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Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike's faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B — Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft unveils Bing generative search, which shows AI-generated answers with the sources used to create them, currently available to a small subset of users — Bing will soon prioritize AI-generated answers alongside traditional search results. — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Around 500 World of Warcraft workers vote to unionize with the CWA, bringing the number of unionized US gaming employees at Microsoft to around 1,750 — World of Warcraft workers have voted to unionize the popular video-game franchise, expanding organized labor's new foothold at Microsoft Corp. by around 500 employees.
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit — DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Researchers suggest that using “synthetic” data, created by AI systems to train LLMs, could lead to the rapid degradation of AI models and a collapse over time — Research suggests use of computer-made ‘synthetic data’ to train top AI models could lead to nonsensical results in future
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Mistral announces Mistral Large 2, the new generation of its flagship model, with 123B parameters; commercial usage requires a separate license — The AI race is picking up pace like never before. Following Meta's move just yesterday to launch its new open source Llama 3.1 …
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| Politico: |
Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris could provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington, DC, toward Big Tech companies — Would she bring continuity with Joe Biden's policies? A more centrist vibe? A sharper progressive bite?
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches Apple Maps on the web in beta, available in English and compatible with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, and Chrome and Edge on Windows PCs — Apple is bringing Apple Maps to the web for the first time. In a press release today, the company announced that you can now access Apple Maps …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Twitch introduces new policy and moderation updates to curb sexual harassment, including making its policy “easier to understand” and adding moderation tools — Twitch has introduced new policy and moderation updates that aim to help curb sexual harassment.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
AltStore PAL now offers third-party iOS apps in the EU, starting with two torrenting apps, a social discovery app for dating, and a PC emulator — The first batch of third-party apps are making their way onto AltStore PAL, just over three months after the alternative iOS app marketplace first launched in the EU.
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| Bloomberg: |
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 2% YoY to $15.8B, vs. $15.6B est., and says bookings for AI consulting and software have exceeded $2B since mid-2023, vs. $1B in Q1 — International Business Machines Corp. reported a jump in bookings for its artificial intelligence business as customers work to implement the latest technology.
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| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI unveils Stable Video 4D, a model based on its Stable Video Diffusion model that takes video input and generates videos from eight new perspectives — Stability AI is expanding its growing roster of generative AI models, quite literally adding a new dimension with the debut of Stable Video 4D.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Early Microsoft Copilot adopters say the AI assistants excel at distilling information but require cleaning up corporate data and lots of employee training — Early adopters say deploying the company's Copilot bots requires cleaning up corporate data and lots of employee training.| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Meta says it will allow developers to use the outputs from Llama models, including Llama 3.1 405B, to improve other models for the first time — “Open source AI is the path forward,” says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term. — In the AI world, there's a buzz in the air …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Airtable launches Cobuilder, which can generate apps from text prompts and match them to relevant data and customer information already stored within Airtable — Airtable's new Cobuilder product puts AI-generated apps in every worker's hands — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO following painful job cuts.
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| Reuters: |
Atos appoints its chairman Jean Pierre Mustier as CEO to replace departing boss Paul Saleh, in its fifth top management reshuffle in less than two years — French technology company Atos (ATOS.PA) on Wednesday appointed its chairman Jean Pierre Mustier as CEO to replace departing boss Paul Saleh … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
The Overture Maps Foundation, backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, TomTom, and others, releases four global open maps datasets; Transportation remains in beta — It's not often you'll find Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta in the same room collaborating toward the same goals.
More: Overture Maps Foundation, Overture Maps Foundation, WinBuzzer, Neowin, NewsBytes, and The Verge. X: @overturemaps
| Giulio Piovaccari / Reuters: |
Ferrari plans to accept crypto payments for its cars at European dealers from the end of July, and internationally by the end of 2024, expanding on the US — Ferrari (RACE.MI) said on Wednesday it would extend its scheme to accept payments in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars …
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ethtrader
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Law enforcement officials and experts: criminal groups are shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service platforms after disruption operations and an exit scam — Veteran cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks are increasingly shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) … | Financial Times: |
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