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Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, which will continue to be offered via the Azure-hosted API launched in June — Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from San Francisco-based AI startup OpenAI.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, VICE, OpenAI, and Voicebot.ai
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Communication Services, letting developers add voice and video calling, chat, text messages, and more to apps, challenging Twilio — Microsoft today announced the launch of Azure Communication Services, a new set of features in its cloud that enable developers …
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SiliconANGLE, CNBC, The Register, InfoWorld, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, and Cloud Computing Services
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts new Teams features, including virtual commute, Headspace integration, breakout rooms, and virtual coffee shops for meetings — Microsoft today announced a slew of Teams features available now, coming later this year, and even arriving in 2021.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Tables, a work-tracking tool to rival Airtable that can set task-based email reminders, send messages when forms are submitted, manage tasks, more — Google's in-house incubator Area 120 is today introducing a new work-tracking tool, Tables, which aims to make tracking projects more efficient by investing in automation.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
iPhone users are customizing their home screen with new icons, photos, and entire color schemes using iOS 14 widgets, with some designs going viral — - iPhone users are using the latest iOS update to customize their home screen with new icons, photos, and even entire color schemes.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Graphika: fake Chinese accounts recently taken down by Facebook used AI-generated faces, an increasingly common tactic meant to evade detection — Facebook removed two networks of fake accounts spreading government propaganda on the platform Tuesday, one originating in China and one in the Philippines.
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Samsung is launching its ad-supported, Pluto-like streaming service Samsung TV Plus, available on Samsung TVs since 2016, on some of its latest mobile phones — Samsung has long failed to build successful media services, but TV Plus seems to break that cycle.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will pull the plug on paid Chrome extensions over the next year, after temporarily banning them due to fraudulent transactions — Earlier this year, Google announced some changes to the Chrome Web Store in an effort to curb malicious extensions.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Nick Clegg says Facebook will take aggressive measures to “restrict the circulation of content” if the presidential election descends into chaos or civil unrest — Social media platform's head of global affairs Nick Clegg says it could take exceptional measures to restrict content circulation
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Large rival companies say Amazon restricts how competing products, like smart speakers and video doorbells, can be advertised, giving Amazon's devices an edge — Some makers of smart speakers, video doorbells and other hardware hit roadblocks buying key ads in search results; gadgets made by e-commerce giant get edge
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will use AI-powered moderation to automatically age-restrict certain content — AI moderation measures will be used to automatically age-restrict certain content — YouTube is rolling out more artificial intelligence-powered technology to catch more videos …
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| Peter Slattery / OneZero : |
How Spotify's UX decisions have encouraged the growth of adjective-laden generic artist names, enabling a kind of SEO spam for music — The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there's no end in sight — Welcome to The Cheater's Guide to Spotify, a series about the schemes … Thanks:@dlberes
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Authorities from the US, UK, Germany, Europol, and others arrest 179 during Operation DisrupTor, targeting the sale of illicit goods on the dark web — ‘Operation Disruptor’ involved agencies from nine countries and the seizure of over $6.5m in cash and cryptocurrencies as criminals warned law enforcement will track them down.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer on buying more game companies, investing in Xbox Game Pass, and Microsoft's rejected TikTok bid — In an interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox head Phil Spencer discuss further acquisitions, how to keep making hits and what happened with TikTok.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says the first preview of its Edge browser for Linux will be available in October — Microsoft's Edge browser is coming to Linux, starting with the Dev channel. The first of these previews will go live in October. — When Microsoft announced that it would switch its Edge browser … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its 85-inch Surface Hub 2S, originally unveiled in April 2019, will be available in January 2021 for $21,999.99 — There's also a new software update for the Surface Hub 2S — Microsoft is starting to take preorders for its 85-inch Surface Hub 2S today.
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Windows Blog, Engadget, Windows Central, PCWorld, VentureBeat, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @damianedwards, @surface, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @panos_panay, and @isforat
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Social calendar and event discovery startup IRL raises $16M Series B, says it's seeing ~1M hours/day in its Time Together tool and is adding a Groups feature — With many events capped at a certain attendance number to allow for social distancing, it's more difficult to celebrate and connect.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
TikTok says it removed 104.5M videos in H1 2020 for violating community guidelines or TOS, proposes coalition of social apps to protect against harmful content — As the future of ByteDance's TikTok ownership continues to get hammered out between tech leviathans, investors and government officials …
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TikTok, Business Insider, ZDNet, iMore, Financial Times, Social Media Today, PingWest, Engadget, and Digital Trends
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Mirakl, which develops e-commerce tools to help companies build their online stores, raises $300M led by Permira at a $1.5B valuation — - U.S. CEO says company could pursue IPO in the next few years — Private equity firm Pemira to lead Mirakl's funding round
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