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Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot — Microsoft Corp.'s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company's oldest and best-known products: its Office apps.
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Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Arbi Vartan, Venkat Gopal, Jimmy Vaughan, Thibault Leclercq, Jason Apergis, Mike Tholfsen, Matt Blank, Matt Berg, Satya Nadella, and Nicole Herskowitz
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Microsoft details Business Chat, part of 365 Copilot, which can summarize meetings, recent customer contacts, calendar entries, and more, similar to Bing's AI — One of the new Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft 365 apps and services is dubbed Business Chat.
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Paul Roetzer, Jeff Teper, Sumit Chauhan, Frank X. Shaw, and Satya Nadella
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@satyanadella, @aarongustafson, @om, and @jeffteper
| Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: |
In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers' and civil servants' work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US — Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China — Britain is to ban the Chinese owned …
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
TikTok says the Biden administration and CFIUS are demanding that its Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company or the app could face a possible US ban — TikTok says forced sale won't resolve national security issues; its CEO set to appear before Congress next week
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods; OpenAI's co-founder says the company's past approach to sharing research was wrong — The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …
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Risto Uuk and Khalifeh Al Jadda, Ph.D.
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
OpenAI's GPT-4 is an outrageous, if imperfect, step forward, showing how in the 2020s, generative AI will turn the internet into one big personalized web portal — Read to the end for a good Twitter reply — Building A Portal To Everything — Very often I will come up with a big existential question … | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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| New York Times: |
Sources: five days after seizing SVB, the FDIC conducted a stop-and-start auction process, with March 17 as the latest deadline to find a buyer for SVB's assets — Big rivals are thus far shying away from scooping up the bank's assets. — Five days after seizing control of Silicon Valley Bank …
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Ravi Shekhar Pandey and Donald H. Allison
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear plans to step down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy; Shear is one of the original founders of Justin.tv — After serving as its chief executive for more than a decade, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will take a step back at the company.
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Colan Neese, Jalyssa Eliasen, and Tracy Chan
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube raises YouTube TV's price by $8 to $72.99/month, citing a rise in “content costs”, effective for new users on March 16 and existing users on April 18 — YouTube has announced that it's raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month.
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@richontech and @chriswelch
| FTX: |
An FTX bankruptcy filing describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders and executives, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried — Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees — Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions
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Ars Technica, Financial Times, CoinDesk, Crunchbase News, Blockworks, The National, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoSlate, and Cryptopolitan
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@smtuffy, @autismcapital, @beyondreasdoubt, @autismcapital, @kadhim, @ftx_committee, @kadhim, @quantian1, @robinwigg, @kadhim, @aftxcreditor, and @davidgura
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
The Arbitrum Foundation, which develops the Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum, plans to airdrop its long-awaited ARB token on March 23 and transition to a DAO — The long-awaited ARB token will grant holders the ability to vote on changes to the leading Ethereum layer 2 network.
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Arbitrum, The Block, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, Ethereum World News, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Fortune, Ignas, and Blockworks
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@arbitrum, @tier10k, @tier10k, @timccopeland, and @lawmaster
| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Sources: Foxconn plans to make AirPods for the first time and invest $200M+ to build a plant in Telangana, India; a source says Apple wanted production in India — Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) …
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MacRumors, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, Techlusive, Apple Must, and 9to5Mac. Tweets:
@munsifv
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve plans to activate its FedNow Service real-time payments system in July 2023, meant to speed up clearing transactions between institutions — The new government-operated payments system - often used as an argument against the need for crypto's payments innovations …
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Board of Governors …, Blockworks, PYMNTS.com, CoinGeek, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptopolitan, and crypto.news. Tweets:
@monad_alexander
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok adds a Refresh button to For You, resetting the recommendation algorithm to show videos like for a new user, after testing the feature in February 2023 — TikTok is adding a way for users to “refresh” For You page content when they want to switch up their feed.
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TikTok, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, and 9to5Mac
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@johnkoetsier and @tiktokcomms
| Bloomberg: |
Baidu announces its Ernie Bot via a pre-recorded video, with founder Robin Li talking over a scripted video of interactions with the AI, and opens registrations — Baidu Inc. debuted China's answer to ChatGPT via a recorded video, disappointing investors hoping for a real-time demo …
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@therealjoshye, @modeledbehavior, @business, and @byron_wan
| TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Via plans to acquire London-based Citymapper, which has ~50M users globally and raised $59.5M; sources: investors mostly won't make their money back — Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned …
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Cody Grosser, Sean Floyd, Barak Sas, and Victoria Markewitz. Tweets:
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| Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine: |
Q&A with Signature Bank board member Barney Frank on the bank's collapse, “anti-crypto” regulators, weakening Dodd-Frank in 2018, tougher regulation, and more — The sudden string of bank failures over the past week conjured traumatic flashbacks of the 2008 financial crisis for many a banker.
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The Hill, Trustnodes, Bitcoinist.com, and CoinGape
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@nic__carter, @nic__carter, @nic__carter, @benwritesthings, @sarthakgh, @cascamike, @mattbpete, @safetyth1rd, and @jchervinsky
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at San Francisco's Hayes Valley, dubbed “Cerebral Valley” due to its “hacker houses” and in-person-only AI events, amid an AI gold rush in the Bay Area — The money and power flooding into AI are warping and intensifying the typical Silicon Valley gold rush, now set to explode with the launch of GPT-4
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@reedalbergotti, @hackylawyer, @cityofthetown, @theamberyang, and @hellocullen
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tiger Global marked down its investments in private companies by ~33% across VC funds in 2022, erasing $23B in value from its portfolio of startups — The markdowns erased $23 billion in value from Tiger's portfolio of startups — Tiger Global marked down the value of its investments … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nimble, which helps companies automate their logistics warehouses, raised a $65M Series B led by Cedar Pine, bringing its total funding to $115M — There's a long-standing debate in the world of logistics robotics. On one side stand the greenfield folk, who insist that the best possible experience …
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