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Sources: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella recently met to discuss Microsoft's concerns about how OpenAI's deal with Apple might affect Microsoft's product ambitions — When OpenAI's board of directors ousted Sam Altman as CEO last year, it looked like a shocking derailment of a fast-rising career.
More: 9to5Mac, Computerworld, Fortune, AppleInsider, Thurrott, The Verge, The Decoder, Spyglass, Android Authority, New York Post, iMore, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Cybernews.com, Android Headlines, BGR, Phandroid, Benzinga, and Marcus on AI
LinkedIn: Enam Hoque and Abubakar Idris
| Financial Times: |
Source: Microsoft pushed OpenAI to prioritize commercial products after the attempted coup against Sam Altman in November 2023, amplifying tensions at OpenAI — Arguments over safety and Sam Altman's leadership spill back into public domain as AI start-up hit by resignations| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains — Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …
More: Europol, Operation Endgame, Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, Troy Hunt, Metacurity, The Record, Infosecurity, TNW, Hackread, ComputerWeekly.com, PaymentSecurity.io, Eurojust, Silicon Republic, nltimes.nl, Security Affairs, Cybernews.com, Reuters, Le Monde.fr, The Hacker News, Tech Xplore, SecurityWeek, and BleepingComputer
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Lumen details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; the ISP seems to be Windstream — An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers. — One day last October …
More: Lumen and Reuters
Mastodon: @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org and @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
On X, Paul Graham says claims about YC firing Sam Altman are “not true”, and Altman left because he wanted to work full-time on OpenAI as its CEO — In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims …
More: The Economist, Forbes, and Benzinga
X: @paulg, @paulg, @1010towncrier, @paulg, @myprasanna, @krishnanrohit, @edzitron, and @esyudkowsky
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Modular laptop maker Framework unveils a $269 drop-in 120Hz display, improved $39 webcam, and swappable mainboard to add Intel Core Ultra chips to its laptops — I know, I absolutely stuffed this story's headline — but I'm just so excited to see the future of modular computing unfolding before my eyes.
More: Framework on YouTube, How-To Geek, TechSpot, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, BetaNews, Framework, Laptop Mag, and PC Guide
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are discussing crypto policy, as Trump increasingly highlights bitcoin and other digital assets as a way to reach new voters — - Trump campaign discusses having Musk speak at convention — Billionaires talk about Musk business interests, including EVs
More: The Block, Financial Times, Watcher Guru, Gizmodo, Reuters, The Guardian, The Hill, Crypto Briefing, The i Paper, and Wall Street Journal
X: @elonmusk, @autismcapital, @elonmusk, and @autismcapital
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google rolls out new features to Android, including editing sent messages in Google Messages, improvements to instant hotspot, a Google Home widget, and more — Google is releasing seven new updates and features to make Android devices and services more useful.
More: The Keyword, CNET, ZDNet, How-To Geek, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechRadar, Android Central, Droid Life, BGR, Digital Trends, and Lifewire
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Anthropic releases “tool use” for Claude, letting users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic's Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google's Vertex AI — Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant …
More: Wired, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and Maginative
X: @alexalbert__, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, and @anthropicai
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Fire TV's Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to be more conversational, but the suggestions are largely disappointing — Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job. Recommendations from friends, blog posts … | Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
The FAA approves Amazon's Prime Air program to fly drones beyond a pilot's line of sight, letting Amazon expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas — Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Air drone program has been cleared by US regulators to fly devices beyond the visual line of sight of pilots …
More: About Amazon, The Hill, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, PCMag, GeekWire, Chain Store Age, CNBC, TechEBlog, and Axios
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 pages of leaked Search documents detailing data the company collects, which may be used in its ranking algorithm — A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google filled with details about data the company collects is authentic, the company confirmed today.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
OpenAI disrupted five influence operations in the past three months that accessed its products to covertly manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes — Covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
More: Financial Times, Axios, PCMag, Silicon UK, Engadget, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, Livemint, The Verge, CTech, Quartz, Meta, Bloomberg Law, Euronews, The Record, and CyberScoop
X: @sal19 and @jason_kint
| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Filing: Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon reach a tentative settlement with the US SEC in its case alleging they misled investors before TerraUSD's collapse — Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon have reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
More: The Block, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, and Bitcoin Insider
| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Google and Magic Leap partner to build immersive experiences that blend the physical and digital worlds, but offer few details; Google is a Magic Leap investor — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap are forming a strategic technology partnership and working …
More: UploadVR, Magic Leap, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Benzinga, MSPoweruser, Quartz, Tech Startups, and Mobile World Live. LinkedIn: Yaroslav Zhovnirenko
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and others form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to promote an industry standard to connect AI accelerator server chips — Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech heavyweights are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link …
More: Phoronix, Tech Monitor, TechPowerUp, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, VentureBeat, and ServeTheHome. LinkedIn: Stephen Bates
| Hope King / Axios: |
Amazon expands its Grubhub partnership to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon's app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ a permanent Prime perk — - Any Amazon customer can search for “Grubhub” in the product search bar of Amazon's app to order, track and manage their food, like they would through the Grubhub app.
More: About Amazon, About Amazon, PYMNTS.com, How-To Geek, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, The Hill, Chain Store Age, Lifewire, Quartz, Tom's Guide, The Verge, GeekWire, Engadget, Reuters, CNBC, Nation's Restaurant News, Just Eat Takeaway.com newsroom, Android Authority, USA Today, and Cord Cutters News. X: @justeattakeaway
| Elizabeth Napolitano / The Block: |
Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries — - Mastercard is launching a peer-to-peer network for sending and receiving digital assets across borders.| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Babylon, which builds infrastructure to let proof-of-stake systems obtain staking capital from bitcoin, raised $70M led by Paradigm, after raising $18M in 2023 — - The Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raised $70 million in fresh financing led by Paradigm.
More: PRWeb, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Bloomberg, CoinGape, NFTgators, and The Crypto Times
X: @arjunblj and @babylon_chain
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech — - The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …
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| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images — The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.
More: 404 Media, The Guardian, Washington Post, Vox, Garbage Day, Al Jazeera, Jasarat, Daily Mail, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, Firstpost, TIME, and Mashable
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Verizon and satellite provider AST SpaceMobile partner to provide space-based broadband direct to phones; Verizon committed $65M in prepayments and $35m in debt — Satellite-to-phones service provider AST SpaceMobile stock surged after announcing a partnership with Verizon on Wednesday … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Salesforce paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management tool Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff had raised $110M — Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid.
More: CNBC, CNBC, and Constellation Research
| Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
A US federal court awards Activision $14.46M+ in its 2022 civil lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of violating the DMCA by selling Call of Duty cheating software — Owned. — A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.
More: VentureBeat, Destructoid, GamesRadar, The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, PC Games Insider, PC-Tablet India, Bloomberg Law, Insider Gaming, EngineOwning, Game Developer, PC Gamer, United States District Court for the Central District of California, GamesIndustry.biz, Destructoid, and Windows Central
X: @codupdates, @charlieintel, @engineowningto, @modernwarzone, @ggs_ai, @charlieintel, @modernwarzone, and @charlieintel. Forums: r/CODWarzone
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its Limits tool for teens to let them restrict unwanted interactions and limit comments, messages, story replies, and more to Close Friends — In a bid to combat harassment on its platform, Instagram said on Thursday it is expanding the scope of its “Limits” …
More: Engadget, Benzinga, The Verge, Phandroid, GSMArena.com, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, and NewsBytes
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Firefly, which provides cloud asset management with an infrastructure-as-code solution, raised a $23M Series A led by Vertex — A startup called Firefly that's tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding.Sponsor Posts
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