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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will soon let businesses build custom Copilot AI agents to automate tasks, and unveils Team Copilot to help with tasks in Teams, Loop, and Planner — Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically.
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Forums: r/singularity and r/technews
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the general availability of its Phi-3 models, including Phi-3-Silica, a 3.3B parameter model that will be embedded on all Copilot+ PCs — Microsoft is making more investments in the development of small language models. At its Build developer conference …
More: Maginative, Tom's Guide, MSPoweruser, and WinBuzzer
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more — Build is Microsoft's largest developer conference and of course, it's all about AI this year. So it's no surprise that GitHub's Copilot …
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LinkedIn: Michael Hanley and Thomas Dohmke
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft partners with Khan Academy, moving the Khanmigo agent, used by 65K+ students, to its Azure OpenAI Service and making it free for US K-12 teachers — Microsoft is partnering with Khan Academy in a multifaceted deal to demonstrate how AI can transform the way we learn.
More: Microsoft, GeekWire, Khan Academy Blog, ZDNet, CNBC, Microsoft Education Blog, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, AIM, Fast Company, Neowin, and Maginative. Forums: r/singularity
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the developer preview of Windows Volumetric Apps, giving access to an API that lets devs put Windows apps in 3D space on Meta Quest headsets — You can already beam your flat Windows desktop and its VR games onto your Meta Quest headset — but what if Windows could send HoloLens …
More: TechCrunch, Windows Blog, Digital Trends, and TechRadar
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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Anthropic researchers detail attempts to peer inside the “black box” of LLMs, learning which combinations of neurons evoke specific concepts — What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.
More: Anthropic, New York Times, Transformer Circuits Thread, Gizmodo, and TIME
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/aiwars, r/technology, r/tech, and Beehaw
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ASML and TSMC have ways to disable their machines if China invades Taiwan; ASML reassured Dutch officials about its ability to remotely disable them — - Firms can remotely shut off advanced EUV chip-making machines — US officials concerned over risk of conflict to chip industry
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X: @rajakorman, @birdyword, @sam_macaulay, @oliviasolon, @cagankoc, @birdyword, and @dalperovitch. Forums: r/worldnews
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Google plans to test search and shopping ads in its AI Overviews, drawing from advertisers' existing campaigns; AI Overviews rolled out to US users last week — Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It's a test of how the company's biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
| Glenn Rifkin / New York Times: |
Gordon Bell, who helped design several influential minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation, including the 12-bit PDP-8, died on May 17 at age 89 — It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
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Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Farcaster, a blockchain-based social media project built on Ethereum, raised $150M in a round led by Paradigm and says it has 350K paid sign-ups — Dan Romero's Farcaster made waves earlier this year with the introduction of “Frames,” a feature allowing apps to run within posts, so users don't have to click off to another site.
More: Dan Romero, TechCrunch, Unchained, Decrypt, The Information, New.blicio.us, The Block, Blockworks, Crypto Briefing, and NFTgators
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Generative AI music startup Suno raised $125M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix, Founder Collective, and others — Suno, a trailblazing music AI startup, announced today that it has raised a staggering $125 million in its latest funding round …
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, IBM, and 10 other companies commit to safe AI development at the AI Seoul Summit 2024, hosted by South Korea and the UK — Sixteen companies involved in AI including Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Meta (META.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O) and OpenAI …
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LinkedIn: Christina Montgomery, Gareth Stokes, and Dean Armstrong KC
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs event was compelling, the culmination of years of work, and Windows feels revitalized while its hardware is meaningfully differentiated — Full disclosure: I didn't have any plans to write this Article; I had various reasons to be in the U.S. this week …
More: ITPro Today, mjtsai.com, and Directions on Microsoft
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
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Threads: @tomwarrenuk, @crumbler, @technicallymims, @technicallymims, @broximar, and @shiraovide. Mastodon: @xgranade@wandering.shop
X: @richontech, @ryanshrout, @jordannovet, @stevesi, @geoffblaber, @sdw, @satyanadella, @mattmday, @benbajarin, @benbajarin, @varunkrish, @patrickmoorhead, @patrickmoorhead, @anshelsag, @patrickmoorhead, @maryjofoley, @richontech, @mreflow, @richontech, @parkerortolani, @parkerortolani, @gartenberg, @benbajarin, @maryjofoley, @maryjofoley, @benbajarin, and @scobleizer
LinkedIn: Mike Davidson, John Crouch, and Vivek Pradeep
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe adds generative AI tools to Lightroom, including Firefly-powered Generative Remove to let users “paint” over unwanted objects, available in early access — Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use …
More: Adobe Press Releases, Wired, CNET, iThinkDifferent, Thurrott, PetaPixel, AndroidGuys, ZDNet, The Decoder, Lifewire, Droid Life, MacRumors, Digital Photography Review, TechRadar, Windows Central, XDA Developers, Forbes, USA Today, Maginative, Android Authority, Computerworld, TechCrunch, and Engadget. LinkedIn: Jen Giese
| Reuters: |
EU countries vote to approve the landmark EU AI Act, agreed in December 2023, to ensure “trust, transparency, and accountability”, taking effect in June 2024 — Europe's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed …
More: Council of the EU, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, CNBC, WinBuzzer, The Register, Benzinga, and The Verge
X: @thierrybreton, @vestager, @mmitchell_ai, @eucouncil, @eesc_president, @katebevan, @mmitchell_ai, @euambus, @eurightsagency, and @frimelle. LinkedIn: Catherine Hammon. Forums: r/worldnews
| Financial Times: |
AWS says it has “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia's Grace Hopper chips to the successor Grace Blackwell chips, announced in March 2024 — Delay from the world's biggest cloud computing provider gives investors jitters over potential ‘air pocket’ in demand for AI chips
More: Channel NewsAsia, Investor's Business Daily, Yahoo Finance, Tom's Hardware, Quartz, Benzinga, and CoinGape
X: @jaguaranalytics and @trengriffin
Forums: r/NVDA_Stock and r/wallstreetbets
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Tech Against Scams, a coalition to fight “pig butchering” ploys with better industry coordination, launches with Meta, Coinbase, Match, Kraken, others on board — Bad people who prey on those looking for love, or hoping to make a quick buck, have been around since biblical times.
More: PYMNTS.com, Match Group, TechCrunch, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, Mashable, CCN.com, The Crypto Times, Nairametrics, and Engadget
| Financial Times: |
AI data labeling startup Scale AI raised $1B led by Accel at a ~$14B valuation, up from $7.3B in April 2021; a source says Scale AI had ~$700M in 2023 revenue — Alexandr Wang's company brings in $1bn in latest fundraising round as investors bet that data is the new oil
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X: @ycombinator and @alexandr_wang
LinkedIn: Lucas Bunzel, Sandy L., Luv Kothari, Patrick Circelli, and Annie Hu
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple files a lawsuit at the EU's General Court to challenge a March 2024 decision to impose a €1.8B fine for thwarting competition in music streaming — - Company files suit at EU's General Court to topple penalty — Fine was sparked by long-running dispute with top music rival
More: MacRumors, PYMNTS.com, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, Benzinga, Proactive, iMore, Tech Xplore, Malay Mail, PhoneArena, Engadget, AppleInsider, and iClarified
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