X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account
the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace. Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron Greenspan, private je...
Paris-based Mistral AI raised €385M from a16z, Lightspeed, and others, sources say at a ~$2B valuation, and releases its open-source La plateforme model
The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.
In a 2+ hour talk on X with Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec, and others, Elon Musk said X should avoid outright bans unless users “do something illegal”
Elon Musk and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, newly reinstated to X after a five-year ban, launched a live-streamed chat …
A look at the Effective Accelerationism movement, which argues for open sourcing AI tools, says AI's benefits far outweigh its harms, and opposes AI regulation
The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.
Sources: Apple plans to give added weighting to streams of songs mixed in Dolby Atmos from 2024, possibly leading to higher royalties, to push Spatial Audio
- Service will more heavily weigh songs offered in Dolby Atmos — Push could encourage more music labels to adopt the format
TikTok plans to invest $1.5B in a joint venture with GoTo, aiming to comply with regulations in Indonesia so that TikTok can restart its shopping service there
https://lnkd.in/g6FC2myN Fabian Moa / Fabian Moa, CFA, FRM, CTP, FMVA, AFM : The recent strategic alliance between GoTo and TikTok presents a fascinating blend of opportunities and risks for investors...
The US awards the first CHIPS Act grant to BAE Systems, giving the defense contractor $35M to quadruple production of chips used in F-15 and F-35 fighter jets
The award, which will go to BAE Systems, is part of a new government program aimed at creating a more secure supply of semiconductors.
London-based SumUp, which offers payments and other financial services to ~4M SMBs, raised €285M at a valuation higher than its $8.5B valuation in June 2022
SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe …
Microsoft partners with 60 unions representing 12.5M workers to create “an open dialogue” on AI's impact on them, and signs a ZeniMax staff contract on AI use
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with labor unions to create “an open dialogue” on how artificial intelligence will impact workers.
Vietnamese media reports that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sees Vietnam as a potential second home for the company and plans to open a design center in the country
Huang, speaking at a Hanoi semiconductor and artificial intelligence conference hosted by a Vietnam ministry Monday …
US officials: China is ramping up its ability to disrupt key US infrastructure; 2023 victims include a Hawaii water utility, a West Coast port, and a pipeline
A utility in Hawaii, a West Coast port and a pipeline are among the victims in the past year, officials say X: @matt_schrader_ , @ericgeller , @nakashimae , @rc_greenway , and @nakashimae X: Matt Schr...
TikTok reaches $10B in gross revenue, including $3.84B in 2023 so far, $3.32B in 2022, and $1.72B in 2021, the fifth mobile app and the first non-game to do so
The short video social phenomenon has added nearly $4 billion this year alone, and it's all from virtual coins used to purchase gifts for the platform's content creators.
A look at the race among chip giants to make 2nm chips, as Samsung and Intel identify the next leap in chip manufacturing as a chance to close the gap with TSMC
TSMC, Samsung and Intel battle to create ‘2 nanometre’ chips in moves that will shape the future of $500bn industry
Sources detail what happened at OpenAI before and after Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other
Sources detail Disinfo Lab: set up by an Indian intelligence officer to run a covert social media influence operation discrediting the Modi government's critics
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Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO's first significant moves
BlackBerry appoints John Giamatteo, the president of its cybersecurity business since 2021, as its CEO and no longer plans to spin off its IoT business
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London-based crypto derivatives trading platform Global Futures and Options, which plans to clear BTC index futures with LCH, raised a $30M Series B led by M&G
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Sources: starting on December 13, Biden's team plans to meet companies, labor advocates, and experts to talk global data flows to avoid internet “balkanization”
- White House undertaking review after US change in trade policy — Contentious debate underway as business groups apply pressure Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @sdonnan Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo /...
TechInsights: Huawei's Mate 60 Pro shows “significant progress” in China's domestic radio-frequency chip design and engineering, replacing US 5G tech suppliers
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New York, IBM, Micron, and others plan to invest $10B in a chip research facility at the University at Albany, set to buy ASML's advanced chip-making equipment
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ChatGPT outperforms Gemini-powered Bard overall across factual retrieval, summarization, creative writing, and coding tests, but not as clearly as in April 2023
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica :
Q&A with Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders on generative AI's role in robotics, when to expect true general-purpose robots, the humanoid form factor, and more
How Street Sense, The Salvation Army, and Samaritan are using tech to help the unhoused, as people shift to cashless payment apps and don't carry spare change
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Dealroom: Nvidia is the most active large-scale investor in AI startups in 2023, excluding accelerator funds like YC, with 35 deals, almost 6x more than in 2022
US chipmaker takes stakes in groups that are also its customers in effort to ‘lock up the market’
The US needs an AI moonshot mentality, and in 2024 the government should galvanize support for a broad investment backed by strong public sector infrastructure
Wall Street Journal : X: @wsj X: @wsj : When it comes to AI, policy makers are listening almost exclusively to industry leaders. That's a mistake, Fei-Fei Li and John Etchemendy write. https://www.ws...
A profile of, and interview with, Annie Jean-Baptiste, Google's first Director of Product Inclusion & Equity, on ensuring Google's products are more accessible
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