The US, the UK, and more than a dozen other countries release joint guidelines for AI system development, including creating systems that are “secure by design”
The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described …
ByteDance plans to “restructure” its gaming business; sources say ByteDance will wind down its Nuverse gaming brand and retreat from mainstream video games
TikTok maker ByteDance is set to internally announce on Monday the winding down of its Nuverse gaming brand and full retreat …
AWS announces the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a $195 compact computer, adapted from the Fire TV Cube, to let workers access cloud-based virtual desktops
Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a compact computer that workers can use to access cloud-based virtual desktops.
WSJ created Instagram accounts following only young gymnasts and influencers and found salacious Reels, like risqué footage of kids, shown next to big brand ads
Content served to WSJ test accounts included risqué footage of kids, overtly sexual adult videos and ads from major brands
An interview with Binance CEO Richard Teng on helping the exchange become a conventional financial company, previous “missteps”, his background, and more
Richard Teng sits in an oak-colored conference room wearing a blue suit that, with his neatly-cropped salt-and-pepper …
Amazon data and sources: Amazon shipped 5.2B US packages in 2022, more than UPS, after passing FedEx in 2020; Amazon delivered 4.8B items ahead of Thanksgiving
Amazon is eclipsing both carriers, and the gap is growing — Amazon.com has grabbed the crown of biggest delivery business in the U.S. …
As Elon Musk visits Israel, an official says Musk “reach[ed] a principle understanding” that Starlink “can only be operated in Israel” with government approval
Entrepreneur meets country's leaders amid furore over alleged antisemitism on his social platform X
A profile of Jensen Huang, the Taiwan-born, US-educated Nvidia founder, who started the company in 1993, and a look at Nvidia's rise, built on GPUs and CUDA
The company's C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip. Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?
Salesforce plans to sell most of its big apps on AWS' marketplace, letting customers use credits, after years of Amazon nudging customers to use the marketplace
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Experts say Tron has overtaken bitcoin as the go-to funding method for Israel-designated terror groups; Israel froze 143 Tron wallets between 2021 and 2023
A new front has emerged in Israel's fight against the funding of Iran-backed militant groups from Hamas to Hezbollah: A fast-growing crypto network called Tron.
Sources: ByteDance plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and discontinue all but a few games that have yet to launch, backing away from its aggressive investments since 2016
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Russia's interior ministry adds Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone to its wanted list, according to state-owned news agency TASS
After an Amazon worker in Indiana died, the state fined Amazon just $7,000, the maximum allowed, highlighting states' limited ability to enforce safety policies
“The state not only caps fines for serious violations at $7,000 but bars families from suing for wrongful death in civil court — even in cases like Gruesbeck's where state officials said the company s...
Huawei plans to move its smart car unit's core tech and resources into a new joint venture with Changan Auto, which is taking a 40% stake in the company
Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally
A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000
An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, ahead of re:Invent, on the multifaceted impact of generative AI, the role of AI chips, the OpenAI fiasco, and more
As the rush to generative artificial intelligence only gains more momentum every day, Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Adam Selipsky …
As safety demands strip Llama 2, ChatGPT, and others of anything remotely controversial, some programmers are building uncensored LLMs without safety guardrails
A look at Replicator, a Pentagon initiative expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is reliable enough to deploy, including on weaponized systems
Chinese smartphone maker Realme shipped 200M+ phones in total, most of them outside China, since its 2018 founding; just 14 companies have reached the milestone
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Sources: US officials issued warnings over Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42's work with Chinese companies, including Huawei; the CIA profiled G42 CEO Peng Xiao
American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats.
A look at the growing usage of social media apps like Douyin among the elderly in China since the COVID-19 lockdowns, often to find companionship
Lavender Au / Wired : LinkedIn: Yongjian L. and Ethan Tan LinkedIn: Yongjian L. : Wired magazine just released an article discussing the usage of Douyin/TikTok by elderly individuals in China. It fe...
A look at Newlands, a secretive tech fund backed by Jan Koum and led by former Sequoia partner Michael Abramson that holds nearly $10B in public equities
Led by former Sequoia partner Michael Abramson, two-year-old Newlands already holds billions in equities like Alphabet … X: @alexrkonrad and @workmj X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : A secretive firm ca...
After the failed OpenAI coup, AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent
Alibaba shutters its quantum computing research lab, donating the equipment to Zhejiang University, a sign of broader cutbacks, after revamping its cloud unit
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London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI for engineering simulations in automotive, aerospace, and other industries, raised a $32M Series A led by General Catalyst
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A look at Shein's NYC pop-up store, which resembled its website and may have only reinforced Shein's image of being quick, cheap, and not quite as it seems
I wrote about the illusion and secrecy of ultra fast shopping for @verge. https://www.theverge.com/...
Amazon insiders and others describe a culture of hubris that led the company to over-promise and under-deliver in health care, undermining its lofty goals
Bloomberg : X: @tjparker and @mattmday X: TJ Parker / @tjparker : Analysts, pundits: “this thing sucks, it's undifferentiated, blah blah” Customer: “they nailed it” About sums it up. https://www.bloo...
Q&A with Slack CTO Cal Henderson on how the pandemic changed Slack and workplace habits, Salesforce's acquisition, generative AI, the Indian market, and more
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