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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more — Build is Microsoft's largest developer conference and of course, it's all about AI this year. So it's no surprise that GitHub's Copilot …
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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
Microsoft ships Azure AI Studio in broad availability, adds support for OpenAI's GPT-4o, and announces a new multimodal model in its lightweight Phi-3 family — Azure AI will now ship with GPT-4o and Microsoft's Phi-3 family of small AI models to help developers build custom Copilot apps responsibly and safely.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in the event that China invades Taiwan, ASML and TSMC have ways to disable their sophisticated chipmaking machines; ASML reassured Dutch officials — - Firms can remotely shut off advanced EUV chip-making machines — US officials concerned over risk of conflict to chip industry
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| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “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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| Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Farcaster, a blockchain-based social media project built on Ethereum, raised $150M in a round led by Paradigm and says it has 350K paid sign-ups — Dan Romero's Farcaster made waves earlier this year with the introduction of “Frames,” a feature allowing apps to run within posts, so users don't have to click off to another site.
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| Financial Times: |
AI data labeling startup Scale AI raised $1B led by Accel at a ~$14B valuation, up from $7.3B in April 2021; a source says Scale AI had ~$700M in 2023 revenue — Alexandr Wang's company brings in $1bn in latest fundraising round as investors bet that data is the new oil| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Google plans to test search and shopping ads in its AI Overviews, drawing from advertisers' existing campaigns; AI Overviews rolled out to US users last week — Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It's a test of how the company's biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs event was compelling, the culmination of years of work, and Windows feels revitalized while its hardware is meaningfully differentiated — Full disclosure: I didn't have any plans to write this Article; I had various reasons to be in the U.S. this week … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, IBM, and 10 other companies commit to safe AI development at the AI Seoul Summit 2024, hosted by South Korea and the UK — Sixteen companies involved in AI including Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Meta (META.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O) and OpenAI …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe adds generative AI tools to Lightroom, including Firefly-powered Generative Remove to let users “paint” over unwanted objects, available in early access — Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft partners with Khan Academy, moving the Khanmigo agent, used by 65K+ students, to its Azure OpenAI Service and making it free for US K-12 teachers — Microsoft is partnering with Khan Academy in a multifaceted deal to demonstrate how AI can transform the way we learn.
More: Microsoft, ZDNet, CNBC, Khan Academy Blog, AIM, Maginative, Fast Company, Neowin, and MSPoweruser. Forums: r/singularity
| Reuters: |
EU countries vote to approve the landmark EU AI Act, agreed in December 2023, to ensure “trust, transparency, and accountability”, taking effect in June 2024 — Europe's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Anthropic researchers detail attempts to peer inside the “black box” of LLMs, learning which combinations of neurons evoke specific concepts — What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.
More: Anthropic, Gizmodo, New York Times, and TIME
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Forums: Hacker News, r/tech, and r/artificial
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple files a lawsuit at the EU's General Court to challenge a March 2024 decision to impose a €1.8B fine for thwarting competition in music streaming — - Company files suit at EU's General Court to topple penalty — Fine was sparked by long-running dispute with top music rival
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google plans to spend ~€1B to expand its data center in Finland, and will reuse heat from the data center to warm nearby homes, schools, and public buildings — Google's data centers are expanding to support its AI ambitions, and a new project in Finland shows one way the company … | Financial Times: |
AWS says it has “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia's Grace Hopper chips to the successor Grace Blackwell chips, announced in March 2024 — Delay from the world's biggest cloud computing provider gives investors jitters over potential ‘air pocket’ in demand for AI chips
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Tech Against Scams, a coalition to fight “pig butchering” ploys with better industry coordination, launches with Meta, Coinbase, Match, Kraken, others on board — Bad people who prey on those looking for love, or hoping to make a quick buck, have been around since biblical times.
More: Match Group, CoinGape, TechCrunch, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, Mashable, Engadget, and Nairametrics
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A French AI startup, simply called H and founded by ex-Google DeepMind scientists, raised $220M from Accel and others, and plans a model capable of reasoning — - Billionaires and VCs join round in company promising AGI — DeepMind alums will partner with UiPath, other investors
More: PYMNTS.com, Tech.eu, and TechCrunch
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the developer preview of Windows Volumetric Apps, giving access to an API that lets devs put Windows apps in 3D space on Meta Quest headsets — You can already beam your flat Windows desktop and its VR games onto your Meta Quest headset — but what if Windows could send HoloLens …
More: TechCrunch and TechRadar
| Wired: |
How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024 — India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves …
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| Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian: |
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