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Vietnam-based Be Group, which provides ride-hailing, delivery, and digital financial services, raised ~$30M from VPBank, in a bid to take on Grab and GoTo (Nguyen Kieu Giang/Bloomberg)

Nguyen Kieu Giang / Bloomberg: Vietnam-based Be Group, which provides ride-hailing, delivery, and digital financial services, raised ~$30M from VPBank, in a bid to take on Grab and GoTo  —  – Be Group expanding its ride, delivery and fintech offerings  — Upstart targets $200 million in gross revenue in two years

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Binance, Kraken, Mexc, KuCoin, and four other crypto exchanges have been pulled from the App Store in India after being flagged for operating “illegally” (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Binance, Kraken, Mexc, KuCoin, and four other crypto exchanges have been pulled from the App Store in India after being flagged for operating “illegally”  —  Apps of as many as eight crypto exchanges including Binance, Kraken, Mexc and Kucoin have disappeared from Apple’s App Store in India …

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Former Apple VP of finance Saori Casey will become CFO at Sonos, replacing Eddie Lazarus, who will take on the new role of chief strategy officer (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Former Apple VP of finance Saori Casey will become CFO at Sonos, replacing Eddie Lazarus, who will take on the new role of chief strategy officer  —  Apple Inc. veteran Saori Casey will become chief financial officer at the smart speaker company Sonos Inc., marking another high-profile defection for the iPhone

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Podcasting is in its YouTube era

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Welcome back, and happy new year! I am plugging away at Hot Pod Summit preparations and very excited to reveal our lineup next week. In the meantime, the lottery is

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Intel: ‘We are bringing the AI PC to the car’

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A few months after Intel’s CEO announced plans to put AI into “everything,” we’re starting to get a clearer picture about where it will go first. Today, the company announced its AI-focused chip for the automotive sector or, as Intel describes it, “the first-generation AI-enhanced software-defined vehicle system-on-chip.”

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Pennsylvania becomes the first US state to use ChatGPT Enterprise in a pilot with OpenAI, in which state employees will use AI tools for daily operations (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: Pennsylvania becomes the first US state to use ChatGPT Enterprise in a pilot with OpenAI, in which state employees will use AI tools for daily operations  —  State employees in Pennsylvania will begin using ChatGPT to assist with their work in the coming weeks.

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Vue framework speeds template parsing, improves reactivity

Vue 3.4 has been released. The upgrade to the JavaScript front-end framework features a faster, rewritten template parser and a refactored reactivity system. Announced December 28, 2023, Vue 3.4 promises “substantial internal improvements.” Most notable is the rewritten template parser, which uses a state-machine tokenizer in htmlparser2 that iterates through the entire template string just

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Sources: Twitch could cut 500 employees, or about 35% of its staff, as soon as Wednesday amid concerns over losses at Twitch and after several top execs left (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: Twitch could cut 500 employees, or about 35% of its staff, as soon as Wednesday amid concerns over losses at Twitch and after several top execs left  —  Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year.  —  Amazon.com Inc.’s livestreaming site Twitch is poised …

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Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on generative AI, IP issues, cloud security, the Figma deal, regulation, antitrust, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on generative AI, IP issues, cloud security, the Figma deal, regulation, antitrust, and more  —  Adobe’s top lawyer discusses the future of copyright, why the Figma acquisition fell through, and why he’s optimistic AI won’t put creatives out of

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Quora says it raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz, to be used to accelerate the growth of Poe and pay bot creators through its creator monetization program (Adam D’Angelo/Quora)

Adam D’Angelo / Quora: Quora says it raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz, to be used to accelerate the growth of Poe and pay bot creators through its creator monetization program  —  We are excited to announce that we have raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz.  This funding will be used to accelerate the growth of Poe

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Match Group names Tinder COO Faye Iosotaluno as CEO of Tinder, ending a nearly two-year vacancy during which Match Group’s CEO held both titles (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Match Group names Tinder COO Faye Iosotaluno as CEO of Tinder, ending a nearly two-year vacancy during which Match Group’s CEO held both titles  —  – COO Faye Iosotaluno will take over top job after long vacancy  — Recovery slower-than-expected since turnaround plan in 2022

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An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says the @SECGov’s “twitter account was compromised”, and that the SEC has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says the @SECGov’s “twitter account was compromised”, and that the SEC has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs  —  The X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is deciding whether to approve bitcoin ETFs, “was compromised,” the regulator told CoinDesk.

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Startup Rabbit Inc. debuts the R1, a $199 handheld AI device meant to be a virtual assistant to complete tasks without a smartphone, shipping in late March (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Startup Rabbit Inc. debuts the R1, a $199 handheld AI device meant to be a virtual assistant to complete tasks without a smartphone, shipping in late March  —  The startup has developed a virtual assistant that learns whatever digital errands you teach it.  The interface is extra cute …

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Elections and disinfo are colliding like never before in 2024, as social networks reduce protections and state influence campaigns and AI-fueled disinfo ramp up (New York Times)

New York Times: Elections and disinfo are colliding like never before in 2024, as social networks reduce protections and state influence campaigns and AI-fueled disinfo ramp up  —  A wave of elections coincides with state influence operations, a surge of extremism, A.I. advances and a pullback in social media protections.

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