Tech Meme

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Twilio reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.01B, vs. $1B est., 300K+ active customer accounts, up from 268K+ YoY, and Q2 guidance below estimates; TWLO down 13%+  —  – Twilio’s results surpassed expectations for the first quarter, but second-quarter guidance lagged estimates. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: EA reports Q4 revenue of $1.87B, up 2.7% YoY, a $12M net loss, vs. a $225M net income YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.95B, and FIFA net bookings up 31% YoY  —  But the video game company swung to a net loss of $12 million, against a year-earlier net profit of $225 million. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show on Twitter with help from ex-Fox News staff and will forgo at least $25M owed to him by Fox to break a non-compete clause  —  🚨 NEWS: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show *on Twitter* with help from former Fox News staff. He will forgo at least $25 million owed to him by Fox Corp. in order to break non-compete clause. @PuckNews Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.79B est., its first profitable Q1 with a $117M net income, and a cautious outlook for Q2; ABNB drops 10%+  —  – Shares of Airbnb fell in extended trading Tuesday after the company released first-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots  —  Anthropic is a bit of an unknown quantity in the AI world.  Founded by former OpenAI employees and keen to present itself … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: iOS 16.5 mentions new Beats Studio Pro headphones, which a source says come in four colors with a Transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, and better ANC  —  Earlier this year, 9to5Mac revealed that Apple has been working on new Beats Studio Buds+ with a custom Beats chip. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Carriers in dozens of US states are tearing out Chinese equipment, a difficult process the FCC says has already cost $5B+, well over its $1.9B reimbursement pot  —  As China and the United States jockey for tech primacy, wireless carriers in dozens of states are tearing out Chinese equipment. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads”  —  It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. Lees verder op Tech Meme

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: The US says the FBI disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage operation by inspecting FSB’s Snake malware and decrypting and decoding its communications  —  A law enforcement effort dubbed “Medusa” targeted malware deployed by Moscow’s Federal Security Service, officials said Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives that raised $300M from Google, details its work on “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots  —  Anthropic is a bit of an unknown quantity in the AI world.  Founded by former OpenAI employees and keen to present itself … Lees verder op Tech Meme