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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 AI and plans to help bring the French 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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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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| 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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| Reuters: |
Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth's technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days — Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber Attack” in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024.
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| 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
| 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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Forums: r/ouraring, r/technology, and r/Android
| 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.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 — Expedia Group expects about 1,500 roles to be impacted, primarily in its Product & Technology division, under an operational review announced …
More: Neowin, Seattle Business Journal, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also offers some absurd responses, highlighting the need for flourishing open source AI — Last Wednesday, when the questions about Gemini's political viewpoint were still limited to its image creation capabilities, I accused the company of being timid:
More: International Business Times, Business Insider, W Media Research, The Federalist, Search Engine Land, MediaPost, CNET, and MacDailyNews
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Zoom reports Q4 revenue of $1.15B, up 2.6% YoY, vs. $1.13B est., Enterprise revenue of $667M, up 4.9% YoY, and announces a $1.5B stock buyback; ZM jumps 10%+ — The company also announced a $1.5 billion share buyback. The stock jumped more than 10% in extended trading.| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The CTO for US Central Command says AI developed for Project Maven was used to narrow down targets for 85+ air strikes in the Middle East on February 2 — - Algorithms were developed under the Pentagon's Project Maven — AI isn't ready to recommend the order of attack, official says| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The US adds networking equipment company Sandvine to its entity list, banning it from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship — - Commerce Department largely bans tech firm from US purchases — Egypt was one of numerous countries where content was blocked
More: Department of Commerce. X: @jsrailton, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @jsrailton, @rondeibert, @rondeibert, @jsrailton, and @jsrailton
| 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
| 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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