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Adobe says it is in the early stages of developing a way to let Premiere Pro users tap AI models from OpenAI, Runway, and Pika Labs to generate video — Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday said it is in the early stages of allowing the use of third-party generative artificial intelligence tools …
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LinkedIn: James Ratliff, Kyle Gesuelli, and Todd Burke
| Financial Times: |
The US awards Samsung up to $6.4B in CHIPS Act funding and says the company plans to make 2nm chips at its Taylor, Texas plant by 2026, two years ahead of TSMC — South Korean group set to outdo rival TSMC with cutting-edge 2nm chip production in US by 2026 as part of $40bn investment
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| Artificial Intelligence Index: |
Stanford's AI Index report: training top AI models is way more expensive, AI still trails humans on complex tasks, people are more nervous about AI, and more — Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives …
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI opens a Tokyo office, releases a Japanese language GPT-4 model, and taps former President of AWS Japan Tadao Nagasaki to woo enterprises in the country — OpenAI named the former president of Amazon Web Services's Japan arm to spearhead its push to woo enterprise clients in the world's fourth-largest economy.
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| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Impressions of Waymo's robotaxis, now running in SF and Phoenix, after several rides: amazing tech that quickly feels “normal”, but they aren't perfect — An curved arrow pointing right. — Unlike other hyped-up tech, self-driving taxis look like they could be the real thing.
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts” — Misleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage from other conflicts have been viewed millions of times.
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| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments grew 7.8% YoY to 289.4M in Q1 2024; iPhone fell 9.6% YoY, more than all top brands, Xiaomi grew 33.8% YoY, and Samsung retook first — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker , global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% year over year to 289.4 million units in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24).
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| Bloomberg: |
As Microsoft begins its most ambitious security reboot in two decades, critics question if the company has sufficient incentive to make deep and lasting changes — Company has embarked on biggest security reboot in two decades, but critics question whether it has wherewithal to complete the job.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: a16z closed $7.2B for its newest set of funds, with allocations for AI infrastructure, AI apps, its “American Dynamism” strategy, and more — - About half of the targeted capital was aimed for its growth fund. — Instead of dedicated seed or early-stage funds …
More: Sandhill Report, The Information, and San Francisco Business Times. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social
| New York Times: |
Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice” — Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.| Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
Sources detail how China-based ByteDance and US TikTok operations remain intertwined: some US staff effectively report to ByteDance, share user data, and more — In January, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced an intense grilling by skeptical U.S. lawmakers about his company's ties to Beijing and its alleged risk to national security.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston on adding AI tools, evolving beyond file syncing, rejecting Steve Jobs' acquisition bid, cloud storage, remote work, and more — Leaders can't ‘keep mashing the go back to 2019 button.’ — Today, I'm talking with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston.Sponsor Posts
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