Microsoft will soon let businesses build custom Copilot AI agents for automating tasks, and unveils Team Copilot to help with tasks in Teams, Loop, and Planner
Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically.
The UK ICO is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over the company's Recall feature, which some privacy campaigners have called a potential “privacy nightmare”
The UK data watchdog says it is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over a new feature that can take screenshots of your laptop every few seconds.
Gordon Bell, who helped design several influential minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation, including the 12-bit PDP-8, died on May 17 at age 89
It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle is merely a reminder of AI's manifest-destiny philosophy: “This is happening, whether you like it or not”, consent be damned
If you're looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley's latest gold rush, look no further than OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle.
Microsoft unveils a developer preview of Windows Volumetric Apps, which will let developers use an API to put Windows apps in 3D space on Meta Quest headsets
*Continuing investments in WinUI3 and WPF to help developers build rich, modern Windows applications* …
Sources: Humane is seeking a buyer for its business, after the rocky launch of its Ai Pin; a source says the startup, founded in 2018, is seeking $750M to $1B
- Humane's AI pin was billed as an alternative to smartphones — AI hardware product received poor reviews after its launch
Anthropic researchers detail attempts to peer inside the “black box” of LLMs, learning which combinations of neurons evoke specific concepts
What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.
Google starts rolling out its Magic Editor and other AI tools to all Android and iOS users for free via Photos, offering 10 Magic Editor library saves per month
Last month, Google Photos announced that it would be making Magic Editor and other AI-powered tools free for all Android and iOS users.
China releases an AI model trained on “Xi Jinping Thought” and other official literature, a source says currently for research, before a possible wider launch
Internet regulator uses Chinese leader's political philosophy to help answer questions posed to latest large language model
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
An investigation into ticketing service Eventbrite found 7,400+ illicit listings, such as for escort services and drugs, some of which its algorithm recommended
A WIRED investigation found thousands of Eventbrite posts selling escort services and drugs like Xanax and oxycodone … Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange . X: @knibbs , @iheartmalware , @wired , ...
Sources: Amazon plans to launch a more conversational Alexa with generative AI features later in 2024, and charge a monthly subscription to offset the cost
WATCH NOW — Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence and plans to charge …
Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more
Google plans to test search and shopping ads in its AI Overviews, drawing from advertisers' existing campaigns; AI Overviews rolled out to US users last week
Spotify begins rolling out Spotify Mix, a new bespoke font, replacing the Circular typeface variant used in everything from playlists to marketing campaigns
Spotify's latest update is visibly changing the audio streaming service to improve the experience for your eyeballs, rather than your ears.
Chinese automotive cybersecurity firm GoGoByte demonstrates a cheap and simple relay attack to unlock a Tesla Model 3 despite its ultra-wideband keyless system
Ultra-wideband radio has been heralded as the solution for “relay attacks” that are used to steal cars in seconds. X: @a_greenberg . Forums: Hacker News X: Andy Greenberg / @a_greenberg : The latest T...
A review of privacy-focused /e/OS, a fully “deGoogled” OS based on the Android Open Source Project, that combines Micro G, to handle Google APIs, and LineageOS
Even if you aren't technically inclined, this privacy-first mobile operating system helps you escape surveillance capitalism. Mastodon: @serpicojam@mas.to Mastodon: Michael Fulgenzi / @serpicojam@mas....
Paytm parent One 97 Communications reports a $66.1M net loss in Q4, up from $20.11M in Q4 2023, on $272.3M revenue, as it grapples with a regulatory clampdown
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AWS plans to invest €15.7B in data centers in Spain's Aragon region, replacing a 2021 plan to spend €2.5B; the Aragon government says the deal is over 10 years
Tech giant Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit AWS will invest 15.7 billion euros ($17.02 billion) …
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered ad format that shows shoppers how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types
it's all generative AI. New from me for @wired https://www.wired.com/... LinkedIn: Lauren Ito : Today Virtual Try On experiences in ads powered by GenAI was announced at Google Marketing Live! Proud ...
Chinese smartphone maker Honor plans to include Google's Gemini and Imagen 2, powered by Google Cloud, in upcoming devices, one of the first companies to do so
Chinese smartphone maker Honor on Wednesday became one of the first device makers to say it will bring Google's artificial intelligence features to its upcoming devices.
Microsoft announces the general availability of its Phi-3 models, including Phi-3-Silica, a 3.3B parameter model that will be embedded on all Copilot+ PCs
here's what you can use it for Pradeep Viswav / MSPoweruser : Microsoft and Khan Academy announce AI partnership Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : Microsoft ships Azure AI Studio in broad availability,...
How Pinecone and other startups use vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, to help businesses link their private data with LLMs
Vector databases were an obscure technology until Pinecone and other startups turned it into a billion-dollar market amid the AI boom
AWS says the transition from Nvidia's Grace Hopper to Blackwell chips applies only to Project Ceiba, a supercomputer that AWS and Nvidia are building together
reportedly waiting for Grace Blackwell to ship Adam Eckert / Benzinga : Nvidia Stock Drops On Report Amazon Has ‘Fully Transitioned’ AI Chip Orders: The Details (UPDATED) Akash Sriram / Reuters : Amaz...
Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi confirms plans for a London Stock Exchange IPO, aiming to raise $40M and listing in June, and reports $265.8M in 2023 revenue
- Set to sell $40 million in new shares and list on main market — Arm and Lansdowne Partners are cornerstone investors in IPO
Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL, which develops its own models, raised $300M led by Index Ventures at a $2B valuation and reports 100K+ customers
The round, led by Index Ventures, reflects businesses' increasing interest in function-specific AI models
Link-in-bio startup Linktree passes 50M users, up from 41M in December 2023 and 47M+ in March 2024, and launches a beta of its social commerce product
Link-in-bio startup Linktree said on Wednesday that it has surpassed 50 million users. — The figure represents a significant uptick …
London-based LabGenius, which uses ML to find and design antibody therapies to treat cancer, raised a £35M Series B led by Merck's VC arm, M Ventures
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Minnesota lawmakers reach a compromise with Uber and Lyft, setting a floor for drivers' pay statewide at $1.28/mile and $0.31/minute, effective January 1, 2025
and drivers are getting a raise
Toulouse-based OneStock, which provides a cloud-native order management system to retailers, raised $72M from Summit Partners for its continued global expansion
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu :
Microsoft and UAE-based G42 plan to build a $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya, opening in about two years, to boost computing capacity in East Africa
Bloomberg :
Farcaster, an Ethereum-based social media project, raised $150M led by Paradigm, with participation from a16z and others, and reports “350,000 paid sign-ups”
Since going permissionless last October, Farcaster has seen 350,000 paid sign-ups … Sage D. Young / Unchained : Decentralized Social Network Farcaster Raises $150 Million in a Series A Round Amanda Si...
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 Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom Sarah Fielding / Engadget : Adobe Lightroom gets its own AI eraser tool John Gruber / Darin...
Generative AI music startup Suno raised $125M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix, Founder Collective, and others
With ChatGPT-Style Prompts FinSMEs : Suno Raises $125M in Funding Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Generative AI music maker startup Suno raises $125M in funding Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : ...
Microsoft partners with Khan Academy, moving the Khanmigo agent, used by 65K+ students, to its Azure OpenAI Service and making it free for US K-12 teachers
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat :
Sources: Snowflake's talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for more than $1B have broken down
Snowflake Inc.'s talks to acquire startup Reka AI for more than $1 billion have broken down, dashing an effort by the software company to bring more generative AI muscle in-house.
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
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 :
VC firm Alicorn agrees to take Glassbox private in a deal worth ~$150M; the analytics software company was valued at ~$500M in June 2021 in its Tel Aviv IPO
Almog Azar / CTech :
WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' use of custom generative AI models and applies safeguards, raised a $27.5M Series A co-led by GV and Ballistic Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A look at Paperless Post, a New York-based software company for sending online invitations and events that launched in 2009 and has sent ~650M invitations
Christopher Barnard / New York Times :
Coactive, which provides AI tools to categorize visual data, raised a $30M Series B co-led by Emerson Collective and Cherryrock Capital at a $200M valuation
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