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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July. The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming …
More: Xbox Wire, About Amazon, Dexerto, Game Developer, 9to5Google, Windows Central, Neowin, PhoneArena, T3, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, 9to5Toys, Destructoid, Gameranx, XboxEra, TrueAchievements, Stevivor, IGN, Press Start, iPhone in Canada Blog, Video Games Chronicle, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, Pure Xbox, Notebookcheck, and Variety
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google adds support for 110 new languages in Translate, up from 133 languages, in its largest expansion ever, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model — Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, PCMag, ZDNet, Financial Express, Engadget, Google AI, Maginative, iClarified, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, Mashable, Wccftech, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, Neowin, CNET, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, NewsBytes, and Thurrott
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether — - Coinbase, which retained consultant firm History Associates Inc. to file the FOIA requests, took aim at the SEC and FDIC … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces faster Google Sheets calculations in Chrome and Edge browsers on desktop, doubling speeds for running formulas, creating pivot tables, and more — Google is touting significant speed improvements when performing calculations in Sheets on desktop Chrome and Edge.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Progress Software discloses a critical vulnerability in MOVEit's SFTP module; hackers exploited a similar flaw in MOVEit in 2023 to breach almost 1,800 networks — A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached. Will the latest one be as potent? — A critical vulnerability …
More: The Record, watchTowr Labs, Progress Customer Community, Progress Customer Community, Censys, TechRadar, Rapid7, SecurityWeek, Dark Reading, ITPro, The Shadowserver Foundation, Qualys ThreatPROTECT, Rapid7, Tenable Blog, DeviceSecurity.io, Help Net Security, Security Affairs, SC Media, The Hacker News, Born's Tech and Windows World, Stack Diary, BleepingComputer, CRN, Cybersecurity Dive, The Register, and Cyber Daily
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Orby AI, which is building generative AI agents to automate business workflows, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a post-money valuation of $100M+ — AI “agents” are generative AI models that can perform actions autonomously, like copying info from an email and pasting it into a spreadsheet …
More: SiliconANGLE
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI now lets users talk to AI characters over calls in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, says 3M users made 20M+ calls during testing — a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls.
More: Reuters
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Google says Gemma 2 will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI starting next month, including with a new 9B-parameter model — Google says Gemma 2, its open lightweight model series, will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI starting next month.
More: The Keyword, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Analytics India Magazine, MarkTechPost, The Decoder, and YourStory
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Clay, which develops AI tools focused on sales and marketing for businesses, raised $46M at a $500M valuation, bringing its total funding to $66M — Company was valued at $500 million in its latest funding round. — An artificial intelligence startup focused on sales and marketing …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google Cloud announces deals, including with Moody's, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo, to “ground” responses from its enterprise AI chatbots in real-world facts — - Now, Google is offering an additional option: using third-party data to help ground AI results.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta's Oversight Board issued 53 decisions in 2023 and says Meta has fully or partially implemented 75 out of 266 recommendations from January 2021 to May 2024 — The board says it wants to weigh in on “demoted content” on Facebook and Instagram. — The Oversight Board has published …
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Threads: @oversightboard. X: @oversightboard, @oversightboard, @oversightboard, @oversightboard, and @oversightboard
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Axelera, which is building AI processing units to run computer vision inference workloads on the edge, raised a $68M Series B, taking its total funding to $120M — Nvidia leads the age of AI hardware. The company's high-performance GPUs are being used by some of the biggest technology companies …
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Axelera AI, TechCrunch, and Silicon Canals
| The Information: |
As tech companies grapple with the limited availability of Nvidia chips globally, Chinese companies like Alibaba face a tougher situation due to US restrictions — U.S. rules curbing the export of artificial intelligence chips to China are beginning to squeeze the country's AI industry.| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
An interview with Netflix's VP of external games, Leanne Loombe, on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more — I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited. “Ooo, what about? Which show?”
More: Variety, Mobilegamer.biz, and Game Developer
| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B — Online comics platform prices IPO at top of range for $2.7bn valuation — Webtoon Entertainment, an online comics platform …
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| Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times: |
Testing ChatGPT, Vacay, and Mindtrip to plan a Norway trip shows none were perfect, but the chatbots streamlined travel decisions and complemented one another — Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation?
LinkedIn: Hege Vibeke Barnes
| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Arkham: a wallet tagged to the US government moved ~3,940 BTC, worth ~$240M and originally seized from a Silk Road narcotics vendor, to a Coinbase Prime address — About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.
More: Bitcoin Insider, CryptoPotato, ZyCrypto, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, Milk Road, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, and CoinJournal
| Julie Weed / New York Times: |
How landlords are using AI tools to communicate with tenants, track the use of common areas, monitor energy use, aid construction management, and more — Artificial intelligence is doing everything from helping landlords communicate with tenants to managing energy use.| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US — - Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
More: PCMag, The Information, Rest of World, South China Morning Post, MEDIANAMA, Gizmochina, DeviceSecurity.io, Benzinga, TechNode, Pandaily, and Reuters
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| Katie Mettler / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national, who remains at large, for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate malware attack on Ukrainian systems in January 2022 — A federal grand jury indicted Russian national Amin Stigal this week on allegations that he conspired with the Russian military …
More: US Department of Justice, Metacurity, SC Media, USA Today, The Baltimore Banner, DataBreachToday.com, The Register, The Record, The Hacker News, Reuters, ABC News, Nextgov/FCW, TechCrunch, CyberScoop, and Help Net Security
X: @fbibaltimore, @aejleslie, @aejleslie, @ericgeller, @lorenzofb, and @aejleslie
| John Reed / Financial Times: |
The chair of the India Cellular and Electronics Association says thousands of Chinese engineers and technicians are struggling to obtain Indian work visas — Modi's ambitions to create a manufacturing power come up against souring diplomatic relations with Beijing
More: Skift and New York Times
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PortSwigger, the startup behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools founded by security expert “Daf”, raised $112M, its first outside investment — Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs.| Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: |
Netherlands-based Innatera Nanosystems, which unveiled an energy-efficient AI chip for sensor-edge applications in January, raised a $21M Series A — Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round …
More: FinSMEs
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
KarmaCheck, which uses AI to do background checks and was founded by LinkedIn's Eric Ly in 2019, raised a $45M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$60M — Background checks, credentialing and compliance software company KarmaCheck Inc. today announced that it has raised $45 million …
More: Reuters
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Odaseva, which provides data protection services for large Salesforce customers, raised a $54M Series C, bringing its total funding to $90M — Cloud services continue to be a weak point for enterprises when it comes to security, so companies providing effective solutions to address this continue … Sponsor Posts
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