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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months — The video-game division's latest round of layoffs is expected next week … Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across …
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| The Information: |
Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools — OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoft with features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat …
More: PYMNTS.com and Sherwood News
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 24+ Microsoft customers and salespeople show that Microsoft is struggling to sell Copilot to enterprises as many of their employees want ChatGPT — Microsoft is struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to corporations because many of their employees want ChatGPT.| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a bundle with the $299 Meta Quest 3S in a new color, available in “extremely limited” quantities — Last year, Microsoft revealed it was working on an Xbox edition Quest VR headset with Meta of Facebook fame.
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| Olivia Sophie Rafferty / ai fray: |
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library used for training was not — Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie — Apple customers aren't thrilled they're getting an ad from the Apple Wallet app promoting the tech giant's Original Film, “F1 the Movie.”
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Chrome for Android is rolling out a feature that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, after it launched for iOS users in 2023 — It's the correct place for the bar. — Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage — Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin — A Russian court sentenced several members of the notorious REvil ransomware gang to five years in prison but let them walk free right … | New York Times: |
Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year — On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Researchers: “chain of thought” techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning — Anthropic, Google and OpenAI deploy ‘chains of thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems| Bloomberg: |
Demand is growing for expensive personalized dating services that vet members before first dates; Tinder's paid users have fallen for two years amid app fatigue — - Pricing in the thousands bucks wider luxury spending downturn — A24's matchmaking movie ‘Materialists’ seen stoking demand
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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations — We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots.
More: TechCrunch, Google DeepMind, and The Verge
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day or next-day delivery to “tens of millions” of people who live “in more than 4,000” smaller US towns by the end of 2026 — The company is bringing faster delivery to thousands of small towns and rural communities.
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| Financial Times: |
The UK CMA proposes to designate Google with “strategic market status” in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime — Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority's plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth
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| Google Developers Blog: |
The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDKs — Today at Open Source Summit North America, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agent2Agent project with Amazon Web Services …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta available exclusively in Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area excluding highways, after launching in Austin on March 4 — Atlanta is the second city to host Uber and Waymo's burgeoning partnership. … Uber customers in Atlanta now have the option …
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| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects: |
A look at 2025's AI models and what's next: OpenAI's o3 is a technical breakthrough, agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow — Summer is always a slow time for the tech industry. OpenAI seems fully in line with this, with their open model “[taking] …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M — Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app — Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025 …
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