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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks — OpenAI announced a new flagship generative AI model on Monday which they call GPT-4o — the “o” stands for “omni,” …
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LinkedIn: Dr. Nicole Wieberneit, Tom Hewitson, Ben Saunders, LinkedIn, Adrián González Sánchez, Jenny O'Leary, Lin Yang, Shyamal Hitesh Anadkat, Peter Deng, Adam Goldberg, and Krithika M.. Forums: Hacker News
| OpenAI on YouTube: |
A recording of OpenAI's Spring Update event, where it announced GPT-4o and a new ChatGPT app for macOS — We'll be streaming live at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.
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Threads: @crumbler and @mergesort
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/aiwars, r/artificial, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
GPT-4o's text and image capabilities are rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Team users; GPT-4o's voice version is coming soon; mysterious gpt2-chatbot was GPT-4o — - She said the new GPT-4o — that's a letter “o”, for “Omni” — is a “huge step forward when it comes to the ease of use” as well as speed.
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X: @bentossell, @alphasignalai, @binarybits, and @javi
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Meta announces Travel Mode, in beta, for the Quest 2 and Quest 3 under “Experimental features”, as a way to optimize the headset for use on moving vehicles — Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 headsets are picking up a useful new Travel Mode which makes the VR experience easier to use in moving vehicles including on an airplane.
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Threads: @daveleebbg. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg. X: @boztank, @lufthansa, @lufthansanews, @nathievr, @carnage4life, and @casandchary. Forums: Hacker News
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns of undermining Teams competitors, despite the company offering concessions — Tech group's effort to avoid action by unbundling videoconferencing app from its other software appears to have failed
More: 9to5Mac, BetaNews, TechRadar, New York Post, Benzinga, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, Computerworld, and Fortune
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Squarespace says private equity firm Permira plans to take the company private in a ~$6.9B all-cash deal, or $44 per share, a 15.2% premium on Friday's close — Private equity firm Permira will take Squarespace (SQSP.N) private in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.9 billion …
More: Bloomberg, Squarespace, TechCrunch, CNBC, The Information, FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, Benzinga, Tech Startups, Proactive, Quartz, and Mashable. LinkedIn: Dylan Jones
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Many US farmers had to halt their planting operations after a solar storm broke critical GPS and precision farming functionality in tractors and other equipment — The solar storm that brought the aurora borealis to large parts of the United States this weekend also broke critical GPS …
More: Engadget, New York Times, The Register, Silicon Republic, and The Overspill
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Forums: Hacker News, r/interstellar, r/PrepperIntel, and r/technology
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google partners with HP to ship 3D video conferencing service Project Starline in 2025 and is working to support Zoom and Meet; Google unveiled Starline in 2021 — In 2021, Google kicked off work on Project Starline, a corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging …
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Bluesky: @coachfinstock.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Marianna Wickman, Aaron Rich, Maziyar Khorasani, and Todd Prives
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Top500: the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, not yet fully operational, came second behind the AMD-powered Frontier, but did take first in an AI benchmark — Aurora faces stability issues from hardware failures, cooling malfunctions, and operational errors.
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| Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics: |
| Washington Post: |
Google's rollout of AI generated summaries in search will threaten web publishers; Gartner predicts traffic to the web from search engines will fall 25% by 2026 — The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites, threatening millions of creators| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform detection of unwanted tracking devices, EU app downloads from websites, Apple News+ features like offline mode, more — Apple today released iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, major updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September.
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X: @r00tkitsmm and @zollotech
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
The EU designates Booking as a DMA gatekeeper, saying “holidaymakers will start benefiting from more choice and hotels will have more business opportunities” — - Travel site is designated as a ‘gatekeeper’ under EU's DMA — X avoids rules for now as officials open probe into its status
More: Le Monde.fr, European Commission, Reuters, Tech Xplore, and Euractiv
Bluesky: @hern.bsky.social. X: @kayjebelli, @eu_competition, @eu_commission, @adamkovac, @lewis_crofts, and @mseltzermayr
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employees on Outlook and Teams better coordinate in-office time, with Copilot integration coming this year — Microsoft is attempting to solve the hassle of coordinating with colleagues on when everyone will be in the office.
More: PCWorld, Source, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Lifewire, and MSPoweruser
Mastodon: @TheDailyBurble@mastodon …. Bluesky: @iamvishnurajan.bsky.social and @strngwys.bsky.social
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon 2 11B, an open-source LLM to compete with Llama and Gemini that supports five European languages — - Model shows UAE is a “serious player” in AI, official says — Abu Dhabi plans to commercialize Falcon with new unit AI71
More: tii.ae, PYMNTS.com, The National, News.ng, Maginative, and Reuters
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel is in advanced, exclusive talks for a deal in which Apollo Global Management would supply $11B+ to help the chip giant build a plant in Ireland — The investment firm is in exclusive talks to supply the chip giant with cash for a new plant.| Financial Times: |
How GPS warfare is causing issues for civilians; an analysis finds almost 40M people lived in areas with unreliable GPS for at least half of the past six months — Military activity blamed for surge in jamming and spoofing incidents affecting smartphones, planes and ships
More: The Quantum Insider and TNW
X: @_nickrogers_ and @snellarthur
LinkedIn: Jeremy Bennington, Benoit Figuet, and Katherine Dunn
| Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Amazon's Zoox after two of its automated Toyota SUVs braked unexpectedly, resulting in motorcyclists rear-ending them — - Bikers rear-ended Zoox SUVs that suddenly, unexpectedly braked — US agency estimates 500 vehicles are subject to investigation
More: The Verge, The Register, Associated Press, Reuters, NBC News, CNBC, Self Drive News, PCMag, Quartz, and The Information
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
As crypto flows into Tornado Cash despite sanctions, a look at the trial against its co-founder, who says he cannot prevent abuse of a system beyond his control — Tuesday's verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string …
More: Infosec Exchange, Infosec Exchange, CCN.com, and Infosec Exchange
| Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
Brad Smith says Microsoft plans to invest €4B in France, mostly focused on the AI sector, and the company would set up a data center in the city of Mulhouse — Technology and software giant Microsoft (MSFT.O) will invest 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) in France as part …
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