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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor is named; he became CEO in 2007 and will remain as chair of the board; ADBE drops 6%+ after hours — Adobe said CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor has been appointed, and he will remain as the design software company's chair.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US — A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more
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X: @mustafasuleyman, @copilot, @copilot, @erictopol, @tomwarren, @mustafasuleyman, and @yusuf_i_mehdi
LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner, Amit Mukherjee, and Eric Horvitz
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta — Claude will automatically generate interactive visuals based on your conversation, or you can ask it directly, too.
More: Claude, MacRumors, TheNeuron, The New Stack, Neowin, Crypto Briefing, CNET, 9to5Google, TechRadar, The Deep View, Engadget, Blockchain.News, The Hans India, The Decoder, iPhone in Canada, The AI Creator Drop, Digital Trends, and Inc
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LinkedIn: Greg Feingold, Sean Strong, Ryan Donegan, Nicole Sim, Anton Pidkuiko, and Drew Bent. Facebook: The Verge
Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/visualization, r/hackernews, and Slashdot
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational Google Maps feature that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions”, available in the US and India — 'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
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LinkedIn: Rebecca Seerveld, Victoria Wong, Krystal Taing, Paolo Malabuyo, and Charles Armstrong
Bluesky: @caseynewton, @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk, and @matthewdownhour
Forums: r/applemaps, r/Bard, and r/Android
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would “pollute” the DOD's supply chain because they have “a different policy preference” that is baked in — Defense Department CTO Emil Michael on Thursday said Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence models would …
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Forums: r/technology and r/singularity
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP — The leaders of Windows and Office are now getting promoted and report directly to Satya Nadella.
More: Microsoft, MediaPost, Neowin, The Information, Reuters, GeekWire, Business Insider, Thurrott, Bloomberg, Engadget, CNBC, and Windows Central
| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year — Sunday Inc. has raised $165 million to build a dream robot for any household: a friendly looking machine capable of performing tasks …
More: Sunday, SiliconANGLE, and TechCrunch
X: @mascobot, @saranormous, @tonyzzhao, @tonyzzhao, @tonyzzhao, and @tonyzzhao
LinkedIn: Tony Zhao and Paayal Zaveri
| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO — Bumble (BMBL.O) shares jumped more than 40% in early trading on Thursday after the company posted upbeat fourth-quarter revenue …
More: TechCrunch, Bumble, Fortune, Engadget, Bloomberg, Barchart.com, Fast Company, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA — Tinder held its inaugural product keynote on Thursday, unveiling an ambitious slate of updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI.
More: Axios, Gizmodo, Tinder Newsroom, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, Business Insider, and Mashable
| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide — International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries — Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort … | Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net: |
European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes — Loot boxes and in-game purchases targeted. — Follow EA Sports FC 27 — Video game age-ratings are about to change in Europe.
More: Pegi Public Site, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, Engadget, Nintendo Life, The Verge, Push Square, Wccftech, TechRaptor, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Game World Observer, GameRant, GamesIndustry.biz, and IGN
Forums: r/PS5, r/xbox, and r/gamingnews
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3 — Amazon.com Inc. is moving up its annual Prime Day sale to June from July, according to people familiar with the matter … | Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Daring Fireball, Windows Central, Benzinga, MacStories, PCMag, AppleInsider, Tyler Stalman on YouTube, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, and On my Om
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework — The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.
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X: @secgov, @cryptowendyo, @cryptoinsightuk, @cftc, @carolinedpham, and @secpaulsatkins. Forums: r/Superstonk
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles — Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They're also among the most difficult to predict.
More: The Keyword, Decrypt, Heatmap News, Google Research, The Straits Times, PCMag, Pulse 2.0, Times Of AI, and Engadget. X: @sundarpichai
| The Information: |
xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to catch up with rivals in coding by “the middle of this year” — Elon Musk's xAI is hiring two senior Cursor leaders as part of an effort to catch up with AI rivals in coding …
More: Business Insider and Newcomer
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @jasonbud, @beffjezos, @milichab, and @shaunmmaguire
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M — Silicon Valley billionaires have been seething over the threat of more taxes and regulations at home.
More: San Francisco Business Times. LinkedIn: Eliyahu Kamisher. Bluesky: @haydenb and @kalihays. Forums: r/politics
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 — Swarm Aero raised $35 million and plans to more than double its headcount by the end of the year. — The big picture: The California startup …
More: Aviation Week Network
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week — A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
More: Apple Support, Apple Support, Thurrott, Malwarebytes, BleepingComputer, Android Headlines, Security Affairs, MacRumors, Neowin, AppleInsider, iClarified, and iPhone in Canada
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta has paused the Persian Gulf section of its 2Africa subsea cable project as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region — Meta Platforms Inc. has paused part of a massive effort to expand internet service across Africa as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO — Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: [email protected]| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ — Disney+ is starting to roll out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to U.S. users on its mobile app. First announced in January … | Georgie McKay / Bloomberg: |
PayPay shares jump 19% in their Nasdaq debut after the company's $879.8M US IPO, the biggest listing by a Japanese company on a US stock exchange in a decade — Shares of PayPay Corp. jumped 14% in its trading debut Thursday after the digital payments firm's $879.8 million US IPO …
More: The Information, American Banker, Tech in Asia, and Reuters
| CoinDesk: |
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.
More: Mastercard, NewsBTC, ZyCrypto, Bitcoin Insider, Payments Dive, The Coin Republic, The Crypto Basic, and Mastercard
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
Michael Dell says “I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools”, responding to a question on the Anthropic feud — Dell Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said that a company doing business with the government …
More: Tech in Asia
| Varsha Bansal / The Guardian: |
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
More: Gizmodo. X: @ichbingisele. LinkedIn: Varsha Bansal. Mastodon: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop. Forums: r/technology and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Max Hunder / Reuters: |
Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models — Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train drone AI software, the defence minister said on Thursday, as Kyiv seeks to harness the experience … | Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze — Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast.
More: Bloomberg, Fast Company, Business Insider, South China Morning Post, Tech in Asia, Nikkei Asia, and Bloomberg
X: @saritharai, @caiweic, @caiweic, and @techreview
LinkedIn: Nicolas M. Chaillan and Charlotte Jee. Bluesky: @technologyreview.com. Forums: r/artificial
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark — When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI.
More: BetaKit, Ventureburn, Pulse 2.0, Gumloop, and FinSMEs
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content — Amazon's AI assistant Alexa+ is getting another new personality. On Thursday, the company announced it's expanding …
More: CNET, The Verge, Engadget, PCWorld, GovTech, and Android Authority. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Martin Coulter / Sifted: |
Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin — French healthtech aims to revolutionise cancer screening — Waiv, a Paris-based medical testing startup spun out of biotech unicorn Owkin …
More: FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, Business Wire, Tech Funding News, Business Wire, and Axios
| Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: |
Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B+ in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Sequoia ~$3B, and Insight $2.7B — Two years after rejecting a $23 billion offer, Israel-based Wiz secured the largest acquisition in Google's history … Sponsor Posts
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