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Cloudflare launches new tools to help customers deploy and run AI models, including Workers AI, which gives pay-as-you-go access to GPUs from its partners (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Cloudflare launches new tools to help customers deploy and run AI models, including Workers AI, which gives pay-as-you-go access to GPUs from its partners  —  Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed …

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Snap closes AR Enterprise Services, launched in March 2023 to let retailers adapt Snap’s AR technology for their own websites, citing high costs and complexity (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: Snap closes AR Enterprise Services, launched in March 2023 to let retailers adapt Snap’s AR technology for their own websites, citing high costs and complexity  —  The company’s augmented reality for enterprise services, or ARES, was announced in March.  —  Snap Inc. is closing a division focused …

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Do Bounties Hurt FOSS?

As with many things in life, motivation is everything. This also applies to the development of software, which is a field that has become immensely important over the past decades. Within a commercial context, the motivation  to write software is primarily financial, in that a company’s products are developed by individuals who are being financially

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Florida-based Lumu, which helps companies identify and isolate network intrusions, raised a $30M Series B, of which $6M is in debt, led by Forgepoint Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Florida-based Lumu, which helps companies identify and isolate network intrusions, raised a $30M Series B, of which $6M is in debt, led by Forgepoint Capital  —  Lumu, a startup that helps enterprises identify and isolate security compromises, today announced that it raised $30 million …

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Warner Bros. Discovery launches CNN Max in an open beta in the US, offering a 24/7 live news streaming feed on the Max streaming service (Ted Johnson/Deadline)

Ted Johnson / Deadline: Warner Bros. Discovery launches CNN Max in an open beta in the US, offering a 24/7 live news streaming feed on the Max streaming service  —  – Donald Trump Found Liable For Defrauding Banks, New York Judge Rules; Defense Attorney Calls Decision “Miscarriage Of Justice” – Update

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Hands-on with Mercedes-Benz’s Drive Pilot, the first and only Level 3 system approved for sale in the US and EU, available only on freeways mapped by Mercedes (Daniel Golson/The Verge)

Daniel Golson / The Verge: Hands-on with Mercedes-Benz’s Drive Pilot, the first and only Level 3 system approved for sale in the US and EU, available only on freeways mapped by Mercedes  —  Drive Pilot is a Level 3 autonomous system, meaning you can take your hands off the wheel and — more notably —

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Will OpenAI build its own AI smartphone?

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A report suggests that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive have discussed possibly building a “new AI hardware device.” The report is vague on details, but to us, an AI-first smartphone would be the best vehicle to get AI into the hands of more people. Smartphone

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China releases a list of 26 app stores, including from Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi, that comply with its new rules; Apple’s App Store is not on the list (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters: China releases a list of 26 app stores, including from Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi, that comply with its new rules; Apple’s App Store is not on the list  —  China’s cyberspace regulator released on Wednesday names of the first batch of mobile app stores that have completed filing business details …

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Binance exits its Russia business as it is not “compatible with Binance’s compliance strategy”, and sells the business to CommEX, which launched a day earlier (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Binance exits its Russia business as it is not “compatible with Binance’s compliance strategy”, and sells the business to CommEX, which launched a day earlier  —  – CommEX was launched a day before Binance announced deal  — Perlman says Russia business ‘not compatible’ with compliance

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Indonesia plans to ban direct transactions on social media, citing their effect on traditional markets, a blow to TikTok Shop in its first and largest market (Jofie Yordan/Tech in Asia)

Jofie Yordan / Tech in Asia: Indonesia plans to ban direct transactions on social media, citing their effect on traditional markets, a blow to TikTok Shop in its first and largest market  —  President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided to ban direct transactions on social media platforms in Indonesia …

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