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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google debuts Gemini Ultra 1.0, its largest and most capable LLM, renames Bard as Gemini, debuts a dedicated Android app, and plans to add Gemini to its iOS app — Google is famous for having a million similar products with confusingly different names and seemingly nothing in common.
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Google Gemini Advanced hands-on: clearly a GPT-4 class model, but doesn't obviously blow away GPT-4 in benchmarks; Gemini is better than GPT-4 at explanations — And then there were two. — Right around the time you are getting this email, Google finally released their long-awaited powerful AI … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds a $20-per-month AI Premium plan to Google One, offering Gemini Advanced powered by the Ultra 1.0 model, and rebrands Duet AI as Gemini for Workspace — Sundar Pichai announced last week that Google One is about to cross 100 million subscribers. Google One is now getting a new AI Premium plan that costs $19.99.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
More: Business Insider, Benzinga, Mashable, TechStartups, Hindustan Times, and CryptoGlobe
Threads: @sundarpichai and @laurengoode
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US says 200+ companies, like OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, and Palantir, are joining the AI Safety Institute Consortium — The Biden administration on Thursday said leading artificial intelligence companies are among more than 200 entities joining …
More: U.S. Department of Commerce, The Hill, AppleInsider, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, About Amazon, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, FedScoop, Bloomberg, Mashable, Nextgov/FCW, NIST, LFAI & Data, Neowin, 9to5Mac, Cleveland Clinic Newsroom, MacRumors, eeNews Europe, PhoneArena, Cointelegraph, Patently Apple, and Business Post
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| Josh Boak / Associated Press: |
More: Computerworld, Semafor, Voicebot.ai, Benzinga, TIME, FedScoop, VentureBeat, and The Hill
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass warns users about a fake copy of its app on Apple's App Store, with a similar name and logo, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials — LastPass is warning that a fake copy of its app is being distributed on the Apple App Store, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials.
More: The LastPass Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, App Store, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Verge, PCMag, Tom's Guide, BGR, Malwarebytes, TechRadar, Hackread, and RestorePrivacy
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @emilprotalinski.bsky.social
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
In iOS 17.4 Beta 2, Apple demotes PWAs in the EU from standalone apps to shortcuts that open in the default browser, to comply with the DMA's browser rules — PWAs demoted to OWB: Operating Within Browser — Apple has argued for years that developers who don't want to abide by its rules …
More: MacRumors, Bruce Lawson's personal site, Open Web Advocacy, Mysk on YouTube, and Danny Moerkerke
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Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Diane Brady / Fortune: |
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker steps down to focus on AI and internet safety as the chair of the nonprofit; board member Laura Chambers will step in as interim CEO — Mozilla has named a new CEO effective immediately. — Mozilla Corp., which manages the open-source Firefox browser …
More: The Mozilla Blog and Thurrott
Threads: @fredericl. Mastodon: @mozilla@mozilla.social, @ploum@mamot.fr, and @mozilla@mozilla.social. LinkedIn: Laura Chambers
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, and Slashdot
| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
In his new book, a16z GP Chris Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale — Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists. — 1×| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The Danish data protection authority orders schools to stop sending student data to Google via Chromebooks and Workspace, after an over four-year investigation — The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has issued an injunction regarding student data being funneled to Google through …
More: The Verge, TechSpot, The Privacy Dad's Blog, Cybernews.com, and Benzinga
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Microsoft says Activision had planned layoffs before the merger, responding to the FTC's claims that the layoffs contradict Microsoft's court statements — - Xbox maker cutting 1,900 workers, including at Activision — Tech giant responds to Federal Trade Commission over layoffs
More: Gizmodo, The Information, BBC, Thurrott, games fray, MSPoweruser, and GamesIndustry.biz. Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
More: The Verge, Thurrott, Game World Observer, IGN, Polygon, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, The Verge, Wccftech, HotHardware, Pure Xbox, Pocket Gamer.biz, Game Rant, GameSpot, Push Square, PC Gamer, and Video Games Chronicle
Forums: r/technology and r/kindafunny
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
The FCC outlaws scam robocalls featuring fake, AI-created voices, giving state AGs more legal tools to pursue illegal robocallers that use such voices — The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it is immediately outlawing scam robocalls featuring fake, artificial intelligence-created voices …
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
TikTok joins Meta in challenging the EU's DSA in the General Court, arguing the levy is unfair as some pay nothing; Meta was told to pay €11M of the ~€45M total — Social media giants Meta and TikTok are suing the European Union over a levy that bankrolls the enforcement … | CNBC: |
Arm closed up 47.89% after issuing a strong profit forecast, adding ~$38B to its market cap, with $34B+ of that accruing to SoftBank, which owns 90% of Arm — - Shares of chip designer Arm climbed 48% on Thursday. — The company reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, and issued an optimistic forecast.| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A leaked image allegedly shows the Google Pixel Fold 2, including a narrower cover screen, a squarer inner screen aspect ratio, and redesigned camera bump — Here's a very early look at what could be Google's second-generation foldable phone. — • — TL;DR
More: Ars Technica, Engadget, TalkAndroid.com, SamMobile, HotHardware, KnowTechie, Creative Bloq, Pocketnow, T3, BGR, TechRadar, Business Standard, MySmartPrice, and TechEBlog
Mastodon: @MishaalRahman@androiddev …. Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/Android, r/PixelFold, and Ars OpenForum
| The Information: |
Sources: Flexport lost at least $2M/month in 2023 on its air freight deal with Apple, started in late 2022 to ship products from some Asian factories to the US — For Flexport, a logistics company billing itself as the future of trade, it's hard to think of a more impressive client than Apple, the poster child of globalization.
X: @ilirsela, @anngehan, and @theo_wayt
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Plaid names Jen Taylor as its first president as it readies itself for an IPO; Taylor was most recently chief product officer at Cloudflare — - Firm names Cloudflare's product head Jen Taylor as president — Her hiring comes months after fintech announced its first CFO
More: The Information, Finextra, PYMNTS.com, and TechCrunch
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
A profile of OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, tasked by Sam Altman with striking a deal with Axel Springer, which may offer a road map for additional media deals — Brad Lightcap helped seal the startup's deal with publisher Axel Springer. Now he's experimenting with the company's business model.| Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: |
Unlearn, which helps researchers run small clinical trials by creating digital twins of participants, raised a $50M Series C, taking its total funding to $130M+ — The California-based company will put the funds toward its workforce, growing its data and further investing in R&D initiatives and engineering capabilities.
More: FinSMEs, Axios, HIT Consultant, and Business Wire
| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
SEC filing: NYSE-listed Bakkt, a crypto trading platform backed by the Intercontinental Exchange, warns that it might not be able to stay in business in a year — The institutional digital asset trading platform unveiled in 2018 amid huge fanfare has just disclosed it “might not be able to continue as a going concern.”
More: Bakkt Holdings, Inc., crypto.news, CoinDesk, Decrypt, CCN.com, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoin Insider, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, CryptoPotato, Milk Road, Cryptonews, Watcher Guru, Bakkt Holdings, Inc., Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, and Microsoft
X: @juthica, @poordart, @ldrogen, @iamnomad, @adamscochran, and @wublockchain
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Pinterest Q4: revenue up 12% YoY to $981.3M, vs. $991M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 498M, vs. 487M est., and a weaker-than-expected Q1 forecast; PINS drops 10%+ — - Pinterest missed on sales but beat on earnings in its fourth-quarter earnings report. — The company also issued a weaker-than-expected forecast.| Adnan Aamir / Nikkei Asia: |
Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country as voters went to the polls on February 8; the Interior Ministry cited a deteriorating security situation — Outages in name of security fuel suspicion over polls' legitimacy — Poll workers walk past police officers outside a voting station in Peshawar on Feb. 8.
More: TechCrunch, The Record, The Guardian, BBC, TechRadar, Al Jazeera, DatacenterDynamics, Telegraph, Reuters, FE Tech Bytes, and Bloomberg
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
TikTok quietly removed view counts for hashtags in January, after researchers used them to show the disparity in views of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian videos — The change came after researchers cited TikTok's video-view counts to discuss the relative prominence of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian videos on the app.Sponsor Posts
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