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| Álvaro / eXputer: |
Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X, which Microsoft plans to release in summer 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X — This in continuation of eXputer's previous report back in February. … Back in February, I reported that Microsoft has plans …
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X: @ign and @tomwarren
Forums: r/4kbluray, r/gamingnews, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 — A new Homeworld game is also in development. — Embracer Group has officially divested Gearbox Entertainment …
More: Take-Two Interactive, Embracer Group, Game Developer, The Verge, Ars Technica, Engadget, Forbes, Thurrott, Destructoid, Digital Trends, GameSpot, Kotaku, Pocket Gamer.biz, Variety, Gameranx, TechRadar, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Game World Observer, Metro.co.uk, TheGamer, Press Start, Wccftech, KitGuru, Reuters, Kotaku Australia, Gematsu, VentureBeat, PC Gamer, Polygon, Windows Central, GamesIndustry.biz, Tech Xplore, Neowin, XboxEra, Video Games Chronicle, GamingBolt, and Push Square
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Forums: r/gaming, r/borderlands3, r/homeworld, r/kindafunny, r/XboxSeriesX, r/PS5, r/gaming, and r/Games
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced LLM leaderboard used by AI researchers; GPT-4 has been first since launch — Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. — On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Ars OpenForum
| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
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X: @aiatmeta, @mlcommons, @nvidiadc, @intel, @tonymongkolsmai, @mlcommons, and @typewriters
| Wired: |
Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online — A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors …
Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @babyboomerwriter.bsky.social. X: @samkottler, @byrontau, @dmehro, @dmehro, @daithaigilbert, @dmehro, @andrewcouts, and @dmehro. Forums: r/privacy
| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 — Silicon Valley has found a lucrative trade selling AI-powered weapons — and Palmer Luckey is leading the way
More: GamesIndustry.biz and Harper's
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| New York Times: |
Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by “Hey, Meta”, are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong — Brian X. Chen, left, and Mike Isaac, reporters for The New York Times, trying out Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses.Aaron Wojack for The New York Times| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair bill banning manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components owners can use — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed …
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| Open Web Advocacy: |
How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy — In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy.
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, calling trans and gender nonconforming people “satanic” and “perverts”, and more — GLAAD catalogued dozens of instances of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
The US OMB releases new AI guidance, requiring that all federal agencies submit an annual AI report and have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use — All US federal agencies will now be required to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use, as the government wants …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Nano is coming to Pixel 8 with the next Pixel Feature Drop, after previously saying the device won't get Nano due to “hardware limitations” — After “hardware limitations” were cited as the reason that the Pixel 8 isn't getting Gemini Nano earlier this month …
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Forums: r/GooglePixel and r/Android
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft rolls out Azure AI Studio tools to stop users from making AI chatbots behave in unintended ways, including “prompt shields” and warning alerts — - Company's Copilot recently generated weird, harmful responses — Defenses are designed to spot and block suspicious activity| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US and UK are reviewing $20B+ in Tether transactions through Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex, as part of a crackdown on sanctions evasions — - Allies review Tether transfers to sanctioned exchange Garantex — Tether says it works with law enforcement to ensure compliance
More: CoinGape and crypto.news
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Galaxy Digital, and others invest $75M in crypto fund 1kx, which has raised ~$200M since 2018 and invested in Rarible and more — - 1kx is targeting areas including crypto consumer applications — VC funding has been slower to recover than crypto prices
More: crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
X: @lalleclausen, @pet3rpan_, @tmnxeq, @dianacbiggs, @emilyjnicolle, and @1kxnetwork. LinkedIn: Valeriy Zamaraiev
| Clara Murray / Financial Times: |
Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal — CEO Sam Altman wants customised chatbots to supercharge its business but data suggests ‘GPTs’ have limited appeal| CNBC: |
Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of its planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after investing $1.25B in September 2023 — Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race.
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LinkedIn: Raejeanne Skillern, Emil Protalinski, Adam Selipsky, and Michael Broderick
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google's charitable wing Google.org launches a generative AI accelerator, to be funded by $20M in grants and include 21 nonprofits to start, including Quill.org — Google.org, Google's charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing tech that leverages generative AI.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China — Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir, is organizing a conference for tech leaders and Washington lawmakers on May 1.Jason Andrew for The New York Times
X: @ainowinstitute, @thekenyeung, and @jchengwsj
| Financial Times: |
Trump Media & Technology Group closed up 14% at $66.22 on March 27, for a $13.5B market cap, as small investors boost the stock; Trump's stake is worth ~$5.3B — Heavy trading in company behind Truth Social fuels talk of a new cycle of ‘meme stock mania’
More: Barron's Online, New York Times, and Associated Press
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Mandiant: Yevgeny Prigozhin-linked online influence operations are active months after his death in August 2023, and underwent subtle shifts in their targeting — Online influence campaigns have remained active since the Wagner Group leader's death in a plane crash, Google says
X: @dnvolz, @emptywheel, @dnvolz, and @dnvolz
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