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Google unveils ARM-based Axion chips for AI, claiming they have up to 30% better performance over the top ARM rivals, coming to Google Cloud customers in 2024 — Tech giant develops new chips to cut reliance on outside vendors as the AI arms race intensifies
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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveils AI updates: corporate Gemini users can “ground” responses in reliable sources, Search as a Gemini answer source, and more — The company unveiled updates to its AI offerings at its annual cloud conference — Google unveiled a host …
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LinkedIn: Gianluca Varisco, Ryon Haness, Anne-Laure Giret, Achintya Singhal, and Iman Ghanizada
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag anomalies within images for radiologists and summarize information from a patient's medical history — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google details Workspace updates: Gmail's “instant polish” to turn rough notes into emails, tabs in Docs, Gemini in Chat, “Translate for me” in Meet, and more — Besides Vids, Google Workspace is getting a slew of new features and Gemini capabilities at Cloud Next 2024.
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Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky will become Automattic's head of messaging — - Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join — Beeper briefly brought Apple's iMessage to Android devices
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts Gaudi 3, set for Q3 mass production, claiming up to 1.7x the training performance, 50% more inference, and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia's H100 — GPUs fall the wayside as Intel goes all-in on Gaudi for AI. — Intel made a slew of announcements during its Vision 2024 event today …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens — Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers found an exposed Azure server with credentials used by Microsoft staff to access internal systems; Microsoft was told Feb. 6 and secured it March 5 — Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet.
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
NetEase says it is working with Microsoft to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the partnership in January 2023 — Chinese video games giant NetEase (9999.HK) said it is working with Microsoft (MSFT.O) to bring popular games including … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% — The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche. Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier this year …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds shopping features, including creator-curated product lists for users to browse called Shopping Collections and a hub with info on commission rates — YouTube announced on Tuesday that it's launching new Shopping features that allow creators to curate shoppable collections …
More: YouTube Official Blog, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Social Media Today, Chain Store Age, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, and ZDNet. LinkedIn: Pablo Maroñas
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Cruise resumes manually driving its vehicles without autonomous systems engaged to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix — General Motors' Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in the API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling — As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is the nexus of modern software development that sits atop tech platforms …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe now allows bot creators to set a per-message price for their bots and rolls out enhanced analytics dashboard for creators — Bot creators now have a new way to make money with Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform. On Monday, the company introduced … | Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Alethea, whose ML service monitors online chatter to help companies detect disinformation, raised a $20M Series B led by GV, bringing its total raised to $34M — - Heading into the 2024 U.S. elections, the funding will help the company boost its staff levels and build its product to spot … | Jessica Rajan / The Economic Times: |
Mumbai-based Neysa, which offers a suite of generative AI tools to help clients manage their AI projects, raised a $20M seed led by Matrix, Nexus, and NTTVC — Neysa, a Mumbai-based artificial intelligence (AI) cloud and platform-as-a-service startup, will utilise the fresh capital … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Copenhagen-based Reshape, whose AI-powered robotic imaging system helps track visual changes in lab experiments, raised a $20M Series A led by Astanor Ventures — Danish startup grabs $20M in funding to bring more engineering to biology — A Danish startup wants to help R&D teams automate lab experiments … | Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog: |
Google introduces two Gemma variants, CodeGemma to help with code completion and RecurrentGemma to provide researchers faster inference at higher batch sizes — In February we announced Gemma, our family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
More: Hugging Face, Fierce Network, and SD Times
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