Airbnb earnings, Tucker Carlson to launch show on Twitter, Bittrex files for bankruptcy

Airbnb Q1 earnings: revenue: $1.8B (+20% y/y), gross bookings: $20.4B (+19% y/y), net income: $117M, FCF: $1.6B (+32% y/y), shares were down 10%+ due to lower-than-expected Q2 projections - Link

Tucker Carlson will launch a new version of his TV show on Twitter, foregoing at least $25M owed to him by Fox to break his non-compete clause; Elon Musk says that the company has not signed a deal of any kind with Carlson - Link

Bittrex filed for bankruptcy after already announcing its intent to exit the US market and having been sued by the SEC; the exchange has over 100K creditors and assets and liabilities both ranging from $500M to $1B - Link

8fig, an Austin-based startup building an AI-powered C-suite for e-commerce businesses, has $140M in fresh capital after raising a $40M Series B and $100M in a credit facility - Link

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Vinny and Sunny join Jason for another AI roundtable to demo ChatGPT's web browsing capabilities (1:44), discuss AI's effect on productivity and the workforce (13:53), demo Opus.AI and ChatGPT's Zillow plugin (33:44), and more! - Link

Wendy's plans to use an AI chatbot to automate its drive-through service to reduce wait times; the software was developed with Google and will debut in Ohio in June - Link

IBM introduced Watsonx, a suite of AI services with a handful of pre-trained models for enterprise users to build and fine-tune AI features; Watsonx aims to compete with Amazon's SageMaker Studio and Microsoft's Azure AI platform - Link

FT sources: Spotify has removed tens of thousands of songs from AI music startup Boomy due to suspected "artificial streaming" by bots - Link

Prewave, an Austria-based startup building a supply chain risk platform, raised a $20M Series A+ from investors, including Creandum; the company has 100+ employees - Link

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