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Google adds AI tools from others, like Meta's Llama 2 and Anthropic's Claude 2, to Cloud, expands Duet AI in Workspace, partners with Fox Sports, and more — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces AI features coming soon to Meet, including expanding Duet AI to take notes, mid-meeting summaries, and “attending” meetings on a user's behalf — If Google Meet's new AI tools are as good as advertised, you might never need to pay attention to another meeting again — or even show up at all.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Chat with a new design, Duet AI tools, “huddles” for audio and video calls, capacity for 500K people in group channels, and more — Google is making some big changes to Google Chat, its answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, and TechCrunch
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces its 5th generation Tensor Processing Units, promising 2x training performance improvement per dollar compared to 2021's 4th gen TPUs — At Cloud Next, its annual user conference, Google Cloud today announced the launch of the fifth generation of its tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI training and inferencing.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Omdia: Apple shipped 26.5M iPhone 14 Pro Max phones in H1 2023, the most out of any model from any manufacturer; Apple had all four of the top-shipping models — - Last year, the iPhone 13 was the bestselling device on the market, indicating consumers were still buying flagship devices but at the entry level rather than the top end.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple aims for the iPhone 15 Pro Max to make up 35% to 40% of iPhone 15 shipments, optimistic about its exclusive periscope lens camera as a selling point — Apple is aiming for the highest-end iPhone 15 Pro Max to account for roughly 35-40% of initial shipments for the iPhone 15 series …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
In a first, the SEC charges Impact Theory with offering unregistered securities by selling NFTs; the LA-based entertainment company agreed to pay a $6.1M fine — Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission — In an enforcement action announced on Monday …
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| Eugene Kim / Insider: |
Meeting: Andy Jassy told employees who refuse to return to the office “at least three days a week” that “it's probably not going to work out for you at Amazon” — - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who disagree with the return-to-office mandate that it's “not going to work out for you.”
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches GPT-4-powered ChatGPT Enterprise, with improved privacy, performance, and data analysis features; pricing is “dependent on each company's usage” — Seeking to capitalize on ChatGPT's viral success, OpenAI today announced the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise …
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| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Google announces new automation starters and actions for its Google Home app, plus new features for its Home script editor, which is available in Public Preview — Google Home is getting smarter. In a pair of blog posts published today, Google announced a bunch of new automation starters … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Meta takes down a Chinese influence campaign, started in 2019 and spanning thousands of accounts on Facebook, TikTok, X, and more, the largest such campaign yet — The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon confirms testing increasing the free shipping minimum to $35 from $25 for non-Prime members; Walmart also has a $35 minimum for non-Walmart+ members — - Amazon is testing a $35 free shipping minimum for people who aren't members of the company's Prime loyalty program.
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| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: DCG reaches an in-principle deal with Genesis creditors to resolve the bankruptcy claims, estimating recoveries of 70%-90% for unsecured creditors — The plan could result in the recoveries of 70% to 90% in USD equivalent for unsecured creditors and 65% to 90% recovery on an in-kind basis.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Google unveils SynthID, which embeds an invisible digital “watermark” directly into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images — The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse| Wall Street Journal: |
Binance is reevaluating its Russian business, including potentially a full withdrawal, after stopping P2P trading in Russia for all currencies but the ruble — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, is reevaluating its Russian business, including the possibility of a full withdrawal …
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| Reuters: |
Similarweb and Data.ai: Meta blocking news in Canada has had almost no impact on Canadians' Facebook usage, supporting Meta's claim that news holds little value — Meta's (META.O) decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians' usage of Facebook … | Washington Post: |
Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments — CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details its Xeon chips Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids set for 2024, claiming Sierra Forest has a 2.4x higher performance per watt than fourth-gen Xeons — Intel shares P- and E-Core architectures at Hot Chips 2023. — At Hot Chips 2023, Intel unveiled the first deep-dive details …
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| Reuters: |
A look at Disney's shifting India strategy, after the unit reported a $41.5M loss on $390M revenue in the year to March 2022, including free cricket on mobile — Walt Disney (DIS.N) is attempting to revive the fortunes of its streaming business in India by offering free cricket on smartphones …
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