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Rebekah Valentine / IGN: Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 -
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations -
Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top -
Álvaro / eXputer: Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X console, which Microsoft plans to release in 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X -
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used -
Open Web Advocacy: How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy -
CNBC: Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of its planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after investing $1.25B in September 2023 -
Sponsor Post Tribe AI: Is AI just hype? — Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results. -
Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 -
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, posts calling trans and gender nonconforming people “satanic”, and more -
Financial Times: Trump Media & Technology Group closed up 14% at $66.22 on March 27, for a $13.5B market cap, as small investors boost the stock; Trump's stake is worth ~$5.3B -
19 minutes ago Matt Day / Bloomberg: Analysis: in the past two years, Amazon committed to spending $148B over 15 years on data centers, including in Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia -
Financial Times: A look at an Indian court case over Byju Raveendran's control of Byju's, as investors, who voted to remove Raveendran last month, brace for a protracted battle -
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Mandiant: Yevgeny Prigozhin-linked online influence operations are active months after his death in August 2023, and underwent subtle shifts in their targeting -
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada -
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China -
Clara Murray / Financial Times: Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal -
Fortune: A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and then fell apart -
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Galaxy Digital, and others invest $75M in crypto fund 1kx, which has raised ~$200M since 2018 and invested in Rarible and more -
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: NYC-based Coro, which offers SMB cybersecurity tools, raised a $100M Series D led by One Peak, sources say at a $750M post-money valuation, to expand in Europe -
New York Times: Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by “Hey, Meta”, are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong -
Emilia David / The Verge: The US OMB releases new guidance on AI, requiring all federal agencies to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use and submit an annual AI report