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In-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are standout features (Sebastiaan de With/Lux)

In-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall imag...

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Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assistant for scientists; BioNTech's InstaDeep unveils a Llama 3.1-based AI assistant for experimental biology (Financial Times)

Google DeepMind is developing an AI research assis...

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London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous robots for warehouses, raised a $80M Series B led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)

London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous robot...

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Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help software engineers troubleshoot and fix production issues, raised a $35M seed led by Greylock (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Resolve AI, which is building AI tools to help sof...

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How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii's death registration system to fake his own death (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf,...

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Oracle plans to invest over $6.5B in Malaysia to set up a public cloud region, its first in the country and third in Southeast Asia (Danial Azhar/Reuters)

Oracle plans to invest over $6.5B in Malaysia to s...

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Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its split from Sequoia, with the bulk of the reduction coming at the growth stage (The Economic Times)

Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M,...

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Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led by the 72B parameter NVLM-D-72B and can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only tasks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is ...

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Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dea...

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Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has b...

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Nym, which helps US healthcare providers automate the medical coding process, raised a $47M growth investment led by PSG, bringing its total raised to $92M (Gali Weinreb/Globes Online)

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Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa (Wired)

Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of th...

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Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by a16z, valuing it at ~$350M; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M (TechCrunch)

Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised...

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Sources: Apple nears production of an updated iPhone SE with a design that drops the home button and plans a new iPad mini this year and iPad Air models in 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple nears production of an updated iPho...

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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who...

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Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the company's AI agent progress, like transacting with third parties on users' behalf, which is still a ways off (Will Knight/Wired)

Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the ...

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Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts a...

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Sources say many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in the middle of arguments between teams (Fortune)

Sources say many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was ...

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