Thursday, April 19, 2018

Amazon Prime passes 100M members. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 2018 By Anthony Ha

Amazon Prime has a lot of subscribers, Intel gives up on smart glasses and Facebook is looking for chip designers. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for April 19, 2018.

1. Amazon passes 100 million paid Prime members

Amazon is one of those companies that rarely releases actual stats about how the business is doing, but CEO Jeff Bezos announced a big one in his annual shareholder letter yesterday.

And while there are already a whole bunch of perks (including music and video) on top of the core offering of free shipping, there might even be even more on the way — namely, deals at Amazon-owned Whole Foods.

2. Intel abandons Vaunt smart glasses project

It might just be time for Intel admit that it's not great at this whole wearables thing.

3. Netflix launches 30-second preview videos on mobile

I really don't enjoy Netflix's automatic previews, but I guess the company feels differently.

4. TaskRabbit CEO posts statement as its app returns following a cybersecurity breach

After taking them down to investigate what it called a "cybersecurity incident," TaskRabbit's website and app are back online. The company's CEO writes that "certain personally identifiable information may have been compromised."

5. Facebook has a new job posting calling for chip designers

Specifically, it's looking for experts in hardware that could be used for artificial intelligence and machine learning. The whispers of Facebook's plans for customized hardware vary depending on who you talk to, but they generally center around operating on the massive personal data graph Facebook possesses.

6. Grasshopper, a learn-to-code app from Google's Area 120 incubator, goes live

The goal is to get coders proficient in the basics, so they can take the next steps in their coding education – whether that's taking online classes, attending a bootcamp or playing around in Grasshopper's online playground.

7. BenevolentAI, which uses AI to develop drugs and energy solutions, nabs $115M at $2B valuation

The core of BenevolentAI's business focuses on what founder Ken Mulvaney describes as a "brain" built by a team of scientists.

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