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Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team  —  In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including… Read More »Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify plans to raise prices by $1 to $2 per month in the UK, Australia, Pakistan, and two other markets by the end of April, and the US later in 2024  —  – The audio service will raise… Read More »Sources: Spotify plans to raise prices by $1 to $2 per month in the UK, Australia, Pakistan, and two other markets by the end of April, and the US later in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft and Quantinuum detail a breakthrough in quantum error correction, helping run 14,000+ experiments with no errors, an issue that has vexed the industry  —  Microsoft and Quantinuum today announced a major breakthrough in quantum error… Read More »Microsoft and Quantinuum detail a breakthrough in quantum error correction, helping run 14,000+ experiments with no errors, an issue that has vexed the industry (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Mia Sato / The Verge: Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators  —  Patreon is taking a page out of Reddit’s book.  Now, podcasters, artists, writers,… Read More »Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Emilia David / The Verge: Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website  —  Stable Audio 2., an audio generation model for Stability AI, now… Read More »Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website (Emilia David/The Verge)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Opera now lets Opera One users download and run 150 LLMs from 50+ families locally, including Llama and Google’s Gemma, via the Ollama open source framework  —  Web browser company Opera announced today it will now… Read More »Opera now lets Opera One users download and run 150 LLMs from 50+ families locally, including Llama and Google’s Gemma, via the Ollama open source framework (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: Sources: crypto VC firm Paradigm is in talks to raise $750M to $850M for a new fund, which would be the largest since the crash; a16z raised $4.5B in May 2022  —  – New fund would… Read More »Sources: crypto VC firm Paradigm is in talks to raise $750M to $850M for a new fund, which would be the largest since the crash; a16z raised $4.5B in May 2022 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)

Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: A rising number of Chinese tech workers face legal action from former employers, including Pinduoduo and Tencent, looking to enforce strict noncompete clauses  —  From Tencent to Pinduoduo, companies use surveillance and lawsuits to retain… Read More »A rising number of Chinese tech workers face legal action from former employers, including Pinduoduo and Tencent, looking to enforce strict noncompete clauses (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC halts some chipmaking and evacuates plants after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Taiwan’s biggest in 25 years, and plans to assess the impact; UMC did similar  —  – Chipmakers move some staff off of unspecified operation… Read More »TSMC halts some chipmaking and evacuates plants after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Taiwan’s biggest in 25 years, and plans to assess the impact; UMC did similar (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Jenna Scatena / Wired: A profile of Faruk Fatih Özer, the convicted CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, as he starts a 11,196-year prison sentence in Turkey for laundering assets  —  Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence.  Did… Read More »A profile of Faruk Fatih Özer, the convicted CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, as he starts a 11,196-year prison sentence in Turkey for laundering assets (Jenna Scatena/Wired)