Sources: Microsoft is confident upcoming Windows laptops with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips will beat an M3-powered MacBook Air in CPU and AI performance
Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an event in Seattle.
Google unveils ARM-based Axion chips for AI, claiming they have up to 30% better performance over the top ARM rivals, coming to Google Cloud customers in 2024
Tech giant develops new chips to cut reliance on outside vendors as the AI arms race intensifies
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveils AI updates: corporate Gemini users can “ground” responses in reliable sources, Search as a Gemini answer source, and more
The company unveiled updates to its AI offerings at its annual cloud conference — Google unveiled a host …
Google announces Vids, an app to help companies and consumers make collaborative, shareable video, powered by Gemini, launching in public beta in summer 2024
For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides.
Google details Workspace updates: Gmail's “Help me write” voice input and “instant polish”, Docs tabs, Sheets tables, Gemini in Chat, Meet translation, and more
Besides Vids, Google Workspace is getting a slew of new features and Gemini capabilities at Cloud Next 2024.
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Pro in public preview on Vertex AI, offering support for up to 1M tokens, and says the model will power new features in Code Assist
Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google's most capable generative AI model, is now available in public preview on Vertex AI, Google's enterprise-focused AI development platform.
Intel debuts its Gaudi 3 AI chips, set for Q3 mass production, saying they offer up to 1.7x the training performance and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia H100s
Intel announced its new Gaudi 3 AI processors at its Vision 2024 event, claiming they offer up to 1.7X the training performance …
Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky will become Automattic's head of messaging
- Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join — Beeper briefly brought Apple's iMessage to Android devices
Monad Labs, which is building a Layer 1 blockchain to rival Ethereum and Solana, raised $225M led by Paradigm and plans to launch its mainnet by the end of 2024
With crypto markets roaring back, different blockchains are jockeying to become the solution that hoovers up demand in the next wave …
The Internet Archive is hosting the new Aruba Collection, which contains 101,376 items from Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions
By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding …
An investigation finds a shadowy supply chain for Starlink terminals to US foes in Russia and Sudan via Africa, Asia, and the UAE; SpaceX has not shut them off
The satellite-internet devices are helping Russian fighters in Ukraine and paramilitary forces in Sudan; SpaceX hasn't shut them off
In some US schools, boys have used AI “nudification” apps to create and share deepfakes of clothed female classmates, leading to varying district responses
After boys at Francesca Mani's high school fabricated and shared explicit images of girls last year, she and her mother …
Filing: Tesla settles a lawsuit over Apple engineer Walter Huang's 2018 fatal Autopilot crash a day before the trial started; details were not disclosed
which would have required detailed testimony from company engineers — just a few days after the company's CEO hyped a robotaxi 🤔 https://www.forbes.com/... @tweet_removed : Apparently Elon deemed this...
Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is set for summer 2024
Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee.
Sources: the US plans to award Samsung $6B+ next week to build four chip facilities in Taylor, Texas, including a $17B plant, as part of the $52.7B CHIPS Act
The Biden administration plans to announce it is awarding more than $6 billion to South Korea's Samsung (005930.KS) …
Google makes its Imagen 2 image generator generally available in Vertex AI, and adds inpainting and outpainting to remove or add elements and expand borders
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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's role in protecting free speech online, operating in war zones, moderation, never doing layoffs, and more
What free speech, war zones, and Aristotle have to do with internet infrastructure. … Today, I'm talking with Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince.
Google debuts its Find My Device network in the US and Canada, initially for lost Android phones and tablets; third-party tracker tag support is coming in May
here's what it does Thom Holwerda / OSnews : Google launches new Find My Device network on Android Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Google Launches Find My Device in U.S. and Canada Sergiu Gatlan / Bleeping...
Trump Media & Technology Group's stock slumped 36% since March 26, wiping out $2.8B in market value as retail traders sell; Trump's stake is now worth ~$2.9B
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Microsoft plans to invest $2.9B in data centers in Japan by 2025, its biggest investment in the country, and will add advanced AI chips at two existing sites
Move comes in response to push for ‘data sovereignty’ among governments — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Microsoft will invest $2.9 billion …
US lawmakers post a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more
🔒 In a significant bipartisan move, two key lawmakers … Yuliya Slesareva Godoy : Exciting development in the US Privacy space: Over the weekend, we witnessed a significant leap forward with the propos...
Microsoft plans to invest $2.9B in data centers in Japan by 2025, its biggest investment in the country, and will add advanced AI chips at two existing sites
Move comes in response to push for ‘data sovereignty’ among governments — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Microsoft will invest $2.9 billion …
Spotify debuts AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting Android and iOS users generate and revise playlists using text prompts
Launches ‘AI Playlist’ Beta in UK & Australia Oliver Haslam / TweakTown : Spotify can now create your playlists from just a text prompt, but there's a catch Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Spotify will le...
Google rebrands Studio Bot, its AI-powered app development chatbot for Android Studio, to “Gemini in Android Studio”, and upgrades its model to Gemini 1.0 Pro
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
Interviews with 12+ former and current employees: ByteDance faces a backlash from its US TikTok staff over large tax bills on stock shares that they cannot sell
Current and former employees of video app's Chinese parent ByteDance in outcry over stock award liabilities
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann
here's why Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Microsoft to Open New AI Hub in London PYMNTS.com : Microsoft to Open New AI Hub in London Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Microsoft's £2.5B UK Investment Fuels AI Ta...
Grow Therapy, which provides services like patient-provider matching and EHR to help therapists run their own practices, raised an $88M Series C led by Sequoia
Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare :
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says the country plans to invest ~$7B in AI by 2027, and will create a separate ~$1B fund to foster AI chip companies
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday his country will invest 9.4 trillion won ($6.94 billion) in artificial intelligence …
Symbolica, which develops foundation models offering an alternative to the transformer AI architecture, raised a $31M Series A led by Khosla Ventures
- Artificial intelligence startup Symbolica, which develops foundation models to compete with ChatGPT creator OpenAI …
Solana grapples with network congestion issues, leading to delays in transaction processing and dropped transactions, due to spam transactions and memecoins
IDC: the global PC market grew 1.5% YoY in Q1 2024 to 59.8M shipments, despite weaker demand in China, following two years of decline
but you might still want to hold off buying one Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Macs lead global PC growth as shipments return to pre-pandemic levels Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Apple posts stro...
Vista Equity Partners acquires Model N, a public company focusing on helping health companies automate pricing and compliance decisions, for $1.25B
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Sources: Cruise plans to resume its robotaxi service with safety drivers in Phoenix as early as April 9; Cruise says it “had not set a timeline for deployment”
Bloomberg :
How OpenAI is preparing to fight lawsuits, investigations, and legislation: growing its staff from 200 in 2022 to ~1,000, hiring ~24 in-house lawyers, and more
The company has hired more than two dozen in-house lawyers and adopted a new Washington playbook X: @toddbigphoto and @danraile X: @toddbigphoto : “OpenAI is turning to some of the world's top legal a...
A look at Android 15's Private Space feature, which creates a separate profile for hiding apps and data, similar to Samsung's Secure Folder
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority :
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, as the app's growth in Europe slows
https://www.theinformation.com/ ... X: Kaya Yurieff / @kyurieff : The app is already live in Japan and Korea. Japan showed that building a standalone app is “effective in stimulating growth.” The rewa...
Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the 10 most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but a majority of the 100 most popular titles are original series
Enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4B valuation, taking its funding to $460M, after a $100M Series B in 2023
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: Applied Materials may scale back or cancel plans to open a $4B R&D facility in Silicon Valley due to a lack of government funding
highlighting intense demand that far exceeded initial expectations X: Danilo / @_danilo : the real welfare queens lmao
Docs: after months of employees sniping about the Israel-Hamas war, Google removes “thumbs down”, post metrics, and more from its internal message board Memegen
A look at the Amazon Labor Union, two years after its victory at an NYC facility, as the group is divided, running out of funds, and faces a leadership election
Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press :
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