CISA is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense; sources: the attackers copied several terabytes of customer data, including credentials
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence …
Sources: Apple nears production of M4 chips with AI upgrades and memory improvements, coming to new MacBook Pros, Mac minis, and iMacs starting in late 2024
- Company working on rapid transition to the new processors — Revamp will bring AI capabilities and memory improvements
Google is discontinuing its Google One VPN in the coming months due to a lack of use; Google's free Pixel VPN that debuted in 2022 with the Pixel 7 will remain
Back in October of 2020, Google One introduced a VPN that later became available on all plans and platforms.
X tells users that “the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium is going away soon”, after adding blue checks to “influential” accounts with 2,500+ followers
The change comes after X began verifying “influential” users who hadn't signed up for premium.
Sources: earlier in 2024, China told its largest telecom carriers to phase out foreign chips from their networking equipment by 2027, in a blow to Intel and AMD
Beijing's move is the latest installment in a U.S.-China technology war that is splintering the global chip industry
Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoME discovered
In November, Google's AI outfit DeepMind published a press release titled “Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning.”
A UK judge throws out Apple's motion to dismiss a ~$979M lawsuit representing 1,500+ UK-based developers alleging that the App Store's 30% commission is unfair
Apple (AAPL.O) on Friday lost a bid to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at just under $1 billion, brought in London on behalf …
Roku says hackers accessed ~576K accounts using credential stuffing, and made purchases in ~400 cases, after a similar breach affecting ~15K accounts in March
The new security incident was discovered a month after the company learned that 15,000 accounts were impacted in a similar breach.
A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts
9 best prompts to try now SWAMY WORLD : Meet Udio, the other ChatGPT for music Ashley King / Digital Music News : AI Music Startup Udio Bags $10 Million Investment— will.i.am, Common, Google & Instagr...
OpenAI gives premium ChatGPT users access to an updated GPT-4 Turbo, promising more direct, less verbose responses, and use of more conversational language
ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade. — OpenAI announced today that premium ChatGPT users …
Andy Jassy criticizes US and EU regulators over blocking mergers like the iRobot deal, saying they trust Chinese companies with maps of homes more than Amazon
In his annual shareholder letter, Andy Jassy says GenAI “may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud” and Amazon is committed to cost-cutting
how does Amazon remain resilient? While simple in its wording, it's profound because it gets to the heart of our success to date as well as for the future” His response: [image] Rihard Jarc / @rihardj...
South Korea will host the second global AI safety summit on May 21-22, six months after the UK held the inaugural event at Bletchley Park
South Korea will host the second global AI (artificial intelligence) safety summit on May 21-22, six months after Britain held the inaugural event at Bletchley Park.
Berachain, a bear-themed crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain, raised a $100M Series B through a SAFT, a simple agreement for future tokens
- The platform positions itself as a community-driven blockchain — Funds will be used to expand international footprint
A profile of Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, who says that, as an atheist, he's uncomfortable with Silicon Valley's “AGI rhetoric” and “religious” AGI fascination
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google …
Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images DMed to teens, and show a pop-up to the sender and the recipient, rolling out in the coming months
Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal :
Adobe used images created by tools like Midjourney and uploaded to its stock marketplace by users, to train Firefly; Adobe says ~5% of images were AI-generated
Company promotes its tool as safe from content scraped from the internet. — When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software …
Google releases Android 15 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, with edge-to-edge app scaling by default, OS-level support for app archiving and unarchiving, and more
Today we're releasing the first beta of Android 15. Abner Li / 9to5Google : Here's everything new in Android 15 Beta 1 [Gallery] Adamya Sharma / Android Authority : Android 15 will free you from using...
Uber and Lyft delay their plans to leave Minneapolis until July 1, after city officials voted on April 10 to delay the start of driver pay raise to July 1
Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies this month, including some Microsoft customers
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has hosted hundreds of Fortune 500 company executives in San Francisco, New York and London …
OpenTable plans to display members' first names and profile photos on all past and future reviews, starting on May 22, in a bid to provide more transparency
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
Apple changed “state-sponsored” to “mercenary spyware” in threat notifications, a source says after pressure from India for linking breaches to state actors
The UK CMA raises concerns after uncovering an “interconnected web” of 90+ AI deals and investments involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia
As the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race heats up primarily due … Finextra : CMA outlines competition concerns with AI Foundation Models GOV.UK : CMA outlines growing concerns in markets for AI Founda...
Meta releases OpenEQA, a benchmark to measure an AI agent's understanding of physical spaces by probing it with questions about the environment
that on difficult tasks, VLMs regress to being nearly blind! Visual content provides minor improvement to a VLM over an LLM, even when these are questions about visual content. Language does not con...
Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers
potentially competing with creators for brand deals in the process. scoop with @jingyanghk and @JuroOsawa: https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Marshall Maher / @marvelle : Now the brands just need to ...
Source: OpenAI has fired two researchers on its AI safety team for allegedly leaking information, including Leopold Aschenbrenner, an ally of Ilya Sutskever
The Information :
Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem
blocking traffic to California publishers in a “short-term test for a small number” of Californians … See also Mediagazer
Anrok, which provides sales tax management tools to software companies, raised a $30M Series B led by Khosla Ventures at a $250M valuation
Pumped to share that we've raised our Series B round from Khosla Ventures! … Jenny He : 🚀🌟 Exciting week for Position Ventures as our portfolio company Anrok, just raised a Series B led by Khosla Vent...
Substack now lets podcasters distribute their shows on Spotify, and says podcasters on Substack collectively earn $100M+ per year, up 100%+ over the past year
Google plans to make Magic Editor and other AI editing tools, previously limited to Pixel phones and paid users, available to all Google Photos users for free
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on why Google doesn't need to raise trillions to build a supercomputer, why AI offers a reset in competition, and more
Ben Thompson / Stratechery :
Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021
Cory Weinberg / The Information :
How “made for advertising” sites, which are criticized for their UX and dubious results for advertisers, get ~15% of automated ad spend or $10B/year, per ANA
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal : See also Mediagazer
Amazon adds Andrew Ng to its board to boost its AI expertise, as longtime MTV executive Judith McGrath steps down; Ng founded Google Brain and worked at Baidu
Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health lays off ~10% of its workforce; Hinge had an estimated 1,700+ employees, and was valued at $6.2B in October 2021
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
Docs: ByteDance has offered to buy shares held by non-US employees for about $171 each, as US employees grow concerned about tax bill on unsold stock
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