Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15  —  Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …

The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016  —  – Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says  — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK

Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster variant of 1.5 Flash, with 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts (Google Developers Blog)

Google Developers Blog:
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster variant of 1.5 Flash, with 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts  —  Today, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, our latest Flash variant, is production-ready and comes with:  —  Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8b …

Google rolls out AI-organized Search results in the US on mobile, showing users AI-aggregated pages of content from forums, articles, YouTube videos, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out AI-organized Search results in the US on mobile, showing users AI-aggregated pages of content from forums, articles, YouTube videos, and more  —  Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries …

Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user’s question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user’s question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US  —  Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you’ll now start seeing products in some of the search engine’s AI-generated summaries.

Google updates Lens to let users take a video or use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates Lens to let users take a video or use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile  —  If you can’t capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you’re seeing.

Zepz, the money transfer service formerly called WorldRemit and valued at $5B in 2021, raised $267M to fund an expansion in its core African markets and beyond (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
Zepz, the money transfer service formerly called WorldRemit and valued at $5B in 2021, raised $267M to fund an expansion in its core African markets and beyond  —  – Zepz, formerly WorldRemit, did not disclose its new valuation  — Firm is in ‘no rush’ to join the public markets, investor says