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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 …
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Windows on YouTube, Axios, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Laptop Mag, Ars Technica, ITPro, AI News, AIM, Spyglass, TweakTown, 동아일 …, iThinkDifferent, IGN, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Financial Express, Maginative, AndroidGuys, and WinBuzzer
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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 …
More: Ars Technica, Windows Blog, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Engadget, TweakTown, Ghacks, USA Today, Axios, Decrypt, How-To Geek, Pureinfotech, Thurrott, and WinBuzzer
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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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Forums: r/hardware, r/apple, r/technology, and r/microsoft
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users compared the sound to Scarlett Johansson, saying Sky is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation” — - Selecting the Sky profile redirects ChatGPT users to Juniper — Company said it was not trying to imitate Johansson's voice
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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.| 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 …
More: United States District Court. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social. X: @jason_kint, @carnage4life, @lutherlowe, @timsweeneyepic, @econliberties, and @jason_kint. Forums: Hacker News
| 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| Wired: |
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Forums: r/Futurology and r/worldnews
| 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
Forums: Hacker News and r/ArtistHate
| 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, 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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X: @spercharged, @kaepora, @verge, @irjo, @unfadedskye, and @brandonbutch
Forums: r/ios, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance acquires Chinese earphone maker Oladance, founded five years ago, for ~$50M, bringing on board seasoned ex-Bose engineers — - Shenzhen-based startup is led by former Bose sound engineers — TikTok owner sees future growth in wearables and generative AI| 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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