Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Jolla, maker of Android variant Sailfish OS, details plans for a privacy-focused AI device, Jolla Mind², coming this fall for €699 and a €9.99/mo. subscription — Jolla has taken the official wraps off the first version of its personal server-based AI assistant in the making.
Inflection AI, which had ~70 staffers follow Mustafa Sulyman and leave for Microsoft in March, debuts a new leadership team and says it has 18 months of runway (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Inflection AI, which had ~70 staffers follow Mustafa Sulyman and leave for Microsoft in March, debuts a new leadership team and says it has 18 months of runway — When Mustafa Sulyman, a leading figure in artificial intelligence, left Inflection AI in March to head Microsoft’s AI division …
UK’s autonomous vehicle legislation becomes law, paving the way for first driverless cars by 2026 and clarifying who is liable in self-driving crashes (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
UK’s autonomous vehicle legislation becomes law, paving the way for first driverless cars by 2026 and clarifying who is liable in self-driving crashes — The U.K.’s self-proclaimed “world-leading” regulations for self-driving cars are now official, after the Automated Vehicles (AV) …
A live blog of Microsoft’s Surface and Windows AI event (The Verge)
The Verge:
A live blog of Microsoft’s Surface and Windows AI event — Are you ready for Microsoft’s latest Windows on Arm push? That’s what we’re expecting at today’s Surface and Windows AI event. — Rumors suggest Microsoft will unveil a new Arm-powered Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 devices and a host of new AI features for Windows.
A look at Satya Nadella’s approach to pushing AI at Microsoft, as the company bets big on OpenAI and in-house models, but also on G42, Mistral, Figure, others (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
A look at Satya Nadella’s approach to pushing AI at Microsoft, as the company bets big on OpenAI and in-house models, but also on G42, Mistral, Figure, others — Something has caught Satya Nadella’s attention. It’s a small thing—just a five-letter word inside a box …
Child predators are flocking to AI-generated images of children on TikTok and Instagram, raising questions about how to handle the suggestive, fake images (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)
Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes:
Child predators are flocking to AI-generated images of children on TikTok and Instagram, raising questions about how to handle the suggestive, fake images — Images of AI children on TikTok and Instagram are becoming magnets for many with a sexual interest in minors.
Sensor Tower: ByteDance’s Doubao AI chatbot iOS app had almost 9M downloads this year through April, vs. 8M for Baidu’s Ernie Bot; Doubao has 4M+ MAUs in China (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg:
Sensor Tower: ByteDance’s Doubao AI chatbot iOS app had almost 9M downloads this year through April, vs. 8M for Baidu’s Ernie Bot; Doubao has 4M+ MAUs in China — Doubao, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot released in August, surpassed Baidu’s Ernie Bot in downloads last year …
Microsoft debuts the 13.8″ and 15″ Surface Laptop, with Snapdragon X Elite, up to 22 hours of battery life, Wi-Fi 7, and support for three 4K external monitors (Wes Davis/The Verge)
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts the 13.8″ and 15″ Surface Laptop, with Snapdragon X Elite, up to 22 hours of battery life, Wi-Fi 7, and support for three 4K external monitors — Microsoft has taken the wraps off the new Surface Laptop — an Arm-based laptop for consumers.
Microsoft unveils Recall for Windows 11, an AI-powered search tool for Copilot+ PCs that keeps track of users’ actions and gives them an explorable timeline (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Recall for Windows 11, an AI-powered search tool for Copilot+ PCs that keeps track of users’ actions and gives them an explorable timeline — Microsoft’s launching Recall for Windows 11, a new tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and …
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs with at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board (Kris Holt/Engadget)
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs with at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board — The aim is to handle more AI processing locally rather than in the cloud. — We’ve been hearing rumblings for months now that Microsoft was working on so-called “AI PCs.”
