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May 24, 2023, 4:05 AM

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix cracks down on password sharing in the US and offers paid sharing, which lets some accounts add an extra member outside their household for $7.99/month  —  Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is.
Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft plans to adopt the same plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot offerings  —  You only need two simple letters to accurately convey the major shift in the technology space this year: A and I. Beyond those letters …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who manages the OpenAI partnership, as Microsoft adds Copilots to everything from Office to Terminal to Edge  —  Microsoft is putting AI Copilots in everything.  Will it change the way we use computers? … Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott …
NBC News:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks  —  The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Elon Musk's intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight  —  It was only a year ago that Elon Musk, then simply the guy who was hoping to buy Twitter, insisted that his politics sat squarely at the center of the national spectrum.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google plans to use generative AI to boost the relevance of Search ads based on query context and debuts a conversational experience for creating ad campaigns  —  Google is going to start using generative AI to boost Search ads relevance based on the context of a query, the company announced at its Google Marketing Live event today.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google launches Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants edit product images using generative AI for free, rolling out to US sellers in “the next few months”  —  Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Google Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize …
Vjeran Pavic / The Verge:
Final Cut Pro for iPad review: touch-friendly design and accessible pricing but limited Mac interoperability and lacks the blade tool, stabilization, and more  —  The long-awaited iPad version of Final Cut Pro is here and, with it, a touch-friendly design and accessible pricing.
Andrew Marino / The Verge:
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China  —  And it's happening in plain sight.  —  Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” deal with Broadcom to develop and manufacture 5G and wireless components, including FBAR filters, in the US  —  Apple has announced a major new partnership with Broadcom, one of its long-time supplier partners.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Will Gendron / Insider:
Spotify is building AI tools trained on its hosts' voices to create targeted ads, per Bill Simmons, the founder of the Spotify-owned podcast network The Ringer  —  - Bill Simmons, founder of The Ringer, hinted at Spotify's future AI plans.  — He said that the streaming service is working on technology for AI-generated ads.
Wired:
Multilingual language models may not be effective tools to moderate content on social networks due the systems' shortcomings in detecting harmful content  —  Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language.  But those systems' shortcomings can have vast consequences.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches Generative Fill in beta for Photoshop, one of the first Creative Cloud apps to use its generative AI Firefly tool, rolling out fully in H2 2023  —  / Generative Fill will arrive in Photoshop in ‘the second half of 2023.’  —  Adobe Photoshop is getting a new generative AI tool …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Samsung demos multiple OLED panels, including a long rollable display and one that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels from a user's finger  —  The Rollable Flex is an interesting new flexible screen from Samsung Display that can be unrolled from just 49mm to 254.4mm, over five times its length.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft launches Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers on the company's OneLake data lake, but also works with Amazon S3 and soon GCP  —  Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric).

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