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A live stream of the Google I/O 2024 keynote — It's time to I/O! Tune in to learn the latest news, announcements, and AI updates from Google. To watch this keynote with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ 6rP2rEWs …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year — AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions … | The Verge: |
A live blog of Google I/O, where Android 15 updates, new generative AI features for its apps and search, and more are expected — Welcome to Google I/O 2024. Google is kicking off its annual developers conference in Mountain View, California, today at 10AM PT / 1PM ET — and, as usual …
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, replaced by Matt Garman, effective June 3; Selipsky joined AWS in 2005 and became CEO in 2021 — Matt Garman, the SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price” — Get ready for the next cable-like streaming bundle: Comcast later this month will launch a three-way bundle …
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| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment announces two new CEOs: Hermen Hulst, who will lead studios, and Hideaki Nishino, who will lead platforms, effective June 1 — Hulst will lead the Studios business, while Nishino takes charge of the platform side — News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
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Forums: r/LastStandMedia, r/PS5, r/Games, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, and r/PS4
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$22.4B, above ~$18.5B est., operating profit up 57% YoY to ~$1.5B, and 20.8M PS5 units sold in FY 2023, below guidance — Sony on Tuesday reported a 7% drop in annual profits in the fiscal year 2023, dragged down by a decline in its financial services division.
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
A look at OpenAI's GPT-4o and the decision to let all users access the model, helping to democratize AI and make it more present and connected to human systems — A new model opens up new possibilities — Today, OpenAI released a new AI model, GPT-4o, with some interesting capabilities.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The US plans to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China, including chips, EVs, and batteries, impacting $18B of products; chip tariffs will double from 2025 — Action designed to protect American jobs, as Joe Biden campaigns for votes across rustbelt — The Biden administration …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to shut down its enterprise tool Workplace in September 2025, making it read-only until May 2026; Workplace had 7M+ paid subscribers in May 2021 — Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network's parent company Meta …
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| Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months for money laundering; Pertsev was first jailed in August 2022 — Alexey Pertsev was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022. — Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in jail for money laundering
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Square Enix's stock falls 16%, its biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its AAA games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short — - Big titles released on PlayStation fell short, president says — Games development overhaul seen taking time to bear fruit
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not share any plans to ship such a build — Google privately demoed this capability to other companies recently. — • — TL;DR — Google has developed a method to run Chrome OS on its Pixel devices.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: gorgeous screen, thin, the M4 is fast, and the front camera is in the right spot on the side, but iPadOS lags behind the hardware — Apple's latest high-end tablet is a marvel of hardware design still in need of the software and accessories to really make it sing.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Dell appears to have suffered another data breach where ~30K customer service records were scraped, following its recent breach that affected 49M customers — The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Bloomberg: |
Polymarket, a decentralized prediction and betting market with a focus on elections, has raised $70M across two rounds, the most recent led by Founders Fund — - Founders fund, Buterin Back $70 Million Polymarket fundraising — Polymarket has become a major platform for election bettors
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| Washington Post: |
How a new generation of tech founders and VCs are quietly pilgrimaging to the Gulf states' sovereign wealth funds, after some shunned Middle Eastern funding — The Biden administration has brokered the tech industry's ties to the region as a bulwark against China, helping spur a generation … | Reuters: |
The US orders China-linked crypto mining company MineOne to sell its property near an Air Force base in Wyoming within 120 days, citing national security risks — The White House on Monday gave a Chinese-linked company and its partners 120 days to sell property they had bought near …
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Source: xAI has been talking to Oracle about a multi-year $10B deal to rent cloud servers, which would make xAI one of Oracle's largest customers — Elon Musk's 1-year-old artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has been talking to Oracle executives about spending $10 billion to rent cloud servers … Sponsor Posts
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