Image: Microsoft Microsoft says it’s extending its long-term partnership with OpenAI through a new “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment.” The investment comes just weeks after Microsoft was rumored to be investing $10 billion into OpenAI, the creators of popular AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2. “We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition
Read MoreDina Bass / Bloomberg: OpenAI announces an investment by Microsoft, a source says totalling $10B over years, after 2019 and 2021 investments, to build “safe, useful, and powerful” AI — Microsoft Corp. is making a $10 billion investment over several years in OpenAI, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab behind ChatGPT and DALL-E.
Read MoreWhenever [Ken Shirriff] posts something, it ends up being a fascinating read. Usually it’s a piece of computer history, decapped and laid bare under his microscope where it undergoes reverse engineering and analysis to a degree that should be hard to follow, but he still somehow manages to make it understandable. And the same goes
Read MoreEva Mathews / Reuters: Spotify plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce, or roughly 600 jobs, says content head Dawn Ostroff will leave, and reorganizes engineering and product groups — Music streaming firm Spotify plans to cut 6% of its workforce, the company said on Monday, a move that will add to a glut
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify will lay off 6 percent of its workforce globally, the company’s CEO Daniel Ek announced in an all-staff memo today. Spotify had just over 9,800 full time employees as of its last earnings report, meaning today’s layoffs affect a little under 600 staff. The layoffs make Spotify
Read MoreKarin Matussek / Bloomberg: Germany’s cartel regulator opens an investigation into PayPal Europe over possibly hindering competition, including merchant rules for other payment services — Germany’s antitrust regulator opened an investigation into PayPal Holdings Inc. over potential obstruction of competitors and restriction of price competition
Read More(Credit: Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images) (Credit: Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)Many large tech companies hired and expanded their offerings a little too fast during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now their employees are paying the price. In the wake of a contracting economy, some of these corporate giants are laying
Read MoreGet your multitasking on with Apple’s handy-dandy app juggling tool.
Read MoreTiffany Hsu / New York Times: As China introduces rules to combat deepfakes, authorities around the world have approved few regulations, often because of free speech concerns — Few governments have approved regulations, often because of free-speech concerns. New mandates from China could change the tone of the debate on digital forgeries.
Read MoreA pregnant woman’s Apple Watch detected that something was wrong, prompting her to seek medical advice before giving birth.
Read MoreAnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: Wells Fargo, BofA, JPMorgan, and four other banks are working on a digital wallet, managed by Zelle owner Early Warning Services, rolling out in H2 2023 — Financial institutions behind Zelle are working on a wallet for consumers to use at online checkout — Big banks are teaming …
Read MoreA mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.
Read MoreThe IT Army of Ukraine saw a huge influx of first-time hackers. But what happens to them after the war?
Read MoreThe EV giant is alienating its customers, bringing in less revenue, and falling behind legacy carmakers.
Read MoreIf you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable.
Read MoreSure, three-year-olds and critics love this animated series about a family of dogs. But its most vocal fans may be grownup commenters on TikTok.
Read MoreRafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: Nokia signs a multiyear cross-license patent agreement with Samsung, covering fundamental 5G and other tech, after the previous deal expired at the end of 2022 — Nokia Oyj signed a new multiyear cross-license patent agreement with Samsung Electronics that enables the handset maker to use Nokia’s technology in its products.
Read MoreThe well-meaning advice to not carry a grudge certainly didn’t come from anyone who’s wrestled with a computer for a living. Toil for anytime with the infernal logic of a programming language and you’ll know the horrors of the inky void where the worst bugs dwell. Sure, everyone loves a computer language when they first
Read MoreMy first blog post in 2005 was about application logging, and I shared 10 practices I hoped my development team would follow. Today’s devops implementations around observability are more sophisticated and scalable, but several of my recommendations remain relevant, especially logging session IDs, specifying code-location details, and ensuring logs are free from security and privacy-related
Read More“IT spending remains recession-proof.” Thus spake John-David Lovelock, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner. This might raise eyebrows, given Big Tech’s big layoffs (more than 200,000 and counting) over the past 12 months. Lovelock’s views notwithstanding, Gartner very recently revised downward its 2022 forecast of 5.1% IT spending growth to just 2.4%. However, this apparent reversal belies
Read MoreTripp Mickle / New York Times: The recent tech layoffs highlight a generational divide between younger workers, experiencing their first downturn, and older workers, who have been here before — The industry’s recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash.
Read MoreHydrogen is the most common element in the universe, but the form it takes and where exactly it’s detected can tell us a lot about the universe. Scientists from McGill University in Canada and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru have made history by detecting atomic hydrogen in the most distant galaxy ever.
Read MoreDavid Pan / Bloomberg: Binance says Signature Bank will only handle transactions of over $100,000, starting on February 1, as the US bank decreases its exposure to crypto markets — Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Signature Bank will only handle user transactions of more than $100,000 …
Read MoreApple is unlikely to release a new HomePod mini this year, despite the hardware refresh for its older sibling.
Read MoreAlexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Genesis Global Capital’s bankruptcy marks the end of an era of crypto lenders trying to bring the centuries-old banking model to digital currencies — Risk in crypto-lending sector was poorly managed, subjecting users to heavy losses after epic boom — The late-night bankruptcy filing …
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