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Google is considering the development of a new chatbot that is capable of telling the story of a user’s life based on their photos and search history, according to a recent CNBC report. The search giant could use large language models (LLMs), such as the recently unveiled multimodal Gemini model, as part of a new […]

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks, which raised over $61M, shuts down after facing uneven sales and failing to get acquired  —  Weaveworks, a startup focusing on cloud native development tooling, announced today on LinkedIn that it would be shutting down, a sad day for any startup. Source link

Google has been offering several significant updates to its Messages app that seem poised to make the platform more competitive in the coming days. Recently, it gained Ultra HDR support in RCS (Rich Communication Services) chats and more enhancements including photomoji, and animated stickers have been added to the app. Now, the search giant is

Bloomberg: How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history  —  A few years ago, during one of California’s steadily worsening wildfire seasons, Nat Friedman’s family home burned down. Source link

E3, what was once the biggest video game expo, is officially dead. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) confirmed the news on Twitter, thanking the fans and developers who attended and supported the in-person show for over two decades. Its closure was only a matter of time, slyly signalled in March, when the 2023 edition got

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool  —  Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times  —  Microsoft is working … Source link

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that lets users pin messages in chats to easily locate important conversations. With this feature, users can highlight a specific message in both individual and group chats and pin it to the top of the chat. A message can be pinned in the chat for up to 30

Financial Times: Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon added ~$10B to collective profits in the past two years by cutting depreciation costs due to extended server life estimates  —  Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have all shifted estimates of how long they will use technical equipment Source link

India has proposed a licensing approach to assigning spectrum for satellite internet services and exempt companies from having to bid for it, a win for Elon Musk’s venture Starlink which has lobbied hard against any auctions. The proposal was included in a new draft bill for the telecommunications sector, which seeks to replace the 138-year-old

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Thoma Bravo takes critical event management software company Everbridge private in a $1.5B all-cash deal; Everbridge had a market cap of $6.4B in 2021  —  Everbridge, a critical event management (CEM) software company, is going private in a $1.5 billion all-cash deal that will see it taken over by private equity