Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to iPhones after the company's most significant reorganization in a decade.
OpenAI announces a live stream at 10AM PT on May 13 to demo “some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates”, which Sam Altman says are “not gpt-5, not a search engine”
‘feels like magic’ Kylie Robison / The Verge : Sam Altman shoots down reports of search engine launch ahead of Google I/O Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI to Announce ChatGPT Updates Via Livestream Mo...
At the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd said the future of dating could have digital, AI-powered personas setting each other up
Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and executive chair of Bumble, said that the dating app wants to use AI to “create more healthy and equitable relationships.”
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86
Jim Simons just died. Simons was an award-winning mathematician … Thomas Sumner / Simons Foundation : Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons Jonathan Kandell / New York Times : Jim Simons, Ma...
Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal with OpenAI to use ChatGPT features in iOS 18; talks with Google to license Gemini are still ongoing
- Move is part of push to add AI features to Apple devices — Company also held talks with Google about using Gemini
The demand for AI chips is driving fierce competition among HBM chipmakers, as Samsung and Micron race to catch up to SK Hynix, which has over 52% market share
Demand for high-bandwidth memory is driving competition — and prices — higher — SEOUL/TAIPEI/SAN JOSE, Calif. …
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate an AI voice assistant that recognizes objects and images and has better logical reasoning than its current products
In the race to develop artificial intelligence that communicates the way humans do, OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate technology …
Waymo says its Waymo One robotaxis now complete over 50K paid trips every week across San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, up from 10K rides in May 2023
Waymo, Google's autonomous car unit, said it now completes more than 50,000 driverless rides per week in three cities, up from 10,000 in May last year.
Email: criminals target WPP CEO Mark Read in a deepfake scam by using a voice clone and public YouTube footage to set up a video meeting with his executives
Mark Read says criminals set up Microsoft Teams call with senior executives in unsuccessful attack
Ofcom's draft Children's Safety Code of Practice's emphasis on kids choosing protective tools rather than safety by design and default is not ambitious enough
Tech companies have been wilfully ignoring the protection of the young for decades — The writer is a crossbench peer and expert on digital regulation
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games, including Candy Crush Saga, and later opening to other publishers
what we know so far Kate Irwin / PCMag : Microsoft Is Launching Its Own Mobile Gaming Store Soon Dashiell Wood / TechRadar : Microsoft is launching its own Xbox mobile game store, offering titles like...
How United, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, and others use AI to reduce costs and streamline operations, including holding flights for delayed passengers
Airlines are using artificial intelligence to save fuel, keep customers informed and hold connecting flights for delayed passengers.
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component
Update Your Browser to Patch New Vulnerability Guru Baran / Cyber Security News : Alert! Google Chrome Zero-day Exploited in the Wild Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : Google fixes Chrome zero-day wit...
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform in May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds
Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph :
Southeast Asia is drawing more investment from Big Tech than ever, as the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia commit billions of dollars in the region
- Long-ignored region is attracting data center, AI investments — Amazon, Microsoft among firms pledging billions of dollars X: @technology . LinkedIn: Patrick Lai and Christopher Ong X: @technology ...
Meituan, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech companies are working to expand in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where they would face less political scrutiny
Companies would face less political scrutiny in a region where ties are mainly centred around economic interests
Filing: Indian e-commerce startup Meesho, which has ~150M transacting users, raised $275M, sources say at a $3.9B valuation as part of an ongoing $500M+ round
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
A federal judge dismisses X's lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful
A US jury says Microsoft must pay IPA Technologies $242M after finding that Cortana infringed a patent that expired in Jan. 2019; Microsoft plans to appeal
Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law :
Christie's experienced a “technology security issue” that took its website down and affected some systems, ahead of auctions that are expected to generate $840M
Zachary Small / New York Times :
Epic v. Apple: Apple says it received just 38 applications to use its outside payments option for the App Store, out of ~65K app devs that offer in-app payments
Bloomberg : X: @balancecrafting , @megangra , @jason_kint , @balancecrafting , @jason_kint , @jason_kint , @balancecrafting , @balancecrafting , @balancecrafting , @jason_kint , @florian4gamers , @fl...
Q&A with Linda Moore, the CEO of TechNet, which represents OpenAI, Apple, and others, about the 400+ AI bills proposed across the US, tech backlash, and more
The Scene — While Congress is talking a lot about artificial intelligence but doing little to regulate it … X: @technetupdate X: @technetupdate : TechNet President and CEO @LindaMooreDC recently sat...
Appfigures: Anthropic's Claude now ranks #51 in the top free iPhone Productivity apps in the US, down from rank #5 in this category, which it achieved on May 4
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave opens its European HQ in London and plans two UK data centers this year as part of a £1B investment, after raising $1.1B last week
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
About 48 government websites associated with different Indian states have allowed scammers to plant ads that can redirect visitors to online betting websites
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels citing government notices
Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute : X: @risj_oxford See also Mediagazer X: @risj_oxford : NEW on our website 🇮🇳 Indian journalists turned to YouTube to dodge Modi's censorship. Amid this year's crucia...
Filings and sources: autonomous vehicle company Motional cut ~550 employees in a restructuring that included delaying a robotaxi service from 2024 to 2026
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
An interview with Claude Zellweger, Google's director of industrial design, on hardware becoming a critical element for Google, Pixel's camera bar design, more
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