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AI platforms are unlikely to become a major source of traffic or ad revenue for media outlets, with content deals offering only a short-term revenue boost (Om Malik/On my Om)

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31 January 2024

Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers on a usage basis, raised a $43M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $78M+ (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers on a usage basis, raised a $43M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $78M+  —  Metronome, a startup that helps software companies offer usage-based billing, has raised $43 million in a Series B funding round led by NEA.

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Death Stranding 2: On the Breach isn’t coming until 2025 - 2024-01-31 23:10:02Z

Title:Death Stranding 2: On the Breach isn't coming until 2025 Summary: Sony's State of Play gave fans their first in-depth look at Death Stranding 2: On the Breach which is scheduled to release in 2025. Link: Death Stranding 2: On the Breach isn't coming until 2025

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Metro: Awakening VR launches on PS VR2 sometime in 2024 - 2024-01-31 22:34:31Z

Title:Metro: Awakening VR launches on PS VR2 sometime in 2024 Summary: One of the new PS VR2 games revealed during the State of Play is Metro: Awakening VR, set in the Metro universe. Link: Metro: Awakening VR launches on PS VR2 sometime in 2024

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Until Dawn gets a remaster for PS5 and PC - 2024-01-31 22:48:00Z

Title:Until Dawn gets a remaster for PS5 and PC Summary: Psychological horror game Until Dawn is getting a remaster from Ballistic Moon for Sony on the PS5 and PC. It is coming in 2024. Link: Until Dawn gets a remaster for PS5 and PC

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Rise of Ronin has fast combat and movement in Edo, Japan - 2024-01-31 22:41:00Z

Title:Rise of Ronin has fast combat and movement in Edo, Japan Summary: Sony gave some State of Play airtime to Rise of the Ronin, a samurai action-role-playing game coming to the PlayStation in 2024. Link: Rise of Ronin has fast combat and movement in Edo, Japan

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Ken Levine’s Judas gets a trailer at Sony’s State of Play - 2024-01-31 22:31:00Z

Title:Ken Levine's Judas gets a trailer at Sony's State of Play Summary: Ken Levine's Ghost Story Games teased more in-game scenes from its upcoming game, Judas. Link: Ken Levine's Judas gets a trailer at Sony's State of Play

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Free-to-play game Silent Hill: The Short Message launches today - 2024-01-31 22:24:41Z

Title:Free-to-play game Silent Hill: The Short Message launches today Summary: Silent Hill: The Short Message stealth-launched today during Sony's State of Play event and is free-to-play on PS5. Link: Free-to-play game Silent Hill: The Short Message launches today

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US adults survey: 83% use YouTube; 68% use Facebook; 47% use Instagram; 27% to 35% use Snapchat, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest; 22% use X and Reddit (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)

Jeffrey Gottfried / Pew Research Center:
US adults survey: 83% use YouTube; 68% use Facebook; 47% use Instagram; 27% to 35% use Snapchat, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest; 22% use X and Reddit  —  YouTube and Facebook are by far the most used online platforms among U.S. adults; TikTok's user base has grown since 2021

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Sonic Generations is back with an extra dose of Shadow - 2024-01-31 22:14:37Z

Title:Sonic Generations is back with an extra dose of Shadow Summary: Sega revealed a remaster of Sonic Generations during today's PlayStation State of Play. Link: Sonic Generations is back with an extra dose of Shadow

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Resolution Games reveals Game Room for Apple Vision Pro - 2024-01-31 21:52:51Z

Title:Resolution Games reveals Game Room for Apple Vision Pro Summary: Resolution Games has revealed Game Room, its new project for Apple's Vision Pro headset, which offers digital board games. Link: Resolution Games reveals Game Room for Apple Vision Pro

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Shopify boosts its commerce platform with ‘Magic’ image editor and other AI enhancements - 2024-01-31 21:31:03Z

Title:Shopify boosts its commerce platform with 'Magic' image editor and other AI enhancements Summary: Shopify adds over 100 new AI-powered features to its commerce platform, helping merchants sell more, work smarter and create better customer experiences. Link: Shopify boosts its commerce platform with 'Magic' image editor and other AI enhancements

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Stellar Blade gets April 26 release date at State of Play trailer - 2024-01-31 22:14:54Z

Title:Stellar Blade gets April 26 release date at State of Play trailer Summary: Sony revealed Stellar Blade's new release date -- April 26 -- in an extended gameplay trailer at its State of Play event. Link: Stellar Blade gets April 26 release date at State of Play trailer

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Qualcomm reports Q1 adjusted revenue up 5% YoY to $9.92B, vs. $9.51B est., handset chip sales up 16% YoY to $6.69B, and net income up 24% YoY to $2.77B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm reports Q1 adjusted revenue up 5% YoY to $9.92B, vs. $9.51B est., handset chip sales up 16% YoY to $6.69B, and net income up 24% YoY to $2.77B  —  - Qualcomm beat on revenue and earnings in the quarter.  — The company said it shipped $6.69 billion in handset chips during the December quarter …

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PalWorld momentum continues, reaches 19M+ players in 13 days - 2024-01-31 20:09:28Z

Title:PalWorld momentum continues, reaches 19M+ players in 13 days Summary: Palworld's indie Cinderella story continues. Pocket Pair's debut title has reached over 19M players in under two weeks across Steam and Xbox. Link: PalWorld momentum continues, reaches 19M+ players in 13 days

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Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih says AI is a ‘moving target’ — but her aim is steady - 2024-01-31 20:19:19Z

Title:Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih says AI is a 'moving target' — but her aim is steady Summary: VentureBeat spoke with Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI, about her 2024 priorities, her top strategies and her generative AI 'aha' moment. Link: Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih says AI is a 'moving target' — but her aim is steady

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OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation - 2024-01-31 19:34:24Z

Title:OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation Summary: OpenAI released a new study that evaluates the risk of AI-assisted biological threat creation and calls for more research and preparedness on this frontier issue. Link: OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation

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Dynatrace ventures into AI observability with new solution, covers entire LLM stack - 2024-01-31 20:01:27Z

Title:Dynatrace ventures into AI observability with new solution, covers entire LLM stack Summary: Dynatrace AI Observability monitors the entire AI stack behind applications, right from the infrastructure layer and foundational models to semantic caches, vector databases and orchestration frameworks. Link: Dynatrace ventures into AI observability with new solution, covers entire LLM stack

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OpenAI says GPT-4 poses "at most" a slight risk of helping create biological threats, according to early tests to evaluate "catastrophic" risks from LLMs (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says GPT-4 poses “at most” a slight risk of helping create biological threats, according to early tests to evaluate “catastrophic” risks from LLMs  —  Artificial intelligence startup carried out tests as part of efforts to understand and prevent any “catastrophic” risks from its technology.

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Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA  —  On the eve of Wednesday's big tech hearing (both big tech and a big hearing — five CEOs are testifying as we speak) …

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Microsoft says that Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Copilot features will be available on Apple Vision Pro on February 2 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says that Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Copilot features will be available on Apple Vision Pro on February 2  —  Microsoft is launching a suite of its Microsoft 365 apps on Apple's Vision Pro headset later this week.

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Sources: Cruise does not expect to see its robotaxis on city streets again until Q4 2024 and is considering Houston and Dallas as likely cities for a relaunch (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Sources: Cruise does not expect to see its robotaxis on city streets again until Q4 2024 and is considering Houston and Dallas as likely cities for a relaunch  —  General Motors' (GM.N) Cruise self-driving car unit faces a trip that could last the better part of this year to convince regulators …

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Mistral CEO confirms ‘leak’ of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance - 2024-01-31 18:44:56Z

Title:Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance Summary: An anonymous user on 4chan posted a link to the miqu-1-70b files on 4chan. The open source model approaches GPT-4 performance. Link: Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance

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Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to parents in the audience of a US Senate hearing who say that Meta's apps contributed to their children's suicide or exploitation (Angela Yang/NBC News)

Angela Yang / NBC News:
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to parents in the audience of a US Senate hearing who say that Meta's apps contributed to their children's suicide or exploitation  —  “I'm sorry for everything you've all gone through,” the Meta CEO said at a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing called …

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Asgard’s Wrath 2 launches 2nd cosmic event: Into the Multiverse - 2024-01-31 18:00:00Z

Title:Asgard's Wrath 2 launches 2nd cosmic event: Into the Multiverse Summary: Meta's Asgard's Wrath 2 team is launching the game's second cosmic event, dubbed Into the Multiverse Link: Asgard's Wrath 2 launches 2nd cosmic event: Into the Multiverse

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Synthesia launches LLM-powered assistant to turn any text file or link into AI video - 2024-01-31 17:16:24Z

Title:Synthesia launches LLM-powered assistant to turn any text file or link into AI video Summary: All a user has to do is provide the source of the material — be it a website, text file, word document, PDF or idea — and choose a template. Link: Synthesia launches LLM-powered assistant to turn any text file or link into AI video

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The US DOJ says eBay agreed to pay $59M to settle allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by allowing sales of pill presses and other items (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal:
The US DOJ says eBay agreed to pay $59M to settle allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by allowing sales of pill presses and other items  —  Justice Department says eBay has also agreed to enhance its compliance program  —  EBay will pay $59 million to settle …

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Baobab partners with 9 Story Media to bring Roblox franchise Momoguro to TV - 2024-01-31 16:00:00Z

Title:Baobab partners with 9 Story Media to bring Roblox franchise Momoguro to TV Summary:

Baobab Studios and 9 Story Media have partnered to bring Baobab's Momoguro franchise, which is a popular gaming series Roblox, to television. Burlingame, California-based Baobab created Momoguro as a cross-platform entertainment franchise, said CEO Maureen Fan in an interview with GamesBeat. And now Baobab is joining with 9 Story Media Group, a powerhouse in kids […]

Link: Baobab partners with 9 Story Media to bring Roblox franchise Momoguro to TV

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An FTX lawyer says the exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform due to a lack of buyers (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
An FTX lawyer says the exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform due to a lack of buyers  —  Its FTT token surged about 11% after the news.  —  10 Years of Decentralizing the Future  —  May 29-31, 2024 - Austin, TexasThe biggest …

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The FBI and DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack thousands of Cisco and Netgear routers at the end of their lives (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
The FBI and DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack thousands of Cisco and Netgear routers at the end of their lives  —  Chinese hackers prepare to ‘wreak havoc’ against Americans, FBI Director Chris Wray tells Congress

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Protect AI expands efforts to secure LLMs with open source acquisition - 2024-01-31 14:00:00Z

Title:Protect AI expands efforts to secure LLMs with open source acquisition Summary: The acquisition will allow Protect AI to extend the capabilities of its AI security platform to better protect organizations against potential risks from the development and usage of large language models (LLMs). Link: Protect AI expands efforts to secure LLMs with open source acquisition

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Why AI and behavioral analytics are stealth strengths of Gartner’s MQ on endpoints - 2024-01-31 15:00:00Z

Title:Why AI and behavioral analytics are stealth strengths of Gartner's MQ on endpoints Summary:

They are the silent strengths that endpoint providers rely on to sharpen their arsenals and keep them ready for the next onslaught of cyberattacks. AI and behavioral analytics are core to the DNA of the leading endpoint providers, including Cisco, CrowdStrike, ESET, Fortinet, Microsoft​​ and Palo Alto Networks.  Each of these endpoint providers sees cybersecurity […]

Link: Why AI and behavioral analytics are stealth strengths of Gartner's MQ on endpoints

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Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms "unauthorized access" to "a few of my personal XRP accounts", after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M (MK Manoylov/The Block)

MK Manoylov / The Block:
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M  —  - Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said Wednesday that there had been “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts.”

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A live blog of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, including testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, Linda Yaccarino, and Evan Spiegel (Washington Post)

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A live blog of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, including testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, Linda Yaccarino, and Evan Spiegel  —  The chief executives of five major tech companies are testifying Wednesday about allegations that they failed to protect children …

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Q&A with Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson on generative AI, potential productivity gains, his "J-curve" and "Turing trap" concepts, AI drawbacks, and more (Tej Parikh/Financial Times)

Tej Parikh / Financial Times:
Q&A with Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson on generative AI, potential productivity gains, his “J-curve” and “Turing trap” concepts, AI drawbacks, and more  —  The Stanford professor on what generative AI will mean for productivity, jobs and the society of the future

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Israel-based Oasis Security, which offers tools for "non-human" identity management, emerges from stealth and raised a $5M seed and $35M Series A led by Sequoia (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Israel-based Oasis Security, which offers tools for “non-human” identity management, emerges from stealth and raised a $5M seed and $35M Series A led by Sequoia  —  When people hear the term “identity management” in an enterprise context, they typically think of apps …

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Binance left a cache of code, infrastructure diagrams, passwords, and more on a public GitHub repository for months; GitHub removed after Binance's request (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Binance left a cache of code, infrastructure diagrams, passwords, and more on a public GitHub repository for months; GitHub removed after Binance's request  —  A takedown request said the GitHub account was “hosting and distributing leaks of internal code which poses significant risk to BINANCE.”

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Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: a $200 price cut to $999, 16GB of VRAM, and impressive 4K performance, but not a big performance boost over the RTX 4070 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: a $200 price cut to $999, 16GB of VRAM, and impressive 4K performance, but not a big performance boost over the RTX 4070  —  Nvidia's RTX 4080 Super is the third and potentially final of Nvidia's refreshed 40-series GPUs.  The RTX 4070 Super got …

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Unity launches general support for Apple Vision Pro - 2024-01-31 13:00:00Z

Title:Unity launches general support for Apple Vision Pro Summary: Unity has unveiled its support for spatial experiences including support for the Apple Vision Pro that launches on February 2. Link: Unity launches general support for Apple Vision Pro

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Saga partners with Netmarble’s MarbleX on Web3 gaming - 2024-01-31 13:00:00Z

Title:Saga partners with Netmarble's MarbleX on Web3 gaming Summary: Blockchain tech firm Saga and MarbleX, a division of South Korean mobile gaming firm Netmarble, have teamed up to advance Web3 games. Link: Saga partners with Netmarble's MarbleX on Web3 gaming

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23andMe's stock, which hit a $6B valuation after a 2021 IPO, has crashed 98% and 23andMe may run out of cash by 2025, as CEO Anne Wojcicki plots a turnaround (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
23andMe's stock, which hit a $6B valuation after a 2021 IPO, has crashed 98% and 23andMe may run out of cash by 2025, as CEO Anne Wojcicki plots a turnaround  —  From celebrity ‘spit parties’ to a drop in the bucket: The once-hot DNA-testing company is struggling to profit

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Sources: some Chinese automakers delayed flagship model deliveries due to production issues with Huawei's MDC 810 computing unit; a source blames part shortages (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: some Chinese automakers delayed flagship model deliveries due to production issues with Huawei's MDC 810 computing unit; a source blames part shortages  —  Some Chinese automakers have had to delay deliveries of flagship models due to production issues with a computing unit made by tech giant Huawei …

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UK prosecutors say the Met Police seized 61K bitcoin, worth £1.4B+, in 2018, as part of a trial over an alleged ~£5B investment fraud in China between 2014-2017 (Eri Sugiura/Financial Times)

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times:
UK prosecutors say the Met Police seized 61K bitcoin, worth £1.4B+, in 2018, as part of a trial over an alleged ~£5B investment fraud in China between 2014-2017  —  One of the world's largest seizures revealed during trial of woman accused of laundering cryptocurrency for her former employer

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The Reserve Bank of India issues new curbs against Paytm's Payments Bank, including barring new deposits, credit transactions, and more after February 29 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
The Reserve Bank of India issues new curbs against Paytm's Payments Bank, including barring new deposits, credit transactions, and more after February 29  —  The Reserve Bank of India issued new curbs against Paytm's Payments Bank, which processes transactions for financial services giant Paytm …

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Sources: Google splits up its 30-strong Responsible Innovation team, after leader and founder Jen Gennai suddenly left; RESIN conducted 500+ reviews in 2023 (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Sources: Google splits up its 30-strong Responsible Innovation team, after leader and founder Jen Gennai suddenly left; RESIN conducted 500+ reviews in 2023  —  A crucial team at Google that reviewed new AI products for compliance with its rules for responsible AI development faces …

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Bipartisan Senators unveil the DEFIANCE Act, which would let people sue over deepfake porn and other AI "intimate" images, after the viral Taylor Swift images (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Bipartisan Senators unveil the DEFIANCE Act, which would let people sue over deepfake porn and other AI “intimate” images, after the viral Taylor Swift images  —  US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread …

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A look at Ubisoft's problems, as insiders fear further layoffs: a wild goose chase of popular fads, like NFTs, constant delays, low player numbers, and more (Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming)

Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming:
A look at Ubisoft's problems, as insiders fear further layoffs: a wild goose chase of popular fads, like NFTs, constant delays, low player numbers, and more  —  As industry-wide layoffs continue to plague headlines, Ubisoft, the sixth-largest video game company by employees, is at a crossroads.

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In prepared Senate testimony, TikTok CEO Shou Chew says the company plans to spend $2B+ in 2024 on trust and safety globally and the app has 170M US MAUs (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
In prepared Senate testimony, TikTok CEO Shou Chew says the company plans to spend $2B+ in 2024 on trust and safety globally and the app has 170M US MAUs  —  - Shou Chew joins US rivals in Senate hearing Wednesday  — Global social media chiefs will outline plans to protect kids

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