A live blog of the US et al v. Google trial, which starts today, as the DOJ prepares to argue the company illegally protected its internet search monopoly
Here is the latest on the Google antitrust trial. Opening statements are underway in a major antitrust case against Google …
Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging support
Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4 — Intel has revealed its newest iteration of the Thunderbolt technology.
TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a home screen Shop button that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K+ sellers
The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app's users in the U.S., hoping to add a major new revenue stream.
Sources: in a first, Apple plans to make the India-built iPhone 15 available in the country and some other regions on the global sales debut day
- Devices from India to debut at same time as China-made ones — IPhone 15 marks a milestone for India's electronics ambitions
MGM Resorts says a “cybersecurity issue” that began on September 10 is “affecting some of the company's systems” at casino and hotel properties across the US
A “cybersecurity issue” led to the shutdown of some casino and hotel computer systems …
Investor video: Arm CEO Rene Haas outlines a pivot toward complex design work on specific products, a “purpose-built approach” to address the needs of clients
- SoftBank-owned chip designer has shifted its strategy — Arm stock offering is set to get underway later this week
Amazon announces a service that lets its 2M merchants deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses, rolling out broadly later in 2023
- Service brings inventory to stores instead of shoppers' homes … Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service …
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on 25 years of Google, competition in AI, ChatGPT in Bing, DeepMind and Google Brain, AI chips, staff's bureaucracy complaints, and more
The tech giant is 25 years old. In a chatbot war. On trial for antitrust. But its CEO says Google is good for 25 more.
How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support
In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. Mastodon: @bennett@veganism.social . Forums: r/technology Mastodon: Bennett McIntosh / @ben...
Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that prioritizes matching female and nonbinary drivers and riders, falling back to men when no other people are nearby
The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers. — Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing …
The Internet Archive appeals a US judge's decision in March 2023 favoring publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit's ebook lending program
As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving …
A look at the challenges facing Arm, expected to start trading on September 14 at a $52B valuation, including a huge array of clients and geopolitical tensions
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MLCommons' MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles: Nvidia's H100s perform best, followed by Intel's Gaudi2 at ~10% slower
An artificial intelligence benchmark group called MLCommons unveiled the results on Monday of new tests that determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware can run AI models.
A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies
Thierry Breton is a proponent of more regulation — and rules that boost EU companies. … The 68-year-old Frenchman was suppressing a smile …
An in-depth look at how Google's Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language
Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM. X: @madhumita29 , @benatipsos , ...
Tests show Threads' new search function blocks words like “sex”, “gore”, and “vaccines”; Meta admits “covid” is a blocked term but declines to disclose others
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Bluesky: Jessica Harvey / @jessiscah23.bsky.social : never seen a social media platform try so hard not to be fun [embedded post] @chathamharrison.bsky.social : Fro...
The White House says eight more tech companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability AI, signed its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total
15 companies, ranging from Photoshop creator Adobe to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, have now taken the voluntary commitments
Filing: FTX's estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $2.6B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and ~$200M in 38 properties in the Bahamas
Bio: before buying Twitter, Elon Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed money, Musk would buy Dorsey's stock at the $54.20/share takeover price
Jack Dorsey had second thoughts about supporting Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, so Musk made Dorsey a secret offer he couldn't refuse … Mastodon: @Jonathanglick@mstdn.social Mastodon: Jonathan Glick...
As some supposedly “leaked” Harry Styles songs are being sold on Discord, fans and AI-analysis companies struggle to determine if the clips are AI-generated
Dozens of unreleased Harry Styles songs have leaked on underground Discords in the last month. The fandom can't decide if they're real or AI-generated. Mastodon: @Morisy@glammr.us , @jasonkoebler@mas...
An investigation finds that Barstool Sports apparently controls 40+ “burner” X accounts to launder viral copyright-protected videos for its legitimate accounts
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast :
Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $12.45B, cloud services and license support revenue up 13% YoY to $9.55B, and net income up 56% YoY; ORCL drops 10%+
Akash Sriram / Reuters :
Sources describe Apollo's Yahoo turnaround efforts, including layoffs, asset sales, and new partnerships; Yahoo is on pace to generate $7B in 2023 gross revenue
When speaking about the company he inherited in September 2021, Jim Lanzone is remarkably blunt.
Salesforce announces Einstein Copilot, an AI chatbot for its apps, launching via a pilot this fall, and its Einstein 1 Platform for leveraging enterprise data
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
The US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won an art competition, despite Adobe Photoshop alterations and 624+ text prompt revisions
thus nothing could be granted to him. [image] @glynntarrant : It's good to see Jason is still struggling with trying to copyright this AI generated image. Also, since he was and still is unwilling to ...
Nvidia claims TensorRT-LLM will double the H100's performance for running inference on leading LLMs when the open-source library arrives in NeMo in October
Dylan Martin / CRN :
Guardio Labs details a campaign that uses fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts
Botnet of Facebook Users Launch High-Intent Messenger Phishing Attack on Business Accounts Anthony Spadafora / Tom's Guide : Hackers are using Facebook Messenger to spread password-stealing malware — ...
UK digital bank Monzo launches Investments, letting users invest as little as £1 in some BlackRock-managed funds, its first foray into the investment market
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
GlobalFoundries opens a $4B chip fabrication plant in Singapore, aiming to produce 450K 300mm wafers per year; Singapore makes 11% of the world's semiconductors
Fanny Potkin / Reuters :
Intel plans to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication at a $4.3B valuation to TSMC in Q4 2023 while retaining majority ownership of the standalone subsidiary
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Sources: Inditex races to fix bugs in Zara's new anti-shoplifting system, which swaps plastic tags for RFID chips; some staff worry about theft becoming easier
Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg :
Enfabrica, which sells “hub and spoke” networking chips to scale Nvidia GPU-based AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Atreides Management
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
California's Senate passes a bill requiring a human safety operator in self-driving trucks on public roads; the bill now needs Governor Gavin Newsom's signature
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Lime says its gross bookings grew 45% YoY to $250M in H1 2023 and its adjusted EBITDA reached $27M, or ~$20.6M unadjusted, as CEO Wayne Ting hints at an IPO
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
A survey of 2,203 US adults: 53% say AI misinformation will impact who wins the 2024 election, 35% say AI will decrease their trust in election ads, and more
Ryan Heath / Axios :
Visa's credit card disputes hit 90M+ in 2022, up 24% in 2020 and ~2% in both 2021 and 2022, widely attributed to the online shopping shift since the pandemic
Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg : Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Credit Card Disputes Keep Rising at Visa as E-Commerce Booms
Survey: 22% of US workers worry that tech will replace their job, up from 15% in 2021, 17% in 2019, and 13% in 2017, a jump driven by college-educated workers
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