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Google adds support for 110 new languages in Translate, up from 133 languages, in its largest expansion ever, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model — Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
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Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July. The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether — - Coinbase, which retained consultant firm History Associates Inc. to file the FOIA requests, took aim at the SEC and FDIC … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces faster Google Sheets calculations in Chrome and Edge browsers on desktop, doubling speeds for running formulas, creating pivot tables, and more — Google is touting significant speed improvements when performing calculations in Sheets on desktop Chrome and Edge.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Progress Software discloses a critical vulnerability in MOVEit's SFTP module; hackers exploited a similar flaw in MOVEit in 2023 to breach almost 1,800 networks — A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached. Will the latest one be as potent? — A critical vulnerability …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google Cloud announces deals, including with Moody's, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo, to “ground” responses from its enterprise AI chatbots in real-world facts — - Now, Google is offering an additional option: using third-party data to help ground AI results.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Orby AI, which is building generative AI agents to automate business workflows, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a post-money valuation of $100M+ — AI “agents” are generative AI models that can perform actions autonomously, like copying info from an email and pasting it into a spreadsheet …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta's Oversight Board issued 53 decisions in 2023 and says Meta has fully or partially implemented 75 out of 266 recommendations from January 2021 to May 2024 — The board says it wants to weigh in on “demoted content” on Facebook and Instagram. — The Oversight Board has published …
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| Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: |
Netherlands-based Innatera Nanosystems, which unveiled an energy-efficient AI chip for sensor-edge applications in January, raised a $21M Series A — Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI now lets users talk to AI characters over calls in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, says 3M users made 20M+ calls during testing — a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls.
More: Reuters
| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
An interview with Netflix's VP of external games, Leanne Loombe, on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more — I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited. “Ooo, what about? Which show?”
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Clay, which develops AI tools focused on sales and marketing for businesses, raised $46M at a $500M valuation, bringing its total funding to $66M — Company was valued at $500 million in its latest funding round. — An artificial intelligence startup focused on sales and marketing … | Katie Mettler / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national, who remains at large, for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate malware attack on Ukrainian systems in January 2022 — A federal grand jury indicted Russian national Amin Stigal this week on allegations that he conspired with the Russian military … | Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B — Online comics platform prices IPO at top of range for $2.7bn valuation — Webtoon Entertainment, an online comics platform …
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| Joanna Chiu / Rest of World: |
Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors, like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation — New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft's willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Arkham: a wallet tagged to the US government moved ~3,940 BTC, worth ~$240M and originally seized from a Silk Road narcotics vendor, to a Coinbase Prime address — About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.
More: CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, ZyCrypto, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, Milk Road, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, and CoinJournal
| Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times: |
Testing ChatGPT, Vacay, and Mindtrip to plan a Norway trip shows none were perfect, but the chatbots streamlined travel decisions and complemented one another — Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation?
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Odaseva, which provides data protection services for large Salesforce customers, raised a $54M Series C, bringing its total funding to $90M — Cloud services continue to be a weak point for enterprises when it comes to security, so companies providing effective solutions to address this continue … | John Reed / Financial Times: |
The chair of the India Cellular and Electronics Association says thousands of Chinese engineers and technicians are struggling to obtain Indian work visas — Modi's ambitions to create a manufacturing power come up against souring diplomatic relations with Beijing
More: Skift and New York Times
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OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US — - Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
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| Julie Weed / New York Times: |
How landlords are using AI tools to communicate with tenants, track the use of common areas, monitor energy use, aid construction management, and more — Artificial intelligence is doing everything from helping landlords communicate with tenants to managing energy use.| Sassafras Lowrey / Wired: |
Telegram, used by half of Russia's 140M residents, has become a refuge for LGBTQ+ citizens, who routinely create new channels to avoid government surveillance — In March, Russia named the “LGBT movement” an extremist organization. In response, activists, human rights groups …
X: @fredpagesf
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PortSwigger, the startup behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools founded by security expert “Daf”, raised $112M, its first outside investment — Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
KarmaCheck, which uses AI to do background checks and was founded by LinkedIn's Eric Ly in 2019, raised a $45M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$60M — Background checks, credentialing and compliance software company KarmaCheck Inc. today announced that it has raised $45 million …
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