not only has GM sold driving data to insurers without telling users, but a GM app “bug” meant users who were enrolled in Smart Driver were told they weren'tFind
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed “toxicity testing”, but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging FaceFind
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Elle Griffin / The Elysian:
Penguin vs. DOJ transcripts: top publishing houses spend most of their money on book advances for big celebrities like Britney Spears and franchise authors

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Puck hires veteran journalist and TV commentator John Heilemann as its chief political columnist and partner, as the outlet expands its presence in Washington

Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
PEN America cancels its 2024 literary awards ceremony, set for April 29, after months of protests over the organization's response to the war in Gaza

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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Meta, Google, OpenAI, child safety group Thorn, nonprofit All Tech Is Human, and other AI groups sign on to an initiative to add new child safety measures
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos updates its Android and iOS apps, rebuilding them to become more reliable, and plans to discontinue its Windows and macOS apps in favor of web apps
Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg:
Sources: two SEC lawyers resigned after a US federal judge sanctioned and sharply rebuked the SEC for “gross abuse” of power in crypto platform DEBT Box's case

Earlier Picks

Mike Cherney / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk criticizes Australia's order to remove a video of a religious leader's stabbing, after the eSafety commissioner took X to court and the PM weighed in
Akila Quinio / Financial Times:
Revolut plans an ad sales push, expects to derive a “proper chunk” of its revenue from targeted ads, and hires an ex-TikTok executive to lead its media strategy
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Nominal, which offers tools for data analysis, testing, and more to startups building advanced hardware like drones, emerges from stealth with $27.5M in funding
More: FinSMEs.  X: @zebulgar, @bznotes, and @graceisford
LinkedIn: Cameron McCord and Evan Loomis
Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest
More: Meta, UploadVR, ZDNet, Fortune, Inc.com, iLounge, TechRadar, PYMNTS.com, Stratechery, SamMobile, Android Headlines, Road to VR, Engadget, BGR, PC Gamer, T3, HotHardware, PCGamesN, VentureBeat, Patently Apple, Stuff, The Indian Express, Wccftech, KitGuru, CCN.com, Mashable, The Hindu, The Shortcut, Financial Express, NFT News Today, Thurrott, Windows Report, Silicon UK, Press Start, TechSpot, 9to5Google, UploadVR, The Verge, Techsponential, Meta for Developers, UploadVR, and Road to VR
Threads: @zuck, @techaltar, @ben_adida, @dantley, @mishaal_rahman, @mishaal_rahman, @documentingmeta, @alecmuffett, @parkert, @boztank, @boztank, @carnage4life, @akruglov, @gossithedog, @boztank, @chris, @vishalshahis, @boztank, and @avfernandezz.  Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
Mastodon: @lexd0g@wetdry.world and @stroughtonsmith …
X: @mishaalrahman, @edzitron, @cixliv, @raywongy, @firt, @asychov, @javierdavalos, @sadlyitsbradley, @scobleizer, @nickadobos, @migueldeicaza, @cixliv, @seyitaylor, @cixliv, @lenovonews, @heaney555, @heaney555, @alexeheath, @yewnyx, @sadlyitsbradley, @sadlyitsbradley, @anshelsag, @cristianoamon, @sadlyitsbradley, @heaney555, @greengart, @benbajarin, @benbajarin, @timsweeneyepic, @jeffym85, @oculus_dev, @mishaalrahman, @vrjsy, @vincentguigui, @bmfshow, @rjdoesvr, @matt_pulsipher, @cezaryxr, @bengeskin, @tkexpress11, @hero_kvatch, @ericpresidentvr, @asus_rog, @multicallum, @basel_sabbagh, @ninjaguyx, @georgemayer, @realitylabs, @maxwinebach, @andrewcurran_, @andyparackal, @lunayian, @jetscott, @gabroxr, @mankindforward, @ramahluwalia, @maxweisel, and @carnage4life
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Eric Rosario, and Stephen Broadwell
Forums: Hacker News, r/PSVR, r/VisionPro, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/OculusQuest
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