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Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month — Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. — The generative artificial intelligence startup … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources: Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams, including its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to Mexico and India — Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government …
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers GPUs in the cloud, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, up from $7B after raising $642M in December 2023 — Company raises $1.1 billion from investors including Fidelity, Magnetar Capital — CoreWeave, a cloud-computing company backed by Nvidia … | Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: |
Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses — Internal documents indicate Block processed crypto transactions for terrorist groups and Square processed transactions involving nations subject to economic sanctions.
More: The Block, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, crypto.news, Protos, Proactive, and The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
DOJ v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was “very, very worried” in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella — - Google faces US antitrust case about its dominance in search — Microsoft's communications deemed relevant to defense by judge| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024 — Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” — During its Team '24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify money laundering on Bitcoin's blockchain — Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on …
More: Elliptic, TNW, The Crypto Times, The Block, CoinDesk, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, and The Hacker News
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
LinkedIn debuts three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku- and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb — How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”? — LinkedIn, the professional network known …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
An APK review suggests Rabbit's R1 runs Android, and its entire UI is powered by a single Android app; founder Jesse Lyu says “rabbit r1 is not an Android app” — The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is certainly powered by an Android app under the hood. — • — TL;DR
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| Reuters: |
Reuters/Ipsos poll: ~58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”, and 50% support banning TikTok — - A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at GM's risky bet to replace Apple's CarPlay with its own infotainment system, gambling on its software group, as carmakers worry over Apple's power — The uneasy relationship between Detroit and Cupertino is on display in a flawed rollout of GM's new software.
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| Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters: |
Ofcom opens an investigation into OnlyFans over its measures to stop children from accessing porn, after reviewing its “response to formal information requests” — Britain's media regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into OnlyFans, it said on Wednesday …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar on her role, working at DARPA, AI, showing ChatGPT to Biden, and more — Arati Prabhakar has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after acquiring LastPass; the service suffered high-profile hacks in 2022 — It's been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the company now says it has separated from its parent company, GoTo.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized — The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care, citing “escalating operating costs”; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in May 2021 — Walmart isn't making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop.
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LinkedIn: Nathan Diepenbrock and Rachel Neill
| Politico: |
How all the bills under consideration in US states meant to address AI bias contain loopholes that would make it too easy for companies to avoid accountability — AI is potentially transformative. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on whether we set the right rules.
More: Politico. X: @cendemtech, @gracegedye, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @stevenoverly, @workedfineindev, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @gracegedye, and @cradvocacy
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Phone's beta app gets “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animations with sound: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, and sting — The Google Phone app is picking up a new trick, with the app now rolling out “Audio Emoji” to some users.| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation — A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company's offices says the company retaliated …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot that became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities to GPT-4 — An advanced AI model with unknown origins turned heads this week as online communities unpacked a cryptic tweet from Sam Altman.
More: Forward Future AI, W&B, and Forbes
Threads: @mockapapella, @stevejsteiner, and @sung.kim.mw
X: @sama, @itsandrewgao, @emollick, @lmsysorg, @emollick, @stevenheidel, @aidan_mclau, @simonw, @simonw, @joby_fi, @lmsysorg, and @simonw. LinkedIn: Michael Tchuindjang
Forums: r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, and Slashdot
| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Changpeng Zhao's short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing referred to sealed documents and “cooperation”, perhaps over Binance user details — There are a lot of differences between Changpeng Zhao and Sam Bankman-Fried, and now we can add one more to the list … | Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program — Officials say Starlink's satellites will probably fill gaps in the Biden administration's $42 billion push to hook every American home up to high-speed internet| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
US House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ether is a security — The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says Gensler refused to discuss his view on ETH in testimony even after the SEC was investigating it as a security.
More: CCN.com, Fox Business, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, and Coinpedia Fintech News
X: @patrickmchenry, @johnedeaton1, @financialcmte, @jseyff, and @zerohedge
| Yukio Tajima / Nikkei Asia: |
China implements a revised State Secrets Law, requiring Tencent, Weibo, and other internet companies to delete leaked information and comply with investigations — Law taking effect Wednesday seen requiring internet companies to help curb leaks — BEIJING — China on Wednesday implemented …
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