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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The UK ICO is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over the company's Recall feature, which some privacy campaigners have called a potential “privacy nightmare” — The UK data watchdog says it is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over a new feature that can take screenshots of your laptop every few seconds.
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Forums: r/privacy and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Humane is seeking a buyer for its business, after the rocky launch of its Ai Pin; a source says the startup, founded in 2018, is seeking $750M to $1B — - Humane's AI pin was billed as an alternative to smartphones — AI hardware product received poor reviews after its launch| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to make Alexa more conversational later in 2024, adding generative AI features, and will charge a fee to offset the cost of the tech — WATCH NOW — Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence and plans to charge …
More: Gizmodo, Benzinga, The Verge, Thurrott, Reuters, GeekWire, Bloomberg, PhoneArena, and Quartz
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will soon let businesses build custom Copilot AI agents for automating tasks, and unveils Team Copilot to help with tasks in Teams, Loop, and Planner — Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle is merely a reminder of AI's manifest destiny philosophy: “This is happening, whether you like it or not”, consent be damned — If you're looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley's latest gold rush, look no further than OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out its Magic Editor and other AI tools to all Android and iOS users for free via Photos, offering 10 Magic Editor library saves per month — Last month, Google Photos announced that it would be making Magic Editor and other AI-powered tools free for all Android and iOS users.
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| Glenn Rifkin / New York Times: |
Gordon Bell, who helped design several influential minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation, including the 12-bit PDP-8, died on May 17 at age 89 — It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
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| Financial Times: |
China releases an AI model trained on “Xi Jinping Thought” and other official literature, initially in research testing, a source says before a wider launch — Internet regulator uses Chinese leader's political philosophy to help answer questions posed to latest large language model
More: South China Morning Post and Benzinga
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Chinese automotive cybersecurity firm GoGoByte demonstrates a cheap and simple relay attack to unlock a Tesla Model 3 despite an ultra-wideband keyless system — Ultra-wideband radio has been heralded as the solution for “relay attacks” that are used to steal cars in seconds.| Scott Gilbertson / Wired: |
A review of privacy-focused /e/OS, a fully “deGoogled” OS based on the Android Open Source Project, that combines Micro G, to handle Google APIs, and LineageOS — Even if you aren't technically inclined, this privacy-first mobile operating system helps you escape surveillance capitalism.
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Link-in-bio startup Linktree passes 50M users, up from 41M in December 2023 and 47M+ in March 2024, and launches a beta of its social commerce product — Link-in-bio startup Linktree said on Wednesday that it has surpassed 50 million users. — The figure represents a significant uptick … | Wired: |
An investigation into online ticketing service Eventbrite found 7.4K+ illicit listings, including illegal drug sales, some of which its algorithm recommended — A WIRED investigation found thousands of Eventbrite posts selling escort services and drugs like Xanax and oxycodone …
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Forums: r/TrueReddit and Ars OpenForum
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered ad format that shows shoppers how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types — A new breed of online ad allows brands to pay Google to offer shoppers AI-generated images that show how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
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Threads: @laurengoode and @crumbler
| Reuters: |
AWS plans to invest €15.7B in data centers in Spain's Aragon region, replacing a 2021 plan to spend €2.5B; the Aragon government says the deal is over 10 years — Tech giant Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit AWS will invest 15.7 billion euros ($17.02 billion) …
More: DatacenterDynamics and Neowin
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Chinese smartphone maker Honor plans to include Google's Gemini and Imagen 2, powered by Google Cloud, in upcoming devices, one of the first companies to do so — Chinese smartphone maker Honor on Wednesday became one of the first device makers to say it will bring Google's artificial intelligence features to its upcoming devices.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL, which develops its own models, raised $300M led by Index Ventures at a $2B valuation and reports 100K+ customers — The round, led by Index Ventures, reflects businesses' increasing interest in function-specific AI models
More: TechCrunch, EU-Startups, Tech Startups, and OTPP
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snowflake's talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for more than $1B have broken down — Snowflake Inc.'s talks to acquire startup Reka AI for more than $1 billion have broken down, dashing an effort by the software company to bring more generative AI muscle in-house.
More: Tech in Asia
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pinecone and other startups use vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, to help businesses link their private data with LLMs — Vector databases were an obscure technology until Pinecone and other startups turned it into a billion-dollar market amid the AI boom| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Generative AI music startup Suno raised $125M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix, Founder Collective, and others — Suno, a trailblazing music AI startup, announced today that it has raised a staggering $125 million in its latest funding round … Sponsor Posts
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