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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google adds 110 new languages to Translate, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model, taking the total languages to 243, in its largest expansion ever — Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI details CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4 to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers in assessing and spotting errors — Having humans rate a language model's outputs produced clever chatbots. OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Google says Gemma 2 will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI from July as a new 9B-parameter model and the prior 27B-parameter model — Google says Gemma 2, its open lightweight model series, will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI starting next month.
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| Wired: |
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so — AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites … | 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 …
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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 — The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming so subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can stream a variety of games directly to Fire TV devices.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available with 7B and 13B parameters — Meta has unveiled the Meta Large Language Model (LLM) Compiler, a suite of robust, open-source models designed to optimize code and revolutionize compiler design.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says there will not be “just one AI”, disparages closed-source AI competitors as trying to “create God”, and more — Riffing on what he sees for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Amazon folds its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into One Medical, with more affordable per-visit pricing: $49 for a video call or $29 to text a doctor — Amazon is folding its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into its primary care business One Medical, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Clay, which develops AI tools focused on sales and marketing for businesses, raised $46M led by Meritech at a $500M valuation, taking its total funding to $66M — Company was valued at $500 million in its latest funding round. — An artificial intelligence startup focused on sales …
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| 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.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI lets users talk to AI characters over calls in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, and 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.| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Nokia agrees to acquire Infinera, which provides networking hardware and software to mobile phone operators and others, for $2.3B in a cash-and-stock deal — - Cash-and-stock transaction values Infinera at 37% premium — Acquisition is largest for Nokia since Alcatel-Lucent in 2016
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| Chris Lisinski / State House News Service: |
Uber and Lyft agree to pay drivers in Massachusetts a minimum wage and give them some benefits, and pay a combined $175M to the state to settle a 2020 lawsuit — State prosecutors agreed to a settlement with Uber and Lyft that will require the companies to pay Massachusetts $175 million …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Naver-owned Webtoon shares closed up 9.5% at $23 in the online comics company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of ~$2.9B, after an IPO that raised $315M — - Online comics company's first-time share sale priced at top — Firm sees growth beyond Korea coming from Japan, France
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| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
MegaLabs, the developer behind the Ethereum scaling protocol MegaETH that it claims is a “real-time blockchain”, raised $20M in seed funding led by Dragonfly — The fresh round of capital will go towards building out the MegaETH protocol, with the aim of having a testnet go live in the next few months.
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Axelera, which is building AI processing units to run computer vision inference workloads on the edge, raised a $68M Series B, taking its total funding to $120M — Nvidia leads the age of AI hardware. The company's high-performance GPUs are being used by some of the biggest technology companies …
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| 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.| 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 …
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