The Conversation:
Despite disinformation concerns during India's elections, political parties largely used AI, including deepfakes, constructively, primarily for voter outreach — As India concluded the world's largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess …
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Sunday, June 16, 2024
Despite disinformation concerns during India's elections, political parties largely used AI, including deepfakes, constructively, primarily for voter outreach (The Conversation)
Saturday, June 15, 2024
A profile of game publisher Devolver Digital, which gives indie studios immense creative freedom, doesn't take IP rights from them, and is turning 15 on June 25 (Rollo Romig/New York Times)
Rollo Romig / New York Times:
A profile of game publisher Devolver Digital, which gives indie studios immense creative freedom, doesn't take IP rights from them, and is turning 15 on June 25 — Devolver Digital teams with independent video game studios and gives them immense freedom. Just don't kill Jeff Bezos.
Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing (Andrew Williams/Wired)
Andrew Williams / Wired:
Apple may not be bringing Apple Intelligence to iPhone 15, which has 6GB of RAM vs. iPhone 15 Pro's 8GB, due to RAM requirements for on-device AI processing — Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple's AI, so why won't your $900 year-old model run it? Here's why.
How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads (Paresh Dave/Wired)
Paresh Dave / Wired:
How the launch of AI search chatbots such as Bing Copilot is affecting advertisers, as they look for new ways to target users with relevant ads — Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences. But users don't always find it helpful.
How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features (Andrew Leland/New York Magazine)
Andrew Leland / New York Magazine:
How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features — The headset is already changing disabled users' lives. — In her childhood bedroom, Maxine Collard had a PC connected …
Friday, June 14, 2024
Sources: Shein tries to suppress its chair's claim that the retailer is American, amid fears it could annoy China, which needs to approve Shein's London IPO (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: Shein tries to suppress its chair's claim that the retailer is American, amid fears it could annoy China, which needs to approve Shein's London IPO — Donald Tang's remarks are said to have annoyed Chinese officials who need to approve London IPO — Online fast-fashion retailer Shein …
The crypto industry has amassed a $160M war chest to bolster pro-crypto US candidates, which could be pivotal in handing the Senate majority to GOP in November (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
The crypto industry has amassed a $160M war chest to bolster pro-crypto US candidates, which could be pivotal in handing the Senate majority to GOP in November — - Industry seeks regulatory changes to blunt SEC influence — Democrats Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester targeted by crypto
Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets — Move is a sign of how traditional investment models are under threat by a challenging VC environment
Boulder, Colorado-based Enveda, which combines AI with ancient remedies for drug discovery, raised a $55M Series B extension from investors including Microsoft (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Boulder, Colorado-based Enveda, which combines AI with ancient remedies for drug discovery, raised a $55M Series B extension from investors including Microsoft — For centuries, people chewed willow tree bark to relieve pain, but scientists at chemical firm Bayer didn't isolate its active ingredient until the 1800s
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Amazon and telecom Vrio plan to launch a satellite internet service in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, coming online in mid-2025 (Eliana Raszewski/Reuters)
Eliana Raszewski / Reuters:
Amazon and telecom Vrio plan to launch a satellite internet service in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, coming online in mid-2025 — Amazon (AMZN.O) and telecommunications firm Vrio will jointly launch a satellite internet service in seven South American countries …
Dublin-based AccountsIQ, which offers AI-powered bookkeeping, raised €60M, after raising just €12.7M in its nearly 20 year history, and reports 1,000 clients (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Dublin-based AccountsIQ, which offers AI-powered bookkeeping, raised €60M, after raising just €12.7M in its nearly 20 year history, and reports 1,000 clients — The European economy is on shaky ground, but there is a silver lining for enterprise startups: Those building tools …
Ant Group spent a record ~$2.9B on research in 2023, as the Alibaba affiliate develops its BaiLing LLM; Ant and affiliate MYbank served 87M businesses by 2023 (Xinyi Luo/Bloomberg)
Xinyi Luo / Bloomberg:
Ant Group spent a record ~$2.9B on research in 2023, as the Alibaba affiliate develops its BaiLing LLM; Ant and affiliate MYbank served 87M businesses by 2023 — Founded by Jack Ma, Ant has been developing technology including its large language model BaiLing, which won approval …
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Rubrik reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $187.3M, above $171.5M est., and ARR up 46% YoY to $856.1M, in the cybersecurity company's inaugural post-IPO earnings (Charles Gorrivan/Bloomberg)
Charles Gorrivan / Bloomberg:
Rubrik reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $187.3M, above $171.5M est., and ARR up 46% YoY to $856.1M, in the cybersecurity company's inaugural post-IPO earnings — - Rubrik's revenue and subscription revenue both beat forecasts — Firm went public at a volatile time for cybersecurity firms
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears over China using Middle Eastern countries to overcome US sanctions on AI chips are "valid" (Tobias Mann/The Register)
Tobias Mann / The Register:
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears over China using Middle Eastern countries to overcome US sanctions on AI chips are “valid” — But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy …
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
UAE-based Tenderd, which uses AI to help reduce emissions, raised $30M led by Danish firm A.P. Moller, following a Peter Thiel-backed $5.8M seed in 2019 (Fahad Abuljadayel/Bloomberg)
Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg:
UAE-based Tenderd, which uses AI to help reduce emissions, raised $30M led by Danish firm A.P. Moller, following a Peter Thiel-backed $5.8M seed in 2019 — - Oil giant set up Wa'ed Ventures to invest in tech startups — Tenderd says Aramco, Maersk are potential new customers
India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an "expanded scope" compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an “expanded scope” compared to previous initiat...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...