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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup — Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head …
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LinkedIn: Nathan Benaich, Daniel Newman, Mustafa Suleyman, Satya Nadella, and Emil Protalinski. Forums: r/singularity
| Inflection: |
Inflection AI names Sean White as CEO and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure, after co-founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman depart for Microsoft AI — From day one at Inflection, we've been driven by a simple mission: to create a personal intelligence for everyone.
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| Satya Nadella / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Mustafa Suleyman will be its CEO and Karén Simonyan its chief scientist — Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees.
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LinkedIn: Kevin Tupper, Adam Brewer, and Mihai Aldea
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| New York Times: |
Inflection won't shut down Pi but will no longer focus on its consumer business, instead working with commercial customers to create, test, and tune AI systems — Mustafa Suleyman is leaving a start-up called Inflection to take the senior position with Microsoft.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse — Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
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Threads: @chris, @timothyjchambers, @pcottle, and @mosseri. Mastodon: @andrew@melder.social. Forums: Beehaw
| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
In an interview, Jensen Huang estimates that Nvidia's GB200 Blackwell chip could cost $30,000 to $40,000 and that the R&D budget for the processor totaled ~$10B — - Nvidia stock closed up 1% on Tuesday, recovering from an earlier dip. — CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how the company's early decisions led to its AI boom, why Nvidia's ubiquity will not be easy to replicate, and more — Nvidia's chips sparked the AI revolution. Now it's in the business of putting the technology to work in an array of industries.
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| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google's Pixel 8a will have a 6.1" 120Hz OLED display, Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort output support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a — The Pixel 8a's major upgrades will make it even more competitive, but raise further questions over the vanilla Pixel 8.| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor says it cross-populates data between its services — Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews … | Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations — Google is training Gemini on health data, and it's creating a new AI model for the Fitbit app that can give advice tailored to your needs.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund discussed a potential partnership with a16z and others to create a fund of about $40B to invest in AI in H2 2024 — The Middle Eastern country is creating a gigantic fund to invest in A.I. technology, potentially becoming the largest player in the hot market.| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind debuts TacticAI, a prototype AI soccer tactician built with Premier League club Liverpool, using geometric deep learning on 7,176 corner kicks — Human experts prefer TacticAI's suggested positional improvements at corner kicks — Google DeepMind has developed …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU DMA hearing: a Meta lawyer says Meta offered to cut its EU monthly subscription for Facebook and Instagram from €9.99 to €5.99 to address regulatory concerns — Meta Platforms (META.O) has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to 5.99 euros … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Solana memecoin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have mistakenly “burned” all the presale funds — “This is not a joke I really f****d up and im really sorry. Was a simple mindless misclick when I was in the process of burning the the lp," the developer said
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| Financial Times: |
Airbus ends talks with Atos on a deal worth up to €1.8B for its big data and security unit, imperiling efforts by Atos to avoid going into debt restructuring — Decision adds pressure on indebted French IT services company — Airbus has walked away from talks with Atos over a potential deal …
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| Adam James / The Block: |
The US SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn — - Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay a $21 million civil penalty as part of a settlement over SEC charges.| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app — Threads users in the U.S. will start seeing a “Trending now” page on the platform starting Tuesday. — Threads users in the United States …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at Playtron, which raised a $10M seed to build a Linux-based, platform-agnostic gaming OS to replace Windows or SteamOS, starting with handheld consoles — The former CEO of Cyanogen has a plan for a platform-agnostic gaming operating system.
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Forums: r/Games and r/linux_gaming
| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Israeli cybersecurity company Cato Networks has hired underwriters for a US IPO as soon as early 2025; source: Cato is looking to raise more than $500M — Israeli cybersecurity firm Cato Networks, which was valued at more than $3 billion in a private funding round last year …
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+ — Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that enables other companies to offer their own financial services via APIs.| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Reddit says Nokia on March 18 accused the company of infringing some of its patents, and is evaluating Nokia's claims ahead of its planned IPO this week — Nokia Technologies, the company's licensing business, sent Reddit a letter on Monday with the claims, and Reddit is evaluating them, according to a filing made Tuesday.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans — After losing two complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission, Apple has stepped up its lobbying to change the agency's practices.Sponsor Posts
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