Politico: A look at the international battles to regulate AI, as nations, lobbyists, and tech companies vie for influence over the future of AI policy  —  Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology  —  Can anyone control AI?  —  By Mark Scott, Gian Volpicelli, Mohar Chatterjee, Vincent Manancourt, Source link

Adobe and Microsoft joined hands to announce a suite of new artificial intelligence (AI) features for marketers at the Adobe Summit on Tuesday. In this collaboration, Adobe will offer its Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 applications. The new capabilities are aimed at reducing data silos and the inconvenience

John Markoff / New York Times: A look at SRI’s Future Concepts division, a research organization comprised of SRI and PARC researchers, as some argue that basic tech research labs are passé  —  Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in hopes of recapturing their glory days.

WWDC 2024 is set to take place in June, Apple announced on Wednesday. The annual developers conference typically takes place at Apple’s headquarters and an online telecast of the event gives developers across the world a chance to look at new software features and enhancements that the company is working on for the coming year.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Jakarta-based online personal insurance marketplace Qoala raised a $47M Series C co-led by PayPal Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, for $130M+ in total funding  —  PayPal Ventures’ latest investment is in an Indonesian startup that provides personal insurance products covering a variety of risks … Source link

A U.S. judge on Monday threw out Elon Musk’s lawsuit against a nonprofit group that faulted him for allowing a rise in hate speech on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said it was “evident” that Musk’s X Corp sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate

Source: Tencent agrees to release some of its most important apps on the Apple Vision Pro  —  When Apple launched the Vision Pro headset, it leaned heavily on its own streaming app, as well as those of Disney and others, to market the headset’s most compelling feature: an immersive video experience. Source link

Netflix is getting another price hike internationally. In its Q3 earnings results, the streamer confirmed that while the password sharing crackdown initially bothered its customers, it has paid off in the long run, with the company adding 8.8 million new subscribers. This brings the total to 247.15 million Netflix members, marking a huge jump from

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Canva acquires the Affinity creative suite, popular with Mac users; COO Cliff Obrecht says the cash-and-stock deal is valued at “several hundred million pounds”  —  – Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite  — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe’s flagship products Source link

Google is reportedly expanding the testing for its Search Generative Experience (SGE) feature which was announced in May 2023. The feature works using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and once a query has been searched, it creates a snapshot of the key information around the keywords. The feature was so far limited to users who signed