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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft outlines security principles and goals tied to executive compensation packages, following a scathing US Cyber Safety Review Board report in April 2024 — - Protect identities and secrets. … - Protect tenants and isolate production systems. … - Protect networks.
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LinkedIn: Antonio Hawkins, Roger Grimes, Najat Messaoud, and Rich Mogull
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web — X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming — Musk emails with details on AI-powered news inside X. An AI bot will summarize news and commentary, sometimes looking through tens of thousands of posts per story.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's May 7 event: OLED iPad Pros possibly with M4 chips, 10.9" and 12.9" iPad Airs, and updates to the Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard — Company gears up to update its tablets for the first time since 2022 — It's been more than 18 months since Apple Inc. last updated …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Google updates its ad policy to ban the promotion of services that generate, distribute, or store synthetic sexually explicit content, starting May 30, 2024 — Google Ads, Shopping Ads, Admob, and other Google Ads products will soon disallow deepfake sexual content, synthetic sexually explicit content …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Fei-Fei Li raised a seed round for a “spatial intelligence” startup using human-like visual data processing to create AI capable of advanced reasoning — Prominent computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is building a startup that uses human-like processing of visual data … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
SVB agrees to sell its VC arm SVB Capital, which manages ~$9.8B in assets, to a new entity backed by Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage for $340M in cash — - SVB Capital wasn't included in the sale of SVB's lending and wealth management units to North Carolina-based bank First Citizens …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Russian national Alexander Vinnik, one of the operators of crypto exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017, pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering — Vinnik was first arrested in 2017, but faced a lengthy extradition process that saw him spend time in Greece and France before being sent to the U.S.| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more — Insiders say he's still pulling the strings at Microsoft — In 2017, just before Microsoft forged a partnership …
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone market grew 6% YoY to 296.9M units in Q1; Samsung recaptured the top spot with a 20% market share; Apple shipments fell 13% but ASP grew 2% — - The global smartphone market grew by 6% YoY to reach 296.9 million unit shipments in Q1 2024.
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| Alison Snyder / Axios: |
CSET: global AI research more than doubled between 2017 and 2022; Chinese Academy of Sciences was the top producer of highly cited AI papers, followed by Google — - Roughly 32% of AI research focused on computer vision, which grew 121% in those five years.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Google pushes back on Epic's demands after its antitrust win, saying the proposed remedies are “unnecessary” and “far beyond the scope” of the verdict — In a new filing, Google is pushing back against Fortnite maker Epic Games' numerous proposed remedies … | Apple: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $90.75B, net income down 2% to $23.64B, and announces a $110B share buyback, its largest yet — Services revenue reaches new all-time record — EPS sets March quarter record — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 second quarter ended March 30, 2024.
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program — Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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