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| Verne Kopytoff / Fortune: |
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati responded to Elon Musk's denouncement of Apple's OpenAI deal, saying OpenAI cares deeply about user privacy and security — A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Elon Musk withdraws his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman, filed in California in February 2024 over breach of contract and fiduciary duty — Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company's co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
X says the platform will make Likes private for everyone this week, meaning users will no longer be able to see who liked someone else's post — Likes on the website will no longer cause PR crises for public figures. — Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
IBM and Xerox PARC engineer Lynn Conway, who helped shape the way chips are designed and undertook a gender transition in 1968, died last weekend at age 86 — - In the 1970s, Conway helped author “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a seminal book in the field of chip design that became …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible — It only works for macOS 15 guests on macOS 15 hosts, but it's a big improvement. — We've written before about Apple's handy …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is combining its AI-focused research centers in Toronto and Mountain View to improve operations; ex-Apple exec Murat Akbacak will run the group — - Company is combining Toronto and California research centers — Apple's Murat Akbacak will be leading the new division
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube plans to roll out its Thumbnail Test & Compare tool to all creators “in the coming weeks”, letting them test video thumbnails “evenly” across audiences — YouTube is preparing to roll out a new thumbnail testing feature to creators, which means you'll … | Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Apple shares closed up 7.3% at $207.15 in their biggest one-day jump since November 2022, giving the company a $3.18T market cap, just under Microsoft's $3.22T — - The return to all-time high comes after Monday conference — Shares have underperformed most other big tech names this year
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
A summary of the apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2024, like 1Password and LastPass, call recording and transcription apps, and the Newji custom emoji app — Apple has been on a spree of late, announcing a host of new features for its various devices earlier this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Nieman Lab, How-To Geek, and Digital Trends
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears over China using Middle Eastern countries to overcome US sanctions on AI chips are “valid” — But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
China's Ministry of Commerce issues a policy for expanding the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry and to promote the construction of offshore warehouses — Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad — China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling …
More: Reuters and PYMNTS.com
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on co-authoring the “Attention is all you need” paper at Google, focusing on enterprise, whether there's an AI bubble, and more — Enterprise is the pathway to profit, Gomez says, but maybe don't ask it to do medicine quite yet.| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: MediaTek is designing an Arm-based chip for Windows laptops, slated to launch late in 2025 after Qualcomm's exclusive deal expires — Taiwanese chip design giant MediaTek (2454.TW) is developing an Arm-based personal computer chip that will run Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Windows operating system … | Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds — The microblogging platform — India's first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
More: Business Today and WeeTracker
| Benjamin Hoffman / New York Times: |
How some people are using the term “slop” as a descriptor for low-grade AI material, after emerging in reaction to the release of AI art generators in 2022 — A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material. — You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Databricks launches AI/BI, a visualization tool to let users type questions about their data to build charts and graphs, competing with Microsoft and Salesforce — - New business tool integrates generative AI for faster results — Company last year acquired a maker of large language models
More: TechCrunch and Databricks
| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
GameStop raised ~$2.14B from a share sale program capitalizing on a stock rally fueled by Keith Gill's YouTube return, selling 75M shares for ~$28.49 on average — - Company has raised more than $3 billion over the past month — Stock staged a mid-afternoon rally on Tuesday as volume rose
More: Reuters, Barron's Online, CNBC, Proactive, Blockonomi, BBC, and Benzinga
| Diana Li / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Michael Dell plans to sell 10M Dell shares worth $1.3B, after selling $1.6B in shares earlier in 2024; Dell sold $1.7B in 1999 before the bubble burst — - Dell filed to sell 10 million shares now worth $1.3 billion — His hardware company surged this year on AI optimism
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Jingna Zhang, the founder of anti-AI social platform Cara, about its focus on artists, crossing 900K users, the positives of generative AI, and more — Artists are fleeing Meta's platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang's Cara promises protection … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo issues a software update to its 672 vehicles after one collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix on May 21, marking Waymo's second recall ever — Waymo is issuing a voluntary software recall after one of its driverless vehicles collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, last month, the company said.| Arno Schuetze / Bloomberg: |
German startup Black Semiconductor raised €254M, comprising €229M in public grants and €26M in equity, to build chips using graphene for mass production in 2031 — - Black Semiconductor raises funds from state, venture backers — Graphene seen as promising but yet to see wide commercial use
More: TechCrunch, CNBC, Tech Startups, TNW, eeNews Europe, Tech Funding News, Sifted, EU-Startups, and Silicon Canals. LinkedIn: Black Semiconductor
| Usama Jawad / XDA Developers: |
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