Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at the potential successors to Apple’s top executives across all of the company’s major divisions — Apple’s management team is made up of longtime executives nearing the end of their tenures. That means a broad shake-up is increasingly likely. Source link
Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: The demand for AI tech to preserve, animate, and interact with lost loved ones is especially strong in China, where thousands have already paid to use such tech — Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up about work, the pressures he
Keiichi Murayama / Nikkei Asia: Q&A with Oracle CEO Safra Catz on generative AI’s risks and impact, providing cloud infrastructure to TikTok, the importance of workplace diversity, and more — In interview, top executive highlights AI’s potential and importance of diversity — Oracle CEO Safra Catz (Photo obtained by Nikkei) Source link
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Rad AI, which offers generative AI tools for radiology reporting, raised a $50M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $80M — In 2017, Vinod Khosla told CNBC that the job “of the radiologist will be obsolete in five years.” While the founder of Khosla Ventures
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Maryland Apple Store union workers vote to authorize strike over Apple’s alleged refusal to fairly bargain; Short Hills NJ store workers vote against unionizing — – Union blames Apple tactics for defeat at Short Hills NJ store — Maryland Apple Store union members vote to authorize strike Source link
Ju-min Park / Reuters: South Korea’s Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok says the government is preparing a $7.3B+ support package for chip investments to win the “war” in the chip sector — South Korea is readying plans for a support package for chip investments and research worth more than 10 trillion won … Source link
Microsoft must pay patent owner IPA Technologies $242 million, a federal jury in Delaware said on Friday after determining that Microsoft’s Cortana virtual-assistant software infringed an IPA patent. The jury agreed with IPA after a week-long trial that Microsoft’s voice-recognition technology violates IPA’s patent rights in computer-communications software. IPA is a subsidiary of patent-licensing company
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Financial Times: Alibaba leverages computing resources to become a leading AI investor in China; sources: cloud credits made up ~50% of Alibaba’s $800M investment in Moonshot AI — Ecommerce giant offers computing resources to fast-growing start-ups in exchange for equity — Alibaba has been leveraging … Source link
Google Chrome has been updated with fixes for a zero-day security flaw that was being actively exploited in the wild, according to the search giant. The vulnerability affects a component in Chrome that renders web content on a user’s screen, allowing attackers to take advantage of a user’s computer when a user visits a maliciously
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Wes Davis / The Verge: What to expect at Google I/O 2024: Android 15 updates, more generative AI features for Google’s apps, a new Gemini-powered “Pixie” digital assistant, and more — Google is preparing to hold its annual Google I/O developer conference next week, and naturally, it will be all about AI. Source link