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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming  —  Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July.  The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google adds support for 110 new languages in Translate, up from 133 languages, in its largest expansion ever, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model  —  Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether  —  - Coinbase, which retained consultant firm History Associates Inc. to file the FOIA requests, took aim at the SEC and FDIC …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces faster Google Sheets calculations in Chrome and Edge browsers on desktop, doubling speeds for running formulas, creating pivot tables, and more  —  Google is touting significant speed improvements when performing calculations in Sheets on desktop Chrome and Edge.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Progress Software discloses a critical vulnerability in MOVEit's SFTP module; hackers exploited a similar flaw in MOVEit in 2023 to breach almost 1,800 networks  —  A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached.  Will the latest one be as potent?  —  A critical vulnerability …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Orby AI, which is building generative AI agents to automate business workflows, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a post-money valuation of $100M+  —  AI “agents” are generative AI models that can perform actions autonomously, like copying info from an email and pasting it into a spreadsheet …
More: SiliconANGLE
Ina Fried / Axios:
Google Cloud announces deals, including with Moody's, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo, to “ground” responses from its enterprise AI chatbots in real-world facts  —  - Now, Google is offering an additional option: using third-party data to help ground AI results.
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta's Oversight Board issued 53 decisions in 2023 and says Meta has fully or partially implemented 75 out of 266 recommendations from January 2021 to May 2024  —  The board says it wants to weigh in on “demoted content” on Facebook and Instagram.  —  The Oversight Board has published …
The Information:
As tech companies grapple with the limited availability of Nvidia chips globally, Chinese companies like Alibaba face a tougher situation due to US restrictions  —  U.S. rules curbing the export of artificial intelligence chips to China are beginning to squeeze the country's AI industry.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Character.AI now lets users talk to AI characters over calls in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, says 3M users made 20M+ calls during testing  —  a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls.
More: Reuters
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
Arkham: a wallet tagged to the US government moved ~3,940 BTC, worth ~$240M and originally seized from a Silk Road narcotics vendor, to a Coinbase Prime address  —  About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national, who remains at large, for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate malware attack on Ukrainian systems in January 2022  —  A federal grand jury indicted Russian national Amin Stigal this week on allegations that he conspired with the Russian military …
Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE:
Netherlands-based Innatera Nanosystems, which unveiled an energy-efficient AI chip for sensor-edge applications in January, raised a $21M Series A  —  Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round …
More: FinSMEs
Bloomberg:
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US  —  - Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers  — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
KarmaCheck, which uses AI to do background checks and was founded by LinkedIn's Eric Ly in 2019, raised a $45M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$60M  —  Background checks, credentialing and compliance software company KarmaCheck Inc. today announced that it has raised $45 million …
More: Reuters
Joanna Chiu / Rest of World:
Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors, like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation  —  New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft's willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.
More: WinBuzzer

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The Guardian:
Report: CBS News is planning to hire prominent British Sky News broadcaster Trevor Phillips as a global correspondent; it's unclear what his remit would be

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney study: the Toy Story franchise has driven $16B in total revenue for the company over 30 years; nearly half of the revenue was generated domestically

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Figma debuts a major UI redesign, new generative AI tools, and a built-in slideshow feature, which is free while in beta but will become paid at official launch
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Crypto investment app Abra and CEO William Barhydt settle with 25 US states for operating without proper licenses and plan to return up to $82.1M to US clients
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty
More: Politico.  X: @waterslicer, @kedkorte, @andyorin, and @knibbs.  LinkedIn: Kate Knibbs.  Forums: r/technews
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 82% YoY to $6.81B, vs. $6.67B est., a $332M net income, and forecasts Q4 revenue in line with est.; MU drops 6%+
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
Amazon reaches a $2T market valuation for the first time; its shares have whipsawed since the company's Q1 2024 earnings and have gained 29% so far in 2024
Zak Butler / The Keyword:
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinformation campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans social networks to target geopolitical rivals
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