Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: Amsterdam-based Just Eat plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange on December 27 owing to the low liquidity, shifting to just an Amsterdam listing — The Amsterdam-headquartered meal delivery firm intends to cancel its secondary listing from the London Stock Exchange to reduce the associated …
Published: 2024-11-27 11:40:14
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles tailored to users, aiming to personalize its replies, following similar ChatGPT and Gemini features — Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks.
Published: 2024-11-27 11:25:03
IDC: IDC expects global smartphone shipments to rise 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, with Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY — Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 6.2% year-over-year in 2024 to 1.24 billion units, according …
Published: 2024-11-27 11:00:43
Sandy Ong / Rest of World: Singapore, which has clear AV guidelines, is deploying self-driving buses and more as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently — The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently.
Published: 2024-11-27 10:30:00
Bloomberg: Game console makers rethink selling more powerful machines, as performance improvements become less dramatic and consumers can't tell between 4K and 8K graphics — The human eye can't really tell the difference between 4K and 8K resolution. — Video game console manufacturers …
Published: 2024-11-27 09:55:01
Jeffrey Funk / American Affairs Journal: Study: about 85% of US unicorn startups that have gone public were unprofitable in 2023, despite most having been founded more than fifteen years earlier — Financial losses for today's start-ups are much more common than they were decades ago, and the losses are much bigger.
Published: 2024-11-27 09:00:51
Paul Triolo / American Affairs Journal: A look at the evolution of China's semiconductor industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs become the new focal point of US-China tech competition — Since I last wrote about China's responses to U.S. export controls in these pages, in February 2024, much has changed …
Published: 2024-11-27 07:45:00
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store — As scrutiny around Apple and Google's app store fees ramps up around the world, Roblox is now offering users who buy its game currency …
Published: 2024-11-27 07:35:01
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code — Huawei on Tuesday launched the Mate 70 series of smartphones that can run on the company's latest self-developed operating system …
Published: 2024-11-27 07:00:38
Financial Times: Sources: Elon Musk has given investors, who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition, 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation — Investors hit by losses following billionaire's takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up
Published: 2024-11-27 06:45:00
CNBC: Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of restricted stock in a new tender offer to SoftBank, in a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son — OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.
Published: 2024-11-27 05:30:02
Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Bluesky says it is up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a dataset of 1M posts from its API for ML research — A machine learning librarian at Hugging Face just released a dataset composed of one million Bluesky posts …
Published: 2024-11-27 05:10:00
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: An investigation suggests the third suspect behind the hacks of Snowflake clients may be a US Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea — Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake …
Published: 2024-11-27 04:25:01
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Wherobots, which offers a cloud-based platform to process and analyze geospatial data from satellites and other sources, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis — Mo Sarwat, cofounder and CEO of Wherobots. — WHEROBOTS — As a kid in Cairo, Mo Sarwat first grasped the dangers of not understanding the natural world.
Published: 2024-11-27 04:20:06
Robert Booth / The Guardian: TikTok plans to block under-18 users from using beauty filters, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13 users from the platform — Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up
Published: 2024-11-27 04:01:13