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Tim Nudd / Ad Age: Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple’s VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”  —  The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives Source link

The Information: Sources: Gopuff, one of the last fast-delivery startups in the US after Getir’s exit, burned ~$400M in 2023 and wants to start generating cash by early 2025  —  Instant-delivery pioneer Gopuff is the last speedy-delivery startup left standing in the U.S. after its best-funded competitor … Source link

Counterpoint Research: US smartphone shipments fell 8% YoY in Q1 2024, the sixth consecutive quarter of decline; Samsung’s market share grew to 31%; Apple’s share remained flat at 52%  —  – US smartphone shipments declined 8% YoY in Q1 2024, the sixth consecutive quarter showing a YoY decline. Source link

WhatsApp is rolling out two new features to beta testers on iOS that add new capabilities to the popular messaging platform. The first feature makes it much easier to zoom when using the in-app camera on WhatsApp, while the second feature allows users to quickly create new stickers from their Camera Roll, or use Meta

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Dell warns customers of a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen data for ~49M customers, but says financial and payment data was not stolen  —  Dell is warning customers of a data breach, after a threat actor claimed to have stolen information for approximately 49 million customers.

When did you first hear the term augmented reality (AR)? If you are new to the tech space, your first encounter with this visual interactive technology was likely the Apple Vision Pro or the Meta Quest headsets. However, gamers would likely have first interacted with the technology in the mobile game Pokemon Go, which was

Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Alibaba releases Qwen2.5, says its Qwen models are used by 90K+ companies; OpenCompass: Qwen2.5 beats GPT-4 in language, creation but not knowledge, reasoning  —  The logo of the Alibaba office building is seen in the Huangpu District in Shanghai, June 16, 2023. Source link

OpenAI shared its Model Spec on Wednesday, the first draft of a document that highlights the company’s approach towards building a responsible and ethical artificial intelligence (AI) model. The document mentions a long list of things that an AI should focus on while answering a user query. The items on the list range from benefitting

Bloomberg: SMIC reports Q1 revenue up 4.3% YoY to $1.75B, vs. $1.69B est., and a $71.8M net income, vs. $76.8M est., as consumer sentiment remains weak in China  —  – Net income was $71.8 million in the three months to March  — SMIC expects revenue to rise by 5%-7% in April-June quarter Source link

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $801M, bookings up 19% YoY to $923M, DAUs up 17% YoY to 77.7M, and cuts its full-year bookings forecast; RBLX drops 30%  —  Roblox (RBLX.N) cut its annual bookings forecast on Thursday, in a sign that people were dialing back on spending within