Apple announces support for California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote
In a surprise move, Apple this week penned a letter to California state senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, voicing support for SB 244 …
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 101% YoY to $13.51B, vs. $11.22B est., Data Center revenue up 171% YoY to $10.32B, and authorizes a $25B buyback
- Nvidia's performance was driven by its data center business, which includes the A100 and H100 AI chips that are needed to build and run artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT.
Q&A with Phil Spencer on growing Game Pass, Microsoft's mobile focus, streaming Starfield and other games on mobile, Xbox generations, console prices, and more
Phil Spencer on new hardware, price drops, mid-gen refreshes - and why the company won't ditch Series S. — Interview by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief
Epic Games announces the Epic First Run program, offering developers 100% of net revenue for six months if they launch games exclusively on the Epic Games Store
Games and apps in the Epic First Run program will also benefit from extra exposure on the storefront.
Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2
Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said.
How LLMs for chat turned AI into a general-purpose information-processing tool, as AI undergoes a transformation much like how chips gave rise to CPUs and GPUs
Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica :
We are at the tail end of the first wave of LLM-based AI, which performs better than the average human in some tasks but is not enough and is expensive to train
On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign …
Sources: TikTok plans to bar links to Amazon and other e-commerce sites to force people to use TikTok Shop; source says Shop will lose $500M+ in the US in 2023
The cost of TikTok's online shopping expansion in the U.S. is beginning to add up. — TikTok Shop, the app's nascent shopping service …
Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut ~7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021
T-Mobile USA Inc. is cutting 7% of its staff, part of an effort to rein in costs as the company spends heavily to attract …
Research teams from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University use AI and electrodes to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar
Scientists use electrodes and AI programs to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar
MSI shares an unlisted video confirming Intel's upcoming 14th Gen CPUs will see no major core count upgrades and will be 3% faster than 13th Gen CPUs on average
MSI unimpressed with 14th Gen Core series — MSI made a mistake of sharing an unlisted video which has now leaked out.
Google announces new security features for Workspace, including zero-trust, data loss prevention, and digital sovereignty controls, rolling out in 2023 and 2024
Google Workspace, your most secure choice in productivity suites, will be getting even more secure.
WBD plans to launch CNN Max, a 24/7 stream pulled from CNN's US and international feeds alongside some original content, in “open beta” on September 27 on Max
- Netflix Added 2.6M U.S. Subscribers In July, Continuing Advertising Momentum Amid Password-Sharing Crackdown, Study Finds
Atari unveils the $130 Atari 2600+ with HDMI and a slot for Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 cartridges, a $25 CX40+ joystick, and a $40 CX30+ paddle controller bundle
The Atari 2600+ launches this November. Wes Davis / The Verge : A new Atari 2600 will play your old cartridges Matt Wales / Eurogamer.net : Atari's classic 2600 console is back as a £100 “modern day f...
Hands-on with Sony's PlayStation Portal: a slightly weird design, lighter than the Switch, expansive and vibrant 60Hz LCD display, no Bluetooth, and needs a PS5
Bo Moore / IGN :
The US DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm, of Washington, and Roman Semenov, a Russian national, with money laundering and sanctions violations
Katherine Ross / Blockworks :
Canada-based LemFi, which offers remittances and other payment services for immigrants worldwide, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to ~$34M
On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding …
Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M
As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) …
Amazon launches Amazon Luna on LG's smart TVs released between 2021 and 2023 and running webOS 6.0+, after debuting Luna on Samsung's smart TVs in August 2022
LG is teaming up with Amazon to bring the Amazon Luna cloud-based game streaming service on its smart TVs.
Qualcomm updates its lineup of processors for gaming handhelds, adding the G1 and G2 chips for cheaper devices and unveiling its flagship Snapdragon G3x Gen 2
the Snapdragon G1 Gen 1, G2 Gen 1, G3x Gen 2 gaming platforms and the G3x Gen 2 Handheld Reference Design. Devices powered by these platforms will be the best place to play all your games. 🕹 [video] C...
To comply with the EU DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more details on EU ad targeting, increase researcher access, and more
Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work …
Filings: FTX wants to begin selling, staking, and hedging its crypto holdings, valued at over $3B, and seeks to hire Mike Novogratz's Galaxy as an advisor
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk :
OnlyFans reports revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B in the FY to November 30, 2022, profit up 24% YoY to ~$404M, creators up 47% to 3.2M, and users spent $5.6B in 2022
- The OnlyFans business is still booming. — OnlyFans users spent $5.6 billion on the platform in 2022, up from $4.8 billion in 2021.
Telecoms plan to repair the West Africa Cable System, which runs ~16,000 km from Europe to Africa, by September, after disruptions at all South African networks
Bloomberg :
Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to end its Ethereum staking service for investors in the US on September 25, citing “current regulatory dynamics in the US”
Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt :
Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies
To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft X: @daveyalba , @cecianasta , and @ajmartinny X: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : ...
Modular, which offers a platform for developing and optimizing AI systems, raised $100M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $130M
Modular, a startup creating a platform for developing and optimizing AI systems, has raised $100 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst …
An analysis finds 37 sites using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles that first appeared in outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and Reuters, without credit
NewsGuard has identified 37 sites that use artificial intelligence to repackage articles from mainstream news sources without providing credit
Sources: Vietnamese internet company VNG aims to raise ~$150M in a US IPO and targets a debut by the end of September; VNG reported $166.3M in H1 2023 revenue
Dave Sebastian / Wall Street Journal :
Sources and docs: in 2020, China quietly revived its initiative to recruit elite foreign-trained scientists, stopped in 2018, to accelerate its tech proficiency
Uber raises the minimum age requirement for most of its new drivers in California to 25, citing rising costs of commercial auto insurance in the state
Associated Press :
Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to $674M, vs. $662M est., net loss up 2% YoY to $227M, and projects Q3 product revenue of $670M to $675M, vs. $675M est.
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
Sources: Microsoft is experimenting with bringing new AI capabilities to Windows 11 apps, like generating a canvas from text in Paint and OCR in Snipping Tool
Zac Bowden / Windows Central :
Antenna: Netflix added ~2.6M new US users in July, more than any other paid streaming service but down 26% from June 2023; ~23% signed up for Netflix's ad tier
Yahoo acquires CommonStock, launched in 2020 to let retail investors share insights based on their brokerage account information; CommonStock had raised ~$34M
The deal represents the first acquisition under the Yahoo Finance brand since Yahoo was bought by Apollo https://www.axios.com/... LinkedIn: Jim Lanzone : Cool news coming out of Yahoo Finance today. ...
Naver unveils HyperCLOVA X, a generative AI product that includes chatbot CLOVA X, available in beta, and AI search service Cue, launching in beta in September
Ju-min Park / Reuters :
Twilio unveils AI-powered tools that let clients generate suggestions about marketing strategy and use internal data to build automated contact support services
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
NCC Group observed a record 502 ransomware attacks in July, up from 198 in July 2022, and tied the Cl0p ransomware-as-a-service gang to 171 attacks in July 2023
Source: SpaceX is working with Cloudflare to increase Starlink's terrestrial network of mini data centers, which could help the service deliver faster speeds
Becky Peterson / The Information :
Spotify introduces new podcaster tools, including customized pages, new impression analytics, preview editing controls, and a dashboard for Megaphone publishers
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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