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Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup — Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head …
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LinkedIn: Satya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, Emil Protalinski, and Nathan Benaich
| Inflection: |
Inflection AI says co-founder Karén Simonyan will join Mustafa Suleyman at Microsoft AI, names Sean White as CEO, and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure — From day one at Inflection, we've been driven by a simple mission: to create a personal intelligence for everyone.
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| Satya Nadella / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft says Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan are joining to form Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Suleyman will be CEO — Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU — - Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how the company's early decisions led to its AI boom, why Nvidia's ubiquity will not be easy to replicate, and more — Nvidia's chips sparked the AI revolution. Now it's in the business of putting the technology to work in an array of industries.
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| Adam James / The Block: |
The US SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn — - Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay a $21 million civil penalty as part of a settlement over SEC charges.| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users generate 3D video from a text or image prompt — Stability AI is growing its generative AI model portfolio today with the release of Stable Video 3D (SV3D).
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU DMA hearing: a Meta lawyer says Meta offered to cut its EU monthly subscription for Facebook and Instagram from €9.99 to €5.99 to address regulatory concerns — Meta Platforms (META.O) has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to 5.99 euros …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Solana memecoin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have mistakenly “burned” tokens set for an airdrop — “This is not a joke I really f****d up and im really sorry. Was a simple mindless misclick when I was in the process of burning the the lp," the developer said| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind debuts TacticAI, a prototype AI soccer tactician built with Premier League club Liverpool, using geometric deep learning on 7,176 corner kicks — Human experts prefer TacticAI's suggested positional improvements at corner kicks — Google DeepMind has developed …
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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Reddit says Nokia on March 18 accused the company of infringing some of its patents, and is evaluating Nokia's claims ahead of its planned IPO this week — Nokia Technologies, the company's licensing business, sent Reddit a letter on Monday with the claims, and Reddit is evaluating them, according to a filing made Tuesday.
More: The Register, The Verge, Proactive, Reuters, and TechSpot
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at Playtron, which raised a $10M seed to build a Linux-based, platform-agnostic gaming OS to replace Windows or SteamOS, starting with handheld consoles — The former CEO of Cyanogen has a plan for a platform-agnostic gaming operating system.
More: Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, GamingOnLinux, Liliputing, and Ars Technica
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Forums: r/Games and r/linux_gaming
| Jamie Grierson / The Guardian: |
The UK sentences a man to 66 weeks in prison for cyberflashing, under the Online Safety Act, the first such conviction since the OSA took effect on January 31 — Nicholas Hawkes, 39, from Essex, convicted under new Online Safety Act after sending images of genitals
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app — Threads users in the U.S. will start seeing a “Trending now” page on the platform starting Tuesday. — Threads users in the United States …
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based online shopping rewards app ShopBack cuts 195 jobs, or 24% of its staff, to become self-sustainable; ShopBack raised a $200M Series F in 2022 — ShopBack, an online shopping rewards app backed by Temasek Holdings Pte, is cutting about a quarter of its workforce as it retreats from the buy-now-pay-later space.
More: ShopBack, PYMNTS.com, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
| Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: |
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, which lets up to six Steam users share their PC games, manage parental controls, and more, meant to replace Family Sharing — Share your Steam games with up to five others in a Steam Family. — What you need to know — Valve is introducing …
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Forums: r/gamedev, r/Kappachino, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: senior DOJ officials plan to hold closed-door Senate briefings on March 19 and 20 to advance a TikTok divestiture, as opposed to an outright US ban — - DOJ wants senators to pass a bill forcing TikTok sale — Effort is part of broader DoJ push on data-security measures
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Silicon UK, and Yahoo Finance
X: @danprimack, @danielpflatley, and @alexbarinka
| Jing Yang / The Information: |
Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu's GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows — jing@theinformation.com Profile and archive — As Chinese shopping site Temu faces mounting hostility toward Chinese companies …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other executive Search team changes — Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu Nayak as lead of search quality and ranking. Cathy Edwards is moving to the Long-term Bets team.
More: Android Authority, The Verge, 9to5Google, Search Engine Roundtable, and MediaPost
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