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Sources: Google considers adding certain AI-powered search features to its premium subscription services, which already offer access to Gemini in Gmail and Docs — Proposals would mark first time any of the software group's core product falls behind a paywall
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring home robotic devices, including a mobile robot that can follow users and a table-top device that uses robotics to move a display — - The company has teams working on automated home devices — The search is on for new growth sources after EV gets nixed
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Forums: r/apple, r/Futurology, r/singularity, r/technology, r/tech, r/wallstreetbets, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| The Guardian: |
Sources: Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza used Lavender, an AI system that identified 37,000 potential human targets based on their apparent links to Hamas — Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to those with at least 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” — Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers.
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money — Google is suing two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent cryptocurrency trading apps …
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| Tim Stelloh / NBC News: |
A Washington state judge barred the use of AI-enhanced video as trial evidence in a ruling that experts say may be the first-of-its-kind in a US criminal court — Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software.
More: HotHardware, Cryptopolitan, Gizmodo, and The Hill
| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says “Tesla is increasing comp ... of our AI engineering team”, after OpenAI has been “aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers” with “massive” offers — - CEO says carmaker is going extra mile to retain specialists — Exodus may exacerbate concerns about conflicts, governance| Scott Stein / CNET: |
An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more — Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI. — 2014 doesn't seem that long ago to me.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google Cloud and Cloud Security Alliance survey of 2,486 IT and security professionals: 63% of security practitioners believe AI could help in threat detection — Generative artificial intelligence technology is fast finding a home in cybersecurity operations, as a comprehensive …
More: CSA, FinTech Global, TechRadar, Cryptopolitan, VentureBeat, and TechRepublic
| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
An interview with Saber founder Matthew Karch on criticism of Embracer, joining Embracer's board in 2020, layoffs, and Embracer's $2B Savvy deal breaking down — Studio founder shares his view of the story behind Embracer's struggles, and why he's bullish on the group's recovery
More: Video Games Chronicle, Wccftech, and Press Start
| Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
How some MBA programs in the US are reorienting their courses around AI by adding AI-related classwork, encouraging using AI to solve lab assignments, and more — American University, other top M.B.A. programs reorient courses around artificial intelligence; ‘It has eaten our world’
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @grady_booch, @barbariancap, and @jmrivera02. LinkedIn: David Marchick
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An interview with Andres Freund, a Microsoft database engineer working on PostgreSQL, on discovering the XZ Utils backdoor, doubting his own findings, and more — The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine.
More: The Intercept and MakeUseOf
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Amazon merchants complain of scam returns, where buyers ship junk back to sellers and claim they are returns, and say Amazon's policies favor customers — Merchants receive junk instead of returned purchases, a sore point as they say Amazon's policies favor customers
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
SK Hynix plans to invest ~$3.87B in an advanced packaging plant and R&D facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, to produce high bandwidth memory chips from H2 2028 — SK Hynix (000660.KS), the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said on Wednesday it will invest around $3.87 billion … | Andrea Grimes / Home With The Armadillo: |
Substack's new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers — And it'll be worse this time around! — The writing life, which has never exactly been a picnic for independent journalists and freelancers … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A profile of hacker P4x, aka Alejandro Caceres, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively — As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
US rock band Kiss sells rights to its music, name, image, and likeness to Swedish entertainment company Pophouse to create a live show, a source says for ~$300M — Sale to Swedish entertainment group Pophouse set to 'fulfil the band's vision to become immortal'
More: Variety, NME, Billboard, The Independent, Pophouse, Music Business Worldwide, Bloomberg, and Associated Press. LinkedIn: Sofie Nelson
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Pigment, a subscription-based business planning and forecasting service, raised $145M, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, for $393M in total funding — - French software startup said to be valued above $1 billion — Funding round comes as VC financing remains sluggish globally
More: Tech.eu, Sifted, TechCrunch, EU-Startups, and Tech Funding News
| Hope King / Axios: |
AT&T plans to invest an additional $3B by 2030 to help close the US digital divide, after initially committing $2B by 2024, which helped nearly 5M Americans — - Many Americans want Congress to handle threats to affordable and reliable internet access, Axios' Maria Curi has reported.
More: Telecompetitor
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Cisco launches the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, joined by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, SAP and Accenture, to research AI's impact on 56 ICT job roles — AI might not be coming for all jobs, but it might be coming for some. — UPS's largest layoff in its 116-year history was the result of …
Forums: r/artificial
| Financial Times: |
Zhu Xingming, founder of Chinese robot maker Inovance, dubbed little Huawei, says protectionism won't stop its growth as automation is critical to supply chains — Shenzhen Inovance founder says automation tech is indispensable to global supply chains — The founder of China's largest … | TechCrunch: |
A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents — Springtime means rain, the return of flowers and, of course, Y Combinator's first demo day of the year.
More: BetaKit, Music Ally, San Francisco Business Times, TechCrunch, Y Combinator, and The Information
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