Journals

Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: Disney is testing a contextual ad tool dubbed “magic words” for Disney+ and Hulu that uses AI to analyze scenes and identify contents, brands, images, and mood  —  Walt Disney (DIS.N) is harnessing artificial intelligence to… Read More »Disney is testing a contextual ad tool dubbed “magic words” for Disney+ and Hulu that uses AI to analyze scenes and identify contents, brands, images, and mood (Dawn Chmielewski/Reuters)

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: Carlyle Group agrees to sell UK game publisher Jagex, which develops RuneScape, to CVC Capital, sources say for £900M, after acquiring it in 2021 for $530M+  —  Europe’s CVC Capital Partners and US-based Haveli… Read More »Carlyle Group agrees to sell UK game publisher Jagex, which develops RuneScape, to CVC Capital, sources say for £900M, after acquiring it in 2021 for $530M+ (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Grammarly lays off 230 staffers as part of a restructuring, after growing its team from 200 to 1,000 over the past five years; it was valued at $13B in 2021  —  Grammarly is laying off 230… Read More »Grammarly lays off 230 staffers as part of a restructuring, after growing its team from 200 to 1,000 over the past five years; it was valued at $13B in 2021 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta says it will not “proactively recommend political content from accounts you don’t follow” on Threads, the same policy it uses on Facebook and Instagram  —  Meta will not “proactively recommend political content from accounts you… Read More »Meta says it will not “proactively recommend political content from accounts you don’t follow” on Threads, the same policy it uses on Facebook and Instagram (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Ring plans to raise the price of its cheapest subscription by 25% to $5 a month or $50 a year from March 11, 2024  —  In what is fast becoming a trend, another security… Read More »Ring plans to raise the price of its cheapest subscription by 25% to $5 a month or $50 a year from March 11, 2024 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

France 24: Meta removes the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader for repeatedly violating its Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy  —  Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah… Read More »Meta removes the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader for repeatedly violating its Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy (France 24)

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia plans to build a new business unit focused on designing custom chips, including AI chips, for cloud companies; custom chips are a $30B market  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) is building a new business unit focused on designing bespoke… Read More »Sources: Nvidia plans to build a new business unit focused on designing custom chips, including AI chips, for cloud companies; custom chips are a $30B market (Reuters)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The White House says it plans to invest $5B+ from the CHIPS Act in “semiconductor-related research”, including in the National Semiconductor Technology Center  —  – Officials seek to prevent China from benefiting from funding  — R&D… Read More »The White House says it plans to invest $5B+ from the CHIPS Act in “semiconductor-related research”, including in the National Semiconductor Technology Center (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Vera Bergengruen / TIME: How Palantir embedded itself in the day-to-day work of Ukraine’s wartime government in an unprecedented way, as Ukraine becomes a laboratory for military tech  —  Early on the morning of June 1, 2022, Alex Karp, the… Read More »How Palantir embedded itself in the day-to-day work of Ukraine’s wartime government in an unprecedented way, as Ukraine becomes a laboratory for military tech (Vera Bergengruen/TIME)

The Economic Times: Sources: Paytm E-commerce changed its name to Pai Platforms and acquired Bitsila, a seller platform on India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce  —  Paytm E-commerce has changed its name to Pai Platforms and has acquired Bitsila, a… Read More »Sources: Paytm E-commerce changed its name to Pai Platforms and acquired Bitsila, a seller platform on India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (The Economic Times)