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| Rachyl Jones / Fortune: |
Self-driving cars owned by a handful of Chinese companies have quietly traveled 1.8M miles on CA roads, collecting detailed data while facing little scrutiny — ON FEB. 1 LAST YEAR, Montana residents gawked upwards at a large white object hovering in the sky that looked to be another moon.
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| Bloomberg: |
Memo: Microsoft tells staff in China they must use iPhones for work from September, saying that Google services like the Play Store are not available in China — - Company will block corporate access from Android in China — Microsoft has been tightening cybersecurity following attacks
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Nothing unveils the $199 CMF Phone 1, with swappable parts, a 6.67" AMOLED, a MediaTek SoC, and Nothing OS, plus the $69 CMF Watch Pro 2 and $59 CMF Buds Pro 2 — Nothing's sub-brand is bringing its first phone to the US—the $199 CMF Phone 1—along with the Watch Pro 2 and Buds Pro 2.
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| Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Notepad in Windows 11, after testing the features in March 2024; Windows Notepad first launched in 1983 — Feature rolled out to insiders back in March, now available to the masses. — Microsoft tested an updated Notepad app with integrated spellchecking back in March.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have bigger screens; the main Siri upgrade will be part of iOS 18.4, with a January beta and a spring release — As the Apple Watch approaches its 10th birthday, the company is preparing a big update. Also: AirPods with cameras …
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| Michelle Hampson / IEEE Spectrum: |
A study of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT's ability to solve 728 coding problems: fairly good at solving problems that existed before 2021, but struggles with newer ones — This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
A look at Scale AI's $13.8B valuation from May's $1B round suggests it's almost certainly too high, given below-average margins, reliance on few customers, more — Scale AI's 27-year-old CEO, Alexandr Wang, used to compete in national high school math competitions.| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
A Sequoia Capital analyst estimated on June 20 that companies developing AI models must collectively generate ~$600B per year to pay for their AI infrastructure — The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point? — Despite massive investments in AI infrastructure by high-tech giants …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
New York-based Hebbia, which uses AI to help companies sift through documents, raised $130M led by a16z, a source says at a ~$700M post-money valuation — Company's technology helps businesses sift through regulatory filings, PDFs and other documents. — Hebbia, a startup using artificial …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the startup's history, its 4,500 headcount, going global, trust and safety, Adobe, attracting enterprise clients, and more — To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe's.| Bloomberg: |
IDC: ~3% of PCs shipped in 2024 will meet Microsoft's processing power threshold for AI PCs; source: some big app makers rebuff a push for on-device AI features — - App makers like Adobe and Salesforce haven't yet signed on — Only a small share of PCs sold this year will be AI-optimized| Ben Church / CNN: |
A look at concerns about Saudi Arabia “sportswashing”, as the country hosts the Esports World Cup; Saudi Arabia's PIF owns some of the biggest gaming companies — In the heart of Saudi Arabia's capital, a seismic moment for esports is underway; one which has triggered both excitement and concern across the industry.
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| Craig Silverman / ProPublica: |
Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited — Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft's Cybersecurity Failures — Investigating how the world's largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products.
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