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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 — Details of Microsoft's multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
YouTube says a “Vision Pro app is on our roadmap” but doesn't offer a timeframe; YouTube videos in 360 and VR playback modes are not viewable in visionOS Safari — Here's a little bit of an about-face: YouTube now says it has a Vision Pro app on its roadmap.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history — A few years ago, during one of California's steadily worsening wildfire seasons, Nat Friedman's family home burned down.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Snap plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce, or ~529 employees, in part to “promote in-person collaboration”; the company cut 20% of staff in August 2022 — Social media company Snap said on Monday that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at OnlyFake, an underground website that claims to use “neural networks” to generate highly convincing fake IDs for $15; one ID passed OKX's verification — This piece was produced with support from The Capitol Forum. — An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use …
More: Dark Reading, CryptoSlate, PetaPixel, Protos, and The Verge
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
The Oversight Board upholds Meta's decision to not remove a maliciously edited video of Biden but urges Meta to update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy — However, the board said Meta should update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy.| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool — Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times — Microsoft is working …
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LinkedIn: Jenni Katzman, Justin B. Smith, Kevin Grant, Ginny Badanes, Noreen Gillespie, Teresa Hutson, and Kellen Henry. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
UK-based Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry adapts to the end of third-party cookies — Media sector scrambles to deal with fallout from phase out of cross-website trackers
More: Search Engine Land, PYMNTS.com, and MarTech
| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others — The round also included participation from Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana. — Register Now
More: Tether, Cryptonews, SiliconANGLE, The Block, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, NFTgators, Reuters, CryptoSlate, CoinJournal, Forkast, and CoinStats. LinkedIn: David Moylan
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Graphika: the viral pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes originated from a 4chan challenge to bypass anti-porn filters in Microsoft Designer and OpenAI's DALL-E — - Users on 4chan forum competed to bypass anti-porn filters — Deepfakes also created of Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande
More: New York Times, The Register, Ars Technica, 404 Media, Rolling Stone, and The Verge
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $608.4M, vs. $602.4M est., net income $93.4M, up from $30.9M YoY, and LLM tech saw “unrelenting” demand; PLTR up 14%+ — - Palantir reported fourth-quarter earnings after the bell Monday. — The company's revenue for the quarter increased 20% year over year to $608.4 million.| Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: |
Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including Russia's most popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at ~$5.2B — - Dutch-registered firm reaches agreement to sell Russian unit — Fallout from the war in Ukraine forced tech giant to split upSponsor Posts
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Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
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