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May 10, 2023, 2:40 PM

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James Vincent / The Verge:
Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation with Adobe, and integration with services like Instacart  —  Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean) …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google says PaLM 2 will power its updated Bard chat tool and is now available to developers through Google's PaLM API, Firebase, and on Colab  —  At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM).
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products  —  Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.  This “next generation language model” is faster …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an “AI Snapshot”, which provides a summary of search results, with links that “corroborate” the information  —  Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen.  Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, first coming to select Pixels  —  Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos.  While the company has already leveraged AI …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google unveils Immersive View for Routes in Google Maps, with traffic simulations, parking, and more, starting with 15 cities, including NYC, London, and Paris  —  Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU regulators are expected to approve Microsoft's Activision acquisition next week, most likely on May 15, three weeks after the UK blocked the deal  —  EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) $69 billion acquisition of Activision (ATVI.O) next week …
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
A US judge dismisses a shareholder lawsuit against Block over its Tidal acquisition in 2021, saying the company is “free to make a terrible business decision”  —  A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition …
James Vincent / The Verge:
Google rebrands AI tools for its productivity apps as Duet AI and teases Sidekick, which will read, summarize, and answer questions on documents across its apps  —  In March, Google announced a bunch of AI features for its Workspace suite of apps in an effort to keep pace with Microsoft's rapid integration of similar tools.
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Tether reports a $1.5B net profit in Q1, $2.44B in excess reserves, and $81.8B+ in assets as of May 9, including $1.5B+ in bitcoin and $3.3B+ in precious metals  —  - Tether reported $1.5 billion of net profit for the first quarter — more than double its Q4 2022 net profit.
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
Twitter now lets users reply directly to any DM with a threaded message and react to messages with a wider range of emojis using the new emoji picker  —  Twitter has released two new updates for DMs, which have been in the works for a few months, but are now getting a full launch in the app.
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
The American Psychological Association issues an advisory on social media use by adolescents, saying social networks are “not inherently beneficial or harmful”  —  One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set guidelines designed to protect children …
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
Sam Altman plans to testify to Congress for the first time on May 16 about AI oversight, alongside IBM VP Christina Montgomery and professor Gary Marcus  —  Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief, will appear for the first time as AI scrutiny soars in Washington  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Roku expands its smart home lineup with a $99 home monitoring system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light  —  Roku is expanding its smart home lineup and adding a smart security system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light to its offerings.
Molly White:
A critique of a16z's State of Crypto 2023 report, an incredibly shameless piece of propaganda with the sole goal of bolstering the VC firm's bottom line  —  Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Jump Crypto and Jane Street are pulling back from US crypto trading over regulatory uncertainty; Jump is expanding globally while Jane is scaling back  —  Jane Street Group and Jump Crypto — two of the world's top market-making firms — are pulling back from trading digital assets …
Deborah Acosta / Wall Street Journal:
As Miami prepares to host Bitcoin 2023 on May 18, the city and mayor Francis Suarez, who still receives his salary in bitcoin, have mostly moved on from crypto  —  On the eve of the annual bitcoin conference, the city and its mayor have mostly moved on from crypto
Bloomberg:
How Tokyo-based Rapidus is trying to become a globally competitive chipmaker by 2027, aiming to mass produce 2nm chips two years after leaders TSMC and Samsung  —  Tetsuro Higashi is taking on what seems like an impossible task: Create a globally competitive semiconductor manufacturer in Japan from scratch - and do it in four years.

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