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Google unveils ARM-based Axion chips for AI, claiming they have up to 30% better performance over the top ARM rivals, coming to Google Cloud customers in 2024 — Tech giant develops new chips to cut reliance on outside vendors as the AI arms race intensifies
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LinkedIn: Partha Ranganathan, Stephen Bates, Maruthy Vedam, and Gianluca Varisco. Forums: Hacker News
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag anomalies within images for radiologists and summarize information from a patient's medical history — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019.| Bloomberg: |
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LinkedIn: Gianluca Varisco, Anne-Laure Giret, Achintya Singhal, Iman Ghanizada, and Ryon Haness
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky will become Automattic's head of messaging — - Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join — Beeper briefly brought Apple's iMessage to Android devices
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts Gaudi 3, set for Q3 mass production, claiming up to 1.7x the training performance, 50% more inference, and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia's H100 — GPUs fall the wayside as Intel goes all-in on Gaudi for AI. — Intel made a slew of announcements during its Vision 2024 event today …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens — Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers found an exposed Azure server with credentials used by Microsoft staff to access internal systems; Microsoft was told Feb. 6 and secured it March 5 — Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% — The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche. Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier this year …
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
NetEase says it is working with Microsoft to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the partnership in January 2023 — Chinese video games giant NetEase (9999.HK) said it is working with Microsoft (MSFT.O) to bring popular games including …
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Forums: r/hearthstone and r/MMORPG
| Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog: |
Google introduces two Gemma variants, CodeGemma to help with code completion and RecurrentGemma to provide researchers faster inference at higher batch sizes — In February we announced Gemma, our family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
More: Hugging Face, Fierce Network, and SD Times
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds shopping features, including creator-curated product lists for users to browse called Shopping Collections and a hub with info on commission rates — YouTube announced on Tuesday that it's launching new Shopping features that allow creators to curate shoppable collections … | Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
WPP announces a collaboration with Google, integrating Gemini AI tools with WPP data to create scripts, product images, and more for ad clients like Coca-Cola — The groundbreaking partnership implies Google's robots could begin creating ads for world-leading brands like Coca-Cola. — Chat with SearchBot
More: MediaPost, PRWeek, B&T, The Media Leader, WPP, More About Advertising, and Proactive
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Cruise resumes manually driving its vehicles without autonomous systems engaged to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix — General Motors' Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post.
More: Cruise Self Driving Cars, The Verge, NBC News, The Robot Report, CNBC, Tech Xplore, ZDNet, The Last Driver License Holder, GovTech, Inc.com, Benzinga, and Bloomberg
X: @meghanbobrowsky and @aniccia
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in the API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling — As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is the nexus of modern software development that sits atop tech platforms …
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Copenhagen-based Reshape, whose AI-powered robotic imaging system helps track visual changes in lab experiments, raised a $20M Series A led by Astanor Ventures — Danish startup grabs $20M in funding to bring more engineering to biology — A Danish startup wants to help R&D teams automate lab experiments … | Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Alethea, whose ML service monitors online chatter to help companies detect disinformation, raised a $20M Series B led by GV, bringing its total raised to $34M — - Heading into the 2024 U.S. elections, the funding will help the company boost its staff levels and build its product to spot … | Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Investment platform Linqto plans to go public via a SPAC merger with Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition at a ~$700M valuation in a deal expected to close in H2 — Investment platform Linqto has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) …
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