Chris Welch / The Verge:
Spotify tells customers that its Car Thing dashboard accessory will stop working on December 9, less than a year after it went on sale, without offering refunds — Spotify’s brief attempt at being a hardware company wasn’t all that successful: the company stopped producing …
Screenshots of Google’s AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick on a pizza (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
Jyoti Mann / Business Insider:
Screenshots of Google’s AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick on a pizza — – Google’s AI Overviews feature suggested a user put glue on pizza so the cheese would stay put.
Sources: a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Tribe Capital commit to joining xAI’s new funding round, in which the company seeks to raise ~$6B at an $18B valuation (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Tribe Capital commit to joining xAI’s new funding round, in which the company seeks to raise ~$6B at an $18B valuation — Billionaire’s artificial intelligence start-up closes in on $6bn funding round as it seeks more financial firepower
Sources: Helsing, which provides AI tools to militaries, is raising a $400M+ Series C led by General Catalyst at a ~$4B valuation, after raising $200M+ in 2023 (Forbes)
Forbes:
Sources: Helsing, which provides AI tools to militaries, is raising a $400M+ Series C led by General Catalyst at a ~$4B valuation, after raising $200M+ in 2023 — The Munich-based company is raising at least $400 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, sources tell Forbes.
Sources: Alphabet and Meta are in talks with Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in AI video generation tools; Disney and Netflix aren’t willing (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Alphabet and Meta are in talks with Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in AI video generation tools; Disney and Netflix aren’t willing — – Studios seek to harness AI’s promise without losing control — Warner weighs licensing content; Disney, Netflix say no
A bill strengthening the UK Competition and Markets Authority to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google heads toward approval before the UK’s July election (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
A bill strengthening the UK Competition and Markets Authority to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google heads toward approval before the UK’s July election — The UK will shortly get its own rulebook for Big Tech, after peers in the House of Lords agreed Thursday afternoon to pass the Digital Markets …
US hospital operator Ascension, which has ~140 hospitals, remains down indefinitely after a May 8 cyberattack, an eerily similar hack to Change Healthcare (Reed Abelson/New York Times)
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
US hospital operator Ascension, which has ~140 hospitals, remains down indefinitely after a May 8 cyberattack, an eerily similar hack to Change Healthcare — For two weeks at the 140-hospital system, doctors and nurses have had little access to digital records for patient histories, resorting to paper and faxes to treat people.
An interview with Microsoft Windows and Devices head Pavan Davuluri on his vision, Copilot AI, Windows Copilot Runtime, streaming Windows to devices, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
An interview with Microsoft Windows and Devices head Pavan Davuluri on his vision, Copilot AI, Windows Copilot Runtime, streaming Windows to devices, and more — Pavan Davuluri hasn’t even been the head of Windows for two months, but he’s already been tasked with announcing Microsoft’s transition …
Leaked contract: Samsung requires independent repair shops to notify Samsung, share customer data, and “immediately disassemble” devices with aftermarket parts (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Leaked contract: Samsung requires independent repair shops to notify Samsung, share customer data, and “immediately disassemble” devices with aftermarket parts — In exchange for selling them repair parts, Samsung requires independent repair shops to give Samsung the name …
iFixit and Samsung end their repair partnership after two years; iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens says that “Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale” (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
iFixit and Samsung end their repair partnership after two years; iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens says that “Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale” — iFixit and Samsung are parting ways. … “Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale,” …
