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| CNBC: |
Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of Amazon's planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after a $1.25B tranche 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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Threads: @lorakolodny. X: @mattmday, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, @silvermanjacob, @pitdesi, @carnage4life, @hawleymo, @thekenyeung, @danielnewmanuv, @edludlow, @alexrkonrad, and @mytechmusings
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Swami Sivasubramanian, Adam Selipsky, Michael Broderick, and Hayden Field
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Affinity and Canva publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's design software “fair, transparent, and affordable”, including its “perpetual licenses” — After Canva's acquisition of Affinity design software sparked concern regarding the future …
More: Affinity, Ars Technica, Joan Westenberg, Silicon Canals, AppleInsider, TechSpot, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
Threads: @trevorcroker, @snazzyq, and @todd_coleman
X: @thatanimeweirdo, @affinitybyserif, @demisbellot, @passivestar_, @t3dotgg, and @jamesjdominguez. LinkedIn: Cliff Obrecht. Forums: r/Affinity
| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top — Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we're firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it's time to add two such behemoths …
More: MLCommons, NVIDIA, Reuters, VentureBeat, MLCommons, Fierce Electronics, Intel, Forbes, TechPowerUp, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, DatacenterDynamics, Wccftech, ServeTheHome, and Maginative
X: @tonymongkolsmai, @mlcommons, @nvidiadc, @aiatmeta, @mlcommons, @typewriters, and @intel
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Databricks' new open-source model DBRX, an LLM that cost ~$10M to train over several months and, Databricks says, outshines Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok — Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta's Llama 2.
More: Databricks, TechCrunch, MarkTechPost, Databricks, The Information, Bloomberg, ITPro, InfoWorld, Constellation Research, Databricks, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
Threads: @vthallam. Mastodon: @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org. X: @mattshumer_, @downingark, @alighodsi, @emostaque, @natolambert, @jefrankle, @stevesi, @databricks, @lindensli, @abacaj, @dylan522p, @brij, @jefrankle, @mvpatel2000, @jefrankle, @chamath, @vitaliychiley, @code_star, @code_star, and @code_star
LinkedIn: Prerna Sharma, Lindsay L., Sakshi Gupta, Ari Kaplan, and Joshua Hartman. Forums: Hacker News
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed …
More: Ars Technica, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, PIRG, PIRG, CR Advocacy, and KTVZ-TV
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada — Google is introducing a handful of updates that aim to take some of the stress out of planning trips and outings …
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Forbes, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, Neowin, PhoneArena, Android Central, Lifewire, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Skift, and Mashable. X: @scobleizer
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated — Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they're vulnerable …
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X: @shanehuntley, @maddiestone, @profwoodward, @rseroter, and @royalhansen
Forums: r/netsec and r/cybersecurity
| Reuters: |
A US judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, but dismisses one claim that Coinbase acted as an unregistered broker via Coinbase Wallet — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday said the U.S. securities regulator's lawsuit against Coinbase (COIN.O) can move forward …
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/ethtrader
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney adds Hulu to Disney+, after beta testing the integration since December 2023; Disney+ subscribers who don't pay for Hulu can still search for Hulu shows — “Content recommendations are going to be more relevant based on your usage,” says Joe Earley, president of direct-to-consumer for Disney Entertainment.
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X: @aaron and @tvgrimreaper
LinkedIn: Inga Chen, Isaiah H., Michael Cupo, Trent Morrison, and Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/DisneyPlus, r/cordcutters, and r/Hulu
| Colleen McClain / Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 43% of those aged 18-29 used ChatGPT in February 2024, up from 33% in July 2023, compared to 27% of 30-49 and 23% of all adults — It's been more than a year since ChatGPT's public debut set the tech world abuzz. And Americans' use of the chatbot is ticking up …
More: Fast Company, PCMag, Business Insider, and Inc.com
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations — Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. — On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 …
More: Tom's Guide, TechSpot, and The Decoder
X: @lmsysorg, @skirano, @max_paperclips, @nickadobos, @sullyomarr, @benjedwards, @nickadobos, and @lmsysorg
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Ars OpenForum
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
At Intel's AI Summit in Taipei, executives say Copilot will soon run locally on PCs and that there will be a 40 TOPS requirement for NPUs on next-gen AI PCs — Let the TOPS wars begin. — We've previously reported on industry rumors that Microsoft's Copilot AI service will soon run locally … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X plans to make xAI's Grok available to all Premium subscribers “later this week”, expanding on Premium+ support; X Premium costs $8 per month — Following Elon Musk's xAI's move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday …
More: PCMag, TechSpot, MediaNama, 9to5Mac, Cryptopolitan, Reuters, PhoneArena, The Hindu, Mashable, and Wall Street Journal. X: @elonmusk
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation — Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations, making it challenging …
More: VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Snowflake, Observe, Inc., FinSMEs, and Channel Futures
LinkedIn: Fred Bateman and Nate Olson
| Marcia Sekhose / 91mobiles: |
Source: the Google Pixel 9 will have three sizes, the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL; alleged Pixel 9 renders show two rear cameras and a compact body — - New 5K renders give us a close look at the vanilla Google Pixel 9. — In addition to Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro, Google will also launch Pixel 9 Pro XL.
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| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Sources: blockchain AI companies SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, and Ocean Protocol are discussing merging their tokens into ASI, with a ~$7.5B fully diluted value — Three artificial intelligence companies that operate on blockchain are in talks to merge their crypto tokens, a move aimed at helping them develop a decentralized AI platform.| Wall Street Journal: |
How Phil Schiller, now an Apple Fellow, emerged as Apple's most ardent public defender of its ecosystem, under attacks from the US DOJ, the EU, rivals, and more — Former Chief Marketing Officer Phil Schiller has frequently made it clear that Apple doesn't intend to yield to developer criticism
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Wccftech
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B and 6.7M respectively in 2022 — The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled compared to the previous year. — Chat with SearchBot
More: B&T, The Keyword, News.ng, The Indian Express, 9to5Google, The Economic Times, and Search Engine Journal
X: @royalhansen and @google
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital — When entrepreneur Stephen Chen's mom began approaching retirement age, she was forced to borrow money from Chen — and Chen's brother — to make ends meet.
More: FinSMEs and NewRetirement
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a tool that lets US users swipe left or right to rate apparel and accessories to get style recommendations on mobile browsers and Google app — Google is rolling out a new update that makes it easier for users to find personalized shopping results, the company announced on Wednesday.
More: The Keyword, WWD, Lifewire, The Verge, and News.ng
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation — Hume has raised $50 million in funding at a $219 million valuation to build “empathic” conversational AI. — Alan Cowen feigns a dejected expression.
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Threads: @paul_rietschka. X: @rauchg, @hume_ai, @apoorva_mehta, @hume_ai, @andrewcurran_, @hume_ai, and @scobleizer. LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava
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