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Affinity and Canva publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's design software “fair, transparent, and affordable”, including its “perpetual licenses” — After Canva's acquisition of Affinity design software sparked concern regarding the future …
More: Affinity, AppleInsider, Joan Westenberg, Silicon Canals, Techpoint Africa, TechSpot, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, mjtsai.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
Threads: @snazzyq, @trevorcroker, and @todd_coleman
X: @thatanimeweirdo, @affinitybyserif, @demisbellot, @passivestar_, @t3dotgg, and @jamesjdominguez. LinkedIn: Cliff Obrecht. Forums: r/Affinity
| CNBC: |
Amazon plans to invest $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of Amazon's planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after a $1.25B tranche in September 2023 — Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race.
More: VentureBeat, Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, About Amazon, and The Hollywood Reporter
Threads: @lorakolodny. X: @alexrkonrad, @carnage4life, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, @silvermanjacob, @pitdesi, @mytechmusings, @danielnewmanuv, @thekenyeung, @mattmday, @hawleymo, and @edludlow
LinkedIn: Michael Broderick and Hayden Field
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Databricks' new open-source model DBRX, an LLM that cost ~$10M to train over several months and, Databricks says, outshines Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok — Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta's Llama 2.
More: Databricks, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, InfoWorld, Databricks, The Information, Constellation Research, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, ITPro, and Databricks
Threads: @vthallam. Mastodon: @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org. X: @brij, @mattshumer_, @emostaque, @abacaj, @alighodsi, @downingark, @natolambert, @jefrankle, @stevesi, @databricks, @lindensli, @dylan522p, @jefrankle, @mvpatel2000, @jefrankle, @chamath, @vitaliychiley, @code_star, @code_star, and @code_star
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated — Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they're vulnerable …
More: The Keyword, BleepingComputer, PCMag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cyber Kendra, The Register, Google Cloud Blog, Dark Reading, GovInfoSecurity.com, CyberScoop, Android Central, TechRadar, SecurityWeek, and Forbes
X: @royalhansen, @shanehuntley, @maddiestone, @profwoodward, and @rseroter
Forums: r/netsec and r/cybersecurity
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney adds Hulu to Disney+, after beta testing the integration since December 2023; Disney+ subscribers who don't pay for Hulu can still search for Hulu shows — “Content recommendations are going to be more relevant based on your usage,” says Joe Earley, president of direct-to-consumer for Disney Entertainment.
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X: @tvgrimreaper and @aaron
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Trent Morrison
Forums: r/DisneyPlus and r/cordcutters
| Reuters: |
A US judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, but dismisses one claim that Coinbase acted as an unregistered broker via Coinbase Wallet — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday said the U.S. securities regulator's lawsuit against Coinbase (COIN.O) can move forward …
More: The Verge, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Unchained, CNBC, Decrypt, Finbold, DL News, The Daily Hodl, Coinspeaker, The Block, Bloomberg, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, CoinJournal, Crowdfund Insider, and Financial Times
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/ethtrader
| Colleen McClain / Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 10,133 US adults: 43% of those aged 18-29 used ChatGPT in February 2024, up from 33% in July 2023, compared to 27% of 30-49 and 23% of all adults — It's been more than a year since ChatGPT's public debut set the tech world abuzz. And Americans' use of the chatbot is ticking up … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X plans to make xAI's Grok available to all Premium subscribers “later this week”, expanding on Premium+ support; X Premium costs $8 per month — Following Elon Musk's xAI's move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday … | Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Sources: blockchain AI companies SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, and Ocean Protocol are discussing merging their tokens into ASI, with a ~$7.5B fully diluted value — Three artificial intelligence companies that operate on blockchain are in talks to merge their crypto tokens, a move aimed at helping them develop a decentralized AI platform.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
At Intel's AI Summit in Taipei, executives say Copilot will soon run locally on PCs and that there will be a 40 TOPS requirement for NPUs on next-gen AI PCs — Let the TOPS wars begin. — We've previously reported on industry rumors that Microsoft's Copilot AI service will soon run locally …
More: Ars Technica, The Register, Thurrott, Wccftech, TweakTown, ExtremeTech, and XDA Developers
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Phil Schiller, now an Apple Fellow, emerged as Apple's most ardent public defender of its ecosystem, under attacks from the US DOJ, the EU, rivals, and more — Former Chief Marketing Officer Phil Schiller has frequently made it clear that Apple doesn't intend to yield to developer criticism| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada — Google is introducing a handful of updates that aim to take some of the stress out of planning trips and outings …
More: 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Keyword, Engadget, The Keyword, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Mashable, Android Central, Skift, and Tom's Guide. X: @scobleizer
| Marcia Sekhose / 91mobiles: |
Source: the Google Pixel 9 will have three sizes, the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL; alleged Pixel 9 renders show two rear cameras and a compact body — - New 5K renders give us a close look at the vanilla Google Pixel 9. — In addition to Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro, Google will also launch Pixel 9 Pro XL.| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Blockchain game Munchables, which offers rewards for looking after digital creatures, loses ~$63M in ETH in a hack; the hacker seems to have returned the funds — - Blockchain-based Munchables game confirmed a security incident — Munchables declared all user funds safe later the same day| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a tool that lets US users swipe left or right to rate apparel and accessories to get style recommendations on mobile browsers and Google app — Google is rolling out a new update that makes it easier for users to find personalized shopping results, the company announced on Wednesday.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Lifewire, and News.ng
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Gemini to some Google Messages beta users with RCS enabled on select Pixel and Galaxy devices, letting users chat to Gemini over RCS — Following the announcement a month ago, Gemini is starting to roll out for some Google Messages beta users.| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
How tech companies' search for AI experts, amid a shortage of candidates, led to million-dollar-a-year compensation packages, poaching entire teams, and more — The artificial-intelligence boom is sending Silicon Valley's talent wars to new extremes. Tech companies are serving up million-dollar … | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation — Hume has raised $50 million in funding at a $219 million valuation to build “empathic” conversational AI. — Alan Cowen feigns a dejected expression.
More: Analytics India Magazine and Hume AI
X: @hume_ai, @andrewcurran_, @hume_ai, @apoorva_mehta, @hume_ai, @scobleizer, and @rauchg. LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava
| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Israeli officials detail an expansive and experimental facial recognition program in Gaza to catalog Palestinians without their knowledge, starting in late 2023 — The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.
More: Cryptopolitan. X: @sopgood, @fbajak, @william_fitz, @awinston, @arifcrafiq, @shashj, @evan_greer, @arictoler, @kashhill, @shashj, and @shashj
Forums: Hacker News and r/worldnews
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Source: Salesforce paid $20M+ to license Einstein's image in October 2016, hoping to stand out in the AI space; the proceeds go to Jerusalem's Hebrew University — It's tough to stand out as a tech company working on artificial intelligence. Albert Einstein is Salesforce's solution.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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