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TechCrunch Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company's search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the role of chief technologist. "Prabhakar has decided it's time to make a big leap in his own career," Pichai said in the announcement post.

Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft One of the tech industry's biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn't think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. A month after Salesforce's enormous tech conference, Dreamforce, during which Benioff endlessly pitched, pumped, and lauded AI — at least as it's used in Salesforce's own products – he's now on a setting-expectations tour. Talking about AI's potential, he said, "I've never been more excited about anything at Salesforce, maybe in my career."

Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC's X account, boosting Bitcoin's price Federal authorities announced Thursday the arrest of a man in Alabama, accusing him of participating in the hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission X account earlier this year. Eric Council Jr. was indicted in connection with the SEC X account hack, which happened on January 9, when the account published a post falsely announcing that the Commission had approved Bitcoin ETFs to be listed in securities exchanges in the country, a post that increased the price of Bitcoin by $1,000, according to a press release by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia. According to the indictment against Council, he worked with other unnamed co-conspirators to perform a SIM swap on the phone account of a person who had access to the SEC X account, only identified as "C.L.".

Apple Music's latest feature lets artists create dedicated playlists for concerts and tours Apple Music introduced a new feature for artists on Thursday to enable them to create playlists tied to their recent concert set lists. It allows artists to turn their set list from a single show, residency, or entire tour into a playlist, which can then be shared with fans on Apple Music and displayed on Shazam's Artist and Concert pages, as well as posted on social media. Artists first need to upload an artist image to their profile for the playlist's cover art.

Google's NotebookLM now lets you guide AI-generated audio conversations, launches business pilot Google Thursday updated the audio summarization feature of its AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM, which recently gained significant attention for its podcast-like audio conversations based on the content users share, with the ability to guide those conversations and focus on specific topics instead of just generating holistic audio summaries. Today, audio Overviews in NotebookLM allow users to digest and comprehend the information in lengthy documents or videos through AI-generated audio conversations. Shortly after its launch last month, the feature helped NotebookLM grab eyeballs, as many began sharing audio summaries of their content on social media, including those created using their diaries or journals.