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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs with at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board — The aim is to handle more AI processing locally rather than in the cloud. — We've been hearing rumblings for months now that Microsoft was working on so-called “AI PCs.”
More: Microsoft Devices Blog, The Official Microsoft Blog, Windows on YouTube, Engadget, Dell, Ars Technica, Financial Express, The Age, TweakTown, Spyglass, Maginative, IGN, Petri IT Knowledgebase, WinBuzzer, iThinkDifferent, and Business Insider
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LinkedIn: Ovi Barceló Hernández, Mike Davidson, John Crouch, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vivek Pradeep, and Satya Nadella
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Recall for Windows 11, an AI-powered search tool for Copilot+ PCs that keeps track of users' actions and gives them an explorable timeline — Microsoft's launching Recall for Windows 11, a new tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and …
More: Ars Technica, Windows Blog, Engadget, Ghacks, Pureinfotech, Thurrott, USA Today, Axios, Decrypt, TechCrunch, How-To Geek, WinBuzzer, The Mirror, and Tom's Guide
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/OpenAI, r/technews, r/singularity, r/Windows11, r/tech, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told our columnist new efficient, powerful chips equip Windows Copilot+ laptops to compete with Apple's MacBooks
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| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Samsung, and Lenovo joined Microsoft in debuting laptops featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips and a dedicated Copilot key — They all have similar processors, but there are plenty of differences in design and functionality.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the new $1,000+ Surface Pro with optional OLED display and 5G, up to 90% faster than last gen, a Flex keyboard with haptic feedback, and more — Microsoft just announced the new Surface Pro, the latest in its lineup of tablet / laptop hybrid devices and the first in a new generation … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the 13.8" and 15" Surface Laptop with new Qualcomm chips, up to 22 hours of battery, Wi-Fi 7, support for three 4K external monitors, from $999 — Microsoft has taken the wraps off the new Surface Laptop — an Arm-based laptop for consumers.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| The Verge: |
More: The Verge, Seattle Business Journal, Neowin, Android Authority, and 9to5Google
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
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| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Scarlett Johansson says she declined an offer to voice ChatGPT and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “so eerily similar” to hers — The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
US v. Google: Google has preemptively paid damages to the US government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial in the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has preemptively paid damages to the U.S. government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial …
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| Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian: |
Meta approved 14 AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election with known slurs against Muslims; civil groups submitted and then pulled the ads as a test — Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups
More: Wired, Eko, Inc42 Media, Scroll.in, Deccan Herald, and Engadget
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
The FBI has arrested a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct — He allegedly used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative AI model, to create “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors,” prosecutors said.
More: US Department of Justice. X: @marvelle, @samleecole, @samleecole, and @samleecole
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
LG denies reports it canceled its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it's “controlling its pace” — LG denied reports from Korean news outlets claiming it canceled its partnership with Meta, but said it is “controlling its pace”.
More: The Verge, Korea Joongang Daily, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, and KED Global
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Forums: r/virtualreality, r/oculus, r/OculusQuest, and r/QuestPro
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1 and says the bug allowing some deleted photos to reappear has now been fixed — Apple today released iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1, minor updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
DOJ announces the arrest of a Taiwanese national at JFK Airport who allegedly owned Incognito Market, a dark web site used by 200K+ to buy $100M+ worth of drugs — The owner and operator of Incognito Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal narcotics online, was arrested at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on May 18.| Business Insider: |
Inside Oracle's Cerner acquisition, including issues with Cerner's EHR system, which Oracle says it wasn't aware of, and its rollout at the US Veterans Affairs — Larry Ellison bet $28 billion he could revolutionize healthcare. So why are so many patients dying? — An curved arrow pointing right.
More: The Hill. X: @mstrknowitall, @orionds, and @edithhonan. LinkedIn: Vanessa Lipton. Forums: r/cernercorporation
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors it roughly doubled revenue to about $500M last year — Military defense startup Anduril has had early discussions to raise what would be one of the largest venture capital rounds of the year so far … | Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Alphabet's moonshot X lab, as it carves out a path in which projects spin off as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation — Alphabet is ending an era of unrestrained invention, spinning off many projects into independent startups.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics names Young-Hyun Jun as the head of its semiconductor arm, replacing co-CEO Kye-Hyun Kyung, who will oversee its business planning team — - Smaller rival SK Hynix now ahead in high-bandwidth memory — Samsung is trying to regain its dominance of the industry
More: Wall Street Journal, Business Standard, Sammy Fans, and CNBC
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
NY AG announces a $2B settlement with crypto lender Genesis, after claiming Genesis misled investors about its Gemini Earn program, leading to $1B+ in losses — WATCH NOW — New York Attorney General Letitia James is settling with crypto lender Genesis for $2 billion, in an effort to repay defrauded investors.| Los Angeles Times: |
A look at challenges LA faces as it tries to remain a major tech hub; CB Insights: VC funding of startups in LA totaled $6.9B in 2023, down 73% from 2021 — High atop a Century City tower with floor-to-ceiling views of the Westside, a group of venture capitalists, other investors … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.13B est., enterprise revenue up 5.3% YoY to $665.7M, and a Q2 sales forecast in line with estimates — Revenue will be about $1.15 billion in the period ending in July, the company said Monday in a statement. Profit, excluding some items, will be about $1.21 per share.| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
European research labs led by Belgium-based imec will receive €2.5B in funding under European Chips Act to set up a pilot line to develop and test sub-2nm chips — Leading European research labs will receive 2.5 billion euros ($2.72 billion) in funding under the European Chips Act … Sponsor Posts
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