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🤖 Microsoft unveils Mico, a ‘Clippy’ for the AI era
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- Microsoft introduced Mico as the face of its Copilot AI, a customizable avatar blob that visually reacts to conversations by changing colors when you use voice mode.
- The company embraces the comparison to its past by including an Easter egg where tapping the new avatar multiple times transforms the floating blob into the classic assistant Clippy.
- A separate mode called “Real Talk” will let the chatbot mirror a user's conversational style while also challenging ideas from its own grounded perspective, unlike other agreeable assistants.
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🤝 Google to supply AI chips to Anthropic in multibillion-dollar deal
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- Anthropic plans to spend tens of billions of dollars securing up to one million of Google's TPUs by 2026, adding more than one gigawatt of new computing capacity.
- Even with the new Google capacity, the company confirmed that Amazon remains its "primary training partner and cloud provider," where it accesses a large cluster of AI chips.
- The deal follows a familiar industry pattern where tech giants invest capital in startups, which then purchase the cloud and hardware services from those same large investors.
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👟 Nike unveils robot-assisted shoes
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- Nike unveiled Project Amplify, a robotic system for footwear that includes a motor, a drive belt, and a rechargeable cuff battery connecting to a carbon fiber-plated running shoe.
- The system is engineered to mimic natural lower-leg and ankle movements, working as a “second set of calf muscles” to help regular users move more often with less effort.
- Instead of targeting pro athletes, the shoes are designed to help walkers and joggers achieve a running speed of nearly 10 to 12 minutes per mile, much like an e-bike.
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📜 Trump pardons founder of crypto exchange Binance
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- President Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws and already completed a four-month prison sentence for the crime last year.
- The White House framed the pardon as ending the "Biden Administration's war on crypto," arguing the prior prosecution of Zhao had damaged America's reputation as a leader in technology.
- The decision comes as Trump embraces the crypto industry, where his family's venture, World Liberty Financial, recently handled a $2 billion investment from MGX into the Binance exchange.
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💻 OpenAI buys AI startup for Mac computers
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- OpenAI has acquired Software Applications, the creators of an unreleased AI interface for Mac computers called Sky, which is designed to see a user's screen and take action.
- The team behind Sky previously created the app Workflow, which was sold to Apple and became the technology now known as Shortcuts, with the founders working there for several years.
- While deal terms were not revealed, the startup had raised $6.5 million from investors, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman who held a passive interest through an investment fund.
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⚛️ IBM runs key quantum algorithm on conventional AMD chips
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- IBM successfully ran its key quantum error correction algorithm, designed to manage errors from unstable qubits, in real time on a conventional field programmable gate array from AMD.
- The company’s work shows the system for addressing qubit mistakes can operate on a readily available AMD chip, proving it does not require "ridiculously expensive" custom hardware.
- This implementation proved ten times faster than necessary for the quantum computer and was finished a full year ahead of schedule for the upcoming Starling project in 2029.
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