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Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more — A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot Blog, ZDNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, Computerworld, How-To Geek, Laptop Mag, Moneycontrol, iPhone in Canada Blog, BetaNews, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, Maginative, Mashable, XDA Developers, PCMag, Wired, MediaPost, Engadget, Windows Central, Neowin, Bloomberg, SecurityWeek, XDA Developers, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Digital Trends, PCWorld, and Hindustan Times
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028 — HoloLens 2 production has ended, Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR. — Now is the last time to buy the device … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will start rolling out Click to Do, akin to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced Windows search improvements for Copilot+ PCs next month — Microsoft is using AI models to greatly improve Windows search on its new Copilot Plus PCs, including the addition of a new Click … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand Sonos' software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle — The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.
More: Sonos, The Ambient, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, Fast Company, TechRadar, BetaNews, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Engadget, Forbes, and MakeUseOf
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple nears production of an updated iPhone SE with a design that drops the home button and plans a new iPad mini this year and iPad Air models in 2025 — - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Livemint, Channel NewsAsia, The Apple Post, and CNET
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders — - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
More: The Verge, Thurrott, and Scripting News
Threads: @mosseri, @mosseri, @0xjessel, @rstephens, @technicallymims, and @crumbler
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key — Google is announcing new Chromebook models today with Samsung and Lenovo. With Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus model in particular …
More: The Keyword, Android Authority, Wired, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, Laptop Mag, Neowin, CNET, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Android Police, T3, Liliputing, Mashable, PCMag, Trusted Reviews, How-To Geek, Android Central, 9to5Google, Engadget, Chrome Unboxed, 9to5Google, Techaeris, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, The Shortcut, ZDNET, Android Faithful, XDA Developers, The Verge, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Thurrott, and Notebookcheck. LinkedIn: Stella Shannon
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist — Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic debuts a program to reduce the royalty rate for games built with Unreal Engine from 5% to 3.5% if they launch on the Epic Game Store, starting in 2025 — Epic is offering better terms for developers who build games with Unreal Engine and list them on the Epic Games Store.
More: 9to5Mac, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, VentureBeat, MediaPost, GamingOnLinux, and IGN
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation — A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new unit within AWS is setting out to reinvent the tricky business … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the company's AI agent progress, like transacting with third parties on users' behalf, which is still a ways off — Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is overseeing an overhaul that gives Copilot an empathetic voice, the ability to see, and more advanced reasoning skills.
More: Reuters, The Verge, GeekWire, Thurrott, Tech Xplore, and Moneycontrol. Bluesky: @carljanderson.bsky.social
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of violating employees' rights to organize and advocate for better working conditions via allegedly unlawful rules — A U.S. labor board issued a complaint accusing Apple (AAPL.O) of violating employees' rights to organize and advocate …
More: Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Engadget, Quartz, Washington Times, and Bloomberg Law
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts a public beta of its Realtime API to quickly make speech-to-speech features, a way to use images to fine-tune GPT-4o uses via its API, and more — It's been a tumultuous week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the startup back at it …
More: Ars Technica, Washington Post, Axios, PCMag, VentureBeat, Simon Willison's Weblog, OpenAI, The Decoder, Maginative, Semafor, and Bloomberg. X: @sama
| Fortune: |
Sources say many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in the middle of arguments between teams — When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer …
Forums: r/singularity
| Andrew Solomon / New Yorker: |
Parents and US lawmakers are debating whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans — Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
Bluesky: @madelinevo.bsky.social and @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
X: @zamaan_qureshi, @blakersdozen, @cherthedev, and @zdendas1
Forums: Hacker News and r/Longreads
| Rick Whiting / CRN: |
DataPelago launches from stealth with a “universal data processing engine” for “accelerated computing” workloads, with $47M in seed and Series A funding — DataPelago says its new technology provides a data processing boost for advanced analytics and AI applications …
More: SiliconANGLE and VentureBeat
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Over the past year, one researcher has reported dozens of flaws in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of US courts, state agencies, and police departments — With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too. — Public records systems that courts … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by a16z, valuing it at ~$350M; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M — 11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Sony fixes a massive outage of its online gaming network PSN, affecting the PS3, PS4, PS5, PS Vita, web, and more, lasting for eight hours; some issues persist — PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 console users are now able to play online games again following a massive outage on Sony's gaming network that started on Monday night.
More: PlayStation, Android Authority, CNET, Video Games Chronicle, MobileSyrup, Radio Times, PlayStation LifeStyle, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, The Shortcut, The Mirror, Destructoid, BleepingComputer, The Independent, IGN, Mashable, Eurogamer.net, Engadget, Livemint, Stevivor, KRON4, and Hindustan Times
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