Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup
Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head …
SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld's stats this week
The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game's previous record …
Glassdoor users complain after the service added their real names to their profiles without their consent; Glassdoor cross-populates data between its services
Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews …
Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft; a source says investors in Inflection AI, which has raised more than $1.5B, will be made whole
Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman from Inflection to Run Consumer AI Devesh Beri / MSPoweruser : Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft after CEO moves to the la...
The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years
Preliminary agreement under US Chips Act also includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during the summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model
- OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.
After its OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and most Inflection staff continues its strategy of developing ties with the most prominent names in AI
Satya Nadella's appointment of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing ties with fledging AI companies
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Mustafa Suleyman will be its CEO and Karén Simonyan its chief scientist
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle turning on fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse
Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries and is potentially linked to I-Soon
A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets, including training Gemini on articles without telling publishers or France's regulator
- Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation
Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations
Google is training Gemini on health data, and it's creating a new AI model for the Fitbit app that can give advice tailored to your needs.
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager warns Apple over its Core Technology Fee, saying the EU plans to investigate, and Meta over its planned subscription fees
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday warned Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) on their new fees for their services …
France is seeking “a national solution” to protect IT giant Atos, which manages nuclear data and cybersecurity, after Airbus talks failed; ATO.PA fell 20%+
The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.
How Sweet Baby, a small video game narrative development company, became the focus of Gamergate 2.0, a harassment campaign against “forced” diversity in gaming
A group of gamers has mobilized a harassment campaign against a story consultant company, marginalized developers …
Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app and a beta Android app in March 2023
- The Android app of Robinhood's crypto wallet has officially launched. — Last month, Robinhood said its crypto revenue jumped 10% year over year to $43 million in Q4 of 2023.
Inflection AI names Sean White as CEO and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure, after co-founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman depart for Microsoft AI
A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright laws, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's …
India appoints the government-run Press Information Bureau's fact checking unit to monitor and fact check government-related content on social media
In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media …
After damage to four major African subsea internet cables, telecoms are rerouting traffic via Brazil or overland cables; repairs could take three to five weeks
- Subsea cable repairs expected to take at least three weeks — Cables off western coast may have been damaged in landslide
Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder raised $700M from NEA, GV, and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B, and aims to open nearly 100 NYC locations
Company plans to open nearly 100 restaurant locations around New York City area over next two years
Sources: the White House is considering blacklisting some Huawei-linked Chinese chip companies, after the Mate 60 Pro from August 2023 used an advanced 7nm chip
- Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history. X: @jsmarr , @webbarr , @sandraupson , @hkanji , and @stevenle...
Toronto-based PocketHealth, which helps 775 health care providers exchange images covering 1.5M patients to cut costs, raised a $33M Series B led by Round13
- It raised $33 million in a round led by Round13 Capital — It aims to personalize health care through the use of AI
Source: Google's Pixel 8a will have a 6.1" 120Hz OLED display at 1,400 nits, a Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a
Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority :
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app
Sources: EU Commission rules, set to be adopted as soon as next week, will fine X, TikTok, and other big platforms over lax moderation of AI election content
Social media platforms including X and TikTok will face fines for failing to tackle disinformation
Sources: Canada and the UAE have lobbied leading AI startups based in Europe, including Aleph Alpha, Synthesia, and Stability AI, to move their headquarters
Canada and UAE lobby companies amid global competition over developing cutting-edge technology — Leading European …
Google DeepMind debuts TacticAI, a prototype AI soccer tactician built with Premier League club Liverpool, using geometric deep learning on 7,176 corner kicks
US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q4 revenue up 123% YoY to ~$12.5B and operating profit up 146% YoY to ~$3.2B, boosted by merchant fees
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Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund discussed a potential partnership with a16z and others to create a fund of about $40B to invest in AI in H2 2024
New York Times :
Lenovo updates its $1,239+ ThinkPad X13, available as a laptop or 2-in-1, and $1,199+ ThinkPad L-series, adding a 16" model, available with Intel or AMD chips
Brian Westover / PCMag :
Bengaluru-based audio platform Pocket FM, which offers series with short episodes, raised a $103M Series D led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $750M valuation
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Sources: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told staff last week that Robin Rombach and other researchers, the key creators of Stable Diffusion, have resigned
Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holdings to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg :
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how the company's early decisions led to its AI boom, why Nvidia's ubiquity will not be easy to replicate, and more
PE firm Francisco Partners agrees to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software, which helps companies develop complex tech products, for $1.2B
Mike Rogoway / Oregonian :
Samsung co-CEO Kye-Hyun Kyung expects $100M+ revenue in 2024 from an advanced chip packaging unit that the company set up as a separate business in 2023
Enterprise data security startup BigID raised $60M led by Riverwood Capital at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $320M, and reports ~$100M in ARR
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
Chipmaker Astera Labs prices its IPO at $36 per share, above its previous target range of $32-$34 per share, and seeks to raise ~$713M at a $5.5B valuation
Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters :
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$21.6B, vs. ~$21.8B est., a ~$3.8B net income, vs. ~$4.6B est., and plans a $12.8B+ stock buyback, as gaming sales slow
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Analysts warn that welcoming TikTok, Temu, and Shein to Ireland's low-tax jurisdiction could backfire, as the country tries to reduce reliance on US tech giants
Clothilde Goujard / Politico :
GoTo reports a $5.76B net loss in 2023, up over 2x YoY, due to a write-down after TikTok bought a ~75% stake in GoTo's Tokopedia, on ~$933.6M in net revenue
Nana Shibata / Nikkei Asia :
Researchers say misconfigured Firebase instances exposed 125M+ users' records, including plaintext passwords, email addresses, and messages, across 900 websites
Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek :
Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu :
Sources: Israeli cybersecurity company Cato Networks has hired underwriters for a US IPO as soon as early 2025; source: Cato is looking to raise more than $500M
Echo Wang / Reuters :
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