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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods — AlphaFold 3 aims to reveal biological secrets and boost drug search efforts — Google DeepMind has unveiled …
More: The Keyword, TechCrunch, The Verge, Nature, Fortune, New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, The Guardian, Wired, Invezz, Fast Company, Isomorphic Labs, New Scientist, MSPoweruser, and STAT
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LinkedIn: Anna Koivuniemi, Dex Hunter-Torricke, and Lila Ibrahim
Forums: Hacker News, r/science, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AI breakthroughs in biology research could be a $100B+ business, commercialized via DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs — First AI-designed drugs may be ready for testing in “next couple of years,” Google's AI boss Demis Hassabis tells Bloomberg Television
X: @demishassabis and @business
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department revokes some export licenses that let companies ship chips and other goods to Huawei, affecting Intel and, sources say, also Qualcomm — Move marks latest effort by Biden administration to target the country's tech sector — The Biden administration …
More: CNBC, Engadget, Bloomberg, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business …, Washington Post, Silicon UK, Tom's Guide, Total Telecom, Fierce Network, Investopedia, Quartz, Semafor, KnowTechie, TechRadar, Reuters, Android Authority, Benzinga, TrendForce Insights, Electronic Specifier, Neowin, Reuters, Wccftech, Benzinga, and Reuters
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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Intel expects its Q2 revenue to be “below the midpoint” of the company's previously guided $12.5B to $13.5B range because of a new US ban on Huawei chip exports — US Revokes Intel and Qualcomm Licenses to Sell Chips to Huawei — Intel Corp. expects second-quarter revenue …
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft plans to invest $3.3B to build a data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and train locals, alongside investing in a University of Wisconsin AI lab — Company has been on a global spending spree, trying to build infrastructure and goodwill for artificial intelligence| Reuters: |
Sources: US prosecutors are examining if Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about Autopilot and Full Self-Driving — U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla (TSLA.O) committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers …
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Barron's Online, Business Insider, MobileSyrup, Quartz, Benzinga, South China Morning Post, TweakTown, and Electrek
Threads: @lorakolodny, @kbode, @gwestr, @moskov, @_broncho24, @gwestr, @kbode, @moskov, and @e.w.niedermeyer. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPad Pro ad “Crush”, which shows paints, toys, guitars, sculptures, and more being crushed to reveal the thin device, draws criticism on social media — The minute-long Apple ad showing art equipment and materials being crushed down into the new iPad Pro is being called heartbreaking, wanton, and creepy.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.9B, GMV up 23% YoY to $60.9B, and expects gross margins to drop by ~50 basis points YoY in Q2; SHOP plummets 18%+ — - Gross margins in current quarter are expected to narrow — President: ‘This is how you achieve long-term durable growth’
More: Quartz, The Information, Barron's Online, Shopify, CNBC, Finbold, Reuters, and BetaKit
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $10.1B, Gross Bookings up 20% YoY to $37.7B, below $38B est., and adjusted EBITDA up 82% YoY to $1.4B; UBER falls 5%+ — - Bookings growth still tops 20% on rides, order frequency gains — Operating profit falls on anticipated legal fees, settlements
More: Uber, The Verge, New York Times, CNBC, Finbold, Benzinga, New York Post, Quartz, Fast Company, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and Financial Times
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
The Connectivity Standards Alliance releases Matter 1.3, adding support for more appliances, energy and water management, and new casting protocol features — The latest Matter spec brings a number of improvements to the smart home standard founded by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung.
More: CSA-IOT, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Android Police, Neowin, 9to5Google, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Hackster.io, iClarified, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, TechHive, ZDNet, The Ambient, 9to5Mac, and CNET
| Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
Memo: Microsoft's Xbox plans to shut down multiple Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high-impact titles and invest in Bethesda's portfolio — Staff told via email. — Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin …
More: The Verge, Game Developer, IGN, GamesIndustry.biz, Tom's Hardware, GamesIndustry.biz, TheGamer, PC Gamer, HotHardware, Gameranx, TechRadar, and Destructoid
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LinkedIn: Hailey Rojas, George Greer, Liz Chepul, and Jeff Gardiner
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI is developing a ChatGPT feature that can search the web and show results with images alongside written responses and citations to sources — The feature would let ChatGPT users search the web and cite sources in its results. — OpenAI is developing a feature for ChatGPT …
More: Inc.com, Search Engine Land, Thurrott, ExtremeTech, and Cryptopolitan
X: @carnage4life and @paul__walsh
Forums: r/singularity and r/ChatGPT
| Reuters: |
Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering a new regulatory push to restrict the export of proprietary or closed source AI models to China — The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China with preliminary plans … | André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev decries a “regulatory onslaught” and calls US SEC actions “another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation” — Though Robinhood Crypto thought its “safety-first” approach was distinct, the SEC said that enforcement action is on its way.
More: US Securities …, Cryptonews, The Daily Hodl, and Crowdfund Insider
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| Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics: |
Google says “rare issues at Google Cloud” caused a week-long private cloud outage at UniSuper, an Australian pension fund for the education and research sectors — Google problems resulting in an inadvertent misconfiguration of UniSuper's systems
More: UniSuper and Network World
X: @quinnypig, @gergelyorosz, @seventhsec, @setheliot, @ajdlinux, and @jasonandrade
| Maggie Harrison / Futurism: |
An investigation into AdVon, the company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers, finds its AI content and fake authors at the LA Times, Miami Herald, and more — Remember that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers? We did some digging — and it's got tendrils into other surprisingly prominent publications.
Mastodon: @jvagle@mastodon.lawprofs.org, @jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org, @natematias@social.coop, and @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
X: @mags_h11, @willyblackmore, @shwinyo, @mags_h11, @caleweissman, @weareyourfek, @nxthompson, @knibbs, @mattzollerseitz, @pkafka, @taylorlorenz, and @mags_h11. LinkedIn: Sean Blanda
| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
FTX says it will have as much as $16.3B to distribute after selling all of its assets; FTX owes ~$11B to 2M+ customers and other non-governmental creditors — - Crypto customers to get interest on what FTX owes them — Bankrupt firm updates plan to divide cash among creditors
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| The Guardian: |
An investigation finds a vast web of fake shops run from China touting designer brands that duped 800K+ people in Europe and the US into sharing personal data — Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests
More: BleepingComputer, Security Research Labs, and Tom's Guide
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to add an auto-complete feature to Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the coming months that offers suggestions to add details to improve AI prompts — Microsoft is attempting to solve the problem of coming up with a good prompt for generative AI, aiming to turn everyone into a prompt engineer.
More: Thurrott, Neowin, PCWorld, Fast Company, and Petri IT Knowledgebase
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Filing: Orlando-based lidar manufacturer Luminar says Tesla was its “largest LiDAR customer in Q1”, contributing 10%+ of its revenue, or ~$2.1M for the quarter — Elon Musk previously dismissed the laser sensor as a ‘crutch’ and said that any company relying on lidar to power self-driving was ‘doomed.’
More: Benzinga and Inc.com
Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/MVIS, r/RealTesla, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky details its product roadmap: an off-protocol DM system to facilitate one-on-one chats, improved custom feeds, anti-harassment tools, and video support — Bluesky has launched a new product roadmap for the coming months. The decentralized social network said on Tuesday that it is planning … | Financial Times: |
The UK is investigating “potential failings” at IT contractor SSCL, which was breached by suspected Chinese hackers to expose payroll records for 272K people — Grant Shapps announces investigation into attack by ‘malign actor’ that targeted up to 270,000 military personnel records
More: GOV.UK, The Register, and Sky News
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Electronics' medical device unit Samsung Medison plans to acquire Paris-based Sonio, which makes AI-powered ultrasound workflows software, for ~$92.7M — Samsung Medison, a medical device unit of Samsung Electronics that specializes in developing diagnostic imaging devices …
More: Samsung Newsroom, Cryptopolitan, Korea Joongang Daily, and KED Global
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft closes the engineering section of its Africa Development Center in Nigeria, two years after its opening, reportedly impacting 100+ engineers — The Lagos center, one of two on the continent - the other being in Kenya - was opened in 2022 to deliver high-end engineering solutions for Microsoft.
More: MSPoweruser, The Guardian Nigeria, Punch Newspapers, and Tekedia
X: @tekanomo_, @peterobi, and @carnage4life
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
DatologyAI, which aims to help researchers better curate AI training datasets, raised a $46M Series A led by Felicis, after a $11.65M seed in February 2024 — For all that's leaked about the sizes and architectures of the advanced large language models developed by OpenAI and its ilk … | Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google launches Google Wallet for Android in India and partners with 20+ brands to let users store boarding passes, loyalty cards, event tickets, and more — - Google Wallet is now available in India, where it can be used as a digital wallet for storing passes, tickets, and more, but not for payments.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning, a breakthrough in understanding cetacean communication — Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies.
More: ZDNet, bioRxiv.org, NPR, Cybernews.com, MIT Technology Review, Boing Boing, MIT News, Associated Press, ScienceAlert, IFLScience, New York Times, and Gizmodo
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