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| Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft plans to add Copilot to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and more, roll out Bing to Windows 11 taskbar and Skype, announces Bing plugins, and more — You only need two simple letters to accurately convey the major shift in the technology space this year: A and I. Beyond those letters …
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| Microsoft Developer on YouTube: |
A livestream of the Microsoft Build 2023 keynote — For the full event experience, please head to ➡️ https://aka.ms/MSBuild2023EventJoin us for Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2023Microsoft Build is for developers, b...
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who manages the OpenAI partnership, as Microsoft adds Copilots to everything from Office to Terminal to Edge — Microsoft is putting AI Copilots in everything. Will it change the way we use computers? … Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” deal with Broadcom to develop and manufacture 5G and wireless components, including FBAR filters, in the US — Apple has announced a major new partnership with Broadcom, one of its long-time supplier partners.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data platform that aims to create a unified compute infrastructure and a single data lake for analytics workloads — Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric).
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA blocked Meta's acquisition in 2022; Meta can still access Giphy content — Stock photos repository Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N) said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy Inc from Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) for $53 million in cash.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants edit product images using generative AI for free, rolling out to US sellers in “the next few months” — Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Google Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: in 2020 and 2021, Binance commingled customer funds with revenue; a source says the sums ran into billions of dollars in Silvergate-held accounts — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, commingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021 …
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft agrees to sign all AI-generated art from Bing Image Creator and Microsoft Designer with a cryptographic watermark that adheres to a C2PA specification — It's a way to ease the world into AI art without threatening artists. — Artists concerned about others passing off AI-generated art … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| New York Times: |
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy releases a 19-page report arguing social media can have a “profound risk of harm” for kids and teens and calls for action — Dr. Vivek H. Murthy urged immediate action from policymakers, tech companies and parents to safeguard against potential harms.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic, a generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, raised a $450M Series C led by Spark Capital, with Google, Salesforce, and Zoom participating — Anthropic, the prominent generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, has raised $450 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
WBD launches Max, offering substantially more 4K content than HBO Max via a $19.99/month Ultimate plan, but for more than the outgoing $15.99/month ad-free plan — When Max goes live on May 23rd, the new Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service will offer substantially more 4K entertainment than HBO Max ever did.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber and Waymo sign a multiyear partnership to “make the Waymo Driver available to more people” via Uber, starting in Phoenix with a “set number” of Waymo cars — Waymo's robotaxis will be available to hail for rides and food delivery on Uber's app in Phoenix later this year …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches Generative Fill in beta for Photoshop, one of the first Creative Cloud apps to use its generative AI Firefly tool, rolling out fully in H2 2023 — / Generative Fill will arrive in Photoshop in ‘the second half of 2023.’ — Adobe Photoshop is getting a new generative AI tool …
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| Andrew Marino / The Verge: |
Review of Logic Pro for iPad: translates the pro app's UI to a touch screen well and is very fun with few compromises, but it can't load many 3rd-party plug-ins — A great digital audio workstation for the iPad with some experimental ways to make music
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| Huw Jones / Reuters: |
Securities watchdog IOSCO proposes the first global crypto rules, covering conflicts of interest, custody, and more, aiming to finalize them by the end of 2023 — International securities watchdog IOSCO on Tuesday proposed the first global approach to regulating cryptoasset markets …
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| New York Times: |
US prosecutors have gathered 6M+ pages of emails and other digital records ahead of SBF's trial, unusually varied evidence that underscores his legal challenges — Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange's founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Peloton revamps its app to offer a $24/month tier with unlimited hardware-based classes and a free tier without live classes, alongside its $13/month tier — Peloton Interactive Inc. is revamping its mobile fitness app to offer three different tiers, including an upscale version that will cost $24 a month …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Amazon announces the $230+ 11-inch Fire Max 11, offering a sleeker design, slim bezels, a MediaTek SoC, support for a new keyboard with a trackpad and a stylus — For years, Amazon's Fire tablet lineup has consisted of smaller seven-inch, medium eight-inch, and larger 10-inch screen options …
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@ajassy, @parkerortolani, and @libovness
| Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: |
Building AI responsibly matters more than the competitive race, one company cannot fulfill AI's potential, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key — Fulfilling the technology's potential is not something that one company can do alone — The writer is CEO of Google and Alphabet
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flipboard rolls out support for integrating accounts from decentralized social networks Bluesky and Pixelfed, after adding support for Mastodon in February 2023 — Social magazine app Flipboard is continuing its investment in the federated social web with today's news that it's integrating …
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| Elias Leight / Billboard: |
Endel, a startup that uses AI to make “functional music”, partners with UMG to transform the label's tracks into soundscapes for sleeping, relaxing, or studying — Endel, a leader in the lucrative “functional music” space, will transform projects from UMG's roster into soundscapes for relaxing or studying.Sponsor Posts
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
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