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Sources: TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its US users that may result in a version that operates independently of ByteDance — TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users that may result in a version …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Social Media Today, Cybernews.com, The Texas Tribune, Digital Music News, New York Post, Axios, and Washington Post
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Dan Fitzpatrick / Forbes: |
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Edu, an “affordable” version for universities, including GPT-4o access, custom GPT creation, and higher message limits than the free tier — OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Edu. This will be a specialized version of its AI platform designed specifically for universities.
More: OpenAI, Futurism, The Verge, Engadget, Maginative, Decrypt, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, HotHardware, Gizmochina, and How-To Geek
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to overhaul Siri with more advanced AI, a move that will allow Siri to take command of all the features within apps for the first time — - The feature will be at the heart of renewed Apple push into AI — Idea is to operate features within individual apps using voice
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Jerusalem Post, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, PhoneArena, Supercharged, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iClarified, Macworld, Android Headlines, Android Authority, Mashable, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, iDrop News, The Verge, and Spyglass
Threads: @vthallam, @rsgnl, and @nick_statt. Mastodon: @iryantldr@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @janinegibson.bsky.social
X: @handleym99, @billwasik, @markgurman, @stephenrobles, @mattcassinelli, @appltrack, @jslxmd, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: OpenAI, New York Times, Business Today, NPR, The Register, Bloomberg, Engadget, The Guardian, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, The Record, Tech Xplore, TIME, Axios, and Financial Times
X: @krishnanrohit, @miles_brundage, @benimmo, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Jennie Baird and Katrina Mulligan
Forums: r/technology, r/anime_titties, and r/ActiveMeasures
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify has initiated a refund process for its discontinued Car Thing dashboard device, as consumers file a lawsuit claiming Spotify misled them — Spotify is facing continued backlash over its decision to discontinue support for Car Thing, its in-car streaming device … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google explains AI Overviews' viral mistakes and updates its systems, including better detection of nonsensical queries and limiting satire and humor content — Google this afternoon published a long response about AI Overviews and their accuracy. The Search feature launched at I/O 2024 …
More: The Keyword, Android Authority, Engadget, Washington Post, The Verge, Search Engine Land, and BetaNews
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Dell reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to $22.24B, vs. 21.64B est., and expects its adjusted gross margin rate to decline in FY 2025; DELL drops 18%+ after hours — Dell Technologies (DELL.N) said on Thursday it expects its adjusted gross margin rate to decline about 150 basis points in fiscal 2025 … | 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.| 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: Operation Endgame, Europol, Eurojust, Troy Hunt, Federal Bureau …, BleepingComputer, CSO, The Guardian, The Register, ComputerWeekly.com, Hackread, National Crime Agency, Dark Reading, Ars Technica, CyberScoop, Proofpoint, Infosecurity, TNW, nltimes.nl, Tech Xplore, Reuters, and BleepingComputer
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X: @vxunderground, @europol, @fbi, @jplecouffe, @eurojust, @jeremy_kirk, @jeremy_kirk, @ericgeller, @cyb3rmonk, @vxunderground, @haveibeenpwned, @troyhunt, @nca_uk, @vxunderground, @threatinsight, @spamhaus, @bitdefender, @ec3europol, @profwoodward, @aejleslie, and @rgb_lights. LinkedIn: Devon Ackerman. Forums: r/news
| 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, Reuters, The Register, BleepingComputer, and CircleID
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta begins rolling out TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads globally, following a test that started earlier this month — Threads is widely rolling out a desktop site redesign that lets you customize your homepage with a series of feeds, similar to TweetDeck.
More: Engadget, PhoneArena, Social Media Today, and 9to5Mac
| 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, Marcus on AI, The Information, and Forbes
| 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: Magic Leap, UploadVR, Android Police, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Politico, The Daily Upside, Road to VR, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Android Central, Patently Apple, Refresh Miami, Benzinga, MSPoweruser, Tech Startups, and Quartz
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X: @magicleap, @javierdavalos, @cagovernor, @rabovitz, @nimazeighami, @scobleizer, @krewell, @greengart, and @julie_lgreen
LinkedIn: Yaroslav Zhovnirenko, Julie Larson-Green, and Silas Warren
| Forbes: |
OpenAI is hiring research engineers to rebuild its robotics team; sources: the company plans to develop tech that robot makers will integrate into their systems — After disbanding its efforts to build a general purpose robot in 2020, the AI juggernaut is embarking on a new attempt …
More: The Information. X: @kenrickcai, @alessandro87742, @sarahnemerson, and @alexrkonrad. Forums: r/singularity
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Sources and docs: Twitch will end the contracts of its current Safety Advisory Council members; the new council will be mostly composed of Twitch Ambassadors — Twitch on Friday will terminate all members of its Safety Advisory Council, according to sources familiar with the situation and documents viewed by CNBC.| 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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Valar Labs, which has developed AI models to help predict bladder cancer treatment outcomes, raised a $22M Series A led by DCVC and a16z — Putting AI to work in the healthcare industry is a tricky business; it's even more so in oncology, where the stakes are especially high.| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Government data: South Korea's chip inventories fell 33.7% YoY in April, largest drop since 2014, underscoring the pace at which demand is outstripping supply — - Demand for memory chips increases in line with AI development — Samsung, SK Hynix vie to become main supplier to Nvidia
X: @samkimasia and @samkimasia
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $450.6M, vs. $439.91M est., and cuts its Q2 and FY 2025 outlook on slower Atlas demand; MDB drops 25%+ after hours — MongoDB cut its second quarter and fiscal 2025 outlook as the company said it saw slower than expected demand for Atlas consumption and new workloads.
More: SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, MongoDB, Inc., CNBC, Dow Jones Newswires, Seeking Alpha, XM, Benzinga, and Investor's Business Daily
X: @tanayj and @thetranscript_
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: X and news network NewsNation plan separate live town halls with Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; the Biden campaign has not agreed to take part — - The Biden campaign has not agreed to take part. — A spokesperson for the Biden campaign declined to comment.| 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 is the latest company to gain approval from the FAA — Company will integrate drones into same-day delivery network
More: About Amazon, The Hill, Engadget, Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Chain Store Age, The Register, Forbes, GovTech, Seattle Business Journal, Business Insider, TechEBlog, CNBC, The Verge, PCMag, TechCrunch, and GeekWire. LinkedIn: Lutz Gerhard
| 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 … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Sweden-based Doconomy, which helps bank customers measure the carbon footprint of everyday spending, raised a €34M Series B co-led by UBS and CommerzVentures — Swedish climate-focused financial technology startup Doconomy told CNBC on Thursday that it's raised 34 million euros … | 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, Anthropic, Bloomberg, Inc.com, Maginative, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and New.blicio.us
X: @minimaxir, @anthropicai, @alexalbert__, @anthropicai, and @anthropicai
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