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Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot — Microsoft Corp.'s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company's oldest and best-known products: its Office apps.
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LinkedIn:
Arbi Vartan, Venkat Gopal, Jimmy Vaughan, Thibault Leclercq, Jason Apergis, Mike Tholfsen, Matt Blank, Matt Berg, Satya Nadella, Matthew Boyle, Erik Arnold, Nicole Herskowitz, Charles Lamanna, Jaime Teevan, and Chechu Lasheras
Tweets:
@_h0x0d_, @basedbeffjezos, @markhachman, @donasarkar, @_h0x0d_, @nonmayorpete, @kylebrussell, @levie, @alphasignalai, @bradsmi, @stevesi, @leokelion, @stevemoser, @eighttwo_three, @sbisson, @markhachman, @kjbeavers, @markhachman, @tomwarren, @maxwinebach, @mehedih_, @benbajarin, @alphasignalai, @harrymccracken, @xenopanther, @marypcbuk, @alphasignalai, @patrickmcgee_, @yoheinakajima, @harrymccracken, @parkerortolani, @harrymccracken, @bdsams, @msftnews, @zacbowden, @tomwarren, @kantrowitz, @dinabass, @skorusark, and @benbajarin
| The Verge: |
Microsoft details Business Chat, part of 365 Copilot, which can summarize meetings, recent customer contacts, calendar entries, and more, similar to Bing's AI — One of the new Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft 365 apps and services is dubbed Business Chat.
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LinkedIn:
Paul Roetzer, Jeff Teper, Sumit Chauhan, Frank X. Shaw, and Satya Nadella
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@satyanadella, @aarongustafson, @om, @jeffteper, and @yusuf_i_mehdi
| Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: |
In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers' and civil servants' work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US — Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China — Britain is to ban the Chinese owned …
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@silviotattiscon, @cabinetofficeuk, @theobertram, @amandeepbhogal, @psythor, @sophgaston, and @theobertram
| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
TikTok says the Biden administration and CFIUS are demanding that its Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company or the app could face a possible US ban — TikTok says forced sale won't resolve national security issues; its CEO set to appear before Congress next week
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LinkedIn:
Mathieu Fraisse, Ian Whittaker, Jonathan Anastas, and Caroline Hyde
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@halsinger, @oneunderscore__, @binarybits, @alexbarinka, @alexisohanian, @jamiemetzl, and @carnage4life
| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
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@oliverdarcy and @stuwoo
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong — The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …
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VICE, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Insider, Silicon Republic, and Fast Company
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Risto Uuk and Khalifeh Al Jadda, Ph.D.
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@benmschmidt, @jjvincent, @elonmusk, @stokel, @austen, @tobyordoxford, @tante, @emostaque, @jeffladish, @tshevl, @__aston__, @alexjc, @amuse, @emostaque, @mervenoyann, @cherthedev, @chloexiang, @bengoertzel, @bcmerchant, @warrenisdead, and @tshevl
| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
OpenAI's GPT-4 is an outrageous, if imperfect, step forward, offering a glimpse of a future internet where generative AI creates one big personalized web portal — Read to the end for a good Twitter reply — Building A Portal To Everything — Very often I will come up with a big existential question … | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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Gurdeep Pall and Nate Ober
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@aparanjape, @kbandersen, @jeffsharlet, and @jetscott
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear plans to step down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy; Shear is one of the original founders of Justin.tv — After serving as its chief executive for more than a decade, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will take a step back at the company.
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Colan Neese, Jalyssa Eliasen, and Tracy Chan
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@eshear, @eshear, @zachbussey, @minimaxir, @jakenbakelive, @jesslivingston, @jess, @suhail, @jakesucky, @tdrobbo, @rayapollo, @twitch, and @uhmaayyze
| New York Times: |
Sources: five days after seizing SVB, the FDIC has conducted a stop-and-start auction process, failing so far to find a willing buyer for all of SVB's assets — Big rivals are thus far shying away from scooping up the bank's assets. — Five days after seizing control of Silicon Valley Bank …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, The Information, and Silicon Canals
LinkedIn:
Ravi Shekhar Pandey. Tweets:
@mdudas, @nic__carter, @hosseeb, @lex_node, @mdudas, @nic__carter, @politico, @thebluematt, and @prestonjbyrne
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube raises YouTube TV's price by $8 to $72.99/month, citing a rise in “content costs”, effective for new users on March 16 and existing users on April 18 — YouTube has announced that it's raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month.
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9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, CNET, USA Today, Tom's Guide, CNBC, Deadline, iClarified, Variety, The Streamable, and Digital Trends
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@richontech and @chriswelch
| FTX: |
An FTX bankruptcy filing describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders and executives, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried — Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees — Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions
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Ars Technica, Financial Times, CoinDesk, Crunchbase News, Blockworks, PYMNTS.com, The National, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Bitcoinist.com, Reuters, and CryptoSlate
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@smtuffy, @autismcapital, @beyondreasdoubt, @autismcapital, @kadhim, @ftx_committee, @kadhim, @quantian1, @robinwigg, @kadhim, @sindap, and @aftxcreditor
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
The Arbitrum Foundation, which develops the Ethereum Layer 2 platform Arbitrum, plans to airdrop its long-awaited ARB token on March 23 and transition to a DAO — The long-awaited ARB token will grant holders the ability to vote on changes to the leading Ethereum layer 2 network.
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Arbitrum, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Ethereum World News, Blockworks, CryptoSlate, Fortune, Decrypt, CryptoPotato, Cryptonews, and Ignas
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@arbitrum, @tier10k, @tier10k, @timccopeland, and @lawmaster
| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Sources: Foxconn will make AirPods for the first time and plans to invest $200M+ in a plant in Telangana, India; a source says Apple wanted production in India — Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and plans to build …
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MacRumors, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, Techlusive, Apple Must, and 9to5Mac. Tweets:
@munsifv
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve plans to activate its real-time FedNow Service payments system in July, seeking to improve clearing transactions between institutions — The new government-operated payments system - often used as an argument against the need for crypto's payments innovations …
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Board of Governors …, Blockworks, PYMNTS.com, CoinGeek, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, NewsBTC, and crypto.news. Tweets:
@monad_alexander
| Bloomberg: |
Baidu announces its Ernie Bot in a pre-recorded video, with founder Robin Li talking over a scripted video of interactions with the AI; BIDU drops 5%+ — Baidu Inc. debuted China's answer to ChatGPT via a recorded video, disappointing investors hoping for a real-time demo …
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Reuters, Ars Technica, Livemint, New York Times, PCMag, Engadget, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Pandaily, digital thoughts, South China Morning Post, Neowin, DigiTimes, Coinspeaker, DealStreetAsia, PingWest, and Tech Xplore
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@therealjoshye, @modeledbehavior, @business, and @byron_wan
| TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Via plans to acquire London-based Citymapper, which has ~50M users and raised ~$60M; sources say investors are mostly not making their money back — Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned …
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Neowin, Bloomberg, and PR Newswire
LinkedIn:
Cody Grosser, Sean Floyd, Barak Sas, and Victoria Markewitz. Tweets:
@mikebutcher. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok adds a Refresh button to For You, resetting the recommendation algorithm to show videos like for a new user, after testing the feature in February 2023 — TikTok is adding a way for users to “refresh” For You page content when they want to switch up their feed.
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TikTok, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Mashable, and Engadget
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@johnkoetsier and @tiktokcomms
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at San Francisco's Hayes Valley, dubbed “Cerebral Valley” due to its “hacker houses” and in-person-only AI events, amid an AI gold rush in the Bay Area — The money and power flooding into AI are warping and intensifying the typical Silicon Valley gold rush, now set to explode with the launch of GPT-4
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Rest of World. Tweets:
@reedalbergotti, @hackylawyer, @cityofthetown, @hellocullen, and @theamberyang
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC founder Morris Chang says chip sector globalization “is dead” and agrees with US embargoes on China's chip sector, which is five to six years behind Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. founder Morris Chang declared globalization for the chip industry … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Peter Thiel says he had $50M in a personal account at SVB when it went under, even after Founders Fund warned portfolio companies that the bank was at risk — Prominent investor's Founders Fund among those that had warned about US bank's risks ahead of its collapse
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