Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs that have at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board
The aim is to handle more AI processing locally rather than in the cloud. — We've been hearing rumblings for months …
Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers
The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users compared the sound to Scarlett Johansson, saying Sky is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation”
and she's not happy they might have anyway Liv McMahon / BBC : ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity OpenAI : How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : ChatGPT disable...
Microsoft's new push for Windows PCs with Arm chips promises better emulation for non-native apps and Qualcomm chips that can best an M3 in a MacBook Air
and it's threatening the M3 MacBooks Kerry Wan / ZDNet : Every Copilot+ PC Microsoft just announced to take on Apple's M3 MacBooks Madeline Ricchiuto / Laptop Mag : Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite...
The DOJ announces the arrest of a Taiwanese national at JFK Airport who allegedly owned Incognito Market, a dark web site used by 200K+ to buy $100M+ in drugs
The owner and operator of Incognito Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal narcotics online, was arrested at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on May 18.
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Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks
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Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Samsung, and Lenovo joined Microsoft in debuting laptops featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips and a dedicated Copilot key
Latitude 7455 is Dell's thinnest Latitude to date but will businesses warm up to Windows on Arm? Joanna Nelius / The Verge : Lenovo is releasing two Qualcomm-powered laptops this summer Brandon Hill /...
Microsoft ships Azure AI Studio in broad availability, adds support for OpenAI's GPT-4o, and announces a new multimodal model in its lightweight Phi-3 family
Azure AI will now ship with GPT-4o and Microsoft's Phi-3 family of small AI models to help developers build custom Copilot apps responsibly and safely.
How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024
India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves …
Microsoft unveils Recall for Windows 11, an AI-powered search tool for Copilot+ PCs that keeps track of users' actions and gives them an explorable timeline
and its most private Jak Connor / TweakTown : Microsoft will give PCs a ‘photographic memory’ by screenshotting everything you do Harsh Shivam New Delhi / Business Standard : Microsoft introduces ‘Rec...
Microsoft unveils a Team Copilot for Microsoft Teams, Loop, and Planner that can help run meetings, manage projects, assign tasks, more, coming later this year
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Meta approved 14 AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election with known slurs against Muslims; civil groups submitted and then pulled the ads as a test
Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian :
Sources: in the event that China invades Taiwan, ASML and TSMC have ways to disable their sophisticated chipmaking machines; ASML reassured Dutch officials
- Firms can remotely shut off advanced EUV chip-making machines — US officials concerned over risk of conflict to chip industry
Microsoft debuts a new AI feature for Edge to translate spoken content via dubbing and subtitles live, on YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, news sites, and more
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs event was compelling, the culmination of years of work, and Windows feels revitalized while its hardware is meaningfully differentiated
Full disclosure: I didn't have any plans to write this Article; I had various reasons to be in the U.S. this week … X: @stratechery . Forums: Hacker News X: @stratechery : Windows Returns Microsoft he...
Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more
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Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1, saying the bug that let some deleted photos reappear has now been fixed
even on devices you no longer own Richard Priday / Tom's Guide : Update your iPhone now — Apple just fixed this potentially embarrassing Photos bug Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : iOS 17.5.1 update fixes ...
EU countries vote to approve the landmark EU AI Act, agreed in December 2023, to ensure “trust, transparency, and accountability”, taking effect in June 2024
Europe's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed …
Google plans to spend ~€1B to expand its data center in Finland, and will reuse heat from the data center to warm nearby homes, schools, and public buildings
Google's data centers are expanding to support its AI ambitions, and a new project in Finland shows one way the company …
US v. Google: Google has preemptively paid damages to the US government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial in the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has preemptively paid damages to the U.S. government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial …
Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, IBM, and 10 other companies commit to safe AI development at the AI Seoul Summit 2024, hosted by South Korea and the UK
Sixteen companies involved in AI including Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Meta (META.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O) and OpenAI …
Sources: Apple files a lawsuit at the EU's General Court to challenge a March 2024 decision to impose a €1.8B fine for thwarting competition in music streaming
- Company files suit at EU's General Court to topple penalty — Fine was sparked by long-running dispute with top music rival
AI data labeling startup Scale AI raised $1B led by Accel at a ~$14B valuation, up from $7.3B in April 2021; a source says Scale AI had ~$700M in 2023 revenue
Alexandr Wang's company brings in $1bn in latest fundraising round as investors bet that data is the new oil
Truth Social parent Trump Media and Technology Group reports $771K in Q1 revenue, a $327.6M net loss, a $12.1M operating loss, and plans a “live TV” platform
How Meta, Microsoft, and Google are helping OpenAI develop Triton, a tool to help run code efficiently on AI chips to compete with Nvidia's CUDA platform
OpenAI-led push for an alternative to Cuda seeks to break chipmaker's stranglehold on AI market — Nvidia's rivals and biggest customers …
AWS says it has “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia's Grace Hopper chips to the successor Grace Blackwell chips, announced in March 2024
Delay from the world's biggest cloud computing provider gives investors jitters over potential ‘air pocket’ in demand for AI chips
Adobe adds generative AI tools to Lightroom, including Firefly-powered Generative Remove to let users “paint” over unwanted objects, available in early access
Generative Remove Juli Clover / MacRumors : Adobe Lightroom Gains AI-Based Generative Remove Tool for Eliminating Unwanted Objects Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generativ...
A French AI startup, simply called H and founded by ex-Google DeepMind scientists, raised $220M from Accel and others, and plans a model capable of reasoning
- Billionaires and VCs join round in company promising AGI — DeepMind alums will partner with UiPath, other investors
London-based Vitesse, which offers a treasury and payment platform for insurance companies, raised a $93M Series C led by KKR, after a $26M Series B in 2022
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
LG denies reports over canceling its partnership with Meta, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices, says it is “controlling its pace”
David Heaney / UploadVR :
NY AG announces a $2B settlement with crypto lender Genesis, after claiming Genesis misled investors about its Gemini Earn program, leading to $1B+ in losses
Tech Against Scams, a coalition to fight “pig butchering” ploys with better industry coordination, launches with Meta, Coinbase, Match, Kraken, others on board
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
Samsung Electronics names Young-Hyun Jun as the head of its semiconductor arm, replacing co-CEO Kye-Hyun Kyung, who will oversee its business planning team
The FBI arrests a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct
Samantha Cole / 404 Media :
A look at challenges LA faces as it tries to remain a major tech hub; CB Insights says VC funding of LA-based startups totaled $6.9B in 2023, down 73% from 2021
A few thoughts from a tech company that pre-dated, and now seems to post-date, the beach: … Agnes M. Sokol : The truth is, LA has always been, and will always be, a one industry town. Hate cities lik...
Volvo partners with Aurora Innovation to unveil Volvo VNL Autonomous, a self-driving truck which Aurora plans to use for freight hauling in the next few months
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Alibaba slashes prices for its AI services by up to 97%, leading Baidu to offer free Ernie AI-based services; ByteDance priced its services cheaply last week
Bloomberg :
Inside Oracle's Cerner acquisition, including issues with Cerner's EHR system, which Oracle says it wasn't aware of, and its rollout at the US Veterans Affairs
Business Insider : X: @amir , @mstrknowitall , @orionds , and @edithhonan . LinkedIn: Vanessa Lipton . Forums: r/cernercorporation X: Amir Efrati / @amir : whoever did Oracle's due diligence for its ...
Documents: cops in Austin and San Francisco, where police are banned from facial recognition, asked other towns to run photos of suspects through their systems
A profile of Alphabet's moonshot X lab, which is carving out a path to spin off projects as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation
more of a focus on financial success these days, plus Google looks more like a conservative incumbent than out-of-the-box innovator. https://www.bloomberg.com/... #Google Max Chafkin / @chafkin : this...
London-based Zen Educate, an online marketplace that connects schools with teachers, raised a $37M Series B led by Round2 Capital and acquires Aquinas Education
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
European research labs led by Belgium-based imec will receive €2.5B in funding under European Chips Act to set up a pilot line to develop and test sub-2nm chips
Toby Sterling / Reuters :
Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.13B est., enterprise revenue up 5.3% YoY to $665.7M, and a Q2 sales forecast in line with estimates
A look at the use of quantum computing to solve optimization problems, which are devilishly difficult because of the huge number of options they entail
Quantum Computing Gets Real: It Could Even Shorten Your Airport Connection — https://www.wsj.com/...
SEC filing: Chicago-based Tempus, which uses AI to process medical data, files for an IPO, reporting a $266M net loss on $532M revenue in 2023 and 2,300 staff
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg :
Sources: ByteDance acquires Chinese earphone maker Oladance, founded five years ago, for ~$50M, bringing on board seasoned ex-Bose engineers
Bloomberg :
Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors the startup roughly doubled revenue to ~$500M in 2023
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