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Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025 — - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more — A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator — GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator. — Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx … | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia details LLM family NVLM 1.0, which can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only capabilities and is led by the 72B-parameter NVLM-D-72B — Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist — Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.| Wired: |
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa — Scamming operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking in billions of dollars in the process.| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, and Australia sanction the group — - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse … | Sebastiaan de With / Lux: |
An in-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are the standouts — For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert. Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.| Rob Davies / The Guardian: |
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion — She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night.| Geraldine Brooks / Washington Post: |
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years — Geraldine Brooks is a novelist and former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.| Tom Faber / Financial Times: |
2024 has been a barren year for big video games compared to 2023, helping indie games take center stage; the games industry has laid off 10,000+ people in 2024 — As gamers turn their backs on gargantuan adventures, we could be entering a golden age of modest titles| Fortune: |
Sources: many OpenAI staff thought o1 wasn't ready to be unveiled and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in arguments between research and technical teams — When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui — Sometimes, a pivot ends up being the smartest decision company leaders can make. See Netflix's pivot from DVDs to streaming … | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / Sifted: |
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised a $80M Series B in equity and debt led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M — Generative AI has changed the game for autonomous technology, says founder and CEO Andrei Danescu| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Peak XV cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its Sequoia split, with most of the reduction coming in its growth-stage allocation — Venture capital firm Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, has pared the size of its $2.85 billion fund by 16% …
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