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Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral and plans to help bring the Paris-based startup's AI models to market, as regulators probe Microsoft's OpenAI alliance — Tech giant unveils partnership with French AI start-up as regulators probe $13bn alliance with ChatGPT maker
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mistral AI releases Mistral Large, a cheaper GPT-4 rival that supports 32K-token context windows, and Le Chat, a ChatGPT-like chat assistant in public beta — Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows.| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of nine-month-old Mistral AI, which wants to be the “most capital-efficient company in the world of AI”, has raised $500M+, and is valued at $2B+ — Led by 31-year-old CEO Arthur Mensch, Paris-based Mistral believes AI systems can be built more efficiently—and much more cheaply| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024; the device will be centered around health and wellness, come in three colors, and be available later in 2024 — After teasing it (again) yesterday, Samsung has finally shown off the Galaxy Ring in physical form at Mobile World Conference (MWC 2024) and revealed some additional details.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU is asking developers about the impact of Apple's decision to disable PWAs in the EU, seen as a precursor to a formal investigation into the company — Competition regulators in Brussels send questions to developers over iPhone maker's decision — The EU has taken the first steps towards …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils AI Hub, a library of 75+ pre-optimized AI models, the X80 5G modem, and FastConnect 7900, a chip that integrates Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and UWB — Qualcomm unveiled a suite of AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources detail their concerns with Apple Arcade: declining developer payouts, cancelled projects, a shift to only greenlighting family-friendly games, and more — Multiple mobilegamer.biz sources have voiced their concern for Apple Arcade's future, citing a glut of cancelled projects and ever-declining developer payouts.
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| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
Meta outlines its strategy to combat generative AI misuse ahead of the European elections in June 2024, including setting up an EU-specific operations center — Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it will form a team to tackle deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) content in the upcoming EU elections in June.
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| Washington Post: |
Live blog of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court for a pair of cases involving Florida and Texas social media laws that impose strict limits on moderation — Supreme Court justices are weighing how the First Amendment applies to social media companies, as they consider a pair of cases …
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| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers' compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more — AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound.
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Google unveils new Android features: Gemini integrated in Messages, AI-powered text summaries in Android Auto, AI-generated image captions in Lookout, and more — The Android updates announced at MWC also include new accessibility features and casting controls for Spotify.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils the RTX 500 and RTX 1000, its new laptop GPUs for on-the-go AI processing powered by its Ada Lovelace architecture, available in Spring 2024 — Nvidia launched its RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop graphics processing units (GPUs) for on-the-go AI processing.
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