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Amazon Web Services Lays Off Hundreds of Physical Stores Tech, Sales Staff

Apr 3, 2024 · 6:36am PDT
The cuts in physical retail tech come one day after The Information reported that Amazon plans to remove its Just Walk Out checkout technology from many of its grocery stores.
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Biden Discussed TikTok With Chinese President Xi During Call

Apr 3, 2024 · 1:28am PDT
Biden's conversation with Xi comes as a U.S. bill is trying to force TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be banned.
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Intel Shares Drop After It Disclosed $7 Billion Loss From Chip Manufacturing Unit

Apr 2, 2024 · 3:50pm PDT
CEO Pat Gelsinger wants the foundry business to make chips for other companies, not just Intel.
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Jon Stewart Says Apple Didn’t Want Him to Interview FTC Chair Lina Khan

Apr 2, 2024 · 3:07pm PDT
Khan has led an aggressive push to curb the power of tech companies since she took the reins of the FTC in 2021, part of a broader Biden administration effort also involving the Justice Department.
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Slack’s Chief Product Officer Steps Down

Apr 2, 2024 · 2:49pm PDT
Several other longtime Slack executives have left the company since December 2022, including Slack’s co-founder and former CEO, Stewart Butterfield.
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Twitch Has ‘Role to Play’ in Training Amazon AI, Executive Says

Apr 2, 2024 · 12:21pm PDT · 1 comment
Twitch Chief Monetization Officer Mike Minton said Google’s licensing of Reddit data shows that social content can be useful for training AI.
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Silver Lake Confirms Endeavor Buyout

Apr 2, 2024 · 12:05pm PDT
The buyout ends a disappointing time on the public market for Endeavor, which went public three years ago at a price of $24 a share, just $3.50 below the buyout price.
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Tesla Car Production and Deliveries Decline  

Apr 2, 2024 · 6:49am PDT
Tesla’s first quarter production and delivery numbers mark the end of an era of growth. 
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Meta Set to Lose Engineering Manager Who Worked on Llama 2

Apr 1, 2024 · 10:44pm PDT
Robert Stojnic has told colleagues he plans to leave the company, according to two people told of his plans.
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Tiger Global Closes $2.2 Billion Fund, 63% Lower Than Target

Apr 1, 2024 · 6:16pm PDT
Tiger Global Management has raised $2.2 billion for its latest venture fund, according to a person briefed on the fund’s close.
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Google Will Delete Billions of Records as Part of Chrome ‘Incognito’ Settlement

Apr 1, 2024 · 5:36pm PDT
Google will also rewrite its disclosures around Incognito mode to clarify that it continues to collect users’ data even when they are using the feature.
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Lightspeed, Greylock Would Be Big Winners from Rubrik IPO

Apr 1, 2024 · 3:32pm PDT · 1 comment
The stakes would provide the venture capital firms with a rare win for enterprise software-focused VCs in recent years, which has had a dearth of public listings for such firms
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OpenAI Removes Altman as Owner of Startup Fund

Apr 1, 2024 · 11:40am PDT
Sam Altman no longer controls the OpenAI Startup Fund, the venture arm of the ChatGPT maker that invests in startups, according to new securities filings
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Microsoft to Separate Office, Teams Products Globally as Regulatory Pressure Mounts

Apr 1, 2024 · 7:18am PDT
Companies who previously got Teams for free with their Office subscriptions will now have to pay an additional $5.25 per user per month.
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Discord Plans to Sell Ads

Mar 31, 2024 · 9:43pm PDT
The move is a reversal for the social media startup.
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Microsoft Breaks Ground on New Data Center For OpenAI Supercomputer

Mar 31, 2024 · 9:29pm PDT
The new data center is phase 4 out of five phases the companies have discussed for launching supercomputers.
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Shein Reportedly Doubled Annual Profit to $2 Billion

Mar 31, 2024 · 9:21pm PDT
The company is awaiting regulatory approval for a U.S.-based IPO.
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Senate Reportedly Expected to Push for Changes to House TikTok Bill

Mar 31, 2024 · 5:03am PDT
Any changes would likely slow the passage of the bill, which sailed through the House earlier this month.
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Canadian Schools Sue Meta, Snap, ByteDance

Mar 28, 2024 · 11:19am PDT
Four school boards in Canada Wednesday sued the social media companies, claiming they have harmed children’s mental health and disrupted the education systems.
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Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

Mar 28, 2024 · 8:54am PDT · 2 comments
The sentence was well below the maximum possible of 110 years.