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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apple sends threat notifications to individuals in 92 countries, warning them that their iPhone may have been targeted by “mercenary spyware attacks” — Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Humane AI Pin review: well-made, photos look good, and easier to access than a phone, but doesn't work half the time, really slow, and missing basic features — For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There's only one problem: it just doesn't work.| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images sent to teens via DMs, showing a pop-up to sender and recipient, rolling out in the coming months — Obscured photos and warnings will discourage users from exchanging nude photos with potential strangers
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Livemint, Telegraph, BBC, Silicon Republic, Meta, CNN, Associated Press, London Evening Standard, and Wccftech
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023 — As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
DuckDuckGo launches Privacy Pro, a new $9.99 per month service with a VPN, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration, available in the US — Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI — - OpenAI's Sora has increased competitive pressure on Adobe — Adobe has built AI models with stock library, procured media
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| Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese companies — - Leaders look to cooperate on developing emerging technology — Kishida touts benefits of Japan's investments in the US
More: The White House, Microsoft, AI News, The Seattle Times, CryptoSlate, and GeekWire
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
The US SEC sends decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap a Wells notice warning that the agency intends to bring an enforcement action against the company — The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Uniswap on Wednesday that it intends to bring an enforcement action against the company …
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| Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: |
Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training generative AI models to disclose all of the copyrighted work they used to do so — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would require companies using copyrighted material to train …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify is developing tools to let subscribers speed up, mash up, or edit songs, a type of playback feature; rights holders would be paid for the songs — Streamer is developing tools that would make it easier for fans to create custom versions of their favorite music| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips for AI training, and says MTIA v1 and the new chips are both now in production — Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster.
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LinkedIn: Mikael Strandlund, Albert Fong, Ash Jhaveri, Neeraj Agrawal, Dan Rabinovitsj, Tanmay Zargar, Ajit Mathews, and Santosh Janardhan
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million … | Wall Street Journal: |
In his annual shareholder letter, Andy Jassy says GenAI “may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud” and Amazon is committed to cost-cutting — In his letter to shareholders, Andy Jassy says generative AI could usher in the largest tech transformation since the Internet
More: About Amazon, Axios, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to make Magic Editor and other AI editing tools, previously limited to Pixel phones and paid users, available to all Google Photos users for free — Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited …
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
An interview with DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen on the company's new Intelligent Agreement Management service, now in beta, moving beyond e-signatures, and more — In an exclusive interview with Forbes, Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen calls its new platform, which tackles contract management beyond … | Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: |
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness — He found a field rich with deep, unanswered questions that were mathematical at heart.
More: Association for Computing Machinery, New York Times, Institute for Advanced Study, Ars Technica, New Scientist, Haaretz, Princeton University News, and ZDNet
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