Reuters:
Atos appoints its chairman Jean Pierre Mustier as CEO to replace departing boss Paul Saleh, in its fifth top management reshuffle in less than two years — French technology company Atos (ATOS.PA) on Wednesday appointed its chairman Jean Pierre Mustier as CEO to replace departing boss Paul Saleh …
Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike’s faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike’s faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B — Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix
Airtable launches Cobuilder, which can generate apps from text prompts and match them to relevant data and customer information already stored within Airtable (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Airtable launches Cobuilder, which can generate apps from text prompts and match them to relevant data and customer information already stored within Airtable — Airtable’s new Cobuilder product puts AI-generated apps in every worker’s hands — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO following painful job cuts.
All Raise: ~18% of US VC firms have one or more female partners, double from 2018; PitchBook says female founders secured ~28% of total US deal value in 2023 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
All Raise: ~18% of US VC firms have one or more female partners, double from 2018; PitchBook says female founders secured ~28% of total US deal value in 2023 — – Advocacy group reports women partners are part of more firms — All Raise CEO says progress at risk from diversity criticisms
Researchers suggest using “synthetic” data, created by AI systems to train AI systems, could lead to the rapid degradation of AI models and a collapse over time (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
Michael Peel / Financial Times:
Researchers suggest using “synthetic” data, created by AI systems to train AI systems, could lead to the rapid degradation of AI models and a collapse over time — Research suggests use of computer-made ‘synthetic data’ to train top AI models could lead to nonsensical results in future
Stability AI unveils Stable Video 4D, a model based on the existing Stable Video Diffusion model to take video input and generate videos from eight perspectives (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI unveils Stable Video 4D, a model based on the existing Stable Video Diffusion model to take video input and generate videos from eight perspectives — Stability AI is expanding its growing roster of generative AI models, quite literally adding a new dimension with the debut of Stable Video 4D.
The US NCSC warns US tech startups that “foreign threat actors”, including China, might use private investment to exploit them and threaten national security (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
The US NCSC warns US tech startups that “foreign threat actors”, including China, might use private investment to exploit them and threaten national security — Counter-intelligence centre says hostile states such as China could gain sensitive data and intellectual property
Microsoft Copilot customers say the AI assistants are no plug-and-play offering and involve feeding Copilot data; the Copilots excel at distilling information (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Copilot customers say the AI assistants are no plug-and-play offering and involve feeding Copilot data; the Copilots excel at distilling information — Early adopters say deploying the company’s Copilot bots requires cleaning up corporate data and lots of employee training.
Law enforcement officials and experts: criminal groups are shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service platforms after disruption operations and an exit scam (Alexander Martin/The Record)
Alexander Martin / The Record:
Law enforcement officials and experts: criminal groups are shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service platforms after disruption operations and an exit scam — Veteran cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks are increasingly shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) …
Google updates the Play Store on Android to add categorized “collections” to show installed app content, expands Play Pass, and adds curated comics in Japan (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google updates the Play Store on Android to add categorized “collections” to show installed app content, expands Play Pass, and adds curated comics in Japan — Google is bringing a handful of new features to its Google Play store on Android today.
