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| 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.
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LinkedIn: Abdoulaye Diack and Bonaventure F. P. Dossou
Forums: r/HongKong and r/Cantonese
| 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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| 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.
More: The Keyword, Google DeepMind, Google Developers Blog, Developer Tech News, MarkTechPost, Analytics India Magazine, and The Decoder
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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 ahead for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram in the US; Mark Zuckerberg says the chatbots, made using Meta AI studio, will be clearly labeled as AI — Mark Zuckerberg said today that in an early test in the U.S., Meta is surfacing AI characters made by creators through Meta AI studio on Instagram.
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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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| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Will Hummel and Brady Woods
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
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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.| 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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| 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.
More: VentureBeat
| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
An interview with Netflix's VP of external games, Leanne Loombe, on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more — I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited. “Ooo, what about? Which show?”
More: Mobilegamer.biz, Variety, and Game Developer
| 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.| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
A look at the pro-crypto Fairshake super PAC, which raised $169M from Coinbase, Ripple, a16z, and more, and has backed 20+ US congressional primary wins in 2024 — Coinbase, Ripple and a16z donated unprecedented money to influence the outcomes of congressional races, but nobody wants to say who's in charge …
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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 …
More: FinSMEs, eeNews Europe, SiliconANGLE, Axelera AI, TechCrunch, and Silicon Canals. X: @axeleraai
| Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times: |
Testing ChatGPT, Vacay, and Mindtrip to plan a Norway trip shows none were perfect, but the chatbots streamlined travel decisions and complemented one another — Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation?
LinkedIn: Hege Vibeke Barnes
| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B — Online comics platform prices IPO at top of range for $2.7bn valuation — Webtoon Entertainment, an online comics platform …
More: WEBTOON, BBC, Deadline, Proactive, Cautious Optimism, KED Global, CNBC, and Bloomberg
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PortSwigger, the startup behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools founded by security expert “Daf”, raised $112M, its first outside investment — Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs.| Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: |
Netherlands-based Innatera Nanosystems, which unveiled an energy-efficient AI chip for sensor-edge applications in January 2024, raised a $21M Series A — Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round … Sponsor Posts
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