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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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: Daniel Newman, Satya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, Emil Protalinski, and Nathan Benaich. Forums: r/singularity
| Satya Nadella / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Mustafa Suleyman will be its CEO and Karén Simonyan its chief scientist — Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Inflection: |
Inflection AI names Sean White as CEO and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure, after co-founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman depart for Microsoft AI — From day one at Inflection, we've been driven by a simple mission: to create a personal intelligence for everyone.
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LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman and Allie K. Miller
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Glassdoor users complain after the service added real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor cross-populates data between its services — Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews …
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Forums: r/technology, r/antiwork, r/privacy, and Ars OpenForum
| Financial Times: |
The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years — Preliminary agreement under US Chips Act also includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse — Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
More: Engadget and FediForum on YouTube
Threads: @evanprodromou, @chris, @timothyjchambers, and @pcottle. Mastodon: @andrew@melder.social. Forums: Beehaw
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that is potentially linked to I-Soon and has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries — A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
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| Business Insider: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model — - OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.
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| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google's Pixel 8a will have a 6.1" 120Hz OLED display, Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort output support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a — The Pixel 8a's major upgrades will make it even more competitive, but raise further questions over the vanilla Pixel 8.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holding to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin — - Purchase were made with proceeds from a convertible note sale … The enterprise software maker, whose corporate strategy includes buying …
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| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Researchers say misconfigured Firebase instances exposed 125M+ users' records, including plaintext passwords, email addresses, and messages, across 900 websites — A weakness in a Firebase implementation allowed researchers to gain access to names, phone numbers, email addresses, plaintext passwords, confidential messages, and more.
More: BleepingComputer and SC Media
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets over content linking and using press content to train AI, after a €500M fine in 2021 — - Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation
More: Silicon Republic, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Legit.ng, Times of Malta, and CGTN
X: @bcoeure, @bcoeure, and @samuelstolton
| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
France begins work on “a national solution” to protect IT giant Atos, which manages nuclear data and cybersecurity, after Airbus talks failed; ATO.PA drops 20%+ — The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations — Google is training Gemini on health data, and it's creating a new AI model for the Fitbit app that can give advice tailored to your needs.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$21.6B, vs. ~$21.8B est., a ~$3.8B net income, vs. ~$4.6B est., and plans a $12.8B+ stock buyback, as gaming sales slow — - Revenue growth in the quarter was its slowest in a year — Tencent joins tech rivals in ramping up shareholder returns
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
How Sweet Baby, a small video game narrative development company, became the focus of Gamergate 2.0, a harassment campaign against “forced” diversity in gaming — A group of gamers has mobilized a harassment campaign against a story consultant company, marginalized developers …
More: IGN. Mastodon: @mrcopilot@mstdn.social. X: @stevie_mat, @cheryllynneaton, @alyssa_merc, @kahliefadams, @domaindead, @easbygames, @taylorcocke, and @xoelleslow. Forums: r/saltierthankrayt
| 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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| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden admin is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese chip firms linked to Huawei, after the company used an advanced 7nm chip in Mate 60 Pro — - Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
PE firm Francisco Partners agrees to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software, which helps companies develop complex tech products, for $1.2B — Jama Software, which helped lead a brief renaissance in Portland technology in the decade after the dot-com bust, sold Monday to a private equity firm for $1.2 billion.Sponsor Posts
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