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Sources: Microsoft is training MAI-1, a new, in-house AI model with ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI — For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models …
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LinkedIn: Kevin Scott and Aaron Holmes
Forums: r/singularity, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC — The company is leaning on its long history of chip development in the effort, code-named Project ACDC — Apple has been working …
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| Sky News: |
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed — MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.
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| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
Study from Meta researchers suggests that training LLMs to predict multiple tokens at once, instead of just the next token, results in better and faster models — In a recent study, researchers at Meta, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay suggest improving the accuracy …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an attack against many VPN apps that force them to send some or all traffic outside of the VPN encrypted tunnel; Android mitigates the flaw — TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers. — Researchers have devised an attack …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI should be available by the end of June — OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models' performance on programming-related tasks.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
iPhone 15 Pro Max was Q1's best-selling smartphone; Pro phones were 50% of Apple's sales, up from 24% in 2020; Apple and Samsung each had five phones in top 10 — - Apple and Samsung dominated the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones in Q1 2024. — This was the first quarter in which the top 10 smartphones were all 5G capable.| Kyle Alspach / CRN: |
Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection — Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant …
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| Reuters: |
Synopsys agrees to sell its Software Integrity Group business to a PE consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners in a deal valued at $2.1B — Synopsys (SNPS.O) will sell its software integrity (SIG) unit to a private equity consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners …
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| Forbes: |
A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area — Two rival hacker houses, both claiming the name “AGI House,” have attracted the attention of Silicon Valley's biggest names.
More: Bloomberg. X: @alistairmbarr, @andrewwhite01, @thatguybg, @noahpinion, @hkanji, @alexrkonrad, @beyang, @khoomeik, @andercot, @garrytan, @basedbeffjezos, @mikeisaac, and @sarahnemerson
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead, which uses AI to let users jump to parts of a video where most viewers skip ahead, to all US Premium members using its Android app — It's currently available in the US on the YouTube Android app. — • — TL;DR — YouTube Premium members in the US … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DocuSign says it is acquiring contract workflow automation startup Lexion for $165M; Lexion had raised $35.2M — As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it's acquiring a company itself. — On Monday, DocuSign announced that it's buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation startup, for $165 million.Sponsor Posts
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Optimizing Business Finances: Leveraging the Synergy of QuickBooks and Zoho Expense — Expenses incurred by employees are an essential part of accounting and must be captured and recorded accurately.
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UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK's largest AI fundraise everFind
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