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 …
OpenAI introduces canvas, a beta interface for Plus and Teams users that opens a separate window, beside the normal chat window, for writing and coding projects (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI introduces canvas, a beta interface for Plus and Teams users that opens a separate window, beside the normal chat window, for writing and coding projects — OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”
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
How Sam Altman concentrated his power at OpenAI since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; sources: burnout has become a key issue for some employees (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
How Sam Altman concentrated his power at OpenAI since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; sources: burnout has become a key issue for some employees — Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.
YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page — YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.