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Wall Street Journal: How Ukraine found US startups’ drones glitchy and pricey, turning instead to cheaper Chinese drones; PitchBook: ~300 US drone startups raised $2.5B since 2022  —  Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine… Read More »How Ukraine found US startups’ drones glitchy and pricey, turning instead to cheaper Chinese drones; PitchBook: ~300 US drone startups raised $2.5B since 2022 (Wall Street Journal)

Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter: Q&A with Getty Images CEO Craig Peters on the deal with Nvidia to create AI tools trained on Getty’s stock images, the need for AI industry standards, and more  —  The stock photo giant… Read More »Q&A with Getty Images CEO Craig Peters on the deal with Nvidia to create AI tools trained on Getty’s stock images, the need for AI industry standards, and more (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Guesty, a platform for accommodation managers to manage Airbnbs and more, raised $130M, sources say at a $900M valuation, after raising a $170M Series E in 2022  —  Travel and tourism are very much back on… Read More »Guesty, a platform for accommodation managers to manage Airbnbs and more, raised $130M, sources say at a $900M valuation, after raising a $170M Series E in 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Amrita Khalid / The Verge: The FCC says all but the smallest ISPs must now publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, ending an eight year battle between ISPs and the FCC  —  Starting on Wednesday, all but… Read More »The FCC says all but the smallest ISPs must now publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, ending an eight year battle between ISPs and the FCC (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)

Tony Romm / Washington Post: The FCC plans to cut its broadband subsidy payout to $14 per month, under half of the current rate; AT&T, Charter, and others are yet to detail their response  —  With Congress stalled on approving… Read More »The FCC plans to cut its broadband subsidy payout to $14 per month, under half of the current rate; AT&T, Charter, and others are yet to detail their response (Tony Romm/Washington Post)

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: A US official says SpaceX’s Pentagon contract to deploy terminals in Ukraine between June 2023 and May 2024 is worth $23M; the deal may not be renewed  —  – Elon Musk had voiced unease about Starlink’s… Read More »A US official says SpaceX’s Pentagon contract to deploy terminals in Ukraine between June 2023 and May 2024 is worth $23M; the deal may not be renewed (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe updates Frame.io, adding new workflow and tagging capabilities for project management, in beta for Free and Pro customers on the web, iOS, and iPadOS  —  Adobe has introduced the latest version of Frame.io, overhauling… Read More »Adobe updates Frame.io, adding new workflow and tagging capabilities for project management, in beta for Free and Pro customers on the web, iOS, and iPadOS (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance’s EBITDA rose 60% YoY in 2023 to $40B and its sales rose from $80B to $120B, the first time ByteDance surpassed Tencent in revenue and profit  —  – Revenue at TikTok owner also grew substantially in 2023 … Read More »Sources: ByteDance’s EBITDA rose 60% YoY in 2023 to $40B and its sales rose from $80B to $120B, the first time ByteDance surpassed Tencent in revenue and profit (Bloomberg)

New York Times: How TSMC is transforming the Japanese farm town of Kikuyo into a key node in Asia’s chip supply chain, backed by billions of dollars from Japan’s government  —  Taiwan’s semiconductor giant, TSMC, is quickly remaking a farm… Read More »How TSMC is transforming the Japanese farm town of Kikuyo into a key node in Asia’s chip supply chain, backed by billions of dollars from Japan’s government (New York Times)

Vinod Khosla / Financial Times: The US is right to target TikTok and prevent a foreign adversary from controlling a platform to deploy “persuasive AI” that can manipulate US citizens and more  —  Chinese control of a powerful ‘persuasive AI’… Read More »The US is right to target TikTok and prevent a foreign adversary from controlling a platform to deploy “persuasive AI” that can manipulate US citizens and more (Vinod Khosla/Financial Times)