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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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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| 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.| 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.| 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 …
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| 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, r/OpenAI, and r/technews
| 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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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assistant for scientists; BioNTech's InstaDeep unveils a Llama 3.1-based AI assistant for experimental biology — Artificial intelligence used to help researchers plan experiments and better predict outcomes — Google DeepMind and BioNTech … | Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help software engineers troubleshoot and fix production issues, raised a $35M seed led by Greylock — Resolve AI, a startup aiming to automate software operations, has raised $35 million in seed funding from investors led by Greylock …
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LinkedIn: Spiros Xanthos, Greylock, and Asheem Chandna
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / Sifted: |
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous robots for warehouses, raised a $80M Series B led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M — Generative AI has changed the game for autonomous technology, says founder and CEO Andrei Danescu — Dexory, a UK-based startup building autonomous robots … Sponsor Posts
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