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How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label — “The Hardest Part,” a new song from indie pop artist Washed Out, is all about love lost, among the most human of themes.
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| 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: |
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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.
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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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| 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 … | Tim Stelloh / NBC News: |
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects' locations and other details — Cybercheck's founder has said the software tops 90% accuracy. Defense lawyers have said he lied under oath about his expertise … | Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at AI companies gathering data from real people to create “digital twins”, to use as fashion models, focus group members, or clinical trial participants — AI that can predict how specific humans will look, act and feel could do the jobs of fashion models, focus group members and clinical trial participants
More: Applied Clinical Trials, PharmaVoice, arXiv, and New York Post
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Filing: CRM software maker Freshworks acquires Connecticut-based Device42, which helps companies manage their IT infrastructure and had raised $38.5M, for $230M — Freshworks, the publicly listed SaaS firm, is acquiring U.S.-based startup Device42 for $230 million, the company disclosed in an SEC filing.
More: Freshworks, The Hindu BusinessLine, CMSWire.com, Reuters, Freshworks, Inc42 Media, diginomica, TechCircle, Freshworks, and Inc42 Media
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Synergy Research: cloud revenue grew 21% YoY in Q1 2024 to $76B; Altimeter: AWS now has 31% market share followed by Azure with 25% and Google with 11% — Last year's doldrums are in the rearview thanks to AI — If you were concerned about slowing cloud infrastructure growth for a time in 2023 … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a simple, reliable, and smartly priced AI gadget, whereas Humane's AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 are more akin to science projects — There's a new WANTED poster in town... PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1: The smartphone ACCUSED OF: Stealing your attention, sanity and well-being REWARD …
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| Agence France-Presse: |
Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people” — Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on Ukraine's version of the reality show The Bachelor| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates — - The new suits add heft to the Times' claims. … Several other large news publishers, including the Financial Times … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Swedish PE firm EQT acquires a “significant majority” stake in WSO2, valuing the enterprise API and identity management company at “more than” $600M — WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises …
More: WSO2, PR Newswire, and Sanjiva Weerawarana
| 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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