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| Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft plans to adopt the same plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot offerings — 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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| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers on the company's OneLake data lake, but also works with Amazon S3 and soon GCP — Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric).| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds AI-generated app review summaries to the Microsoft Store and an AI Hub to highlight AI apps, designed to guide customers on their “AI journey” — Microsoft is making a big AI-focused change to the Microsoft Store: AI-generated review summaries are going to start appearing across …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA ordered Meta to divest the deal in 2022; Meta reportedly paid $400M for Giphy — 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.
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| NBC News: |
Sources: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks — The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to use generative AI to boost the relevance of Search ads based on query context and debuts a conversational experience for creating ad campaigns — Google is going to start using generative AI to boost Search ads relevance based on the context of a query, the company announced at its Google Marketing Live event today.
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| 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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| Vjeran Pavic / The Verge: |
Review of Final Cut Pro for iPad: touch-friendly design and accessible pricing but limited Mac interoperability and lacks the blade tool, stabilization, more — The long-awaited iPad version of Final Cut Pro is here and, with it, a touch-friendly design and accessible pricing.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: in 2020 and 2021, Binance commingled customer funds with its 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 … | New York Times: |
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy releases a 19-page report warning that social media can have a “profound risk of harm” for kids and teens and urges action — Dr. Vivek H. Murthy urged immediate action from policymakers, tech companies and parents to safeguard against potential harms.
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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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic, a generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, raised a $450M Series C led by Spark Capital; Google, Salesforce, and Zoom also invested — 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix cracks down on password sharing in the US and offers paid sharing, which lets account holders add an extra member outside the household for $7.99/month — Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based Episode Six, which offers payment processing and digital ledger infrastructure to banks and companies, raised a $48M Series C led by Avenir — Episode Six, a global payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million in a Series C funding round led …
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