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Microsoft unveils VALL-E, a text-to-speech AI model trained on 60K hours of English speech that can simulate a person's voice from three seconds of sample audio — Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker's emotional tone and acoustic environment. — On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a combined Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip to replace Broadcom components by 2025; plans to swap the Qualcomm modem in 2023 have hit snags — Apple Inc.'s push to replace the chips inside its devices with homegrown components will include dropping a key Broadcom Inc. part in 2025 …
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Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation while taking 75% of the startup's profits until the company recoups its investment — Microsoft has been in talks to invest $10 billion into the owner of ChatGPT, the wildly popular app that has thrilled casual users …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units for data centers that has raised $300M+; December 2022 reports suggest the deal is worth ~$190M — In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, met with US federal prosecutors last week to seek a cooperation deal — Former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh met with federal prosecutors in a bid to become the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In February, Instagram plans to replace the Shop tab with a Reels button in the app's bottom navigation bar and return the Compose button to the center — Instagram announced today it will simplify its in-app navigation after years of confusing changes designed to push various products like Instagram Shop and Reels.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Up until late December 2022, hackers were using a flaw in Experian's site to get anyone's entire credit report using only their name, address, birthday, and SSN — Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus.
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Sketchy iOS app “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3”, which is not affiliated with OpenAI, is selling subscriptions and has been a top paid App Store app for days — A sketchy app claiming to be the bot ChatGPT has soared up App Store charts, charging users a $7.99 weekly subscription …
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| Washington Post: |
A New York University study finds Russian troll Twitter accounts had a minimal impact on 2016 US election voters; 1% of users accounted for 70% of the exposure — Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! I caught up on some time hanging out with friends this past weekend. Friends are cool.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple VP of Services Peter Stern, who helped build Apple TV+'s business, plans to leave at the end of January, as Apple reorganizes its Services unit — One of Apple's top services executives is departing the company. Peter Stern, Apple's vice president of Services …
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Douyin e-commerce spending in China grew 76% YoY to ~$208B in 2022; TikTok users in Southeast Asia more than quadrupled their spending to $4.4B in 2022 — TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, is making inroads in e-commerce. Consumers in China last year spent 1.41 trillion yuan …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The FAA proposes a February 1, 2024 deadline for airlines to replace or retrofit altimeters that can't filter out 5G signals, preventing full C-Band deployment — About 1,000 planes have altimeters listening to signals in the wrong frequencies. — The Federal Aviation Administration …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Meta rolls out a Variance Reduction System, its AI ad-targeting tech meant to comply with its DOJ settlement and reduce discrimination in housing ads, in the US — Meta is acting on its vow to reduce ad discrimination through technology. The company is rolling out a Variance Reduction System …
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| VentureBeat: |
Dallas-based Worlds, whose “digital twins” of industrial companies' floor operations help boost productivity, raised a $21.2M Series A1 led by Moneta Ventures — Worlds Enterprises, a company that builds digital twins of floor operations for industrial companies to let them become …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to begin sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators on February 1, and starts rolling out new terms for all creators in the YouTube Partner Program — YouTube will begin sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators on February 1, the company revealed on Monday.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
New Jersey and Ohio ban TikTok on government-owned and managed devices; New Jersey's governor plans to ban products from 12+ vendors including Huawei and ZTE — New Jersey and Ohio said on Monday they were joining other states in banning use of the popular video app TikTok on government-owned and managed devices.
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