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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs, offering at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board — The aim is to handle more AI processing locally rather than in the cloud. — We've been hearing rumblings for months …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Recall for Windows 11, an AI-powered search tool for Copilot+ PCs that keeps track of users' actions and gives them an explorable timeline — Microsoft's launching Recall for Windows 11, a new tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/OpenAI, r/technews, r/singularity, r/Windows11, r/tech, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told our columnist new efficient, powerful chips equip Windows Copilot+ laptops to compete with Apple's MacBooks
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| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Samsung, and Lenovo joined Microsoft in debuting laptops featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips and a dedicated Copilot key — They all have similar processors, but there are plenty of differences in design and functionality.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the $1,000+ Surface Pro with optional OLED display and 5G, up to 90% faster than the last gen, a Flex keyboard with haptic feedback, and more — Microsoft just announced the new Surface Pro, the latest in its lineup of tablet / laptop hybrid devices and the first in a new generation … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the 13.8" and 15" Surface Laptop with new Qualcomm chips, up to 22 hours of battery, Wi-Fi 7, support for three 4K external monitors, from $999 — Microsoft has taken the wraps off the new Surface Laptop — an Arm-based laptop for consumers.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
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| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Scarlett Johansson says she declined an offer to voice ChatGPT and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “so eerily similar” to hers — The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
US v. Google: Google has preemptively paid damages to the US government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial in the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has preemptively paid damages to the U.S. government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial …
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| Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian: |
Meta approved 14 AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election with known slurs against Muslims; civil groups submitted and then pulled the ads as a test — Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups
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Forums: r/technology and r/india
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
The FBI arrests a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct — He allegedly used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative AI model, to create “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors,” prosecutors said.
More: US Department of Justice. X: @marvelle, @samleecole, @samleecole, and @samleecole
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
LG denies reports over canceling its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it is “controlling its pace” — LG denied reports from Korean news outlets claiming it canceled its partnership with Meta, but said it is “controlling its pace”.
More: The Verge, Korea Joongang Daily, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, and KED Global
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Forums: r/virtualreality, r/oculus, r/OculusQuest, and r/QuestPro
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1, saying the bug that let some deleted photos reappear has now been fixed — Apple today released iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1, minor updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The DOJ announces the arrest of a Taiwanese national at JFK Airport who allegedly owned Incognito Market, a dark web site used by 200K+ to buy $100M+ in drugs — The owner and operator of Incognito Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal narcotics online, was arrested at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on May 18.| Business Insider: |
Inside Oracle's Cerner acquisition, including issues with Cerner's EHR system, which Oracle says it wasn't aware of, and its rollout at the US Veterans Affairs — Larry Ellison bet $28 billion he could revolutionize healthcare. So why are so many patients dying? — An curved arrow pointing right.
More: The Hill. X: @mstrknowitall, @orionds, and @edithhonan. LinkedIn: Vanessa Lipton. Forums: r/cernercorporation
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors the startup roughly doubled revenue to ~$500M in 2023 — Military defense startup Anduril has had early discussions to raise what would be one of the largest venture capital rounds of the year so far … | Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Alphabet's moonshot X lab, which is carving out a path to spin off projects as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation — Alphabet is ending an era of unrestrained invention, spinning off many projects into independent startups.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics names Young-Hyun Jun as the head of its semiconductor arm, replacing co-CEO Kye-Hyun Kyung, who will oversee its business planning team — - Smaller rival SK Hynix now ahead in high-bandwidth memory — Samsung is trying to regain its dominance of the industrySponsor Posts
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