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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, first coming to select Pixels — Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos. While the company has already leveraged AI …
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Livestream of the Google I/O 2023 keynote — Tune in to find out how we're furthering our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Immersive View for Routes in Google Maps, with traffic simulations, parking, and more, starting with 15 cities, including NYC, London, and Paris — Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an “AI Snapshot”, which provides a summary of search results, with links that “corroborate” the information — Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation with Adobe, and integration with services like Instacart — Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean) …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says PaLM 2 will power its updated Bard chat tool and is now available to developers through Google's PaLM API, Firebase, and on Colab — At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM).
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products — Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities. This “next generation language model” is faster …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU regulators are expected to approve Microsoft's Activision acquisition next week, most likely on May 15, three weeks after the UK blocked the deal — EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) $69 billion acquisition of Activision (ATVI.O) next week …
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| Randall Chase / Associated Press: |
A US judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against Block over its 2021 Tidal acquisition, saying the company was “free to make a terrible business decision” — A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition …
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Report: Satya Nadella tells staff Microsoft won't raise salaries for full-time employees in 2023 and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether reports a $1.5B net profit in Q1, $2.44B in excess reserves, and $81.8B+ in assets as of May 9, including $1.5B+ in bitcoin and $3.3B+ in precious metals — - Tether reported $1.5 billion of net profit for the first quarter — more than double its Q4 2022 net profit.
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| Financial Times: |
Uber adds flight bookings to its UK app in partnership with travel booking firm Hopper as part of the ride-booking company's push to become a travel “super app” — Ride-booking giant expands offering after rolling out train, coach and Eurostar ticket tool
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| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Twitter now lets users reply directly to any DM with a threaded message and react to messages with a wider range of emojis using the new emoji picker — Twitter has released two new updates for DMs, which have been in the works for a few months, but are now getting a full launch in the app.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
The American Psychological Association issues an advisory on social media use by adolescents, saying social networks are “not inherently beneficial or harmful” — One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set guidelines designed to protect children …
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| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Sam Altman plans to testify to Congress for the first time on May 16 about AI oversight, alongside IBM VP Christina Montgomery and professor Gary Marcus — Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief, will appear for the first time as AI scrutiny soars in Washington — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify …
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| Molly White: |
A critique of a16z's State of Crypto 2023 report, an incredibly shameless piece of propaganda with the sole goal of bolstering the VC firm's bottom line — Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jump Crypto and Jane Street are pulling back from US crypto trading over regulatory uncertainty; Jump is expanding globally while Jane is scaling back — Jane Street Group and Jump Crypto — two of the world's top market-making firms — are pulling back from trading digital assets …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $655.3M, bookings up 23% YoY to $773.8M, DAUs up 22% YoY to 66.1M, and a net loss up 67% YoY to $268.3M; RBLX jumps 5% — - Roblox beat analyst expectations on the top line but reported a wider-than-expected loss per share of 44 cents.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Roku expands its smart home lineup with a $99 home monitoring system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light — Roku is expanding its smart home lineup and adding a smart security system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light to its offerings.
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| Nadia Nooreyezdan / Rest of World: |
“Religious” chatbots, based on the Bhagavad Gita, emerge in India, with millions using them, some answering ~50K questions per day and others condoning violence — Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script. — • NEW DELHI, INDIA
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@cengizyar, @hare_brain, and @karan_singhs
| Bloomberg: |
How Tokyo-based Rapidus is trying to become a globally competitive chipmaker by 2027, aiming to mass produce 2nm chips two years after leaders TSMC and Samsung — Tetsuro Higashi is taking on what seems like an impossible task: Create a globally competitive semiconductor manufacturer in Japan from scratch - and do it in four years.
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@kanthan2030, @gavinsbaker, @rodolfor, @6d6f636869, @pelstrom, and @pelstrom
| Deborah Acosta / Wall Street Journal: |
As Miami prepares to host Bitcoin 2023 on May 18, the city and mayor Francis Suarez, who still receives his salary in bitcoin, have mostly moved on from crypto — On the eve of the annual bitcoin conference, the city and its mayor have mostly moved on from crypto
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Roderick Mann. Tweets:
@mattzeitlin, @jonlemire, @deborahacosta, @silvermanjacob, and @mdudas
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the revamped Rooms feature, flexible work, making principle decisions, AI layers, drawing inspiration from Apple, and more — Airbnb is revamping its Rooms feature while eyeing AI and betting on work from anywhere. — Brian Chesky, the co-founder … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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