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The EU ends its DMA investigation into iMessage and Microsoft Bing, Edge, and Advertising, deciding not to designate the services as gatekeepers — - Services not dominant enough to face Digital Markets Act … A probe concluded that the services don't hold a dominant enough position …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in its VPN, Relay, its Online Footprint Scrubber, and mozilla.social, shut down Hubs, and cut ~60 employees — After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
OpenAI starts testing a “memory” feature that is on by default and lets ChatGPT and custom GPTs remember info about users and their conversations over time — Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and r/technology
| Vanessa Gera / Associated Press: |
Polish PM Donald Tusk says state authorities under the previous government used NSO's Pegasus spyware illegally against a “very long” list of hacking victims — Poland's new prime minister said Tuesday he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia releases an early version of Chat with RTX, an app that lets users run an AI chatbot on a PC powered by an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with 8GB+ of VRAM — Nvidia is releasing an early version of Chat with RTX today, a demo app that lets you run a personal AI chatbot on your PC.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting Apple's tradeoffs, and more — Now that it can be strapped to our faces and worn in strange places, opinions about Apple's Vision Pro are flying left and right.
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| The Information: |
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, leaves the company; Karpathy was developing a product that he described as an AI assistant — Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Walmart is in talks to buy smart TV manufacturer Vizio for more than $2B, as it looks to bolster its advertising business in its battle with Amazon — Retail giant discussing a more than $2 billion deal that would boost its advertising business in battle with Amazon| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to launch select Xbox games on the PS5 and Switch, starting with Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, and Sea of Thieves, a seismic strategy shift — With rumors of some Xbox games coming to PS5 and Switch, Microsoft gets ready to lay out its vision for the future of Xbox.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Alison Snyder / Axios: |
Cohere's nonprofit research lab releases its open-source multilingual LLM Aya, which it says can follow instructions in more than 100 languages — A new open-source generative AI model can follow instructions in more than 100 languages. … - It covers more than twice as many languages … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Waymo has issued a software fix for its cars, its first recall, after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix in December 2023 — Waymo is voluntarily recalling the software that powers its robotaxi fleet after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona, in December.| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Copilot for Microsoft 365 testers question the $30/seat price and find Copilot the most useful in Teams and the least in Excel; Dow and others plan big rollouts — Artificial-intelligence aide handles email, meetings and other things, but its price and limited use have some skeptical| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Foundry Group, an 18-year-old VC firm with nearly $3.5B in assets under management, has quietly decided to wind down and not raise any more funds — Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5 billion in assets under management, has quietly decided to shut down and not raise any more funds.
More: Denver Business Journal
| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge says OpenAI must face a claim of violating CA unfair competition law by using copyrighted books, but dismisses some claims like DMCA violations — Search by Law Firm Search by Topic Search by Company — OpenAI Inc. must face a claim that it violated California unfair competition law … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
For the first time since 2002, Nvidia ended a trading day with a bigger market value than Amazon, as its market cap reached $1.78T, fueled by the AI boom — - Nvidia surpassed Amazon in market capitalization on Tuesday. — It's a sign of how strong demand is for chips that can run cutting-edge AI … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $803M vs. $804M est., plans to lay off ~250 workers, or ~7% of staff; three top execs are leaving for personal reasons — - Instacart on Tuesday announced it would lay off about 250 employees, or roughly 7% of the company, alongside reporting fourth-quarter earnings …
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Sierra, an enterprise-focused conversational AI startup co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, launches with $110M in funding led by Sequoia and Benchmark — Bret Taylor, right, launches Sierra, a conversational AI platform for businesses, with former Google executive Clay Bavor, left.
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Threads: @jonfortt. X: @kyliebytes, @kokoxsu, @msquinn, @btaylor, @trace_cohen, @guptark22, @saranormous, @gregkamradt, and @claybavor. LinkedIn: Anna Rosenman
| Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
Flipper Zero multi-tool device maker Flipper Devices announces a $49 Video Game Module, powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040, that turns a Flipper into a controller — The creators behind the popular Flipper device have teamed up with Raspberry Pi to expand its capabilities.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out its Companion Mode to Meet for Android and iOS, letting users check in, share an emoji reaction, raise their hand, turn on captions, and more — Originally introduced for the web and Nest Hub Max, Google is now bringing its second screen “Companion Mode” to the Meet app on Android and iOS.| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
GLAAD's first gaming industry survey featuring nearly 1,500 participants: <2% of console video games include LGBTQ characters, 17% of gamers are queer, and more — In its first survey of the video game industry, the advocacy group GLAAD determined that few console games include queer characters.
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| Reuters: |
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