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Google unveils ARM-based Axion chips for AI, claiming they have up to 30% better performance over the top ARM rivals, coming to Google Cloud customers in 2024 — Tech giant develops new chips to cut reliance on outside vendors as the AI arms race intensifies
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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveils AI updates: corporate Gemini users can “ground” responses in reliable sources, Search as a Gemini answer source, and more — The company unveiled updates to its AI offerings at its annual cloud conference — Google unveiled a host …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google details Workspace updates: Gmail's “instant polish” to turn rough notes into emails, tabs in Docs, Gemini in Chat, “Translate for me” in Meet, and more — Besides Vids, Google Workspace is getting a slew of new features and Gemini capabilities at Cloud Next 2024.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google announces Vids, an app to help companies and consumers make collaborative, shareable video, powered by Gemini, launching in public beta in summer 2024 — For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag anomalies within images for radiologists and summarize information from a patient's medical history — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky will become Automattic's head of messaging — - Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join — Beeper briefly brought Apple's iMessage to Android devices
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts Gaudi 3, set for Q3 mass production, claiming up to 1.7x the training performance, 50% more inference, and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia's H100 — GPUs fall the wayside as Intel goes all-in on Gaudi for AI. — Intel made a slew of announcements during its Vision 2024 event today …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens — Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers found an exposed Azure server with credentials used by Microsoft staff to access internal systems; Microsoft was told Feb. 6 and secured it March 5 — Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% — The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche. Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier this year … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Cruise resumes manually driving its vehicles without autonomous systems engaged to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix — General Motors' Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds shopping features, including creator-curated product lists for users to browse called Shopping Collections and a hub with info on commission rates — YouTube announced on Tuesday that it's launching new Shopping features that allow creators to curate shoppable collections …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Monad Labs, which is building a Layer 1 blockchain to rival Ethereum and Solana, raised $225M led by Paradigm and plans to launch its mainnet by the end of 2024 — With crypto markets roaring back, different blockchains are jockeying to become the solution that hoovers up demand in the next wave … | Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Alethea, whose ML service monitors online chatter to help companies detect disinformation, raised a $20M Series B led by GV, bringing its total raised to $34M — - Heading into the 2024 U.S. elections, the funding will help the company boost its staff levels and build its product to spot … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in the API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling — As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is the nexus of modern software development that sits atop tech platforms …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe now allows bot creators to set a per-message price for their bots and rolls out enhanced analytics dashboard for creators — Bot creators now have a new way to make money with Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform. On Monday, the company introduced … | Wall Street Journal: |
An investigation finds a shadowy supply chain for Starlink terminals to US foes in Russia and Sudan via Africa, Asia, and the UAE; SpaceX has not shut them off — The satellite-internet devices are helping Russian fighters in Ukraine and paramilitary forces in Sudan; SpaceX hasn't shut them off
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