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The European Commission issues a preliminary antitrust complaint against Google over its ad business, suggesting breaking up the unit; Google can now reply — The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that …
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LinkedIn: Jochen Schlosser and Abigail Dubiniecki
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @profcarroll@federate.social
Tweets: @vestager, @eu_competition, @ingrahamangle, @johnnyryan, @jason_kint, @eu_commission, @tomwarren, @charlesarthur, @aripap, @aexm, @adrianweckler, @samuelstolton, @lewis_crofts, @quinnypig, and @margaridasilva2
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, and r/worldnews
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
The European Parliament passes the AI Act, which would curtail facial recognition, mandate data disclosures, and more; a final version should pass later in 2023 — A draft law in the European Parliament has become the world's most far-reaching attempt to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
More: European Parliament, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, PCMag, TechCrunch, Computerworld, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Insider, Access Now, Tech Monitor, CNBC, Cointelegraph, The Decoder, Fast Company, TIME, CoinJournal, Tom's Hardware, Publications press releases, AI News, PaymentSecurity.io, ComputerWeekly.com, Wall Street Journal, WinBuzzer, The Guardian, PC Gamer, Nikkei Asia, and Business Post
LinkedIn: Vibhav Mithal, Caitlin Fennessy, Margaret Rosenfeld, and Eva Maydell
| BBC: |
Margrethe Vestager says discrimination, not extinction, is a more pressing concern for AI due to training models and “guardrails” are needed to counter bias — Discrimination is a more pressing concern from advancing artificial intelligence than human extinction, says the EU's competition chief.
More: The Guardian, Data Center Knowledge, and New York Times
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Amazon VP of EC2 Dave Brown says AWS is considering using AMD's new MI300 chips and declined to use Nvidia's DGX Cloud, for which Oracle is the first partner — Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), the world's largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips …
More: Fast Company, NBC 7 San Diego, Tech Xplore, Tech Monitor, Cointelegraph, Reuters, Tech in Asia, SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, Analytics Insight, Forbes, and Wccftech
Forums: r/AMD_Stock and Slashdot
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As 8,000+ subreddits go dark, Google's search results, which are often improved with human-sounding information by appending “reddit” to a query, have suffered — Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit's upcoming API changes, and it's shown me just how much I rely …
More: TechRadar and Washington Post
Tweets: @broderick, @nikitabier, @broskifgc, @gabrielayuso, @keep_indoors, @tonyajoriley, and @realhumanschwab. Forums: r/technology
| Forbes: |
A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's mysterious associate who appears repeatedly in the SEC's lawsuit against the crypto exchange — CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao's mysterious associate Guangying Chen emerges as a key player in his company's operations …
More: Fortune, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, CCN.com, and Cryptopolitan
Tweets: @john__hyatt and @davidjeans2
| Kenneth Chang / New York Times: |
IBM details using its 127-qubit quantum processor to simulate the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets, known as the Ising model, in less than a millisecond — A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer.
More: Forbes, Nature, Berkeley News, IBM Research Blog, Nature, IBM Technology on YouTube, New Scientist, and insideHPC
LinkedIn: Robert Loredo and Jay Gambetta
Tweets: @tomgara, @zlatko_minev, @dariogila, and @liv_lanes
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases new GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 versions with a new “function calling” feature for coding, and cuts the price of the original GPT-3.5-turbo by 25% — As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing.
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Tweets: @sama, @minimaxir, @officiallogank, @gdb, @simonw, @daniellefong, @miramurati, and @openai
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/singularity, r/mlscaling, and Ars OpenForum
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Lens gets a skin condition feature that shows search results “visually similar to what you see on your skin” while warning they are “not a diagnosis” — Along with Maps Live View, Lens is Google's most promising AR service, and it now has the ability to recognize skin conditions.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, TechCrunch, BigTechWire, Mashable, and BGR
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify shifts its podcast strategy from being a sort of HBO that releases exclusive shows to providing tools for podcast creators, similar to YouTube's model — Over the past four years, Spotify Technology SA has announced a succession of splashy deals showing off how much money it's willing … | Chris Plante / Polygon: |
Q&A with Phil Spencer on AI in games, using Xbox player data and ML, Game Pass lessons, “living games”, games built within Minecraft, looking to 2024, and more — Phil Spencer talks with Polygon about the future of living games, Xbox's huge 2024, AI, and more| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
Razer updates its Blade 14 laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, Nvidia's RTX 4060 or RTX 4070, up to 32GB of RAM, and 14" QHD+ 240Hz display, starting at $2,400 — Despite running late and experiencing shipping delays, AMD's latest Zen 4 mobile chips with RDNA 3 graphics and Ryzen AI … | Reuters: |
Sources: Arm discusses IPO participation with 10+ clients, including Intel, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, TSMC, and Samsung; any decision won't come until August — June 12 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) Arm is in talks with some of its biggest customers and end users about bringing …
More: Apple Must, The Register, SamMobile, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Nic Newman / Reuters Institute: |
Reuters' 2023 Digital News Report: despite fragmentation, users' dependence on social media platforms for news keeps growing; Facebook declines and TikTok gains — This year's report comes against the backdrop of a global cost-of-living crisis, a continuing war in the heart of Europe, and further climate instability across the world.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers steal encryption keys stored in smart cards and smartphones by video recording the devices' power LEDs, with some significant real-world limitations — Key-leaking side channels are a fact of life. Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs.
More: HotHardware. LinkedIn: Victor Muñ. Tweets: @ericlaw. Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| River Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Japanese ride-hailing app Go, which has a nearly 75% local market share, as some taxi operators say founder Ichiro Kawanabe pushed them to avoid Uber — Challenge in Japan shows how local operators can derail ride-hailing app's overseas ambitions| Axios: |
Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI content; experts are split on whether §230 applies — Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon Fire Max 11 review: cheap, a nice screen, and a decent stylus, but an anemic app store, limited multitasking, a cramped aspect ratio, and a bad trackpad — The Fire Max 11 has the most advanced and refined hardware of any Amazon tablet yet. But it is held back by the same old problems.
More: XDA Developers, ZDNet, SlashGear, CNET, and Android Central
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023 — A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now.
More: Financial Times, Game Developer, BBC, Bloomberg, Wccftech, TweakTown, Metro, GameSpot, Engadget, International Business Times, Reuters, Pure Xbox, PC Gamer, Neowin, MarketWatch, GamingBolt, Blue's News, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @ethangach, @waff48, @econliberties, @tomwarren, @daveleebbg, @joshua_sisco, @joshua_sisco, @jordannovet, @macton93, @macton93, and @tomwarren. Forums: r/Games
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
US and international cybersecurity authorities say the LockBit ransomware gang has extorted ~$91M following ~1,700 attacks against US organizations since 2020 — U.S. and international cybersecurity authorities said in a joint LockBit ransomware advisory that the gang successfully extorted …
More: Cybersecurity …, HealthITSecurity, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Tweets: @cisagov
| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Vodafone and Three agree to merge, forming the UK's largest mobile network, pending months of regulatory review, and take on £6B in debt; Vodafone would own 51% — Vodafone Group Plc and CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. agreed to combine their UK mobile businesses in a deal that will create …
More: Vodafone UK & Three UK, Tech Monitor, MacRumors, Android Authority, CNBC, Reuters, BBC, TechRadar, 9to5Google, Financial Times, TechCrunch, The Guardian, The Register, RCR Wireless News, The Apple Post, Pocket-lint, South China Morning Post, Variety, DatacenterDynamics, Tech Xplore, Sky News, Neowin, and ITPro
Tweets: @tomwarren, @benwood, @alexdobie, and @mattophobia
| Sayan Chakraborty / Nikkei Asia: |
Peak XV head Shailendra Singh says the Sequoia split lets the India and Southeast Asia-focused firm pursue US deals in sectors like AI while avoiding conflicts — Split with American parent eliminates potential conflicts in hot sectors like AI — Managing Director Shailendra Singh …
More: Bloomberg, Crowdfund Insider, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
| Marnie Munoz / Bloomberg: |
Study: US cyber insurance premiums surged 50% in 2022, driven by ransomware attacks and online commerce, as policy holders claimed $7.2B, up 3x in three years — US cyber insurance premiums surged 50% in 2022 as increased ransomware attacks and online commerce drove demand for coverage.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud data management company Informatica acquires London-based data access controls startup Privitar, which has raised $150M+ and was valued at $400M+ in 2020 — One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we're getting another dose of it in the area of enterprise data management.
More: Constellation Research, SiliconANGLE, CIO.com, and VentureBeat
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