Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple ~€500M in March for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify
Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; some in-store demo conversion rates are 10% to 15%
The Apple Vision Pro has now been available for two weeks — and some of Apple's most dedicated customers are returning the device to get back their $3,500.
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act to build a new fab in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant, plus $1.6B in loans
The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.
Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X
The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …
SPEC invalidates 2,600 benchmark results for some Intel Xeon CPUs, saying their compiler artificially inflated the results of its benchmark by as much as 9%
Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation.
FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting “offensive weapons” into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a “fever pitch”
Christopher Wray says Beijing's hacking operations had reached a ‘fever pitch’
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, which is undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities
In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @thesafestspace , @pitdesi , @producercities , @ws...
Hands-on with Khan Academy's ChatGPT-powered AI tutoring bot Khanmigo, which frequently makes basic arithmetic errors, as Khan Academy works to improve accuracy
Khanmigo, a ChatGPT-powered bot, made frequent calculation errors during a Journal reporter's test X: @natarajsindam , @carnage4life , and @matt_barnum X: @natarajsindam : This is not fully true. LLMs...
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content
including here—is now just an unpaid day laborer on someone else's LLM training farm. The only difference is that some companies make it more obvious than others. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mastod...
A Florida court filing accuses the Bahamas-based Deltec Bank of giving Alameda Research a short-term line of credit worth billions of dollars to buy Tether
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How the expansion of facial recognition tech at US airports is transforming the way travelers move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane
Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them …
A look at the data center economy of Ireland, which had 82 data centers in 2023, amid concerns about rolling blackouts due to pressure on the electrical grid
https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @jbond@mastodon.social : > It's suggested that if all the datacentres currently proposed in Ireland are built, they could be using up to 70% of the country's electrici...
Sources: the UK, the US, and other allies are working to provide Ukraine with thousands of new AI-enabled drones that could swarm Russian targets simultaneously
Sources: UK chip designer Graphcore explores a sale to foreign owners in a deal that could be worth $500M+; rumored buyers include OpenAI, SoftBank, and Arm
Report Andrew Davis / Bloomberg : UK's Graphcore Mulls Sale to Foreign Buyer, Telegraph Says Nausheen Thusoo / CoinGape : AI Pioneer Graphcore Mulls a Potential Foreign Sale After Struggling to be Pro...
A look at the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine's tech center Kharkiv; of the 511 tech companies in the city before February 2022, 500 are still operating
Ukraine's entrepreneurs and engineers show how to keep going during extreme disruption — Andriy Dekhtyar was in the closing stages … X: @alecurussell X: Alec Russell / @alecurussell : “Our lesson is...
Amsterdam-based Monumental, which is developing AI-powered bricklaying robots, emerges from stealth and raised $25M co-led by Plural and Hummingbird
and fill the huge shortage of laborers Siôn Geschwindt / TNW : Dutch startup secures $25M to bring autonomous bricklaying robots to Europe FinSMEs : Monumental Raises $25M in Funding Vignesh R. / Sili...
An interview with Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, co-founders of conversational AI startup Sierra, on using several AI models at once, building AI agents, and more
basically the AI version of that company—will be just as important as their website,” says Taylor. “It's going to completely change the way companies exist digitally.” - Wired https://www.wired.com/.....
Q&A with Irene Solaiman, the head of global policy at Hugging Face, on her advice for women seeking to enter AI, the best way to responsibly build AI, and more
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight … X: @mmitchell_ai X: @mmitchell_ai : Spotlight on my amazing coworker and friend, @IreneSolaima...
Sources: Saudi Arabia is mandating that Alibaba, SenseTime, and other Chinese tech companies invest in the kingdom and share expertise to secure huge deals
Alibaba and SenseTime secure huge joint ventures in Gulf Kingdom but agreements come with stringent requirements X: @ahmed and @paragkhanna X: Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed : This is not specific to Chinese...
How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023
A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams
Richard Nieva / Forbes : X: @alexvoica , @alexrkonrad , @richardjnieva , and @hkanji X: Alexandru Voica / @alexvoica : Working with Nvidia's world-class research team and having NVentures as an inves...
Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more
Q&A with Laela Sturdy, the head of Alphabet's growth stage venture arm CapitalG, about its decision-making process, AI strategy, Stripe's valuation, and more
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