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Users reported that Apple's automatic dictation system was transcribing the word “racist” as “Trump”, before correcting itself; Apple says it's working on a fix — The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google releases its free Gemini Code Assist globally in public preview for solo developers, with 180K code completions per month; GitHub Copilot offers 2,000 — And provides 90 times more monthly code completions than GitHub Copilot's free tier. … A free version of Gemini Code Assist …
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X: @googledeepmind, @rseroter, @gergelyorosz, @rseroter, and @fhinkel. LinkedIn: Eddie Santos. Forums: r/technology
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI expands Deep Research to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise users, with 10 queries per month; Pro users now have 120 queries per month, up from 100 — A $200 Pro subscription is no longer required to use the tool. — When OpenAI announced Deep Research at start of February …
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| Associated Press: |
Resignation letter: 21 DOGE staffers, who previously worked at the USDS, say they won't use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services” — More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency …
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Mastodon: @BrianJopek@mastodon.world, @timbray@cosocial.ca, and @TeamMidwest@glammr.us. X: @byrontau
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches an updated Photoshop app for iOS, including many design, editing, and AI tools from the desktop app; an Android app is coming “later this year” — It's free and available on iOS first, with an Android version coming later this year.
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| Brad Norton / Dexerto: |
Activision confirms on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Steam page that it “uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets”, after fan speculation — Activision has finally admitted to using AI-generated content in its games and Call of Duty players aren't the least bit surprised.
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Framework unveils the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300, priced at $1,099 for a pre-built model, and Framework Laptop 12 with a touch screen, price TBA — The Framework Laptop 13 is also getting an AMD-based update. — Framework is expanding its laptop lineup and getting into desktops.
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Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes — Uniswap celebrated the news on X, calling it a “huge win for DeFi.” — What to know: … The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The US chip situation is precarious and requires bold moves like ending the China chip ban and building more trailing edge fabs in the US — Yesterday Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 3.7; Dylan Patel had the joke of the day about Anthropic's seeming aversion to the number “4”, which means “die” in Chinese:
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Apple investors reject outside shareholder proposals asking the company to cease its DEI efforts and write a report assessing the risks of its work on AI — Apple Inc. investors rejected outside shareholder proposals that asked the iPhone maker to cease its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
WBD closes three game studios and cancels a highly anticipated Wonder Woman title in a bid to boost the profitability of its interactive entertainment business — - Company halts work on highly anticipated Wonder Woman title — Closures follow several disappointing releases last year
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Forums: r/Games, r/DCcomics, r/RingerVerse, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, and r/pcgaming
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out unlimited access to Voice and Think Deeper, powered by OpenAI's o1 model, to all Copilot users for free — You won't hit any limits using OpenAI's o1 reasoning model inside Copilot anymore. … Microsoft made OpenAI's o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users last month …
More: How-To Geek, ZDNET, Windows Central, PCWorld, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, and Neowin. Forums: r/singularity
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
SCOTUS has again denied a challenge from the telecom industry of NY's $15 basic broadband law, as more states including CA, VT, and MA propose similar laws — The Supreme Court has once again rejected a telecom industry challenge to New York's $15 broadband law.| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Claude 3.7 Sonnet's extended thinking mode and its 128K token output limit; long thinking runs are impressive but can take several minutes to complete — Claude 3.7 Sonnet (previously) is a very interesting new model. I released llm-anthropic 0.14 last night adding support for the new model's features to LLM.| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK's proposal to let AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out — Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK's plans to let AI train on their work without permission
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Bluesky: @hutchingsmusic, @markayresrws, @annedudleymusic, @GossiTheDog.cyberplace …, @psbhq, @policedoghogan, @petewishart, and @flomm.us
Mastodon: @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social and @garyhall@hcommons.social
X: @ednewtonrex, @bpi_music, @simonjcoates, @ednewtonrex, @bpi_music, @damonunofficial, and @featuredartists
Forums: r/nottheonion, r/technology, r/Music, r/artificial, r/toriamos, r/DefendingAIArt, r/blur, r/indieheads, and r/katebush
| Rick Whiting / CRN: |
IBM plans to acquire DataStax and its cloud database development platform to expand IBM's Watsonx AI portfolio; Crunchbase: DataStax has raised $342.6M — IBM said Tuesday it has a deal to acquire DataStax, including that company's database platform, data streaming technology …
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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek reopens API top-ups after suspending them on February 6 due to demand, as Alibaba previews its QwQ-Max model and the Chinese AI rivalry escalates — - It resumed service the same day Alibaba previewed a new model — AI development has quickened since DeepSeek's emergence
More: Reuters, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, and Moneycontrol
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $883M, missing estimates, and forecasts Q1 adjusted EBITDA below estimates; CART drops 10%+ after hours — Instacart posted disappointing fourth-quarter revenue and projected lower-than-expected adjusted earnings in the current period …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge says Meta must face a potential class action lawsuit claiming it prefers cheaper foreign workers over US citizen job applicants, citing Meta's stats — A federal judge on Tuesday said Meta Platforms (META.O) must face a lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram parent prefers … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Perfect, a startup from the founder of AnyVision that helps job recruiters write and publish job listings and triage responses, raised a $23M seed — “Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed …
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Utah, South Carolina, and at least seven other US states recently proposed bills to require app store operators to check user ages, a move supported by Meta — Meta spars with Apple and Google over who's responsible as child-safety advocates push for age checks| Financial Times: |
Sources: left-leaning staff at Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon mostly stayed silent on their CEOs attending Trump's inauguration due to a less secure job market — Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta's Mark Zuckerberg| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
YouTube will show fewer mid-roll ads that interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more ads at “natural break points” like transitions, starting May 12 — YouTubers who prefer setting ad slots manually may risk losing revenue soon — Starting May 12th … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
A Twitch channel called Claude Plays Pokémon is streaming Claude 3.7 Sonnet using its reasoning capabilities to play a game of Pokémon Red — On Tuesday afternoon, Anthropic launched Claude Plays Pokémon on Twitch, a live stream of Anthropic's newest AI model …
More: ZDNET and Unite.AI
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