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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 …
More: The Verge, 9to5Google, Spyglass, Business Insider, BBC, Android Central, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Financial Times, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, and The Financial Express
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LinkedIn: Nathan Benaich, Daniel Newman, Mustafa Suleyman, Satya Nadella, and Emil Protalinski. Forums: 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.
More: Runtime, TechCrunch, Axios, VentureBeat, Sifted, and The Decoder
Threads: @jjackyliang. X: @inflectionai, @mhbergen, @cis_female, @basedalexandoor, @inflectionai, @inflectionai, @willdepue, @kylebrussell, @reidhoffman, @wagieeacc, @krishnanrohit, @krishnanrohit, and @paulroetzer. LinkedIn: Allie K. Miller
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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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LinkedIn: Adam Brewer, Mihai Aldea, and Kevin Tupper
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
| 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: FediForum, FediForum on YouTube, Engadget, and We Distribute
Threads: @evanprodromou, @chris, @pcottle, @timothyjchambers, @mosseri, and @roneneffect. Mastodon: @andrew@melder.social. Forums: Beehaw
| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
In an interview, Jensen Huang estimates that Nvidia's GB200 Blackwell chip could cost $30,000 to $40,000 and that the R&D budget for the processor totaled ~$10B — - Nvidia stock closed up 1% on Tuesday, recovering from an earlier dip. — CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's …
More: The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Mashable, Fortune, Wccftech, Business Times, ExtremeTech, Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, and CNBC
| 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.
More: NVIDIA, TechCrunch, The New Stack, New York Times, Tech Monitor, TechRadar, Silicon Valley Business …, CNBC, and Benzinga
| 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.| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor says it 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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X: @eff, @dosnostalgic, @lenubienne, @laughingcorvus, and @davidgerard
Forums: r/privacy, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| 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, SC Media, The Register, and TechRadar
| 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.
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, TheStreet, MobileSyrup, arXiv.org, eClinicalMedicine, Engadget, The Keyword, Quartz, Bloomberg, TechRadar, CNET on YouTube, Gulf News, Fierce Healthcare, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, The Keyword, The Crypto Times, CNET, and Digital Trends
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @ashleycapoot, @amycchou, @katieelink, @ashleycapoot, @berci, @google, @stephenpfohl, @liamgmccoy, @hcolelewis, @googlehealth, @googlehealth, @googleorg, and @thekaransinghal. LinkedIn: Aashima Gupta
| New York Times: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund discussed a potential partnership with a16z and others to create a fund of about $40B to invest in AI in H2 2024 — The Middle Eastern country is creating a gigantic fund to invest in A.I. technology, potentially becoming the largest player in the hot market.
More: The Verge and Cointelegraph
| 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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| 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 … | 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.| Financial Times: |
Airbus ends talks with Atos on a deal worth up to €1.8B for its big data and security unit, imperiling efforts by Atos to avoid going into debt restructuring — Decision adds pressure on indebted French IT services company — Airbus has walked away from talks with Atos over a potential deal …
More: Atos, Reuters, The Register, Dark Reading, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Bloomberg, and SecurityWeek
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+ — Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that enables other companies to offer their own financial services via APIs.| 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.
More: Cryptopolitan, BGR, Android Headlines, and MSPoweruser
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, Business Insider, and ZDNet
Threads: @zuck, @digiphile, @clarajeffery, @heinendevon, @dswersky, @matthewfacciani, @joesbrat67, and @guillecummings. Bluesky: @hylen26.bsky.social
| 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” all the presale funds — “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
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