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Mistral AI releases Mistral Large, a cheaper GPT-4 rival that supports 32K-token context windows, and Le Chat, a ChatGPT-like chat assistant in public beta — Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows.
More: Mistral AI, Microsoft On the Issues, PCMag, VentureBeat, Mistral AI, Constellation Research, Analytics India Magazine, MSPoweruser, The Decoder, and Maginative
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral and plans to help bring the Paris-based startup's AI models to market, as regulators probe Microsoft's OpenAI alliance — Tech giant unveils partnership with French AI start-up as regulators probe $13bn alliance with ChatGPT maker
More: Source, The Verge, Axios, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Associated Press, GeekWire, Benzinga, Sifted, CNBC, The Decoder, The Information, Maginative, Reuters, TNW, Neowin, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, Tech Xplore, and Bloomberg
Threads: @marcslove. Bluesky: @simli.bsky.social. X: @satyanadella, @kylebrussell, @pradeepviswav, and @azure
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Lukas Lundin, Eric Boyd, Xiaopeng Li, Bruno Capuano, Florian Follonier, PhD, and Satya Nadella. Forums: Hacker News
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU is asking developers about the impact of Apple's decision to disable PWAs in the EU, seen as a precursor to a formal investigation into the company — Competition regulators in Brussels send questions to developers over iPhone maker's decision — The EU has taken the first steps towards …
More: The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Quartz, Thurrott, AppleInsider, TweakTown, iDownloadBlog.com, CEPA, GamesIndustry.biz, MacDailyNews, and Android Headlines
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024; the device will be centered around health and wellness, come in three colors, and be available later in 2024 — After teasing it (again) yesterday, Samsung has finally shown off the Galaxy Ring in physical form at Mobile World Conference (MWC 2024) and revealed some additional details.
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X: @imparkerburton and @sondesix
Forums: r/technology and r/Android
| Bloomberg: |
During oral arguments, justices seemed reluctant to completely strike down Texas and Florida social media laws but worried about impacts to companies' 1A rights — - Justices wary of entirely striking down Texas, Florida laws — But court voices concern about impact on company speech rights
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More: Gizmodo, CNN, New York Times, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Balls and Strikes, Politico, Election Law Blog, and The Verge
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources detail their concerns with Apple Arcade: declining developer payouts, cancelled projects, a shift to only greenlighting family-friendly games, and more — Multiple mobilegamer.biz sources have voiced their concern for Apple Arcade's future, citing a glut of cancelled projects and ever-declining developer payouts.
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, The Verge, mjtsai.com, Video Games Chronicle, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, and MacStories
Mastodon: @davetron5000@ruby.social. X: @woelfel, @knoebelbroet, @lewispackwood, @knoebelbroet, and @carnage4life. LinkedIn: Neil Long
Forums: r/Games, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
Meta outlines its strategy to combat generative AI misuse ahead of the European elections in June 2024, including setting up an EU-specific operations center — Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it will form a team to tackle deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) content in the upcoming EU elections in June.
More: Meta, The Guardian, The Times, Miami Herald, UPI, Yahoo News, Unite.AI, Verdict, CoinXposure, Cointelegraph, Cybernews.com, Cryptopolitan, PCMag, TNW, Republic World, Silicon UK, Silicon Republic, CoinGape, Novinite.com, Al Jazeera, Euractiv, and Reuters
LinkedIn: Fosco Riani, Tom Bonsundy-O'Bryan, and Henry Ajder
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a spam campaign using hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from reputable brands like eBay and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily — A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …
More: Guardio, SC Media, and The Hacker News
| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
Broadcom sells its end-user computing unit to KKR in a deal valued at ~$4B, as part of its efforts to simplify its business after acquiring VMware in 2023 — Chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is selling its business which allows users to access desktops and applications from any device to KKR … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils the RTX 500 and RTX 1000, its new laptop GPUs for on-the-go AI processing powered by its Ada Lovelace architecture, available in Spring 2024 — Nvidia launched its RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop graphics processing units (GPUs) for on-the-go AI processing.
More: NVIDIA, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Engadget, TechPowerUp, CRN, MSPoweruser, and Electronics Weekly
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Google unveils new Android features: Gemini integrated in Messages, AI-powered text summaries in Android Auto, AI-generated image captions in Lookout, and more — The Android updates announced at MWC also include new accessibility features and casting controls for Spotify.
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Independent, Android Central, Google Help Center, The Verge, Business Insider, iThinkDifferent, Phandroid, BGR, Android Headlines, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, Business Standard, Livemint, MSPoweruser, MySmartPrice, Thurrott, Mashable, Tom's Guide, Quartz, CNET, Android Police, Android Authority, Digital Trends, PCMag, How-To Geek, and PhoneArena
| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers' compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more — AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound.
X: @tatum_hunter_, @tatum_hunter_, @tatum_hunter_, and @tatum_hunter_
Forums: r/technology, r/singularity, r/Futurology, r/NewsOfTheStupid, and r/lebowski
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils AI Hub, a library of 75+ pre-optimized AI models, the X80 5G modem, and FastConnect 7900, a chip that integrates Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and UWB — Qualcomm unveiled a suite of AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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Sandbox testing: Create Mail Agents in sandbox mode — Email is considered the backbone for any organization's communication. That's even more true for transactional emails, which are operation-critical for any business.
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