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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: Daniel Newman, Satya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, Emil Protalinski, and Nathan Benaich. 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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LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman and Allie K. Miller
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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: Mazen Abou Najm, Kevin Tupper, and Adam Brewer
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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.
More: Engadget, FediForum on YouTube, and We Distribute
Threads: @pcottle, @timothyjchambers, @evanprodromou, @chris, and @mosseri. Mastodon: @andrew@melder.social. Forums: Beehaw
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Glassdoor users complain after the service added real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor 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 …
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Forums: r/technology, r/antiwork, r/privacy, and Ars OpenForum
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that is potentially linked to I-Soon and has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries — A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
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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.| Business Insider: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model — - OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.
More: Benzinga, BGR, Inc.com, Cryptopolitan, and Android Headlines
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Researchers say misconfigured Firebase instances exposed 125M+ users' records, including plaintext passwords, email addresses, and messages, across 900 websites — A weakness in a Firebase implementation allowed researchers to gain access to names, phone numbers, email addresses, plaintext passwords, confidential messages, and more.
More: BleepingComputer, SC Media, and TechRadar
| 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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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @amycchou, @katieelink, @ashleycapoot, @berci, @google, @stephenpfohl, @liamgmccoy, @hcolelewis, @ashleycapoot, @googlehealth, @googlehealth, @googleorg, and @thekaransinghal. LinkedIn: Aashima Gupta
| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
How Sweet Baby, a small video game narrative development company, became the focus of Gamergate 2.0, a harassment campaign against “forced” diversity in gaming — A group of gamers has mobilized a harassment campaign against a story consultant company, marginalized developers …
More: IGN. X: @stevie_mat, @cheryllynneaton, @alyssa_merc, @kahliefadams, @domaindead, @easbygames, @taylorcocke, and @xoelleslow. Forums: r/saltierthankrayt
| 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.| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
PE firm Francisco Partners agrees to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software, which helps companies develop complex tech products, for $1.2B — Jama Software, which helped lead a brief renaissance in Portland technology in the decade after the dot-com bust, sold Monday to a private equity firm for $1.2 billion.| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Enterprise data security startup BigID raised $60M led by Riverwood Capital at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $320M, and reports ~$100M in ARR — Data security firm BigID raises $60 million in a growth round that brings the total to $320 million and values the company at over $1 billion.| 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.
More: Benzinga, The Crypto Times, and Cointelegraph
| Nana Shibata / Nikkei Asia: |
GoTo reports a $5.76B net loss in 2023, up over 2x YoY, due to a write-down after TikTok bought a ~75% stake in GoTo's Tokopedia, on ~$933.6M in net revenue — Superapp and ride-sharing company expects EBITDA breakeven this year — Indonesian superapp provider GoTo's stock price has slumped since the company went public in 2022.
More: Tech in Asia, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, DealStreetAsia, Reuters, GoTo, GoTo, and Bloomberg
| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
Analysts warn that welcoming TikTok, Temu, and Shein to Ireland's low-tax jurisdiction could backfire, as the country tries to reduce reliance on US tech giants — Analysts warn that welcoming TikTok, Temu and Shein to Dublin's low-tax tech paradise could backfire. — DUBLIN — Maybe they didn't get the notification.| Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: |
Chipmaker Astera Labs prices its IPO at $36 per share, above its previous target range of $32-$34 per share, and seeks to raise ~$713M at a $5.5B valuation — Chip firm Astera Labs (IPO-ASTB.O) on Tuesday set the pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) of 19.8 million shares at $36 apiece, aiming to raise around $712.8 million.
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