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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox-exclusive games to PS5 and Switch, the future of Xbox, next-gen hardware, regulation, and more — Microsoft has been gradually moving Xbox away from the idea of a single piece of hardware in recent years, with ambitions …
More: Xbox on YouTube, The Verge, Xbox Wire, The Verge, Forbes, Windows Central, Ars Technica, The Verge, Decrypt, Bloomberg, Engadget, MobileSyrup, PC Gamer, IGN, TheGamer, NBC 7 San Diego, TechRadar, Kotaku, Digital Trends, Press Start, Push Square, Game File, Destructoid, Variety, Mobilegamer.biz, BGR, TrueAchievements, Polygon, KitGuru, 9to5Toys, ComingSoon.net, and Gameranx
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Xbox Game Pass service now has 34M subscribers, up 36% from the 25M subscribers Microsoft reported more than two years ago — Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass service now has 34 million subscribers. That's up 36 percent from the 25 million Microsoft previously reported more than two years ago.
More: Financial Times and Destructoid
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
OpenAI unveils Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video, as a research product for some creators and security experts — OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step. — We already know that OpenAI's chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school.
More: OpenAI, TechCrunch, The Verge, PCMag, Android Authority, The Guardian, Gizmodo, HotHardware, Decrypt, New York Times, Engadget, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, MIT Technology Review, Axios, CNBC, Fast Company, iPhone in Canada Blog, PetaPixel, Futurism, CoinGape, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, and Watcher Guru
Threads: @cwarzel, @allisonjo1, @techaltar, @benedictevans, @stopsatgreen, @samedoho, @gaipoff, @kimalban, @fofr_ai, @prakashm14, @uladluch, @glenngabe, @sung.kim.mw, @sung.kim.mw, @jsntlr, @wongmjane, @drewharwell, @tomwarrenuk, @chris, and @tomwarrenuk
X: @openai, @sama, @carnage4life, @samsheffer, @billpeeb, @thatguybg, @iainthomson, @benbajarin, @sama, @joannastern, @sama, @sama, @parmy, @sama, @teroterotero, @e0m, @drjimfan, @carnage4life, @random_walker, @miramurati, @cloud_opinion, @nixcraft, @dr_cintas, @dr_cintas, @dr_cintas, @benbajarin, @ashleevance, @levie, @mkbhd, @gdb, @mkbhd, @_tim_brooks, @model_mechanic, @mkbhd, @kantrowitz, @mrbeast, @ednewtonrex, @ednewtonrex, @openai, @willdepue, @ojrenick, @sama, and @billpeeb
LinkedIn: Adam Goldberg, Yusuf Mehdi, Emil Protalinski, Paul Roetzer, and Conor Dragomanovich
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/StableDiffusion, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google launches Gemini 1.5 for developers and enterprise users, with a context window of up to 1M tokens, and says Gemini 1.5 Pro is on par with Gemini Ultra — Barely two months after launching Gemini, the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry, the company is already announcing its successor.
More: The Keyword, Ars Technica, Computerworld, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, How-To Geek, Android Police, Trusted Reviews, Tom's Guide, Wired, CoinGape, Mashable, 9to5Google, Reuters, The Decoder, Constellation Research, Fortune, Android Headlines, MSPoweruser, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and Analytics India Magazine
Threads: @eshumarneedi, @charlesgivens, @crumbler, and @georgescriban
X: @jeffdean, @googledeepmind, @kahnvex, @andrewcurran_, @gregkamradt, @googledeepmind, @zoubinghahrama1, @google, @marie_haynes, @andrewcurran_, @minchoi, @drjwrae, @oriolvinyalsml, @googledevs, @googledeepmind, @kylebrussell, @jeffdean, @alphasignalai, @sundarpichai, @picardparis, @demishassabis, and @hu_yifei
LinkedIn: Will Grannis, Julia Wiesinger, Paige Bailey, Wenming Ye, Elaine Stephens, Adrien Laurent, and Dex Hunter-Torricke
Forums: r/Bard, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and r/mlscaling
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google makes Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Ultra generally available, adds support for adapter-based tuning in Vertex, and rolls out new developer tools — Google is expanding the range of Gemini large language models it is making available to developers on its Vertex AI platform today.
More: Google Cloud Blog, Thurrott, Google for Developers Blog, Engadget, Android Authority, PCMag, Bloomberg, Android Central, CNET, Fast Company, Google DeepMind, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, MIT Technology Review, and Firebase Blog
LinkedIn: Gaurav Hind and Neama Dadkhahnikoo
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta plans to start charging a 30% fee for boosting Facebook and Instagram posts on iOS later in February, after Apple extended its 30% cut to boosting in 2022 — Meta said Thursday that it will start charging a 30 percent fee when advertisers pay to boost the visibility of their posts in Facebook's and Instagram's iOS apps.
More: Facebook, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Information, iPhone in Canada Blog, Search Engine Land, Engadget, Livemint, Benzinga, and BNN Bloomberg
Threads: @mycoachrachel, @eshumarneedi, @mattnavarra, and @chancehmiller
X: @stockmktnewz and @librariancap
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU because of a DMA requirement that forces Apple to allow alternative browser engines — iOS 17.4 offers a number of changes for the App Store and iPhone in the European Union. This includes things like third-party app marketplaces …
More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, Open Web Advocacy, AppleInsider, The Verge, PC-Tablet, iClarified, Gizchina, and Lifewire
Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe, @stroughtonsmith …, @nileane@nileane.fr, @tojiro@mastodon.social, @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social, and @stroughtonsmith …
X: @tomwarren, @carnage4life, @mysk_co, @firt, @firt, and @bzamayo
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
The European Court of Human Rights rules backdoors that weaken E2EE can undermine human rights, after Russia began forcing Telegram to decrypt messages in 2017 — Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says. — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) …
More: European Court of Human Rights, SiliconANGLE, EU Reporter, OSnews, The Register, TechRadar, Mashable, Silicon Republic, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, and Fortune
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @stefan@stefanbohacek.online, @paulthenerd@cupoftea.social, @echo_pbreyer …, @Frederik_Borgesius …, @glynmoody@mastodon.social, and @tylium@eupolicy.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/worldnews, r/technology, r/privacy, r/ukpolitics, r/europe, r/privacy, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filings: Sam Altman is the sole owner of the OpenAI Startup Fund, which reported $175M in total commitments in May 2023; Microsoft is an outside limited partner — - By last May it reported $175 million in total commitments, and a portfolio that included video editor Descript and legal tool Harvey.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds four new tools that let users to incorporate, or “remix”, a music video in their Shorts, weeks after UMG pulled its song catalog from TikTok — YouTube is introducing the ability for users to incorporate or “remix” a music video in their short-form videos … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok debuts a native Apple Vision Pro app with a similar UI to its mobile apps; in January, an executive said TikTok “redesigned the entire TikTok experience” — Apple's Vision Pro headset now has a native TikTok app, the shortform video service has announced.
More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, ZDNet, The Independent, Appleosophy, Redmond Pie, Neowin, iMore, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, Supercharged, TheStreet, and BGR
| Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest €3.2B in German AI infrastructure over the next two years, its biggest investment in Germany yet — - President Brad Smith says investments planned over two years — Microsoft is investing heavily in data centers to fuel AI boom
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Computerworld, CIO.com, Benzinga, TNW, Deutsche Welle, PYMNTS.com, TechStartups, Cointelegraph, and Silicon Republic
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @bradsmi. LinkedIn: Marleen Reininger, Clara Jule Junghänel, and Martin Knaack
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at robots.txt, a good will-based social contract that governs the behavior of web crawlers, as experts call for more rigid tools for managing AI crawlers — For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data …
Threads: @anildash and @reckless1280. Mastodon: @updates@coywolf.today
Forums: r/programming, r/aiwars, and Lobsters
| Chainalysis: |
In 2023, crypto money laundering fell 29.5% YoY to $22.2B, 109 addresses got $10M+ in illicit crypto each, and five off-ramp services got 71.7% of illicit funds — Coming soon — The goal of money laundering is to obscure the criminal origins of funds so that they can be accessed and spent.
More: Cointelegraph, Unchained, CryptoSlate, Metaverse Post, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Milk Road, Crowdfund Insider, Blockworks, CoinGape, The Block, and Infosecurity
X: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @chainalysis
| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Google plans to let businesses install its auto-updating ChromeOS Flex on Windows 10 devices, to help prevent millions of PCs from hitting landfills in 2025 — Google will allow businesses to install an auto-updating version of the Chrome operating system to Windows devices …
More: Tom's Hardware, Google Cloud Blog, PCMag, The Register, MSPoweruser, MySmartPrice, Thurrott, Computing, Windows Central, and BetaNews
| Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: |
Many Apple Vision Pro users are returning their devices for being too expensive, heavy, or isolating, as the 14-day return window closes for launch day buyers — Many early adopters seem set on returning their Apple Vision Pro headsets. As the 14-day return window approaches for people …
More: Apple, The Verge, TechRadar, Mashable, The Independent, Washington Times, Tom's Guide, Spyglass, Cybernews.com, TechSpot, Newsmax, Club386, Stuff, PetaPixel, Technowize, Business Insider, Latest Odisha News …, PhoneArena, ZeroHedge News, MobileSyrup, BGR, Quartz, and Benzinga
Threads: @parkerortolani, @samhenrigold, @samhenrigold, @stephenrobles, @chancehmiller, @tomwarrenuk, and @prcgibson. Mastodon: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn announce an updated Kids Online Safety Act and say 60+ US senators support the bill; KOSA faces uncertainty in the House — With more than 60 backers, an updated Kids Online Safety Act finally has a path to passage in the Senate but faces uncertainty in the House.
More: Techdirt, TechCrunch, The Verge, blumenthal.senate.gov, The Hill, Bloomberg Government, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn …, and Design It For Us
X: @chrismarchese9, @zamaan_qureshi, @bulldoghill, @netchoice, @senblumenthal, @zacharyleelee, @omaseddiq, @esqueer_, and @marshablackburn
Forums: Hacker News and r/politics
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at The Shotline, a project that uses ElevenLabs' tech to create audio deepfakes of kids killed in shootings, to place AI-generated calls to US lawmakers — Grieving parents made these audio deepfakes to stir the emotions of lawmakers. But they also mark a new era for artificial intelligence.
More: The Shotline, Inc.com, Associated Press, The Verge, Hartford Courant, The Guardian, Engadget, The Wall Street Journal on YouTube, Mashable, March For Our Lives, and NPR
X: @changetheref, @davidhogg111, @wsj, @bcross052422, @juliejargon, @joannastern, @alyssa_milano, @davidhogg111, @joannastern, @amarch4ourlives, and @joannastern
LinkedIn: Alex Ridoré and Ernie Schenck
Forums: r/aiwars and r/Futurology
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
NYC sues ByteDance, Meta, Snap, and Google to hold the companies accountable “for fueling the nationwide youth mental health crisis” by manipulating young users — New York City filed a lawsuit against TikTok, Meta, Snap and Google's YouTube to hold the companies accountable …
More: NYC, CNN, The Verge, Tubefilter, Reuters, The Daily Beast, CNBC, Superior Court of the State of New York, PetaPixel, Music Ally, Fresno Bee, TechInformed, 9to5Mac, Silicon Republic, The Hill, ABC News, Gothamist, Chalkbeat, and New York City, NY Patch
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
X removes paid checkmarks from some accounts after a watchdog group found 28 verified accounts allegedly tied to Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities — X (aka Twitter) accused of violating sanctions by taking payment from terrorists. — A watchdog group's investigation found …
More: The Verge, New York Times, Tech Transparency Project, Gizmodo, BBC, PCMag, Proactive, Forbes, Joan Westenberg, Boing Boing, Engadget, and The Hill
Forums: r/lebanon, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/Twitter, r/FreeSpeech, and Ars OpenForum
| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Meta seems unable to define political content, vaguely mentioning laws, elections, and social topics, after saying Threads would not amplify political content — What constitutes “political” content? — It's an important question that Meta has conspicuously left unanswered …
More: International Business Times, Anchor Change …, and Platformer
Threads: @doniecnn, @jayfarrellarnold, @bostonjoan, @shiraovide, @crumbler, @oliverdarcy, and @katieharbath
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The US SEC approves Truth Social's SPAC merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp; Trump's stake in the company would be worth nearly $4B at the current price — The former president's stake in the post-merger company would be valued, at today's share price, at nearly $4 billion.Sponsor Posts
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