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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google releases Gemini Ultra 1.0, its largest and most capable LLM, and renames Bard to Gemini, which now has a dedicated Android app and, soon, an iOS app — Google is famous for having a million similar products with confusingly different names and seemingly nothing in common.
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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.| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Google Gemini Advanced hands-on: clearly a GPT-4 class model, but doesn't obviously blow away GPT-4 in benchmarks; Gemini is better than GPT-4 at explanations — And then there were two. — Right around the time you are getting this email, Google finally released their long-awaited powerful AI …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
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| Diane Brady / Fortune: |
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker steps down to focus on AI and internet safety as chair of the nonprofit; Mozilla board member Laura Chambers will be interim CEO — Mozilla has named a new CEO effective immediately. — Mozilla Corp., which manages the open-source Firefox browser …
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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 …
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| Josh Boak / Associated Press: |
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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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| 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 …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Microsoft says Activision planned layoffs before its merger, responding to FTC's claims that the layoffs contradict Microsoft's representations in court — - Xbox maker cutting 1,900 workers, including at Activision — Tech giant responds to Federal Trade Commission over layoffs
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
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| 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| 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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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass warns users about a fake copy of its app on Apple's App Store, with a similar name and logo, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials — LastPass is warning that a fake copy of its app is being distributed on the Apple App Store, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials.
More: The LastPass Blog, 9to5Mac, PCMag, App Store, RestorePrivacy, and Malwarebytes
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
The FCC outlaws scam robocalls featuring fake, AI-created voices, giving state AGs more legal tools to pursue illegal robocallers that use such voices — The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it is immediately outlawing scam robocalls featuring fake, artificial intelligence-created voices …
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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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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Plaid names Jen Taylor as its first president as it readies itself for an IPO; Taylor was most recently chief product officer at Cloudflare — - Firm names Cloudflare's product head Jen Taylor as president — Her hiring comes months after fintech announced its first CFO| 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.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
TikTok quietly removed view counts for hashtags in January, after researchers used them to show the disparity in views of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian videos — The change came after researchers cited TikTok's video-view counts to discuss the relative prominence of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian videos on the app.| 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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| Adnan Aamir / Nikkei Asia: |
Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country as voters went to the polls on February 8; the Interior Ministry cited a deteriorating security situation — Outages in name of security fuel suspicion over polls' legitimacy — Poll workers walk past police officers outside a voting station in Peshawar on Feb. 8.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts a pilot program in Singapore to prevent users from sideloading certain apps that abuse Android app permissions to read one-time passwords — To reduce financial scams, Google has started a new program to prevent users from sideloading certain apps in Singapore.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Flexport lost at least $2M/month in 2023 on its air freight deal with Apple, started in late 2022 to ship products from some Asian factories to the US — For Flexport, a logistics company billing itself as the future of trade, it's hard to think of a more impressive client than Apple, the poster child of globalization.
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