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Sources: Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model that will have ~500B parameters, or large enough to rival top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI — For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models … | Counterpoint Research: |
iPhone 15 Pro Max was Q1's best-selling smartphone; Pro phones were 50% of Apple's sales, up from 24% in 2020; Apple and Samsung each had five phones in top 10 — - Apple and Samsung dominated the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones in Q1 2024. — This was the first quarter in which the top 10 smartphones were all 5G capable.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI should be available by the end of June — OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models' performance on programming-related tasks.
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Robinhood's crypto arm got a Wells notice from the US SEC on May 4; on June 27, 2023, Robinhood ended support for tokens named in previous SEC lawsuits — The trading platform previously ended support for all tokens that were named in SEC lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase.
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| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead, which uses AI to let users jump to parts of a video where most viewers skip ahead, to all US Premium members using its Android app — It's currently available in the US on the YouTube Android app. — • — TL;DR — YouTube Premium members in the US … | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Visa and Allium Labs: less than 10% of the ~$2.2T stablecoin transactions in April were “organic payments activity”, which excludes bots and large-scale traders — - Less than 10% of stablecoin transactions are “organic:” Visa — PayPal, Stripe are among fintechs expanding in stablecoins
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo on adding AI tools, supporting developers on Quora's chatbot platform Poe, Quora's relationship with OpenAI, and more — Last November, Adam D'Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry.| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
The increase of stock sales in privately held companies leads to tensions within startups like Stripe; Sacra says the market could grow 40% YoY to $64B in 2024 — The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Hugging Face launches LeRobot, an open-source robotics code library, after hiring Tesla scientist Remi Cadene to lead a new open-source robotics project — Earlier this year, in March 2024, the AI developer-focused startup Hugging Face — known for maintaining the largest online repository … | Tech Transparency Project: |
A probe finds a black market for Facebook accounts that have received approval to run political ads during India's general election, raising interference fears — Facebook hosts a thriving black market for fake and stolen accounts. Some sellers are offering accounts that can run political ads in India …
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| Robert Lemos / Dark Reading: |
AT&T finishes its cybersecurity services group divestiture and forms LevelBlue, which has 1,000+ staff in 10 countries focused on managed cybersecurity services — AT&T completed its divestiture of its cybersecurity services group and formed a joint venture with more than 1,000 employees …
More: CRN, Security Boulevard, PaymentSecurity.io, SiliconANGLE, and Channel Futures
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
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