Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” — During its Team ’24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant.
LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after buying LastPass; the service suffered high profile hacks in 2022 (Wes Davis/The Verge)
Wes Davis / The Verge:
LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after buying LastPass; the service suffered high profile hacks in 2022 — It’s been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the company now says it has separated from its parent company, GoTo.
Q&A with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar on her role, working at DARPA, AI, showing ChatGPT to Biden, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar on her role, working at DARPA, AI, showing ChatGPT to Biden, and more — Arati Prabhakar has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.
Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses (Gretchen Morgenson/NBC News)
Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News:
Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses — Internal documents indicate Block processed crypto transactions for terrorist groups and Square processed transactions involving nations subject to economic sanctions.
Meta announces Batman: Arkham Shadow, the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham video game series, exclusive to the Meta Quest 3 and launching later in 2024 (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Meta announces Batman: Arkham Shadow, the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham video game series, exclusive to the Meta Quest 3 and launching later in 2024 — Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year.
Anthropic launches Team, a new enterprise plan that offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month and a free iOS app (Hayden Field/CNBC)
Hayden Field / CNBC:
Anthropic launches Team, a new enterprise plan that offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month and a free iOS app — Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. — The generative artificial intelligence startup …
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which rents out chips to help create AI systems, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, five months after raising $642M (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which rents out chips to help create AI systems, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, five months after raising $642M — Company raises $1.1 billion from investors including Fidelity, Magnetar Capital — CoreWeave, a cloud-computing company backed by Nvidia …
Reuters/Ipsos poll: 58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”; 50% support a TikTok ban (Reuters)
Reuters:
Reuters/Ipsos poll: 58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”; 50% support a TikTok ban — – A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted …
How an informal supper club became a US tech lobbying force, helping draft the TikTok bill; sources: the group plans to draft an EO to reverse Biden’s AI rules (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
How an informal supper club became a US tech lobbying force, helping draft the TikTok bill; sources: the group plans to draft an EO to reverse Biden’s AI rules — The tech moguls and defense contractors behind the Hill and Valley Forum aim to expand their impact, prepping an executive order …
LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb — How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”? — LinkedIn, the professional network known …