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Former Microsoft AI expert Mikhail Parakhin joins Shopify as its new CTO

Apple’s new iOS developer beta lets you remove objects from pictures using AI

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Mcdonald Odijie
August 29, 2024

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Former Microsoft AI expert Mikhail Parakhin joins Shopify as its new CTO

The Windows and Surface team split last year when Panos Panay left, with Parakhin’s team building AI-powered web services like Bing Chat / Copilot. Then, this spring, in a shake up as Mustafa Suleyman became CEO of Microsoft AI, Parakhin was out.

Apple’s new iOS developer beta lets you remove objects from pictures using AI

Apple has added yet more AI features in its  latest developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1, and this time we’re getting the ability to remove objects from photos.

OpenAI reportedly in talks to close a new funding round at $100B+ valuation

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise a massive tranche of cash led by  previous backer Thrive Capital, at a valuation of more than $100 billion. That’s substantially higher than OpenAI’s previous $86 billion valuation, and by far the highest valuation of any AI startup to date.

Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware’

Midjourney, the AI image-generating .platform that’s reportedly raking in more than $200 million in revenue without any VC investment, is getting into hardware.

Opinion

Data Poisoning: Is It A Good Idea To Use It For Good?

Data poisoning is a type of cyberattack in which a bad actor intentionally compromises a training dataset used by an AI model by introducing malicious or corrupted data.

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