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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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| 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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| 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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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| 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
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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 … | 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.
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Forums: r/Games and r/linux_gaming
| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/MachineLearning, and r/StableDiffusion
| 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
| 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 …
More: New Scientist, Google DeepMind, MIT Technology Review, CoinGape, The Verge, Liverpool.com, RTL Today, and Wired
| 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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| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
In an interview, Jensen Huang estimates Nvidia's GB200 Blackwell chip could cost $30,000 to $40,000, and R&D budget for the processor totaled around $10B — - Nvidia stock was flat on Tuesday afternoon, recovering from an earlier dip. — CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's …
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| 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 …
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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.| 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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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans — After losing two complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission, Apple has stepped up its lobbying to change the agency's practices.| 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.| 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, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, and PYMNTS.com
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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