|
May 22, 2024, 2:50 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will soon let businesses build custom Copilot AI agents to automate 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.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Microsoft, Microsoft 365 Blog, Bloomberg, Microsoft Developer on YouTube, Benzinga, Computerworld, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, WinBuzzer, Mashable, Mashable, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Thurrott, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, SiliconANGLE, and Engadget
X: @eighttwo_three, @benbajarin, @lexisnexis, @msdev, @satyanadella, @benbajarin, @mattmday, and @jezcorden
Forums: r/singularity and r/technews
| 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: Windows Blog, MIXED Reality News, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and UploadVR
X: @carnage4life, @nathievr, @joelmartinez, @da_real_hugo, @drbarnard, @kylebrussell, @sadlyitsbradley, @jcorvinusvr, @cade_xr, and @firt. LinkedIn: Peter Smulovics
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
More: Microsoft, GeekWire, Khan Academy Blog, CNBC, AIM, Microsoft Education Blog, ZDNet, Maginative, Neowin, Fast Company, and Thurrott. Forums: r/singularity
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More: The GitHub Blog, InfoWorld, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, and VentureBeat
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @rakyll, @monkchips, @mariorod1, @mariorod1, @monkchips, @emollick, @rakyll, @nyike, and @ashtom
LinkedIn: Michael Hanley and Thomas Dohmke
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: PCWorld, TechSpot, TechEBlog, Android Headlines, Business Today, WinBuzzer, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Neowin, Digital Trends, Thurrott, NewsBytes, and Engadget. X: @markhachman
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Humane is seeking a buyer for its business, after the rocky launch of its AI pin; a source says the startup is seeking a price of between $750M and $1B — - Humane's AI pin was billed as an alternative to smartphones — AI hardware product received poor reviews after its launch
More: The Verge, Android Authority, Engadget, Neowin, 9to5Google, and NewsBytes
| 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.
More: Ars Technica and Gizmodo
X: @rozzie, @satyanadella, @scobleizer, @satyanadella, @trengriffin, @stevesi, @ckindel, @theofficialacm, @kevedwardsretro, @trengriffin, @sriramk, @seamusblackley, and @harrymccracken
Forums: Hacker News, r/vintagecomputing, and Ars OpenForum
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the general availability of its Phi-3 models, including Phi-3-Silica, a 3.3B parameter model that will be embedded on all Copilot+ PCs — Microsoft is making more investments in the development of small language models. At its Build developer conference …
More: TechPowerUp, Maginative, and MSPoweruser
X: @reach_vb, @altryne, @nvidiaaidev, @simonw, @intelnews, @_philschmid, @kseniase_, @simonw, @iscienceluvr, @bindureddy, @4evabehindsota, @altryne, and @_xjdr. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
More: Business Standard, Thurrott, Microsoft Azure Blog, The Verge, The Official Microsoft Blog, TechCrunch, Inc42 Media, Microsoft Azure Blog, Microsoft Azure Blog, WinBuzzer, Mashable, The Register, Tom's Guide, Maginative, Neowin, MSPoweruser, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
X: @abacaj, @munster_gene, @nitya, @benbajarin, and @jphme
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
More: Windows on YouTube, The Official Microsoft Blog, Born's Tech and Windows World, GfxSpeak, PYMNTS.com, iMore, KitGuru, Engadget, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, The Verge, PCWorld, and The Verge
Threads: @tomwarrenuk, @crumbler, @technicallymims, @technicallymims, @broximar, and @shiraovide. Mastodon: @xgranade@wandering.shop
X: @richontech, @ryanshrout, @jordannovet, @stevesi, @geoffblaber, @sdw, @satyanadella, @mattmday, @benbajarin, @benbajarin, @varunkrish, @patrickmoorhead, @patrickmoorhead, @anshelsag, @patrickmoorhead, @maryjofoley, @richontech, @mreflow, @richontech, @parkerortolani, @parkerortolani, @gartenberg, @benbajarin, @maryjofoley, @maryjofoley, @benbajarin, and @scobleizer
LinkedIn: Mike Davidson, John Crouch, and Vivek Pradeep
| 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.
More: Cybernews.com, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, PC Gamer, SC Media, XDA Developers, Decrypt, Quartz, and PCWorld
Bluesky: @molly.wiki and @molly.wiki
X: @garymarcus, @gossithedog, @saschasegan, @emilyayoung1, @evacide, @joannastern, @molly0xfff, and @esrtweet
Forums: r/technology and r/privacy
| 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 — The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI's raw deal: It's happening, and you can't stop it.
More: NPR, Platformer, Business Today, Slate, 9to5Google, Forbes, Business Insider, CNN, Tuko.co.ke, GeekWire, Vanity Fair, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Android Police, Benzinga, CNET, The Information, Digital Music News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Startups, PYMNTS.com, DataBreachToday.com, and NBC News
| 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.
More: The Keyword, Mobile Dev Memo, Android Central, Ghacks, The News International, PhoneArena, WinBuzzer, Adweek, The Indian Express, Android Authority, Inc.com, The Verge, threadling, Digiday, Search Engine Land, CNBC, and iTnews
Threads: @laurengoode and @crumbler
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
| 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, New York Times, Transformer Circuits Thread, TIME, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo
Threads: @kevinroose. X: @anthropicai, @garymarcus, @jpohhhh, @swyx, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @alexalbert__, @aimattant, @anthropicai, @arithmoquine, and @andy_l_jones
Forums: r/artificial, r/technology, r/tech, and Beehaw
| 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.
More: Dan Romero, Unchained, TechCrunch, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, SiliconANGLE, Cryptopolitan, New.blicio.us, The Information, NFTgators, The Block, and Blockworks
X: @dwr, @dabit3, @rachaelrad, and @scottbelsky
| 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 … | Christopher Barnard / New York Times: |
A look at Paperless Post, a New York-based software company for sending online invitations and events that launched in 2009 and has sent ~650M invitations — James Hirschfeld and his sister, Alexa Hirschfeld, at the Paperless Post office in Manhattan's Financial District.Jonah Rosenberg for The New York Times| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' use of custom generative AI models and applies safeguards, raised a $27.5M Series A co-led by GV and Ballistic Ventures — Generative AI makes stuff up. It can be biased. Sometimes it spits out toxic text. So can it be “safe”?
More: Ballistic Ventures, WitnessAI, Dark Reading, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and Help Net Security
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Toulouse-based OneStock, which provides a cloud-native order management system to retailers, raised $72M from Summit Partners for its continued global expansion — OneStock provides a centralised platform to manage retail end-to-end order fulfilment and visibility,
More: OneStock, Wall Street Journal, Retail Insight Network, PYMNTS.com, and Silicon Canals. X: @summitpartners
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
AWS says the transition from Nvidia's Grace Hopper to Blackwell chips applies only to Project Ceiba, a supercomputer that AWS and Nvidia are building together — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) cloud services unit said on Tuesday that it has not halted any orders of Nvidia's (NVDA.O) … | Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
London-based LabGenius, which uses ML to find and design antibody therapies to treat cancer, raised a £35M Series B led by Merck's VC arm, M Ventures — It's robotic platform is using machine learning to create new molecules to tackle cancer — UK drug discovery startup LabGenius …
More: LabGenius, LabGenius, EU-Startups, Silicon Canals, UKTN, and Tech Funding News
X: @atomico and @labgeni_us
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Transform ML Experimentation with Tangle — Save months of compute time with Tangle, built by Shopify. Try this open-source platform to simplify ML workflows, ensure reproducibility, and seamlessly share with collaborators.
Transform ML Experimentation with Tangle — Save months of compute time with Tangle, built by Shopify. Try this open-source platform to simplify ML workflows, ensure reproducibility, and seamlessly share with collaborators.
Zoho:
Top shortcuts to work your way through Zoho Cliq — The debate between mouse and keyboard users has been around for years. Whether it's about efficiency, speed, or productivity, there's always this question …
Top shortcuts to work your way through Zoho Cliq — The debate between mouse and keyboard users has been around for years. Whether it's about efficiency, speed, or productivity, there's always this question …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Square's product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
The Social Radars:
Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Grit:
The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:50 AM ET, May 22, 2024.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
More: Entrackr, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Reuters, Moneycontrol, and Paytm IR
X: @samidhas, @samidhas, @sankalp_sp, and @pranavmukul
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
More: Match Group, PYMNTS.com, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, Mashable, and TechCrunch
Earlier Picks
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: Adobe Press Releases, Wired, Android Authority, Android Headlines, CNET, iThinkDifferent, m.dpreview.com, TechRadar, Thurrott, The Decoder, AndroidGuys, and Droid Life. LinkedIn: Jen Giese
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
More: ITPro Today and mjtsai.com
X: @neilcybart, @ryanshrout, @dsccross, @ryanshrout, @benthompson, and @stratechery. Forums: Hacker News
| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
More: GOV.UK, GOV.UK, The Register, CNBC, Ars Technica, U.S. Department of Commerce, OpenAI, Wired, Courthouse News Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs …, Aju Press, Cybernews.com, CIO Dive, TechCrunch, The Korea Times, GOV.UK, CNET, Associated Press, iPhone in Canada Blog, Proactive, PYMNTS.com, Semafor, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, The Guardian, Associated Press, Silicon Republic, Yonhap News Agency, South China Morning Post, and Associated Press
Threads: @nickclegg. X: @mofajapan_en, @halcyene, @manderljung, @g42ai, @jonasschuett, @nistdirector, @soundboy, @lawrencewongst, @openai, @michelledonelan, @mikenelson, @lxrjl, @potus, @michelledonelan, @bmgarfinkel, @verajourova, @president_kr, @lxrjl, @commercegov, @michelledonelan, @scitechgovuk, @sneharevanur, @bradsmi, @vp, @germanyinkorea, @secraimondo, @connoraxiotes, and @soundboy
LinkedIn: Dean Armstrong KC, Christina Montgomery, and Gareth Stokes
| Financial Times: |
More: Scale AI, Fortune, TechCrunch, PitchBook, The Information, The Register, IT Brew, The Crypto Times, Crunchbase News, and Bloomberg
X: @ycombinator and @alexandr_wang
LinkedIn: Luv Kothari, Lucas Bunzel, Patrick Circelli, Annie Hu, and Sandy L.
| Bloomberg: |
More: MarketWatch, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Wccftech, PhoneArena, TechRadar, PC Gamer, WinBuzzer, and ExtremeTech
Forums: r/neoliberal and r/worldnews
| Reuters: |
More: Council of the EU, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, and The Verge
X: @thierrybreton, @vestager, @mmitchell_ai, @eesc_president, @katebevan, @mmitchell_ai, @euambus, @eurightsagency, @frimelle, and @eucouncil. LinkedIn: Catherine Hammon
Forums: r/technology, r/singularity, r/worldnews, and r/europe