TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26, and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29 aka Midnight Blizzard
The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday …
Apple launches the Vision Pro in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, the first time the device has been officially available outside of the US
Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations across China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
Sources: Apple may use electrically induced adhesive debonding to make batteries easier to replace, starting with one iPhone 16 model, to comply with EU rules
Under pressure from regulators in Europe and elsewhere, Apple in recent years has taken small steps toward making the iPhone easier for consumers to repair.
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so
AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of the company's anticompetitive behavior
Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a “stunning declaration” …
OpenAI details CriticGPT, a GPT-4 model fine-tuned to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers tasked with assessing and spotting errors
Having humans rate a language model's outputs produced clever chatbots. OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable.
Surface Pro Copilot+ review: the best Microsoft tablet yet, with a versatile Flex keyboard and decent AI features, but has noticeable heat and fan noise issues
Microsoft finally solved the Windows on Arm dilemma. — It's taken 12 years, but Microsoft has finally made an Arm-powered Surface tablet …
Google adds 110 new languages to Translate, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model, taking the total languages to 243, in its largest expansion ever
PaLM 2 is our next generation language model with improved multilingual … iClarified : Google Translate Adds 110 New Languages Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google Translate adding support for 110 new langu...
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures
When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild. Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”
Q&A with the VP of Amazon Games on focusing on AAA games over mobile games, Amazon's transmedia IP strategy, AI's effect on the industry, monetization, and more
Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years. So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games …
Uber and Lyft agree to pay drivers in Massachusetts a $32.50 minimum wage and offer some benefits, and jointly pay $175M to the state to settle a 2020 lawsuit
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Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether
instead of waiting to be picked on, Coinbase deals with the bully in the best way possible, a direct confrontation. LinkedIn: David Brill : Coinbase Sues SEC and FDIC Over Alleged Lack of Transparency...
Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram in the US; Mark Zuckerberg says the chatbots, made using Meta AI studio, will be clearly labeled as AI
ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot seemingly drew on conservative misinformation to repeat a false claim about CNN's debate broadcast being on a “1-2 minute delay”
The AI programs seemingly drew on conservative misinformation posted just hours earlier to generate their answers.
Nokia agrees to acquire Infinera, which provides networking hardware and software to mobile phone operators and others, for $2.3B in a cash-and-stock deal
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The EFF, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and others file a brief saying the US law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional
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In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says that there will not be “just one AI”, disparages closed-source AI competitors as thinking they're “creating God”, and more
Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks closed source AI competitors are harming the industry Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Zuckerberg announces plans to begin surfacing creators' AI characters through Meta AI st...
Naver-owned Webtoon shares closed up 9.5% at $23 in the online comics company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of ~$2.9B, after an IPO that raised $315M
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Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming
The EU explores an antitrust probe into Microsoft's OpenAI deal, after the EC dropped a merger review due to a lack of evidence that Microsoft controls OpenAI
EU executive arm drops merger review into US tech companies' alliance — Brussels is preparing for an antitrust investigation …
Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available in 7B- and 13B-parameter sizes
Meta LLM Compiler is a state-of-the-art LLM that builds upon Code Llama … Chris Cummins / Meta : Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization Rafly Gilang / MSPowerus...
Sources: Italy opened a probe into Google in December 2022 over €1B in unpaid taxes and penalties from 2018 to 2022, after settling another tax dispute in 2017
Italy is asking Google to pay 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) in unpaid taxes and penalties, three sources with direct knowledge …
A look at Dubai-based Bybit, whose co-founder says it became the world's second largest crypto exchange by trading volume partly by serving former FTX users
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Google says Gemma 2 will be available to researchers and developers through Vertex AI from July as a new 9B-parameter model and the prior 27B-parameter model
EQT agrees to sell 70% stake in Idealista to PE firm Cinven in a deal valuing the property classifieds site at €2.9B; EQT bought Idealista for €1.3B in 2020
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg :
Amazon folds its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into One Medical, with more affordable per-visit pricing: $49 for a video call or $29 to text a doctor
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
Tencent's shares are up 28% so far in 2024 after the strong debut of Dungeon & Fighter Mobile, adding $91B in market value, more than any other Chinese company
Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg :
Baidu unveils an upgraded version of its AI model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, and says Ernie has reached 300M users since its launch
Axelera, which is building AI processing units to run computer vision inference workloads on the edge, raised a $68M Series B, taking its total funding to $120M
MegaLabs, the developer behind the Ethereum scaling protocol MegaETH that it claims is a “real-time blockchain”, raised $20M in seed funding led by Dragonfly
Sources: Hebbia, which is developing an AI-powered document search tool, raised a nearly $100M Series B led by a16z at a valuation between $700M and $800M
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Character.AI lets users talk to AI characters over calls in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, and says 3M+ users made 20M+ calls during testing
Clay, which develops AI tools focused on sales and marketing for businesses, raised $46M led by Meritech at a $500M valuation, taking its total funding to $66M
As tech companies grapple with the limited availability of Nvidia chips globally, Chinese companies like Alibaba face a tougher situation due to US restrictions
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