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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
OpenAI unveils Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video, as a research product for some creators and security experts — OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step. — We already know that OpenAI's chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school.
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LinkedIn: Dazza Greenwood, Adam Goldberg, Yusuf Mehdi, Paul Roetzer, Emil Protalinski, and Conor Dragomanovich
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google launches Gemini 1.5 for developers and enterprise users, with a context window of up to 1M tokens, and says Gemini 1.5 Pro is on par with Gemini Ultra — Barely two months after launching Gemini, the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry, the company is already announcing its successor.
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LinkedIn: Ranbir Mazumdar, Will Grannis, Julia Wiesinger, Paige Bailey, Wenming Ye, Dex Hunter-Torricke, Adrien Laurent, and Elaine Stephens
Forums: r/Bard, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and r/mlscaling
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google makes Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Ultra generally available, adds support for adapter-based tuning in Vertex, and rolls out new developer tools — Google is expanding the range of Gemini large language models it is making available to developers on its Vertex AI platform today.
More: Google Cloud Blog, Google for Developers Blog, Thurrott, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Engadget, Android Authority, PCMag, Android Central, Google DeepMind, Fast Company, MSPoweruser, MIT Technology Review, and Firebase Blog
LinkedIn: Salvatore Scellato, Clément Farabet, Gaurav Hind, and Neama Dadkhahnikoo
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox-exclusive games to PS5 and Switch, the future of Xbox, next-gen hardware, regulation, and more — Microsoft has been gradually moving Xbox away from the idea of a single piece of hardware in recent years, with ambitions …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms that iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU because of a DMA requirement that forces Apple to allow alternative browser engines — iOS 17.4 offers a number of changes for the App Store and iPhone in the European Union. This includes things like third-party app marketplaces …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta plans to start charging a 30% fee for boosting Facebook and Instagram posts on iOS later in February, after Apple extended its 30% cut to boosting in 2022 — Meta said Thursday that it will start charging a 30 percent fee when advertisers pay to boost the visibility of their posts in Facebook's and Instagram's iOS apps.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has expanded testing of a Copilot-like tool for Xcode and is exploring AI features for productivity apps and a Spotlight search that uses LLMs — - Company is working on several generative AI-based features — New tool would help developers create code more quickly
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds four new tools that let users to incorporate, or “remix”, a music video in their Shorts, weeks after UMG pulled its song catalog from TikTok — YouTube is introducing the ability for users to incorporate or “remix” a music video in their short-form videos … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filings: Sam Altman is the sole owner of the OpenAI Startup Fund, which reported $175M in total commitments in May 2023; Microsoft is an outside limited partner — - By last May it reported $175 million in total commitments, and a portfolio that included video editor Descript and legal tool Harvey.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok debuts a native Apple Vision Pro app with a similar UI to its mobile apps; in January, an executive said TikTok “redesigned the entire TikTok experience” — Apple's Vision Pro headset now has a native TikTok app, the shortform video service has announced.
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| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn announce an updated Kids Online Safety Act and say 60+ US senators support the bill; KOSA faces uncertainty in the House — With more than 60 backers, an updated Kids Online Safety Act finally has a path to passage in the Senate but faces uncertainty in the House.
More: Techdirt, The Verge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, blumenthal.senate.gov, The Hill, Bloomberg Government, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn …, and Design It For Us
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
The European Court of Human Rights rules backdoors that weaken E2EE can undermine human rights, after Russia began forcing Telegram to decrypt messages in 2017 — Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says. — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) …
More: European Court of Human Rights, EU Reporter, SiliconANGLE, OSnews, The Register, Cryptopolitan, and Fortune
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| Granth Vanaik / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $2.3B, vs. $2.24B est., total orders up 23% YoY to 574M, and Q1 profit forecast below estimates; DASH drops 8%+ — DoorDash (DASH.O) projected annual core profit largely above expectations and beat fourth-quarter revenue estimates on Thursday … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The US Patent and Trademark Office denies OpenAI's attempt to trademark “GPT”, ruling that the term is “merely descriptive” — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI's attempt to trademark “GPT,” ruling that the term is “merely descriptive” and therefore unable to be registered.| Chainalysis: |
In 2023, crypto money laundering fell 29.5% YoY to $22.2B, 109 addresses got $10M+ in illicit crypto each, and five off-ramp services got 71.7% of illicit funds — Coming soon — The goal of money laundering is to obscure the criminal origins of funds so that they can be accessed and spent.
More: Cointelegraph, Milk Road, Metaverse Post, Crowdfund Insider, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, Blockworks, CoinGape, and Unchained
X: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @chainalysis
| Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest €3.2B in German AI infrastructure over the next two years, its biggest investment in Germany yet — - President Brad Smith says investments planned over two years — Microsoft is investing heavily in data centers to fuel AI boom
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Computerworld, The Independent, Deutsche Welle, CIO.com, TNW, Benzinga, and TechStartups
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $984.4M, vs. $968.2M est., and warns of a “challenging” environment for media and entertainment in 2024; ROKU drops 14%+ — Roku revenue came in above Wall Street forecasts for the fourth quarter of 2023 — and it touted new milestones … | Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Google plans to let businesses install its auto-updating ChromeOS Flex on Windows 10 devices, to help prevent millions of PCs from hitting landfills in 2025 — Google will allow businesses to install an auto-updating version of the Chrome operating system to Windows devices …
More: Google Cloud Blog, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, PCMag, MSPoweruser, MySmartPrice, Thurrott, and Computing
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at robots.txt, a good will-based social contract that governs the behavior of web crawlers, as experts call for more rigid tools for managing AI crawlers — For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data …
Threads: @anildash and @reckless1280. Mastodon: @updates@coywolf.today
Forums: r/programming, r/aiwars, and Lobsters
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Sources: spyware vendor Variston is closing after Google “burned” its name publicly in 2022; source: a disgruntled staffer sent its malicious code to Google — The Barcelona-based startup's malware has been used to target iPhones, Android devices and PCs| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue up 51% YoY to $953.8M, vs. $826M est., net income of $273M, its first profit in two years, vs. a loss of $557M YoY; COIN jumps 10%+ — Revenue surged 51% to $953.8 million, topping the $826 million average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
More: The Information, CoinDesk, Coinbase, and Cointelegraph
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
X removes paid checkmarks from some accounts after a watchdog group found 28 verified accounts allegedly tied to Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities — X (aka Twitter) accused of violating sanctions by taking payment from terrorists. — A watchdog group's investigation found …
More: The Verge, New York Times, Tech Transparency Project, BBC, Gizmodo, Proactive, PCMag, Boing Boing, Engadget, and The Hill
Forums: r/lebanon, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/Twitter, r/FreeSpeech, and Ars OpenForum
| Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: |
Many Apple Vision Pro users are returning their devices for being too expensive, heavy, or isolating, as the 14-day return window closes for launch day buyers — Many early adopters seem set on returning their Apple Vision Pro headsets. As the 14-day return window approaches for people …
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