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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The arrival of AI search bodes ill for everyone who relies on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded — With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
More: Washington Post, Lifewire, CNBC, and Beyond Search
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google plans to roll out AI Overviews in Search to all US users by next week, and to more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by the end of 2024 — 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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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google rolls out a search filter, named “Web”, to show only text-based links in results, available globally alongside other filters, like for images and videos — Google is rolling out a new search filter to show only text-based links in the search results. The filter is named “Web”.
More: Search Engine Roundtable, The Verge, Fossbytes, CoinXposure, Mashable, Neowin, and TechCrunch
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| CNBC: |
Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI's chief scientist — OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he's leaving the Microsoft-backed startup.
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| The Verge: |
Jan Leike, who was co-leading OpenAI's Superalignment team with Ilya Sutskever to “steer and control” more powerful AI, has also resigned from the company — Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist who helped lead the infamous failed coup against Sam Altman …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Apple unveils accessibility features, like Eye Tracking, to let users with physical disabilities control iPads or iPhones with their eyes, and Music Haptics — The company is making it easier to use your gaze to navigate iOS and iPadOS. — Deputy Editor, Reviews
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| VideoCardz.com: |
A leaked Dell XPS roadmap details Qualcomm's “Oryon V2” series, possibly named Snapdragon X Gen2 and launching in H2 2025, and “QC Oryon V3”, set for late 2027 — Dell XPS Qualcomm leak: next-gen Snapdragon X series in mid-2025 — Qualcomm Snapdragon X Gen2 and Gen3 already in the planing.
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| Nelson Renteria / Reuters: |
El Salvador has mined 473.5 bitcoin, worth ~$29M, since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, bringing its total bitcoin portfolio to ~$354M — El Salvador has mined nearly 474 bitcoins since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, official data showed on Tuesday …
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google open sources code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming “mouse” that users control using head movements and facial gestures, to Android developers — Google has announced that the code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming ‘mouse’ that you control by making faces …
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
Apple letting the new iPad Pro run macOS would require major tradeoffs and adding touch to Mac would lead to “a lot of flakey software that doesn't really work” — It is not unusual for customers to want the best of all worlds. It is why Detroit invented convertibles and el caminos. But the idea of a “dual boot” device is just nuts. It is guaranteed the only reality is it is running the wrong OS all the time for whatever you want to do....
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| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Sources: Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside its first patient's brain had pulled out of position is an issue it has known about for years — Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had pulled out of position is an issue … | RT Watson / The Block: |
Immutable Games launches Guild of Guardians, its flagship mobile fantasy RPG that let players win GOG tokens, NFTs, and more; Immutable raised $200M in 2022 — “Guild of Guardians” is launching worldwide on both Apple and Android devices. — Immutable Games is offering up to $1 million in prizes.
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| University of Oxford: |
A study of 2,414,294 people in 168 countries between 2006 and 2021 finds 84.9% of associations between internet connectivity and wellbeing were positive — Links between internet adoption and wellbeing are likely to be positive, despite popular concerns to the contrary …
More: Cybernews.com and TechSpot
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
AWS details its European “sovereign cloud”, designed to enable greater data residency, starting in Germany, and plans to invest €7.8B in the region by 2040 — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business, has confirmed further details of its European … | Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: |
As India's elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP's vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny — An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India's ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny. — • MANDI, INDIA| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says ASML's new machines, which cost €350M each, are too expensive, and the A16 node, due in late 2026, won't need to use the new machines — “The cost is very high,” TSMC Senior Vice President Kevin Zhang said at a technology symposium in Amsterdam on Tuesday …
More: Benzinga, TNW, TweakTown, and TrendForce Insights
| Washington Post: |
Eight TikTok creators sue the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing the move violates their First Amendment rights — The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights.
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| New York Times: |
Bipartisan US Senators release a long-awaited plan for AI, calling for spending $32B annually by 2026 on R&D, creating a federal data privacy law, and more — Their plan is the culmination of a yearlong listening tour on the dangers of the new technology.
More: Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, Punchbowl News, Washington Post, BNN Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal. X: @senschumer
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Anthropic hires Instagram and Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger as its chief product officer, after the startup released an iOS app for its Claude chatbot — As Anthropic tries to take on the AI giants, it has a new big-name executive on board: the company announced this morning that Mike Krieger is its new chief product officer.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Networking infrastructure startup Alkira, which lets users virtualize hybrid cloud assets, raised a $100M Series C led by Tiger, for $176M in total funding — As cloud adoption continues to surge towards the $1 trillion mark in annual spend, we're seeing a wave of enterprise startups gaining traction …
More: SiliconANGLE, Alkira, and Pulse 2.0
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix strikes a deal with the NFL to stream two new Christmas Day games for at least three years, beginning this season — The streaming giant lands the league's two new Christmas Day games, beginning this season. — Netflix will stream live NFL games, beginning this season.
More: The Information, Netflix Tudum, Adweek, NBC News, The Streamable, and NFL Communications
X: @mysportsupdate, @jbflint, @carlquintanilla, and @netflix
| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
London-based PolyAI, which makes AI voice assistants for call centres, raised $50M led by Hedosophia, with money from Nvidia and others, at a $500M+ valuation — London-based start-up behind artificial intelligence call centre assistants secures funding — London-based PolyAI has secured … | Reuters: |
A US federal court orders Elon Musk to testify again in an SEC investigation into his $44B Twitter takeover; the SEC sued Musk in October 2023 to testify — A federal court ordered on Tuesday that Elon Musk must testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
More: Axios
| Michelle Nichols / Reuters: |
UN sanctions monitors: North Korea laundered $147.5M of crypto through Tornado Cash in March after stealing it late last year from HTX crypto exchange — North Korea laundered $147.5 million through virtual currency platform Tornado Cash in March after stealing it last year from a cryptocurrency exchange …
More: SC Media, Wired, Cointelegraph, Milk Road, Cybernews.com, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptonews, CoinGape, and The Crypto Times
| Ben Smith / Semafor: |
Billionaire tech critic Frank McCourt says he is preparing a “people's bid” to buy and rebuild TikTok so users “own and control their identity and their data” — The Scoop — A billionaire tech critic says he is mounting a bid to buy TikTok, the massive Chinese … | Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
USDC issuer Circle, which confidentially filed for a US IPO in January, plans to shift its legal base to the US from Ireland, and may face more onerous taxes — - Circle's holding company is currently located in Ireland — With an IPO looming, the firm will re-domicile to the US
More: PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Weka, which offers a parallel file system and data management tools for AI and HPC, raised a $140M Series E led by Valor Equity at a $1.6B post-money valuation — While an increasing number of companies are investing in AI, many are struggling to get AI-powered projects into production — much less delivering meaningful ROI.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon made its debut pitch at the Upfronts annual ad sales event on May 14, competing with major media networks and highlighting its push beyond digital ads — Amazon has become a growing threat to digital ad incumbents Meta and Google, attracting billions of dollars a quarter from brands … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Project IDX, its next-gen AI-centric browser-based IDE, in open beta, and says that 100,000+ developers tried the service in invite-only phase — At it's annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Project IDX, the company's next-gen … Sponsor Posts
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