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Sources: Microsoft is training MAI-1, a new, in-house AI model with ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI — For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models …
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Forums: r/singularity, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
Study from Meta researchers suggests that training LLMs to predict multiple tokens at once, instead of just the next token, results in better and faster models — In a recent study, researchers at Meta, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay suggest improving the accuracy …
More: arXiv.org, Miguel Grinberg, PYMNTS.com, TheSequence, and MarkTechPost
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| Counterpoint Research: |
iPhone 15 Pro Max was Q1's best-selling smartphone; Pro phones were 50% of Apple's sales, up from 24% in 2020; Apple and Samsung each had five phones in top 10 — - Apple and Samsung dominated the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones in Q1 2024. — This was the first quarter in which the top 10 smartphones were all 5G capable.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI should be available by the end of June — OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models' performance on programming-related tasks.
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| Sky News: |
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed — MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.
More: BBC, Reuters, The Guardian, The Verge, Metro.co.uk, and The Sun
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an attack against many VPN apps that force them to send some or all traffic outside of the VPN encrypted tunnel; Android mitigates the flaw — TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers. — Researchers have devised an attack …
More: Krebs on Security and Leviathan Security Group
Mastodon: @vanhoefm@infosec.exchange. X: @vanhoefm, @banisterfiend, and @tc_johnson. LinkedIn: Brian Krebs
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead, which uses AI to let users jump to parts of a video where most viewers skip ahead, to all US Premium members using its Android app — It's currently available in the US on the YouTube Android app. — • — TL;DR — YouTube Premium members in the US … | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Visa and Allium Labs: less than 10% of the ~$2.2T stablecoin transactions in April were “organic payments activity”, which excludes bots and large-scale traders — - Less than 10% of stablecoin transactions are “organic:” Visa — PayPal, Stripe are among fintechs expanding in stablecoins
More: CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoPotato, PYMNTS.com, CoinGape, NewsBTC, The Crypto Times, Cryptonews, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, and DL News. Forums: r/Buttcoin
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DocuSign says it is acquiring contract workflow automation startup Lexion for $165M; Lexion had raised $35.2M — As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it's acquiring a company itself. — On Monday, DocuSign announced that it's buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation startup, for $165 million.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo on adding AI tools, supporting developers on Quora's chatbot platform Poe, Quora's relationship with OpenAI, and more — Last November, Adam D'Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry.| Reuters: |
Synopsys agrees to sell its Software Integrity Group business to a PE consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners in a deal valued at $2.1B — Synopsys (SNPS.O) will sell its software integrity (SIG) unit to a private equity consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners …
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
The increase of stock sales in privately held companies leads to tensions within startups like Stripe; Sacra says the market could grow 40% YoY to $64B in 2024 — The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.
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