Intel unveils its Lunar Lake laptop chips, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU, 50% faster integrated GPU, and NPU with up to 48 TOPS of AI performance
Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
Sources: E*Trade is weighing kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its site over GameStop stock manipulation concerns; GME is up 60%+ since Gill reappeared
Morgan Stanley's trading platform discusses concerns about possible manipulation in GameStop — E*Trade is considering telling …
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers
- Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say. — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
At Computex, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger takes a direct shot at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's claim that traditional CPUs like Intel's are running out of steam in AI
- Gelsinger says Jensen Huang is wrong about end of Moore's Law — Intel has struggled to keep up as chip industry evolves
Palmer Luckey unveils the $199 ModRetro Chromatic, a take on the Nintendo Game Boy, with USB-C video out and a 1,000+ nits custom screen, shipping this holiday
It's true. There's photo evidence — and today, he's revealing his own take on the ultimate cartridge-playing Nintendo Game Boy, one that you can actually buy for $199.
Samsung sues Oura, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Galaxy Ring, expected to launch in the US “in or around August”, doesn't infringe on Oura's patents
Samsung isn't waiting around for Oura to file any patent claims over its forthcoming smart ring.
Intel announces Xeon 6 data center chips for AI: the 6700 with 144 efficient and 86 performance cores, and the 6900 with 288 efficient and 128 performance cores
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Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available “soon” for $70
As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.
Sources and leaked documents detail YouTube's gaming leak culture, as some staff watch non-public videos and leak info; YouTube has investigated multiple staff
According to a report from 404 Media, which has allegedly obtained an internal Google database tracking six years of potential privacy …
Intel says an AI kit featuring its Gaudi 2 chips, unveiled in May 2022, will cost $65K, and a Gaudi 3 accelerator kit, unveiled in April 2024, will cost ~$125K
TSMC Chair C.C. Wei says the company has held talks with customers over moving its plants off Taiwan as China tensions mount but such a move would be impossible
Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW), whose major clients include Nvidia and Apple, said on Tuesday it had held talks …
Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla's chip deals, and diverted “12k of shipped H100 GPUs” for Tesla to X
Elon Musk claims he can grow Tesla into “a leader in AI & robotics,” an ambition that he's said will require a lot …
OpenAI fixes a ChatGPT issue that caused a major outage for 2.5 hours, starting at around 12:20am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23
OpenAI has fixed an issue that caused a ChatGPT outage for several hours on Tuesday. The company said it is monitoring results at 12:21 AM PDT.
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies”
Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees …
A leaked internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes Google made
Filing: Dapper Labs, maker of NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs, settles a class action lawsuit for $4M over allegations of selling unregistered securities
- Dapper Labs, the creator of the NBA Top Shot Moments NFT collection, said it had settled a class-action lawsuit which alleged the company had violated securities laws.
In a joint statement, Snowflake, CrowdStrike, and Mandiant say they have not found evidence suggesting Snowflake's platform was breached to hack Ticketmaster
CrowdStrike and Mandiant joined in a statement saying data breaches for Ticketmaster and Santander appear to be ‘targeted attacks.’
Sources: Apple was in talks in 2023 to debut Apple TV+ in China via a deal with China Mobile, which would make TV+ the only US video streaming service in China
Apple was in talks last year to launch its Apple TV+ video streaming service in China via a deal with China Mobile …
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube
users are not happy about it Kit Eaton / Inc.com : Unskippable ‘Ad Breaks’ Annoy Instagram Users Abhiman Biswas / MySmartPrice : Instagram Might Soon Show Unskippable Ads to Users as Part of Ad Breaks...
UAE AI Minister Omar Sultan Al Olama says the country is seeking a “marriage” with the US over AI, starting with the Microsoft-G42 deal, to reshape its economy
Gulf state's AI minister says recent investment deal between Microsoft and G42 is part of strategy to reshape its economy
An interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on the Ace headphones, the controversial ground-up app redesign, expanding beyond speakers, and more
CEO Patrick Spence sits down with WIRED to explain just how the company will reach beyond speakers to rule every part of your aural existence.
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games
Andrew Webster / The Verge :
English soccer team Watford is offering 10% digital equity in the club to investors and fans via Republic's investment platform Seedrs, aiming to raise £17.5M
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
MSI teases the Claw 8 AI+, its next-gen handheld powered by Intel's Lunar Lake, with an 8-inch screen, Thunderbolt 4, and a larger 80 Wh battery
and it puts ROG Ally X on notice Kimberly Gedeon / Mashable : MSI Claw 8 AI+ is a new handheld gaming PC: 3 ways it may beat Steam Deck Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : MSI Reveals Claw 8 AI Plus Ga...
Austria-based Storyblok, which offers a headless CMS, raised an $80M Series C led by Brighton Park, after a $47M Series B in May 2022, and reports 200K+ users
If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: Print and traditional media first got augmented by websites …
After nine months with Starlink, the Marubo, an Indigenous Amazon tribe, faces challenges like addiction and concerns about potential loss of cultural identity
it turns out, many of the same challenges that have racked Americans for years (teens glued to phones, gossip-filled group chats ...).https://www.nytimes.com/ ... Phillip Crenshaw / @pcmugwort1 : @Jon...
Coinbase donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake Super PAC; Fairshake raised ~$161M for the 2024 US election, including $25M each from a16z and Ripple
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk :
Qualcomm claims Snapdragon chips will come to “all PC form factors” including desktops, and Snapdragon X Elite has 2.6x the performance per watt over Apple's M3
The PC industry is experiencing an inflection point, driven … Bloomberg : Qualcomm Says Laptop Users Will Leave Power Bricks Behind X: Ryan Shrout / @ryanshrout : Interesting note with the PC launches...
ByteDance hires a new global general counsel, John Rogovin, who spent 12 years as Warner Bros.' top lawyer and worked in the US FCC and DOJ
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :
Analysis: China's internet had 3.9M websites in 2023, down ~27% from 2017; Chinese-language websites are 1.3% of the global total, down 70% from 4.3% in 2013
and collective online memory — is disappearing in chunks. I searched Jack Ma, Xi Jinping in earlier years and the Great Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and found, basically, nothing. https://www.nytimes.co...
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebrities like CNN and Paris Hilton, are getting hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM
The compromised accounts include CNN and Paris Hilton — and all users have to do to be hacked is open a DM. X: @ebakerwhite See also Mediagazer X: Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite : Update: we've lear...
AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $130M at a $3B valuation, up from $2B in November 2021, taking its total funding to $340M
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
A look at the “world's first beauty pageant for AI creators”, launched in April 2024 by creator platform Fanvue, after 10 semifinalists were announced on June 3
Marah Eakin / Wired :
How China's chip industry is aiming for self-sufficiency and cutting down on US tools; SEMI estimates China represented 33% of all chip equipment sales in 2023
Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal :
ASML opens a test laboratory for its High NA EUV machine with Belgium's Imec in the Netherlands, and expects customers to start manufacturing in 2025 to 2026
Toby Sterling / Reuters :
Amazon details Project PI, which is active in several warehouses and uses computer vision to detect if products are damaged or don't meet buyers' criteria
to address issues at the root before a product reaches the customer. https://www.amazon.science/... [image] LinkedIn: Dharmesh Mehta : Every day, millions of products pass through Amazon's fulfillment...
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more
Shutterstock CEO Paul Hennessy says the company's licensing business with AI companies made $104M in revenue in 2023
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
How new forms of neurotechnology, which uses computerized implants to interact with the brain and nervous system, are helping disabled people walk and more
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Sources: LoanSnap, an AI mortgage startup that raised ~$100M, has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo, and state and federal agencies
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