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May 9, 2023, 3:55 PM

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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, available as subscriptions on May 23; Final Cut requires an M1 chip or newer and Logic needs A12 or newer  —  Mic drop moment for pro apps team at Apple this morning.  Apple just announced that Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are officially and finally coming to iPad.
Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal:
Wendy's partners with Google to automate its drive-throughs using an AI chatbot that has been taught to upsell, rolling out in June 2023 to an Ohio restaurant  —  The fast-food chain has customized a language model with terms like ‘JBC’ for junior bacon cheeseburger and ‘biggie bags’ for meal combos
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
The US says the FBI disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage operation by inspecting FSB's Snake malware and decrypting and decoding its communications  —  A law enforcement effort dubbed “Medusa” targeted malware deployed by Moscow's Federal Security Service, officials said Tuesday.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Inside Big Pipes, a ~30-member FBI team responsible for three major cybercriminal takedowns over five years, killing dozens of “booter” DDOS-for-hire services  —  For a decade, a group called Big Pipes has worked behind the scenes with the FBI to target the worst cybercriminal “booter” services plaguing the internet.
Bloomberg:
Nintendo expects to sell 15M Nintendo Switch consoles in FY 2023, below analyst estimates of 15.7M; the company sold 18M Switch units in the year to March 2023  —  Nintendo Co. expects to sell 15 million units of its Switch console this fiscal year, showing the extent of the slowdown for its six-year-old flagship product.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Microsoft opens its Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program to 600 customers, up from 20, and adds features, like a Semantic Index and DALL-E in PowerPoint  —  Microsoft is expanding preview access to its Microsoft 365 Copilot, a digital assistant based on OpenAI's GPT-4 …
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US judge sentences ex-Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi to two years in prison for crypto insider trading; Wahi pled guilty to two counts in February 2023  —  Ishan Wahi, a former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager, was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison in what U.S. prosecutors …
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
Goldman, Microsoft, Deloitte, Cboe, and others plan to test the Canton Network blockchain in July 2023, linking apps using Digital Asset's Daml smart contract  —  A group of firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Microsoft Corp, Deloitte and Cboe Global Markets Inc are joining …
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
James Vincent / The Verge:
Meta unveils ImageBind, an open-source AI model combining text, audio, visual, depth, thermal, and movement data, as rivals OpenAI and Google get more secretive  —  Meta has announced a new open-source AI model that links together multiple streams of data, including text, audio, visual data, temperature, and movement readings.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
What to expect at Google I/O 2023: Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7A, foldable-focused Android 14 details, a Pixel 8 and 8 Pro preview, PaLM 2, and maybe some AI surprises  —  Google I/O is almost here, and that means the launch of the highly anticipated Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet is right around the corner.
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Amazon announces Amazon Anywhere, which lets third-party app users buy related physical products while in the app, launching with Niantic's new AR game Peridot  —  The so-called “everything store” is looking to go “anywhere.”  —  Amazon announced the launch Tuesday of “Amazon Anywhere,” …
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Michael Wayland / CNBC:
General Motors hires former Apple VP Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit starting on May 22; Abbott was VP of Engineering for Apple Cloud Services  —  - General Motors has hired former Apple executive Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit for the Detroit automaker.
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