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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will soon let businesses build custom Copilot AI agents to automate tasks, and unveils Team Copilot to help with tasks in Teams, Loop, and Planner — Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the developer preview of Windows Volumetric Apps, giving access to an API that lets devs put Windows apps in 3D space on Meta Quest headsets — You can already beam your flat Windows desktop and its VR games onto your Meta Quest headset — but what if Windows could send HoloLens …
More: Windows Blog, Windows Report, MIXED Reality News, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and UploadVR
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Humane is seeking a buyer for its business, after the rocky launch of its AI pin; a source says the startup is seeking a price of between $750M and $1B — - Humane's AI pin was billed as an alternative to smartphones — AI hardware product received poor reviews after its launch
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| Glenn Rifkin / New York Times: |
Gordon Bell, who helped design several influential minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation, including the 12-bit PDP-8, died on May 17 at age 89 — It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
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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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| Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: |
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The UK ICO is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over the company's Recall feature, which some privacy campaigners have called a potential “privacy nightmare” — The UK data watchdog says it is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over a new feature that can take screenshots of your laptop every few seconds.
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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle is merely a reminder of AI's manifest destiny philosophy: “This is happening, whether you like it or not”, consent be damned — The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI's raw deal: It's happening, and you can't stop it.
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Threads: @richardlawler. Mastodon: @Dhmspector@mastodon.social. X: @kathrynferreira, @othernedwin, @joshkraushaar, @mmitchell_ai, @mikepepi, @cwarzel, @evanmcmurry, @dseetharaman, @cwarzel, and @cwarzel. Forums: r/technology
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered ad format that shows shoppers how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types — A new breed of online ad allows brands to pay Google to offer shoppers AI-generated images that show how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Anthropic researchers detail attempts to peer inside the “black box” of LLMs, learning which combinations of neurons evoke specific concepts — What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.
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Forums: r/artificial, r/technology, r/tech, and Beehaw
| 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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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Generative AI music startup Suno raised $125M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix, Founder Collective, and others — Suno, a trailblazing music AI startup, announced today that it has raised a staggering $125 million in its latest funding round … | Christopher Barnard / New York Times: |
A look at Paperless Post, a New York-based software company for sending online invitations and events that launched in 2009 and has sent ~650M invitations — James Hirschfeld and his sister, Alexa Hirschfeld, at the Paperless Post office in Manhattan's Financial District.Jonah Rosenberg for The New York Times| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' use of custom generative AI models and applies safeguards, raised a $27.5M Series A co-led by GV and Ballistic Ventures — Generative AI makes stuff up. It can be biased. Sometimes it spits out toxic text. So can it be “safe”?
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snowflake's talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for more than $1B have broken down — Snowflake Inc.'s talks to acquire startup Reka AI for more than $1 billion have broken down, dashing an effort by the software company to bring more generative AI muscle in-house.
More: Tech in Asia
| Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
London-based LabGenius, which uses ML to find and design antibody therapies to treat cancer, raised a £35M Series B led by Merck's VC arm, M Ventures — It's robotic platform is using machine learning to create new molecules to tackle cancer — UK drug discovery startup LabGenius …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
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