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Microsoft plans to add Copilot to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and more, roll out Bing to Windows 11 taskbar and Skype, announces Bing plugins, and more — You only need two simple letters to accurately convey the major shift in the technology space this year: A and I. Beyond those letters … | 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.
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA blocked Meta's acquisition in 2022; Meta can still access Giphy content — Stock photos repository Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N) said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy Inc from Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) for $53 million in cash.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic, a generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, raised a $450M Series C led by Spark Capital, with Google, Salesforce, and Zoom participating — Anthropic, the prominent generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, has raised $450 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital.
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| New York Times: |
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy releases a 19-page report arguing social media can have a “profound risk of harm” for kids and teens and calls for action — Dr. Vivek H. Murthy urged immediate action from policymakers, tech companies and parents to safeguard against potential harms.
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Sources: in 2020 and 2021, Binance commingled customer funds with revenue; a source says the sums ran into billions of dollars in Silvergate-held accounts — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, commingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021 …
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| Wired: |
Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show the majority favor some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an EU-wide E2EE ban — In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Warner Bros. Discovery launches Max, offering substantially more 4K content than HBO Max via its $19.99 per month Ultimate plan, above the $15.99 ad-free plan — When Max goes live on May 23rd, the new Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service will offer substantially more 4K entertainment than HBO Max ever did.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches Generative Fill for Photoshop, one of the first Creative Cloud apps to use its generative AI Firefly tool, in beta, 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 …
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| Huw Jones / Reuters: |
Securities watchdog IOSCO proposes the first global crypto regulations, covering conflicts of interest, custody, and more, aiming to finalize them by year-end — International securities watchdog IOSCO on Tuesday proposed the first global approach to regulating cryptoasset markets …
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| Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: |
Building AI responsibly matters more than competition, one company cannot fulfill AI's potential alone, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key — Fulfilling the technology's potential is not something that one company can do alone — The writer is CEO of Google and Alphabet
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Amazon announces the 11-inch Fire Max 11, offering a sleeker design, slim bezels, MediaTek SoC, support for a new keyboard with trackpad and a stylus, from $230 — For years, Amazon's Fire tablet lineup has consisted of smaller seven-inch, medium eight-inch, and larger 10-inch screen options …
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| New York Times: |
US prosecutors have gathered over 6M pages of documents ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial, an unusually large amount that underscores his legal difficulties — Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange's founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber and Waymo announce a “multi-year” partnership to “make the Waymo Driver available to more people” via Uber, starting in Phoenix with a “set number” of cars — Waymo's robotaxis will be available to hail for rides and food delivery on Uber's app …
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| New York Times: |
China's Micron ban could help the government boost its domestic memory chip industry, a sector where China has a toehold in its competition with the US — A Chinese government block on Micron Technology's memory chips marks how far apart the two economic powers are drifting on tech policy.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
TikTok sues Montana over its new law intending to ban the app, citing the First Amendment, the state's lack of authority on national security issues, and more — TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence — AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI's leadership believes that the world needs …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
As music revenue slows, record labels may force Spotify, which has never changed its US base plan's price, to follow Apple, Amazon, and others in raising prices — Good evening from Cannes, where I saw a three-hour Argentine heist movie, a Pedro Almodovar short starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, and Martin Scorsese's latest.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, offering a music creation and fan engagement service with 60M+ registered users, raised $25M Series B1 valuing it at $425M — Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, the parent company of social music creation platform BandLab, has raised $25 million … | Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
Google expands its AI flood forecasting tool Flood Hub to 460M people, from 20 countries up to 48 hours in advance to 80 countries up to seven days in advance — Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people.
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| Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong outlines crypto trading rules for bitcoin, ether, and other large coins, letting retail investors trade them on licensed exchanges starting on June 1 — Hong Kong said retail investors can trade crypto under its new rulebook for the sector, stepping up a drive to develop …
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
South African digital banking startup TymeBank raised a $77.8M pre-Series C led by Norrsken22 and Blue Earth Capital, after a $110M Series B in February 2021 — South African digital banking platform Tyme has raised $77.8 million in a pre-Series C round led by African-focused growth stage fund Norrsken22 …
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How ShareIt became a go-to file transfer app in countries where data is prohibitively expensive; the company claims the app has 2.4B downloads globally — Virtually unknown in the West, ShareIt boomed in places where data is expensive. But as the cost of data falls, can it stay relevant?
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
SEC-backed FINRA approved two crypto-related companies, including broker-dealer Prometheum Capital, which defined tokens as securities to comply with SEC rules — As the industry fights with the U.S. regulator over “impossible” demands, Prometheum Capital and others win approvals to deal in crypto securities.
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