Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible
It only works for macOS 15 guests on macOS 15 hosts, but it's a big improvement. — We've written before about Apple's handy …
X says the platform will make Likes private for everyone this week, meaning users will no longer be able to see who liked someone else's post
Likes on the website will no longer cause PR crises for public figures. — Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform …
Elon Musk withdraws his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman, filed in California in February 2024 over breach of contract and fiduciary duty
Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company's co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
IBM and Xerox PARC engineer Lynn Conway, who helped shape the way chips are designed and undertook a gender transition in 1968, died last weekend at age 86
- In the 1970s, Conway helped author “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a seminal book in the field of chip design that became …
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati responded to Elon Musk's denouncement of Apple's OpenAI deal, saying OpenAI cares deeply about user privacy and security
A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration …
A summary of the apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2024, like 1Password and LastPass, call recording and transcription apps, and the Newji custom emoji app
Apple has been on a spree of late, announcing a host of new features for its various devices earlier this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
Apple shares closed up 7.3% at $207.15 in their biggest one-day jump since November 2022, giving the company a $3.18T market cap, just under Microsoft's $3.22T
- The return to all-time high comes after Monday conference — Shares have underperformed most other big tech names this year
Apple says iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11 will rebrand Apple ID to Apple Account “for a consistent sign-in experience across Apple services”
Sources and documents detail how Elon Musk blurred boundaries with female employees at SpaceX, including having sex with an employee and a former intern
The billionaire founder had sex with an employee and a former intern, and asked a woman at his company to have his babies
Waymo issues a software update to its 672 vehicles after one collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix on May 21, marking Waymo's second recall ever
Waymo is issuing a voluntary software recall after one of its driverless vehicles collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, last month, the company said.
Sources: MediaTek is designing an Arm-based chip for Windows laptops, slated to launch late in 2025 after Qualcomm's exclusive deal expires
Taiwanese chip design giant MediaTek (2454.TW) is developing an Arm-based personal computer chip that will run Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Windows operating system …
Sources: Samsung is combining its AI-focused research centers in Toronto and Mountain View to improve operations; ex-Apple exec Murat Akbacak will run the group
- Company is combining Toronto and California research centers — Apple's Murat Akbacak will be leading the new division
Q&A with Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on co-authoring the “Attention is all you need” paper at Google, focusing on enterprise, whether there's an AI bubble, and more
Enterprise is the pathway to profit, Gomez says, but maybe don't ask it to do medicine quite yet.
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, intended to be a smaller yet capable model on consumer GPUs, with 2B parameters, compared to SD3 Large's 8B
Bigger isn't always better, especially when it comes to running generative AI models on commodity hardware.
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to $14.29B, vs. $14.55B est., net income down 5% to $3.14B, announces deals with Google and OpenAI; ORCL jumps 7%+
Oracle shares jumped as much as 9% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software maker announced cloud deals with Google and OpenAI …
Apple unveils iOS 18, adding more Home Screen customization, a dark mode that tints app icons, a revamped Control Center, scheduled send for Messages, and more
How some people are using the term “slop” as a descriptor for low-grade AI material, after emerging in reaction to the release of AI art generators in 2022
A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material. — You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence. X: @benhoffmannyt and @seangraf . Forums: Hac...
Q&A with Jingna Zhang, the founder of anti-AI social platform Cara, about its focus on artists, crossing 900K users, the positives of generative AI, and more
Artists are fleeing Meta's platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang's Cara promises protection …
A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok: most see news content, but fewer say news is why they are on the platforms, except for X
X remains more of a news destination than other sites, but the vast majority of users on all four are seeing news-related content
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears over China using Middle Eastern countries to overcome US sanctions on AI chips are “valid”
But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy …
GameStop raised ~$2.14B from a share sale program capitalizing on a stock rally fueled by Keith Gill's YouTube return, selling 75M shares for ~$28.49 on average
- Company has raised more than $3 billion over the past month — Stock staged a mid-afternoon rally on Tuesday as volume rose
Databricks launches AI/BI, a visualization tool to let users type questions about their data to build charts and graphs, competing with Microsoft and Salesforce
- New business tool integrates generative AI for faster results — Company last year acquired a maker of large language models
China's Ministry of Commerce issues a policy for expanding the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry and to promote the construction of offshore warehouses
Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad — China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling …
YouTube plans to roll out its Thumbnail Test & Compare tool to all creators “in the coming weeks”, letting them test video thumbnails “evenly” across audiences
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Dutch agencies: 20K+ FortiGate systems were hacked in a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign in 2022 and 2023, at least two months before FortiGate noted the flaw
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Filings: Michael Dell plans to sell 10M Dell shares worth $1.3B, after selling $1.6B in shares earlier in 2024; Dell sold $1.7B in 1999 before the bubble burst
- Dell filed to sell 10 million shares now worth $1.3 billion — His hardware company surged this year on AI optimism
Video game and app developer Voodoo acquires photo-sharing app BeReal, in a deal valuing BeReal at €500M; Voodoo's Aymeric Roffé will become BeReal's CEO
German startup Black Semiconductor raised €254M, comprising €229M in public grants and €26M in equity, to build chips using graphene for mass production in 2031
Arno Schuetze / Bloomberg :
Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds
and even a Twitter alternative. But four years after launch, the Indian company is doing layoffs and has been unable to raise more funds to keep things afloat. By @VarshaaBansal https://restofworld.or...
Raspberry Pi jumped by up to 39% on its London trading debut, hitting a ~£542M market cap, after pricing shares at £2.80, and expects to ship 8.4M PCs in 2024
Amazon plans to invest $1.4B to build or maintain 14K affordable houses near its offices, on top of its prior $2.2B housing investment in 2021 in WA, VA, and TN
Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press :
Four Indian retailer associations representing 90K grocery shops say monthly sales are dropping by 10% to 60% for some due to the rise of quick commerce apps
Raleigh, NC-based Relay, which makes walkie-talkies that can provide real-time location data, do live translation, and more, raised a $35M Series B led by G2
Zachery Eanes / Axios :
Microsoft is removing the Custom GPT Builder feature from the consumer version of Copilot Pro on July 10, just three months after launching the feature
Microsoft is only allowing some users access to this Copilot Pro feature now John Callaham / Neowin : Copilot GPT Builder will be removed from Copilot Pro by Microsoft on July 10 Pradeep Viswav / MSPo...
Google's June Pixel drop adds Gemini Nano to the Pixel 8 and 8a, updated HDR+ support to the Pixel 6 and up, car crash detection on the Pixel Watch 2, and more
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Rubrik reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $187.3M, above $171.5M est., and ARR up 46% YoY to $856.1M, in the cybersecurity company's inaugural post-IPO earnings
Charles Gorrivan / Bloomberg :
Current and former OpenAI staff are increasingly worried about its power over their equity, with no IPO in sight, restrictive company policies, and more
Hayden Field / CNBC :
SK Telecom says South Korean AI chip developers Rebellions and Sapeon Korea are pursuing a merger, in a bid to boost chip share in the next two to three years
Joyce Lee / Reuters :
“Tap-to-earn” games like Hamster Kombat, a mini-app with more than 31M followers on Telegram, could become the defining trend of the current crypto bull market
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg :
Brazil's government hires OpenAI to expedite the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits using AI, providing insights to the solicitor general's office
Tether's investment arm says it aims to invest $1B+ in financial infrastructure, AI, and biotech over the next year, after spending ~$2B over the past two years
Sources: US-based AI startups Opus Clip and HeyGen, founded by China-born entrepreneurs, are scrambling to sever China ties by relocating China-based engineers
The Information : X: @steph_palazzolo X: Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo : NEW w/ @JuroOsawa: American AI startups are increasingly distancing themselves from their ties to China. In the lates...
A profile of French secondhand tech marketplace Back Market, which has raised €930M+, generated €320M in 2023 sales, up 45% YoY, and had 4.5M new users in 2023
Sarah Butler / The Guardian : X: @gisellekleeb X: Giselle Leeb / @gisellekleeb : “Mending a smartphone just once can save more than 77kg of carbon emissions” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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