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TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack on June 26, and attributes it to the Russian hacking group Midnight Blizzard — The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday …
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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 …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple launches the Vision Pro in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, the first time the device has been officially available outside of the US — Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations across China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
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| Eliza Gkritsi / Euractiv: |
Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of its anticompetitive behavior — Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a “stunning declaration” …
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| Ben Goggin / NBC News: |
ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot seemingly drew on conservative misinformation to repeat a false claim about CNN's debate broadcast being on a “1-2 minute delay” — The AI programs seemingly drew on conservative misinformation posted just hours earlier to generate their answers.| 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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| 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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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Surface Pro Copilot+ review: the best Microsoft tablet yet, with a versatile Flex keyboard and decent AI features, but has noticeable heat and fan noise issues — Microsoft finally solved the Windows on Arm dilemma. — It's taken 12 years, but Microsoft has finally made an Arm-powered Surface tablet …
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| Yasemin Saplakoglu / Quanta Magazine: |
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures — When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild. Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Q&A with VP of Amazon Games on focusing on AAA games over mobile games, transmedia IP strategy, effect of AI on the gaming industry, monetization, and more — Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years. So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games …
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| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's shares are up 28% so far in 2024 after the strong debut of Dungeon & Fighter Mobile, adding $91B in market value, more than any other Chinese company — - Shares up 28% this year, adding $91 billion in market cap — DnF Mobile firm's most successful game in five years: Goldman
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| Emilio Parodi / Reuters: |
Sources: Italy launched a probe into Google in 2022 for €1B in unpaid taxes and penalties from 2018 to 2022, seven years after settling another tax dispute — Italy is asking Google to pay 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) in unpaid taxes and penalties, three sources with direct knowledge …
More: Benzinga
| Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: |
EQT agrees to sell 70% stake in Idealista to PE firm Cinven in a deal valuing the property classifieds site at €2.9B; EQT bought Idealista for €1.3B in 2020 — - Cinven inks deal for a 70% stake in the real estate platform — EQT will retain an 18% stake in Idealista following the deal| 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 … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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