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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft delays Recall to test it with the Windows Insider Program and won't ship it with Copilot+ PCs next week, after saying it would make the feature opt-in — Microsoft is planning to launch its new Copilot Plus PCs next week without its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do on these new laptops.
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Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding — After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down.
Threads: @goldman, @darksideofthemat, @parkert, @reporterzoe, @crumbler, @wongmjane, and @normative. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Brad Smith tells a US House committee that Microsoft “accepts responsibility” for security errors, its business in China served US interests, and more — Microsoft President Brad Smith faced the the House Homeland Security Committee amid sharp criticism the company's practices put government clients at risk.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Apple says it doesn't use users' private data or user interactions to train its models, and uses both licensed materials and publicly available online data — At WWDC on Monday, Apple revealed Apple Intelligence, a suite of features bringing generative AI tools like rewriting an email draft …
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| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects: |
A look at Apple's technical approach to AI, including core model performance, alignment strategies, and adapter and on-device strategy — Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models “thinking different.”
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Filing: Clearview AI proposes to settle a class action suit by collectively giving a 23% company stake worth ~$52M to Americans whose faces are in its database — The facial recognition start-up doesn't have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity …
More: Ars Technica and Reuters
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Luma debuts Dream Machine, an AI model to generate high-quality videos from text and images, and plans to release APIs and plugins for popular creative software — Luma AI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, today announced the release of Dream Machine, a powerful new AI system capable …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/midjourney, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, and r/aiwars
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Paradigm says it raised $850M for its third fund, which will focus on early-stage crypto projects; it previously launched a $2.5B crypto fund in November 2021 — - Venture capital firm raised a $2.5 billion fund in 2021 — The new fund will invest in early-stage crypto projects
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI adds retired US Army General Paul Nakasone, who led the NSA and US Cyber Command, to its board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee — - Nakasone, who led the military's Cyber Command in addition to his time atop the NSA, brings cybersecurity and national security expertise to the board.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
US hospital operator Ascension says a May ransomware attack was caused by an employee downloading a malicious file, and has no proof data was taken from its EHR — Ascension, one of the largest U.S. healthcare systems, revealed that a May 2024 ransomware attack was caused by an employee …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
US authorities arrest and charge the founder and the head doctor of telehealth company Done Global for an alleged scheme to profit from Adderall prescriptions — The founder and clinical president of Done Global allegedly orchestrated a scheme to profit from Adderall prescriptions
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Forums: Hacker News, r/medicine, and r/pharmacy
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Apple's WWDC demos, with the integration of generative AI across its products, show the value of seeing AI as a feature rather than a standalone app or device — Other tech companies want to sell you chatbots. Apple's demos show the value of seeing the AI as an integrated, holistic experience rather than a stand-alone app or device.
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Boulder, Colorado-based Enveda, which combines AI with ancient remedies for drug discovery, raised a $55M Series B extension from investors including Microsoft — For centuries, people chewed willow tree bark to relieve pain, but scientists at chemical firm Bayer didn't isolate its active ingredient until the 1800s
More: TechCrunch
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
A deep dive into the Snapdragon X Elite/Plus architecture including Oryon, Qualcomm's custom-built Arm CPU cores, as first laptops with the SoC ship next week — The curtains are drawn and it's almost showtime for Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X SoC team. After first detailing …
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