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Mistral AI releases Mistral Large, a cheaper GPT-4 rival that supports 32K-token context windows, and Le Chat, a ChatGPT-like chat assistant in public beta — Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows.
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral and plans to help bring the Paris-based startup's AI models to market, as regulators probe Microsoft's OpenAI alliance — Tech giant unveils partnership with French AI start-up as regulators probe $13bn alliance with ChatGPT maker
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU is asking developers about the impact of Apple's decision to disable PWAs in the EU, seen as a precursor to a formal investigation into the company — Competition regulators in Brussels send questions to developers over iPhone maker's decision — The EU has taken the first steps towards …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024; the device will be centered around health and wellness, come in three colors, and be available later in 2024 — After teasing it (again) yesterday, Samsung has finally shown off the Galaxy Ring in physical form at Mobile World Conference (MWC 2024) and revealed some additional details.
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| Bloomberg: |
During oral arguments, justices seemed reluctant to completely strike down Texas and Florida social media laws but worried about impacts to companies' 1A rights — - Justices wary of entirely striking down Texas, Florida laws — But court voices concern about impact on company speech rights
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources detail their concerns with Apple Arcade: declining developer payouts, cancelled projects, a shift to only greenlighting family-friendly games, and more — Multiple mobilegamer.biz sources have voiced their concern for Apple Arcade's future, citing a glut of cancelled projects and ever-declining developer payouts.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, The Verge, mjtsai.com, Video Games Chronicle, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, and MacStories
Mastodon: @davetron5000@ruby.social. X: @woelfel, @knoebelbroet, @lewispackwood, @knoebelbroet, and @carnage4life. LinkedIn: Neil Long
Forums: r/Games, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
Meta outlines its strategy to combat generative AI misuse ahead of the European elections in June 2024, including setting up an EU-specific operations center — Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it will form a team to tackle deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) content in the upcoming EU elections in June.
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LinkedIn: Fosco Riani, Tom Bonsundy-O'Bryan, and Henry Ajder
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a spam campaign using hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from reputable brands like eBay and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily — A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …
More: Guardio, SC Media, and The Hacker News
| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers' compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more — AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound.
X: @tatum_hunter_, @tatum_hunter_, @tatum_hunter_, and @tatum_hunter_
Forums: r/technology, r/singularity, r/Futurology, r/NewsOfTheStupid, and r/lebowski
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils the RTX 500 and RTX 1000, its new laptop GPUs for on-the-go AI processing powered by its Ada Lovelace architecture, available in Spring 2024 — Nvidia launched its RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop graphics processing units (GPUs) for on-the-go AI processing.
More: NVIDIA, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Engadget, TechPowerUp, CRN, MSPoweruser, and Electronics Weekly
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Google unveils new Android features: Gemini integrated in Messages, AI-powered text summaries in Android Auto, AI-generated image captions in Lookout, and more — The Android updates announced at MWC also include new accessibility features and casting controls for Spotify.
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Independent, Android Central, Google Help Center, The Verge, Business Insider, iThinkDifferent, Phandroid, BGR, Android Headlines, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, Business Standard, Livemint, MSPoweruser, MySmartPrice, Thurrott, Mashable, Tom's Guide, Quartz, CNET, Android Police, Android Authority, Digital Trends, PCMag, How-To Geek, and PhoneArena
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils AI Hub, a library of 75+ pre-optimized AI models, the X80 5G modem, and FastConnect 7900, a chip that integrates Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and UWB — Qualcomm unveiled a suite of AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.Sponsor Posts
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