Microsoft plans to add Copilot to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and more, roll out Bing to Windows 11 taskbar and Skype, announces Bing plugins, and more
You only need two simple letters to accurately convey the major shift in the technology space this year: A and I. Beyond those letters …
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy releases a 19-page report arguing social media can have a “profound risk of harm” for kids and teens and calls for action
Dr. Vivek H. Murthy urged immediate action from policymakers, tech companies and parents to safeguard against potential harms.
Microsoft adds AI-generated summaries of app reviews to the Microsoft Store and introduces an AI Hub to highlight AI apps
Microsoft is making a big AI-focused change to the Microsoft Store: AI-generated review summaries are going to start appearing across the Microsoft Store …
An interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who manages the OpenAI partnership, as Microsoft adds Copilots to everything from Office to Terminal to Edge
Microsoft is putting AI Copilots in everything. Will it change the way we use computers? … Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott …
Warner Bros. Discovery launches Max, offering substantially more 4K content than HBO Max via its $19.99 per month Ultimate plan, above the $15.99 ad-free plan
When Max goes live on May 23rd, the new Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service will offer substantially more 4K entertainment than HBO Max ever did.
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OpenAI plans to use Bing as the default search experience for ChatGPT, starting today for ChatGPT Plus users and soon for free ChatGPT users via a plugin
here's why Cecily Mauran / Mashable : Microsoft Bing will connect ChatGPT to the internet for all users Pradeep Viswanathan / BigTechWire : Build 2023: OpenAI ChatGPT to have Microsoft Bing search int...
Adobe launches Generative Fill for Photoshop, one of the first Creative Cloud apps to use its generative AI Firefly tool, in beta, rolling out fully in H2 2023
/ Generative Fill will arrive in Photoshop in ‘the second half of 2023.’ — Adobe Photoshop is getting a new generative AI tool …
Meta unveils open-source AI models the company says can identify 4,000+ languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, a 40x and 10x increase, respectively
They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now. — Meta has built AI models that can recognize …
Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show the majority favor some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an EU-wide E2EE ban
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”
Some users say Twitter is restoring tweets and retweets that they had deleted, in what appears to be a new bug
Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. … This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets …
TikTok sues Montana over its new law intending to ban the app, citing the First Amendment, the state's lack of authority on national security issues, and more
TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders.
Apple announces a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” deal with Broadcom to develop and manufacture 5G and wireless components, including FBAR filters, in the US
Apple has announced a major new partnership with Broadcom, one of its long-time supplier partners.
Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA blocked Meta's acquisition in 2022; Meta can still access Giphy content
Stock photos repository Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N) said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy Inc from Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) for $53 million in cash.
Amazon announces the 11-inch Fire Max 11, offering a sleeker design, slim bezels, MediaTek SoC, support for a new keyboard with trackpad and a stylus, from $230
For years, Amazon's Fire tablet lineup has consisted of smaller seven-inch, medium eight-inch, and larger 10-inch screen options …
Microsoft says Dev Home, its cloud-powered workstations preconfigured for developers to test their projects, will be publicly available in July 2023
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
Securities watchdog IOSCO proposes the first global crypto regulations, covering conflicts of interest, custody, and more, aiming to finalize them by year-end
International securities watchdog IOSCO on Tuesday proposed the first global approach to regulating cryptoasset markets …
Microsoft unveils Copilot in Power Pages in preview, letting US customers use an AI assistant to build business data-centric websites using natural language
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Sources: in 2020 and 2021, Binance commingled customer funds with revenue; a source says the sums ran into billions of dollars in Silvergate-held accounts
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, commingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021 …
Microsoft debuts Azure AI Content Safety to moderate images and text in eight languages, assigning severity scores to flagged content and giving explanations
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Microsoft announces Azure AI Studio, letting customers combine models like GPT-4 with their private data, whether text or images, to build their own “copilots”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Uber and Waymo announce a “multi-year” partnership to “make the Waymo Driver available to more people” via Uber, starting in Phoenix with a “set number” of cars
Waymo's robotaxis will be available to hail for rides and food delivery on Uber's app …
Microsoft agrees to sign all AI-generated art from Bing Image Creator and Microsoft Designer with a cryptographic watermark that adheres to a C2PA specification
Mark Hachman / PCWorld :
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for its Facebook service (...
Anthropic, a generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, raised a $450M Series C led by Spark Capital, with Google, Salesforce, and Zoom participating
Anthropic, the prominent generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, has raised $450 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital.
Building AI responsibly matters more than competition, one company cannot fulfill AI's potential alone, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key
Fulfilling the technology's potential is not something that one company can do alone — The writer is CEO of Google and Alphabet
China's Micron ban could help the government boost its domestic memory chip industry, a sector where China has a toehold in its competition with the US
A Chinese government block on Micron Technology's memory chips marks how far apart the two economic powers are drifting on tech policy.
Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped
and markets briefly dipped Shannon Bond / NPR : Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI Davey Alba / Bloomberg : How Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral ...
WhatsApp rolls out the ability to edit messages up to 15 minutes after they are sent; edited messages get an “edited” tag, without showing edit history
Hong Kong outlines crypto trading rules for bitcoin, ether, and other large coins, letting retail investors trade them on licensed exchanges starting on June 1
Bloomberg :
Google launches Product Studio to let merchants quickly edit product images using generative AI for free, rolling out to US merchants in “the next few months”
Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Google Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize …
Biden nominates veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez as FCC Commissioner, and nominates Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new FCC terms
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence
Now is a good time to start thinking about the governance … Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Please, World, Please, Regulate AI. Oh, Come Now, You Silly Goose Hasan Chowdhury / Insider : ChatGPT's ...
Australian blockchain-based fitness app Stepn says iOS users can now buy and sell NFTs inside its app, signaling that Apple may have softened its crypto policy
US prosecutors have gathered over 6M pages of documents ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial, an unusually large amount that underscores his legal difficulties
Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange's founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records. Tweets: @smdiehl Tweets: Stephen Diehl ...
A researcher says hackers took over crypto mixer Tornado Cash on May 20 using a malicious governance proposal to give themselves fake votes to gain full control
South African digital banking startup TymeBank raised a $77.8M pre-Series C led by Norrsken22 and Blue Earth Capital, after a $110M Series B in February 2021
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
SEC-backed FINRA approved two crypto-related companies, like broker-dealer Prometheum Capital, which defined some tokens as securities to comply with SEC rules
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk :
As music revenue slows, record labels may force Spotify, which has never changed its US base plan's price, to follow Apple, Amazon, and others in raising prices
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
An NLRB complaint accuses Amazon of violating US federal labor law at its unionized Staten Island warehouse and Andy Jassy of making illegal anti-union comments
Sources: JioMart cuts 1,000+ jobs as part of a larger cost-cutting measure, which is set to include reducing the 15,000-people wholesale division by two-thirds
The Economic Times :
Google expands its AI flood forecasting tool Flood Hub to 460M people, from 20 countries up to 48 hours in advance to 80 countries up to seven days in advance
Yossi Matias / The Keyword :
London-based Builder.ai, which offers low-code app building tools, raised a $250M Series D led by the Qatar Investment Authority, taking its funding to $450M+
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Sources: activist investor TCS Capital, which owns 4%+ of Yelp's common stock, urges the recommendation site to explore strategic alternatives, including a sale
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal :
Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, offering a music creation and fan engagement service with 60M+ registered users, raised $25M Series B1 valuing it at $425M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
How ShareIt became the go-to file transfer app in countries where mobile data is prohibitively expensive; the company claims the app has 2.4B downloads globally
Rest of World : Tweets: @anupkaphle Tweets: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : Faster than Bluetooth, 2.4 billion downloads @NilChristopher & @violazhouyi on how ShareIt became the world's go-to app for fil...
Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.11B, vs. $1.08B est., Enterprise revenue up 13% YoY to $632M, and customers contributing $100K+ annually up ~23% YoY
A US district judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit that claimed Elon Musk cheated Twitter shareholders several times in 2022 while buying the company
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
Stop Scams UK, a group of banks, telecoms, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, plans a June pilot to gather intelligence on scammers and shut down their tools
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times :
Sources: TikTok restructures its ecommerce business to focus on markets where the service has already been introduced, like the UK, the US, and Southeast Asia
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Tweets: @cristinacriddle Tweets: Cristina Criddle / @cristinacriddle : SCOOP - TikTok has undergone a significant restructure in e-commerce: ✈️ staff in Brazil an...
Mumbai-based Chalo, which offers bus operators online payments and real-time commute tracking, raised a $45M Series D led by Avataar Ventures and $12M in debt
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