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Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more — A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, The Verge, Microsoft Copilot Blog, Android Police, Signal65, Android Headlines, Maginative, Laptop Mag, Moneycontrol, ZDNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup, BetaNews, How-To Geek, TechRadar, Petri IT Knowledgebase, VentureBeat, Computerworld, PCMag, Neowin, MediaPost, Tom's Guide, Mashable, XDA Developers, XDA Developers, Windows Central, Digital Trends, SecurityWeek, PCWorld, Engadget, Bloomberg, Wired, and Hindustan Times
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Forums: r/technology and r/singularity
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025 — - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
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Forums: r/apple, r/iphone, and MacRumors Forums
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, and Australia sanction the group — - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist — Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.
More: Maginative. Threads: @chris, @paul_rietschka, and @moskov
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
More: Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, and Scripting News
Threads: @mosseri, @mosseri, @0xjessel, @quillmatiq, @technicallymims, @crumbler, and @timothyjchambers
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028 — HoloLens 2 production has ended, Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR. — Now is the last time to buy the device …
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Forums: r/gadgets, r/MVIS, r/technews, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Wired: |
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa — Scamming operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking in billions of dollars in the process.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand Sonos' software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle — The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.
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Threads: @alexoid, @chris, @ethank, @philnickinson, and @chriswelch. X: @lanceulanoff. Forums: r/sonos
| Fortune: |
Sources: many OpenAI staff thought o1 wasn't ready to be unveiled and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in arguments between research and technical teams — When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer …
Forums: r/artificial, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator — GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator. — Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
More: The Verge, USA Today, TechPowerUp, GamingOnLinux, Wololo.net, Android Authority, Aftermath, Neowin, PC Gamer, GameRevolution, Polygon, Kotaku, IGN, Eurogamer.net, Digital Trends, Engadget, GoNintendo, and DSOGaming
X: @butidigress79 and @mrsujano
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key — Google is announcing new Chromebook models today with Samsung and Lenovo. With Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus model in particular …
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X: @thegalox_, @cnet, @google, @thegalox_, @googleforedu, and @newsfromgoogle. LinkedIn: Stella Shannon
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia details LLM family NVLM 1.0, which can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only capabilities and is led by the 72B-parameter NVLM-D-72B — Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google.
More: arXiv.org
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a ~$50M Series B led by a16z at a ~$350M valuation; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M — 11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui — Sometimes, a pivot ends up being the smartest decision company leaders can make. See Netflix's pivot from DVDs to streaming …
More: PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Numa, and FinSMEs
| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Peak XV cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its Sequoia split, with most of the reduction coming in its growth-stage allocation — Venture capital firm Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, has pared the size of its $2.85 billion fund by 16% … Sponsor Posts
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