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Google releases Gemini Ultra 1.0, the largest and most capable version of its LLMs, and renames Bard to Gemini, which now has a dedicated Android app — Google is famous for having a million similar products with confusingly different names and seemingly nothing in common. (Can I interest you in a messaging app?)
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds a $20 per month AI Premium plan to Google One, offering Gemini Advanced with the Ultra 1.0 model, and rebrands Duet AI as Gemini for Workspace — Sundar Pichai announced last week that Google One is about to cross 100 million subscribers. Google One is now getting a new AI Premium plan that costs $19.99.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
An interview with Sundar Pichai on the evolving web, training Gemini to be a multimodal AI, future paid and ad-supported generative AI, hallucinations, and more — Google's CEO Sundar Pichai still loves the web. He wakes up every morning and reads Techmeme, a news aggregator resplendent with links, accessible only via the web.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Meta challenges the EU's DSA supervisory fee of 0.05% of Meta's annual net income that cover regulators' costs, disagreeing with how the fees are calculated — Meta Platforms (META.O) has challenged a supervisory fee amounting to .05% of its annual worldwide net income aimed …
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
TikTok joins Meta in challenging the EU's DSA in the General Court, arguing the levy is unfair as some firms pay nothing; Meta must pay €11M of the €45M total — Social media giants Meta and TikTok are suing the European Union over a levy that bankrolls the enforcement …
More: The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, PCMag, Bloomberg, European Commission, Nairametrics, and The Mac Security Blog
| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Disney plans to invest $1.5B for a stake in Epic Games and collaborate on a new “universe” connected to Fortnite with content from Disney, Pixar, and more — - Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Epic Games in its biggest jump yet into the gaming world.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US says OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Palantir, and over 200 others are joining the new AI Safety Institute Consortium — The Biden administration on Thursday said leading artificial intelligence companies are among more than 200 entities joining … | Josh Boak / Associated Press: |
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| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
SEC filing: NYSE-listed Bakkt, a crypto trading platform backed by the Intercontinental Exchange, warns that it might not be able to stay in business in a year — The institutional digital asset trading platform unveiled in 2018 amid huge fanfare has just disclosed it “might not be able to continue as a going concern.”
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The Danish data protection authority orders schools to stop sending student data to Google via Chromebooks and Workspace, after an over four year investigation — The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has issued an injunction regarding student data being funneled to Google through …
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
In his new book, a16z GP Chris Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale — Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists. — 1×
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand advisory: China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon has had access to some major US infrastructure for over five years — China-backed hackers have had access to some major U.S. critical infrastructure for “at least five years,” according to an intelligence advisory released Wednesday.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates Copilot with a redesigned look, a new AI model for Copilot's Balanced mode called Deucalion, and new AI image creation and editing features — In a startling move, Microsoft today announced a redesigned look for its Copilot AI search and chatbot experience on the web …
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is developing two types of agent software: one to automate tasks by effectively taking over a user's device, and the other for web-based tasks — OpenAI's first major product, ChatGPT, proved so popular that it sparked a generation of wannabes.
More: MIT Technology Review, Ben's Bites, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, and Reuters
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A leaked image allegedly shows the Google Pixel Fold 2, including a narrower cover screen, a squarer inner screen aspect ratio, and redesigned camera bump — Here's a very early look at what could be Google's second-generation foldable phone. — • — TL;DR
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more — The Scene — Amid turmoil in the media industry, online publishing platform Medium expects to post its first profit around the middle of this year.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Battle for the Bird book excerpt: how Jack Dorsey's plan to get Elon Musk to save Twitter failed, as Musk dismantled the company after taking over, and more — An excerpt from Battle for the Bird shows how Twitter's two most prominent leaders contributed to its current dilemma.| Reuters: |
AI data security company Cohesity agrees to acquire the data protection unit of multi-cloud data management company Veritas, valuing the combined entity at $7B — SoftBank Group (9984.T) -backed Cohesity told Reuters on Wednesday it agreed to acquire the data protection business … | Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify paid out $9B to music rights holders in 2023, a “figure that has tripled over the past six years”, and more than $48B since its founding — Spotify paid the music industry some $9 billion in 2023, according to a statement from the streaming giant, which added that the … | Reuters: |
Arm reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $824M, vs. $761.6M est., and forecasts Q4 sales and adjusted profit above expectations; ARM jumps 21%+ — Arm Holdings on Wednesday forecast fiscal fourth-quarter sales and adjusted profit above Wall Street expectations as customers aim to design new chips … | Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Q3 net profit of $6.4B, after four quarters of losses, lifted by a T-Mobile US shares windfall; the Vision Fund unit reported a ~$2.85B gain — - Investor logs first profit in five quarters on T-Mobile stake — Vision Funds turn profitable, helped by TikTok owner ByteDance| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based payments giant Adyen reports H2 2023 net revenue up 23% YoY to €887M and processed volume up 29% YoY to €544.1B; ADYEN.AS jumps 22%+ — Adyen staged a comeback after facing a record slowdown in revenue last year, which resulted in a stock meltdown.Sponsor Posts
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