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npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
A look at tech companies' investments in AI startups: Nvidia and NVentures completed a total of 32 deals in 2023, while Microsoft and M12 made 21 investments (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
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Microsoft, Nvidia Lead In Investing In AI Startups, But Others Close Behind
So far this year, out of the handful of tech titans putting big money in the AI space, Microsoft and Nvidia — along with their respective venture...
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A look at tech companies
By Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Apple added a Vocal Shortcuts accessibility feature in iOS 18 that lets users give Siri a new wake word, such as "hello, computer" (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
MacRumors
You Can Give Siri a New Name With iOS 18
Apple in iOS 18 added a Vocal Shortcuts accessibility feature, and now that iOS 18 is available in a beta capacity, users have figured out that thi...
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Apple added a Vocal Shortcuts accessibility feature in iOS 18 that lets users give Siri a new wake word, such as “hello, computer”
By Juli Clover / MacRumors. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
How Duolingo uses streaks and notifications to keep users coming back to the app; 5M of Duolingo's 30M+ DAUs have one year streaks and 70% have weeklong streaks (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/duolingo-streaks-notifications-app-spanish-bc87d6e4?st=y9q82nw5dbsruas&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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How Duolingo uses streaks and notifications to keep users coming back to the app; 70% of Duolingo
By Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
A profile of game publisher Devolver Digital, which gives indie studios immense creative freedom, doesn't take IP rights from them, and is turning 15 on June 25 (Rollo Romig/New York Times)
A Publishing Haven for the Offbeat and Irreverent (Published 2024)
Devolver Digital teams with independent video game studios and gives them immense freedom. Just don’t kill Jeff Bezos.
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A profile of game publisher Devolver Digital, which gives indie studios immense creative freedom, doesn
By Rollo Romig / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing (Andrew Williams/Wired)
WIRED
Apple Intelligence Won’t Work on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones—but Maybe It Could
Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple’s AI, so why won’t your $900 year-old model run it? Here’s why.
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Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro
By Andrew Williams / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads (Paresh Dave/Wired)
WIRED
As Google Targets AI Search Ads, It Could Learn a Lot From Bing
Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences. But users don’t always find it helpful.
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How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads
By Paresh Dave / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features (Andrew Leland/New York Magazine)
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I Know What the Apple Vision Pro Is For
The headset is already changing disabled users’ lives.
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How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features
By Andrew Leland / New York Magazine. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Indie games were the real stars of the Summer Game Fest 2024; the top 10 bestselling games of 2024 so far on Steam in terms of units sold are almost all indie (Keza MacDonald/The Guardian)
the Guardian
Forget the AAAs, innovative indie developers were the real stars of Summer Game Fest
In this week’s newsletter: While the blockbuster end of the games industry is in the doldrums, independent developers are leading a creative resu...
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Indie games were the real stars of the Summer Game Fest 2024; the top 10 bestselling games of 2024 so far on Steam in terms of units sold are almost all indie
By Keza MacDonald / The Guardian. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Nigeria drops tax evasion charges against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, who still face money laundering charges (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)
Nigeria Drops Tax Charges Against Binance Executives
The executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, are still named in a money-laundering case.
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Nigeria drops tax evasion charges against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, who still face money laundering charges
By Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Nvidia announces Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models that developers can use to generate synthetic data for training LLMs for commercial applications (Ankit Patel/NVIDIA)
NVIDIA Blog
NVIDIA Releases Open Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Training Large Language Models
Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models optimized for NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, includes cutting-edge instruct and reward models, and a data...
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Nvidia announces Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models that developers can use to generate synthetic data for training LLMs for commercial applications
By Ankit Patel / NVIDIA Blog. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Source: Sam Altman recently told some investors that OpenAI is considering changing to a for-profit benefit corporation that its nonprofit board doesn't control (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-says-company-could-become-benefit-corporation-akin-to-rivals-anthropic-xai
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Source: Altman told investors that OpenAI could become a for-profit business not controlled by its nonprofit board; Microsoft execs favor a for-profit option
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M+ in sales between 2018 and 2020 (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
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Pair Charged With Running Dark Web Market for Illicit Goods
US prosecutors have charged two men with operating a dark web market where people around the world anonymously bought and sold more than $430 milli...
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US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M+ in sales between 2018 and 2020
By Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Tempus AI's shares closed up 8.8% at $40.25 in the company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of about $6.6B, after raising $410.7M in its IPO (Riley de León/CNBC)
CNBC
Google-backed Tempus AI closes first day of trading up 9% in Nasdaq stock market debut
Tempus AI rose by as much as 15% on Friday after the health-care diagnostics company priced its IPO at $37, the high end of its offering range.
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Tempus AI
By Riley de León / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Sources: Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based LLM developer founded last year by Google alumni, is raising ~$100M at a $1B valuation in a round led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-japanese-rival-gets-1-billion-valuation-from-silicon-valley-investors
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Sources: Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based LLM developer founded last year by Google alumni, is raising ~$100M at a $1B valuation in a round led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Sources: Mustafa Suleyman's presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with OpenAI, as he looks at the algorithms behind models like GPT-4 (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman’s presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with its AI partner, but he is an asset if the software ...
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Sources: Mustafa Suleyman
By Reed Albergotti / Semafor. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Sources: the EU plans to charge Meta under the DMA, focusing on its pay or consent model where users pay a subscription for an ad-free Facebook and Instagram (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-meta-set-face-eu-charges-under-landmark-tech-rules-sources-say-2024-06-14/
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Sources: the EU plans to charge Meta under the DMA, focusing on its pay or consent model where users pay a subscription for an ad-free Facebook and Instagram
By Foo Yun Chee / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Gemini will return ~$50M of digital assets to investors who were locked out of their accounts when Gemini Earn collapsed, to settle a lawsuit by New York's AG (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg.com
Gemini to Pay $50 Million to Settle New York Crypto Fraud Claims
A crypto exchange that was accused of lying to hundreds of thousands of customers about the risks tied to a failed investment program agreed to ret...
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Gemini will return ~$50M of digital assets to investors who were locked out of their accounts when Gemini Earn collapsed, to settle a lawsuit by New York
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npub1t0qu...ayut 1 year ago
Sonos faces a backlash after removing a line from its privacy policy in the US that said Sonos "does not and will not sell personal information" of its users (Chris Welch/The Verge)
The Verge
Sonos draws more customer anger — this time for its privacy policy
One very important sentence has disappeared.
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Sonos faces a backlash after removing a line from its US privacy policy that said Sonos “does not and will not sell personal information about our customers”
By Chris Welch / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
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