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PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in 2023 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)

    Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in 2023  —  A disastrous 2023 for crypto startups hasn’t dissuaded… Read More »PitchBook: VC investment in the crypto industry totaled $9.5B in 2023, less than a third of 2022; CryptoSlam says NFT sales fell 63% to $8.7B in 2023 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)

    A look at some of the most interesting tech from CES 2024: Roxi’s interactive music video channels for linear TV, Samsung’s Ballie AI robot projector, and more (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)

      Chris Velazco / Washington Post: A look at some of the most interesting tech from CES 2024: Roxi’s interactive music video channels for linear TV, Samsung’s Ballie AI robot projector, and more  —  Seeing everything the show has to offer… Read More »A look at some of the most interesting tech from CES 2024: Roxi’s interactive music video channels for linear TV, Samsung’s Ballie AI robot projector, and more (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)

      SVP of LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics says the luxury conglomerate is in discussions with TikTok on a plan for limiting counterfeit products sold on the app (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)

        Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: SVP of LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics says the luxury conglomerate is in discussions with TikTok on a plan for limiting counterfeit products sold on the app  —  – Agreements can help improve quality of TikTok’s Shop… Read More »SVP of LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics says the luxury conglomerate is in discussions with TikTok on a plan for limiting counterfeit products sold on the app (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)

        Harvard spinout QuEra, a quantum computing startup, plans to release an error-corrected quantum computer with 10,000 physical and 100 logical qubits by 2026 (John Timmer/Ars Technica)

          John Timmer / Ars Technica: Harvard spinout QuEra, a quantum computing startup, plans to release an error-corrected quantum computer with 10,000 physical and 100 logical qubits by 2026  —  Company builds on recent demonstration of error-tracking in similar hardware.  — … Read More »Harvard spinout QuEra, a quantum computing startup, plans to release an error-corrected quantum computer with 10,000 physical and 100 logical qubits by 2026 (John Timmer/Ars Technica)

          Sources: OpenAI, Inflection, and Cohere held back-channel talks on AI safety with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva in July 2023 and October 2023 (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

            Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI, Inflection, and Cohere held back-channel talks on AI safety with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva in July 2023 and October 2023  —  OpenAI, Inflection and Cohere held back-channel talks with Chinese state-backed groups… Read More »Sources: OpenAI, Inflection, and Cohere held back-channel talks on AI safety with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva in July 2023 and October 2023 (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

            Sources: several hundred employees from Google’s core engineering division received notices that their roles were eliminated and lost corporate access (Nico Grant/New York Times)

              Nico Grant / New York Times: Sources: several hundred employees from Google’s core engineering division received notices that their roles were eliminated and lost corporate access  —  The company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who… Read More »Sources: several hundred employees from Google’s core engineering division received notices that their roles were eliminated and lost corporate access (Nico Grant/New York Times)

              Google lays off hundreds of people working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as it explores integrating newer AI technology (Louise Matsakis/Semafor)

                Louise Matsakis / Semafor: Google lays off hundreds of people working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as it explores integrating newer AI technology  —  Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated… Read More »Google lays off hundreds of people working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as it explores integrating newer AI technology (Louise Matsakis/Semafor)

                Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams working on the Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)

                  Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams working on the Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google  —  Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams responsible for… Read More »Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams working on the Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)

                  A survey of 9,388 software engineers in December 2023 finds ~90% believe getting a job now is harder than pre-pandemic, 60%+ believe AI will lead to less hiring (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)

                    Maxwell Strachan / VICE: A survey of 9,388 software engineers in December 2023 finds ~90% believe getting a job now is harder than pre-pandemic, 60%+ believe AI will lead to less hiring  —  9,388 engineers polled by Motherboard and Blind… Read More »A survey of 9,388 software engineers in December 2023 finds ~90% believe getting a job now is harder than pre-pandemic, 60%+ believe AI will lead to less hiring (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)

                    Netflix says its ad tier has 23M+ MAUs globally, up from 15M+ in November 2023, and 85% of customers on the ad tier are streaming for over 2 hours per day (Todd Spangler/Variety)

                      Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix says its ad tier has 23M+ MAUs globally, up from 15M+ in November 2023, and 85% of customers on the ad tier are streaming for over 2 hours per day  —  Netflix is seeing strong… Read More »Netflix says its ad tier has 23M+ MAUs globally, up from 15M+ in November 2023, and 85% of customers on the ad tier are streaming for over 2 hours per day (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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