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Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Precision Finding, Double Tap is great, and some Siri and brightness improvements, but many of the tweaks feel minor (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Victoria Song / The Verge: Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Precision Finding, Double Tap is great, and some Siri and brightness improvements, but many of the tweaks feel minor  —  Iterative updates aren’t flashy, but these smartwatches are mainly for folks who don’t have Apple Watches yet.

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How Google taught AI to doubt itself

Image: Google This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s talk about an advance in Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, and how it addresses one of the most pressing problems with today’s chatbots: their tendency to make things up.

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LimeWire, the infamous piracy site that pivoted to content creation, acquires AI image tool BlueWillow, which has a 2.5M-strong Discord and created 500M+ images (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LimeWire, the infamous piracy site that pivoted to content creation, acquires AI image tool BlueWillow, which has a 2.5M-strong Discord and created 500M+ images  —  In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town.  LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy …

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Copenhagen-based Corti, which offers an AI chatbot for hospitals, raised $60M co-led by Atomico and Prosus, sources say at a $260M valuation (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Copenhagen-based Corti, which offers an AI chatbot for hospitals, raised $60M co-led by Atomico and Prosus, sources say at a $260M valuation  —  Investors value company behind AI co-pilot for medical professionals at $260 million.  —  Corti ApS, a medical software startup …

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Sources and analysis: four of the eight CPUs in the Kirin 9000S SoC use Arm designs and four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon made the GPU, and more (Qianer Liu/Financial Times)

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Sources and analysis: four of the eight CPUs in the Kirin 9000S SoC use Arm designs and four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon made the GPU, and more  —  Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro

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Latin America-focused rapid grocery startup JOKR raised a $50M Series D led by Convivialité at an $800M valuation, down from a $1.3B valuation in February 2023 (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Latin America-focused rapid grocery startup JOKR raised a $50M Series D led by Convivialité at an $800M valuation, down from a $1.3B valuation in February 2023  —  Online grocery delivery company JOKR is out to show that it can continue to be a leader in the industry.

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Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave gets Vector Store, generative AI features

Oracle is adding a Vector Store and new generative AI features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave, the company said at its annual CloudWorld conference. MySQL HeatWave combines OLAP (online analytical processing), OLTP (online transaction processing), machine learning, and AI-driven automation in a single MySQL database. To read this article in full, please click here

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Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on a stock trading feature for iPhones, shelving the project in 2022 as markets turned (CNBC)

CNBC: Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on a stock trading feature for iPhones, shelving the project in 2022 as markets turned  —  – Apple was exploring the launch of an iPhone feature that would let users buy and sell stocks, according to three sources familiar with the plans.

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In a WeChat post, China’s Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei’s servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009 (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: In a WeChat post, China’s Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei’s servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009  —  Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying  —  China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei’s servers continuously since 2009.

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