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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more — Build is Microsoft's largest developer conference and of course, it's all about AI this year. So it's no surprise that GitHub's Copilot …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the general availability of its Phi-3 models, including Phi-3-Silica, a 3.3B parameter model that will be embedded on all Copilot+ PCs — Microsoft is making more investments in the development of small language models. At its Build developer conference …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
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| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers — The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in the event that China invades Taiwan, ASML and TSMC have ways to disable their sophisticated chipmaking machines; ASML reassured Dutch officials — - Firms can remotely shut off advanced EUV chip-making machines — US officials concerned over risk of conflict to chip industry
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| Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Farcaster, a blockchain-based social media project built on Ethereum, raised $150M in a round led by Paradigm and says it has 350K paid sign-ups — Dan Romero's Farcaster made waves earlier this year with the introduction of “Frames,” a feature allowing apps to run within posts, so users don't have to click off to another site.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs event was compelling, the culmination of years of work, and Windows feels revitalized while its hardware is meaningfully differentiated — Full disclosure: I didn't have any plans to write this Article; I had various reasons to be in the U.S. this week … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, IBM, and 10 other companies commit to safe AI development at the AI Seoul Summit 2024, hosted by South Korea and the UK — Sixteen companies involved in AI including Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Meta (META.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O) and OpenAI …
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| Reuters: |
EU countries vote to approve the landmark EU AI Act, agreed in December 2023, to ensure “trust, transparency, and accountability”, taking effect in June 2024 — Europe's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed …
More: Council of the EU, The Register, TechCrunch, The Verge, Benzinga, and CNBC
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe adds generative AI tools to Lightroom, including Firefly-powered Generative Remove to let users “paint” over unwanted objects, available in early access — Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple files a lawsuit at the EU's General Court to challenge a March 2024 decision to impose a €1.8B fine for thwarting competition in music streaming — - Company files suit at EU's General Court to topple penalty — Fine was sparked by long-running dispute with top music rival
More: PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, Engadget, Benzinga, iMore, Proactive, Tech Xplore, Malay Mail, PhoneArena, and MacDailyNews. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Anthropic researchers detail their attempts to peer inside the “black box” of LLMs, to find associations for a given prompt, which has largely been a mystery — What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.
More: New York Times and TIME
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and r/tech
| Financial Times: |
AI data labeling startup Scale AI raised $1B led by Accel at a ~$14B valuation, up from $7.3B in April 2021; a source says Scale AI had ~$700M in 2023 revenue — Alexandr Wang's company brings in $1bn in latest fundraising round as investors bet that data is the new oil
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google plans to spend ~€1B to expand its data center in Finland, and will reuse heat from the data center to warm nearby homes, schools, and public buildings — Google's data centers are expanding to support its AI ambitions, and a new project in Finland shows one way the company … | Financial Times: |
AWS says it has “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia's Grace Hopper chips to the successor Grace Blackwell chips, announced in March 2024 — Delay from the world's biggest cloud computing provider gives investors jitters over potential ‘air pocket’ in demand for AI chips
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft partners with Khan Academy, moving the Khanmigo agent, used by 65K+ students, to its Azure OpenAI Service and making it free for US K-12 teachers — Microsoft is partnering with Khan Academy in a multifaceted deal to demonstrate how AI can transform the way we learn.| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba slashes prices for its AI services by up to 97%, leading Baidu to offer free Ernie AI-based services; ByteDance priced its services cheaply last week — - Baidu follows suit with free services after Alibaba cuts — Chinese AI players trying to ramp up users for the long run| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Tech Against Scams, a coalition to fight “pig butchering” ploys with better industry coordination, launches with Meta, Coinbase, Match, Kraken, others on board — Bad people who prey on those looking for love, or hoping to make a quick buck, have been around since biblical times.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
How Meta, Microsoft, and Google are helping OpenAI develop Triton, a tool to help run code efficiently on AI chips to compete with Nvidia's CUDA platform — OpenAI-led push for an alternative to Cuda seeks to break chipmaker's stranglehold on AI market — Nvidia's rivals and biggest customers … | Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Coactive, which provides AI tools to categorize visual data, raised a $30M Series B co-led by Emerson Collective and Cherryrock Capital at a $200M valuation — The startup has raised $30 million, quadrupling its valuation to $200 million, signaling investors' interest in enterprise AI tools that aren't generative in nature.
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