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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, available as subscriptions on May 23; Final Cut requires an M1 chip or newer and Logic needs A12 or newer — Mic drop moment for pro apps team at Apple this morning. Apple just announced that Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are officially and finally coming to iPad.
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Wendy's partners with Google to automate its drive-through using an AI chatbot, rolling out in June to an Ohio restaurant; the bot has been programmed to upsell — The fast-food chain has customized a language model with terms like ‘JBC’ for junior bacon cheeseburger and ‘biggie bags’ for meal combos
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
The US says the FBI was able to disrupt a long-running Russian cyber espionage operation by inspecting FSB-linked Snake malware and decoding its communications — A law enforcement effort dubbed “Medusa” targeted malware deployed by Moscow's Federal Security Service, officials said Tuesday.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Inside Big Pipes, a ~30-member FBI team responsible for three major cybercriminal takedowns over five years, killing dozens of “booter” DDOS-for-hire services — For a decade, a group called Big Pipes has worked behind the scenes with the FBI to target the worst cybercriminal “booter” services plaguing the internet.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens its Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program to 600 customers, up from 20, and adds features, like a Semantic Index and DALL-E in PowerPoint — Microsoft is expanding preview access to its Microsoft 365 Copilot, a digital assistant based on OpenAI's GPT-4 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo expects to sell 15M Nintendo Switch consoles in FY 2023, below analyst estimates of 15.7M; the company sold 18M Switch units in the year to March 2023 — Nintendo Co. expects to sell 15 million units of its Switch console this fiscal year, showing the extent of the slowdown for its six-year-old flagship product.
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
A US judge sentences ex-Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi to two years in prison for crypto insider trading; Wahi pled guilty to two counts in February 2023 — Ishan Wahi, a former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager, was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison in what U.S. prosecutors … | Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup Boomy, or “tens of thousands” of songs, over a suspicion of bots posing as human listeners — Platform cracks down on bots posing as listeners as flood of content rattles music industry
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| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
Goldman, Microsoft, Deloitte, Cboe, and others plan to test the Canton Network blockchain in July 2023, linking apps using Digital Asset's Daml smart contract — A group of firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Microsoft Corp, Deloitte and Cboe Global Markets Inc are joining …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to explain the behavior of GPT-2's “neurons” — It's often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI's ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there's some truth to that.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta unveils ImageBind, an open-source AI model combining text, audio, visual, depth, thermal, and movement data, as rivals OpenAI and Google get more secretive — Meta has announced a new open-source AI model that links together multiple streams of data, including text, audio, visual data, temperature, and movement readings.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
What to expect at Google I/O 2023: Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7A, foldable-focused Android 14 details, a Pixel 8 and 8 Pro preview, PaLM 2, and maybe some AI surprises — Google I/O is almost here, and that means the launch of the highly anticipated Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet is right around the corner.
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Analysis: of the 76 coins the SEC considers securities, 16 can be traded on major US crypto exchanges; tokens labeled as securities in 2022 almost tripled YoY — Number of tokens regulator has labeled as securities almost tripled in 2022 — The Securities and Exchange Commission … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon announces Amazon Anywhere, which lets third-party app users buy related physical products while in the app, launching with Niantic's new AR game Peridot — The so-called “everything store” is looking to go “anywhere.” — Amazon announced the launch Tuesday of “Amazon Anywhere,” …
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| Michael Wayland / CNBC: |
General Motors hires former Apple VP Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit starting on May 22; Abbott was VP of Engineering for Apple Cloud Services — - General Motors has hired former Apple executive Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit for the Detroit automaker.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Carriers in dozens of US states are tearing out Chinese equipment, a difficult process the FCC says has already cost $5B+, well over the $1.9B reimbursement pot — As China and the United States jockey for tech primacy, wireless carriers in dozens of states are tearing out Chinese equipment.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based 8fig, which plans to sell an AI-powered “C-suite” to e-commerce firms, starting with an AI CFO, raised a $40M Series B and a $100M credit facility — E-commerce businesses don't often build big companies: they might be big in revenue, but remain lean in headcount.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google's passkey offering is refined and comprehensive enough to recommend, but the ecosystem is incomplete, despite PayPal, Kayak, and others using passkeys — The passkey ecosystem is far from complete, but Google's implementation is now ready to use. — By now, you've likely heard …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
LinkedIn plans to cut 716 jobs and shut down InCareer, its jobs app for China, by August 9, citing “fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate” — LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) that focuses on business professionals …
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| Low De Wei / Bloomberg: |
Chinese authorities arrest a man for writing fake news articles with ChatGPT and sharing them on social media, one of the first instances of an AI misuse arrest — Chinese authorities have detained a man for using ChatGPT to write fake news articles, in what appears to be one of the first instances … Sponsor Posts
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