Meta for Developers on Facebook:
Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 — Join Mark Zuckerberg as he shares Meta’s vision for AI and the metaverse, including Meta’s newest product announcements. Then stay with us for the Developer Keynote, where you’ll hear from executives across Meta on how our latest technologies …
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company’s first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected (Kylie Robison/The Verge)
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company’s first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected — Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival …
Sources: Google’s $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google’s $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal — Amid debate on whether tech companies are overspending on AI, Google’s pricey reunion with Noam Shazeer draws attention
A look at Caroline Ellison’s motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
A look at Caroline Ellison’s motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison — The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy.
Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign called Salt Typhoon, have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign called Salt Typhoon, have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information — It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China — Hackers linked to the Chinese government …
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps — Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming.
The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired:
The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet — A compact and fully open source visual AI model will make it easier for AI to take control of your computer—hopefully in a good way.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are “going to take time … to play out” and an appeal “will likely take many years” (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)
Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg:
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are “going to take time … to play out” and an appeal “will likely take many years” — – Company faces two separate challenges from Justice Department … “It’s going to take time for it to play out …
Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation — Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business.
Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers’ reliance on Windows (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers’ reliance on Windows — Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
