Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Email: criminals target WPP CEO Mark Read in a deepfake scam by using a voice clone and public YouTube footage to set up a video meeting with his executives — Mark Read says criminals set up Microsoft Teams call with senior executives in unsuccessful attack
Christie’s experienced a “technology security issue” that took its website down and affected some systems, ahead of auctions that are expected to generate $840M (Zachary Small/New York Times)
Zachary Small / New York Times:
Christie’s experienced a “technology security issue” that took its website down and affected some systems, ahead of auctions that are expected to generate $840M — The auctioneer’s website was taken offline on Thursday evening and remained down on Friday, days before its spring auctions were set to begin.
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86 (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)
Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86 — A mathematician, he helped usher in a revolution in trading, embracing a computer-oriented, quantitative style in the 1980s
Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal with OpenAI to use ChatGPT features in iOS 18; talks with Google to license Gemini are ongoing, but no deal has been reached (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal with OpenAI to use ChatGPT features in iOS 18; talks with Google to license Gemini are ongoing, but no deal has been reached — – Move is part of push to add AI features to Apple devices — Company also held talks with Google about using Gemini
Epic v. Apple: Apple says it received just 38 applications to use its outside payments option for the App Store, out of ~65K app devs that offer in-app payments (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Epic v. Apple: Apple says it received just 38 applications to use its outside payments option for the App Store, out of ~65K app devs that offer in-app payments — – Judge rips company for ‘lots of decisions’ made ‘without data’ — iPhone maker says it provided antitrust remedy ordered in 2021
Filings and sources: autonomous vehicle company Motional cut ~550 employees in a restructuring that included delaying a robotaxi service from 2024 to 2026 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Filings and sources: autonomous vehicle company Motional cut ~550 employees in a restructuring that included delaying a robotaxi service from 2024 to 2026 — Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company.
A US jury says Microsoft must pay IPA Technologies $242M after finding that Cortana infringed a patent that expired in Jan. 2019; Microsoft plans to appeal (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)
Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law:
A US jury says Microsoft must pay IPA Technologies $242M after finding that Cortana infringed a patent that expired in Jan. 2019; Microsoft plans to appeal — Microsoft Corp. must pay IPA Technologies Inc. $242 million after a federal jury in Delaware found its Cortana digital assistant infringed a patent that expired in January 2019.
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate an AI voice assistant that recognizes objects and images and has better logical reasoning than its current products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate an AI voice assistant that recognizes objects and images and has better logical reasoning than its current products — In the race to develop artificial intelligence that communicates the way humans do, OpenAI is preparing to demonstrate technology …
Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels citing government notices (Raksha Kumar/Reuters Institute)
Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute:
Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels citing government notices — As the country votes in this year’s crucial election, news channels are being banned or demonetised in a move criticised by press freedom groups
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave opens its European HQ in London and plans two UK data centers this year as part of a £1B investment, after raising $1.1B last week (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave opens its European HQ in London and plans two UK data centers this year as part of a £1B investment, after raising $1.1B last week — CoreWeave isn’t hanging around. Hot on the heels of a mega funding round valuing the GPU cloud company at a reported $19 billion …
