Google announces a private preview of a new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro that can take up to 2M tokens, twice its predecessor and rivals like Anthropic’s Claude 3 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google announces a private preview of a new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro that can take up to 2M tokens, twice its predecessor and rivals like Anthropic’s Claude 3  —  Gemini, Google’s family of generative AI models, can now analyze longer documents, codebases, videos and audio recordings than before.

A look at OpenAI’s GPT-4o and the decision to let all users access the model, helping to democratize AI and make it more present and connected to human systems (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
A look at OpenAI’s GPT-4o and the decision to let all users access the model, helping to democratize AI and make it more present and connected to human systems  —  A new model opens up new possibilities  —  Today, OpenAI released a new AI model, GPT-4o, with some interesting capabilities.

Sydney-based Data Zoo, maker of automated know your customer software, raised a AU$35M Series A led by Ellerston JAADE (Matt Ogg/Business News Australia)

Matt Ogg / Business News Australia:
Sydney-based Data Zoo, maker of automated know your customer software, raised a AU$35M Series A led by Ellerston JAADE  —  Data Zoo founder and chairman Tony Fitzgibbon (left) with the company’s new CEO Charlie Minutella (right).  —  A Sydney-headquartered company that provides automated know your customer …

Dell appears to have suffered another data breach where ~30K customer service records were scraped, following its recent breach that affected 49M customers (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Dell appears to have suffered another data breach where ~30K customer service records were scraped, following its recent breach that affected 49M customers  —  The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned.

TSMC plans to start building its first European facility in Q4 2024, ahead of production in 2027; TSMC unveiled plans for an $11B factory in Germany last August (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

Toby Sterling / Reuters:
TSMC plans to start building its first European facility in Q4 2024, ahead of production in 2027; TSMC unveiled plans for an $11B factory in Germany last August  —  Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) plans to start construction of its first European facility in the fourth quarter of 2024, it said on Tuesday.

SEC filing: Unity Create CPO and CTO Marc Whitten is stepping down on June 1, less than one year after becoming entangled in the company’s Runtime Fee fiasco (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)

Chris Kerr / Game Developer:
SEC filing: Unity Create CPO and CTO Marc Whitten is stepping down on June 1, less than one year after becoming entangled in the company’s Runtime Fee fiasco  —  Unity executive Marc Whitten is stepping down on June 1, 2024, less than a year after becoming entangled in the company’s Runtime Fee fiasco.