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Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months — 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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Microsoft details Microsoft 365 Copilot's Business Chat, which can summarize meetings, recent customer interactions, calendar entries, and more, like 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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In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers' and civil servants' work phones after a security review that began in November 2022, 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 …
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Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods; OpenAI's co-founder says the company's past approach to 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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OpenAI's GPT-4 is an outrageous, if imperfect, step forward, showing how in the 2020s, generative AI will turn the internet into 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 …
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Sources: five days after seizing SVB, the FDIC conducted a stop-and-start auction process, with March 17 as the latest deadline to find a buyer for 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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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy, effective immediately; Shear is a Justin.tv co-founder — 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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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
The Arbitrum Foundation, which develops the Ethereum Layer 2 network 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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| 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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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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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve plans to activate its FedNow Service real-time payments system in July 2023, meant to speed up 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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Sources: Tiger Global marked down its investments in private companies by ~33% across its VC funds in 2022, erasing $23B in value from its portfolio of startups — The markdowns erased $23 billion in value from Tiger's portfolio of startups — Tiger Global marked down the value … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Peter Thiel says he had $50M in a personal account at SVB when the bank collapsed, 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| 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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Sources: Foxconn plans to make AirPods for the first time and invest $200M+ to build 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) …
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Baidu announces its Ernie Bot via a pre-recorded video, with founder Robin Li talking over a scripted video of interactions with the AI, and opens registrations — Baidu Inc. debuted China's answer to ChatGPT via a recorded video, disappointing investors hoping for a real-time demo …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nimble, which helps companies automate their warehouses using logistics robots, raised a $65M Series B led by Cedar Pine, bringing its total funding to $115M — There's a long-standing debate in the world of logistics robotics. On one side stand the greenfield folk, who insist … Sponsor Posts
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