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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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| 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.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| 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 between $750M and $1B — - Humane's AI pin was billed as an alternative to smartphones — AI hardware product received poor reviews after its launch
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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/vintagecomputing, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
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| 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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| 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
| 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 …
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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
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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.
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Forums: r/singularity, r/artificial, r/technology, r/tech, and Beehaw
| 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 … | Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Farcaster, an Ethereum-based social media project, raised $150M led by Paradigm, with participation from a16z and others, and reports “350,000 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 …
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| 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.| 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| 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
| 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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| 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, Help Net Security, and VC News Daily
| 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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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
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