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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 or newer and Logic requires an 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.
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| Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: |
Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his show on Twitter with help from ex-Fox News staff; he'd forgo at least $25M Fox owes him to break a non-compete clause — 🚨 NEWS: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show *on Twitter* with help from former Fox News staff. He will forgo at least $25 million owed to him by Fox Corp. in order to break non-compete clause. @PuckNews
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| 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
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| 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 …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 16.5 mentions new Beats Studio Pro headphones, which a source says come in four colors with a Transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, and better ANC — Earlier this year, 9to5Mac revealed that Apple has been working on new Beats Studio Buds+ with a custom Beats chip.
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| 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.
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| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a mass shooting in Texas a “psyop”, remarking himself the case was “very strange” and “gets weirder by the moment” — Musk has a history of engaging with right-wing conspiracies, and his reaction to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas continues the trend.
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The Independent and Ars Technica
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots — Anthropic is a bit of an unknown quantity in the AI world. Founded by former OpenAI employees and keen to present itself …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, pleads guilty for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts and other crimes — / The hack compromised numerous high-profile accounts, including Elon Musk's. — PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O'Connor … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads” — It's often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI's ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there's some truth to that.
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| 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, Bard updates, PaLM 2, and more AI — 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.
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| 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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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub's push protection feature, which automatically blocks the leak of sensitive data like API keys and access tokens, is now free for all public repositories — GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup Boomy, or “tens of thousands” of songs, over a suspicion of bots posing as human listeners — Platform cracks down on bots posing as listeners as flood of content rattles music industry
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| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo expects to sell 15M Nintendo Switch consoles in FY 2023, below analyst estimates of 15.7M; the company sold 18M Switch consoles in FY 2022 — 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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
IBM debuts watsonx, a suite of AI services with seven pretrained models, and partners with Hugging Face to include thousands of models, datasets, and libraries — IBM, like pretty much every tech giant these days, is betting big on AI. — At its annual Think conference …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / Marketwatch: |
Affirm Q3: revenue up 7% YoY to $381M, vs. $370M est., net loss of $205.7M, vs. $54.7M YoY, gross merchandise volume of $4.6B, up from $3.9B YoY; AFRM down 8%+ — Buy-now, pay-later company beats expectations across the board with quarterly results, but stock slumps more than 8% in after-hours trading
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| Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: |
EA reports Q4 revenue of $1.87B, up 2.7% YoY, a $12M net loss, vs. a $225M net income YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.95B, and FIFA net bookings up 31% YoY — But the video game company swung to a net loss of $12 million, against a year-earlier net profit of $225 million.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Carriers in dozens of US states are tearing out Chinese equipment, a difficult process the FCC says has already cost $5B+, well over its $1.9B reimbursement pot — As China and the United States jockey for tech primacy, wireless carriers in dozens of states are tearing out Chinese equipment.
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@kashhill, @karlbode, and @bigblackjacobin
| 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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