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| 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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X: @alexgroberman, @thefox, @gabor, @exm7777, @nihalmehta, @google, @sundarpichai, @markknd, @cryptopunk7213, @sundarpichai, @google, @minchoi, @ehuanglu, @autismcapital, @abhijitwt, @kimmonismus, @_tenzdhon_, @officiallogank, and @fofrai
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
| 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: Amit Mukherjee, Rachel Gruner, 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, The New Stack, Neowin, Blockchain.News, The Decoder, Inc, Crypto Briefing, CNET, 9to5Google, TechRadar, The Deep View, Engadget, The Hans India, iPhone in Canada, The AI Creator Drop, and Digital Trends
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LinkedIn: Greg Feingold, Sean Strong, Ryan Donegan, Nicole Sim, Anton Pidkuiko, and Drew Bent. Facebook: The Verge
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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.| 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 …
More: Marcus on AI, Capital Brief, The Guardian, New York Post, Reuters, and Quartz
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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, Engadget, Neowin, CNBC, Thurrott, The Information, Reuters, GeekWire, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and Windows Central
| 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 …
More: Europol, US Department of Justice, LinkedIn, The Record, Hackread, TechCrunch, Decrypt, BleepingComputer, CyberScoop, and IC3.gov News
| 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, Bloomberg, Tinder Newsroom, Digital Trends, Mashable, and Business Insider
| 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, Engadget, Fortune, Bumble, Barchart.com, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Blockonomi, and Benzinga
| 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 … | 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, Game Developer, Video Games Chronicle, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Gamer, TheGamer, Nintendo Life, The Verge, Push Square, Wccftech, TechRaptor, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Game World Observer, GameRant, IGN, and PocketGamer.biz
Forums: r/PS5, r/gamingnews, and r/xbox
| 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 and TechCrunch
X: @mascobot, @saranormous, @tonyzzhao, @tonyzzhao, @tonyzzhao, and @tonyzzhao
LinkedIn: Tony Zhao and Paayal Zaveri
| 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.
More: cftc.gov, US Securities …, The Block, US Securities …, Unchained, ZyCrypto, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, The Crypto Times, Bitcoinist.com, and CoinGape
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| 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 …
More: Digital Trends
| 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, Benzinga, Windows Central, Tyler Stalman on YouTube, PCMag, AppleInsider, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, and On my Om
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| 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, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, and Bloomberg
X: @saritharai, @caiweic, @caiweic, and @techreview
LinkedIn: Nicolas M. Chaillan and Charlotte Jee. Bluesky: @technologyreview.com. Forums: r/artificial
| 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, The Straits Times, Google Research, Heatmap News, PCMag, Pulse 2.0, Times Of AI, and Engadget. X: @sundarpichai
| 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. Forums: r/politics
| 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.
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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.| 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
| 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.| 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
| 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: Nextgov/FCW
| 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, and Reuters
| 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 … | 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
X: @maxbrodeururbas, @lizwessel, @oneabhishek, @gumloop, and @everettrandle
| 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: The Verge, Engadget, PCWorld, GovTech, and Android Authority. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| 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 … | Kaamil Ahmed / The Guardian: |
IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M — Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds
More: Institute of Development … and TechCabal
Bluesky: @phatcontroller and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation — In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies … | 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, Axios, Pulse 2.0, Business Wire, Tech Funding News, and Business Wire
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