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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
A look at OpenAI's GPT-4o and the decision to let all users access the model, helping to democratize AI and make it more present and connected to human systems — A new model opens up new possibilities — Today, OpenAI released a new AI model, GPT-4o, with some interesting capabilities.
More: USA Today, VentureBeat, Forbes, HotHardware, Cointelegraph, KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, Tech Funding News, and 9to5Mac
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a private preview of a new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro that can take up to 2M tokens, twice its predecessor and rivals like Anthropic's Claude 3 — Gemini, Google's family of generative AI models, can now analyze longer documents, codebases, videos and audio recordings than before.
More: XDA Developers, NBC News, The Keyword, and The Verge
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
More: Android Authority, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fast Company, and BGR
| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
More: Business Today, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Android Central, MobileSyrup, The Keyword, Livemint, Mashable, The National, The Indian Express, and The Verge
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, replaced by Matt Garman, effective June 3; Selipsky joined AWS in 2005 and became CEO in 2021 — Matt Garman, the SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO.
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Google says Circle to Search can now solve physics and math problems, and will expand later this year to diagrams and graphs, powered by LearnLM models — Google's new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.
More: The Keyword, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Phone Scoop, and Droid Life. X: @mishaalrahman
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google teases Project Astra, a camera-based AI app to process visual data in realtime, and showed a person wearing a pair of smart glasses using the feature — It'll even remember things it saw that are no longer in the frame. — Deputy Editor, Reviews — When Google first showcased … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Google debuts Veo, a text-to-video model that outputs at 1080p resolution, and Imagen 3, its highest quality image generation model with improved text rendering — It's also targeting recording artists with Music AI Sandbox. — It's all AI all the time at Google I/O!
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google announces Ask Photos with Gemini, which can answer user questions like “show me the best photo from each national park I've visited” from Google Photos — Ask Photos with Gemini is a new generative AI chatbot for the app. — Deputy Editor, Reviews| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year — AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price” — Get ready for the next cable-like streaming bundle: Comcast later this month will launch a three-way bundle …
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Forums: r/MediaMergers, r/tvPlus, r/technology, r/cordcutters, and r/television
| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment announces two new CEOs: Hermen Hulst, who will lead studios, and Hideaki Nishino, who will lead platforms, effective June 1 — Hulst will lead the Studios business, while Nishino takes charge of the platform side — News by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
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Forums: r/LastStandMedia, r/PS5, r/Games, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, and r/PS4
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
More: Video Games Chronicle, Sony Group, Neowin, Dot Esports, Destructoid, and Bloomberg
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The US plans to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China, including chips, EVs, and batteries, impacting $18B of products; chip tariffs will double from 2025 — Action designed to protect American jobs, as Joe Biden campaigns for votes across rustbelt — The Biden administration …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to shut down its enterprise tool Workplace in September 2025, making it read-only until May 2026; Workplace had 7M+ paid subscribers in May 2021 — Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network's parent company Meta …
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X: @tanayj, @newsynick, @jordannovet, @joshconstine, and @ingridlunden
LinkedIn: Miguel Iglesias and Carrie Basham Marshall
| Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months for money laundering; Pertsev was first jailed in August 2022 — Alexey Pertsev was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022. — Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in jail for money laundering
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency, r/ethtrader, and r/ethtrader
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Square Enix's stock falls 16%, its biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its AAA games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short — - Big titles released on PlayStation fell short, president says — Games development overhaul seen taking time to bear fruit
More: Video Games Chronicle, VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, IGN, Dot Esports, Square Enix Holdings, Game Rant, Eurogamer.net, Forbes, and Polygon
X: @ultimashadowx, @6d6f636869, @stephentotilo, @andy_vgc, @ana0216h, @andy_vgc, @tamoorh, @piratesoftware, and @matoukinnie
Forums: r/Games and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not share any plans to ship such a build — Google privately demoed this capability to other companies recently. — • — TL;DR — Google has developed a method to run Chrome OS on its Pixel devices.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Dell appears to have suffered another data breach where ~30K customer service records were scraped, following its recent breach that affected 49M customers — The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned.| Washington Post: |
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