Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
Humane tells Ai Pin owners that they should “immediately” stop using the charging case, citing issues with the battery cell that “may pose a fire safety risk”
charging case ‘poses a fire risk’ Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Humane warns AI Pin owners of potential fire hazard Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : Humane Ai Pin owners warned to stop using charging case ove...
Nvidia hit a $3T+ market cap on June 5, rising over 5% and passing Apple at $2.99T as the second most valuable public US company, behind Microsoft at $3.15T
Nvidia passed Apple in market cap on Wednesday as investors continue betting on the chipmaker behind the artificial intelligence boom.
Google plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account from December 1, after announcing the change in December 2023
Google Maps is changing the way it handles your location data. Instead of backing up your data to the cloud, Google will soon store it locally on your device.
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances
The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why? It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
Source and documents: the US FTC sent civil subpoenas to Microsoft and Inflection AI seeking information about how and why they negotiated their partnership
Commission has sent subpoenas to tech giant and startup, asking whether their partnership evaded required government review
Sources: as the Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10K orders by early April, Humane started talking to HP about selling itself for $1B+; Humane has raised $240M
Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence …
How Suicide Squad became the biggest video game flop of 2024 so far, including a tumultuous development and delayed release; WBD took a $200M loss on the game
After seven years of tumultuous development, Warner Bros. took a $200 million loss on the Rocksteady game
The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to reach out after getting 7,000+ decryption keys to recover data for free; police seized 2,500+ keys in February 2024
The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained …
US DOJ Assistant AG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter says he is examining “monopoly choke points and the competitive landscape” in AI, cloud, data, GPUs, and more
The top antitrust enforcer will look “with urgency” at the #AI sector, following concerns that power over the transformative #tech is being concentrated among a few deep-pocketed players. … X: Cori Cr...
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand
Move comes a month after SEC notice of a potential lawsuit over the brokerage's crypto offerings
In a UK compliance statement, Apple revealed that the iPhone 15 Pro Max will receive security updates for a minimum of five years from its September 2023 launch
Apple will support the latest iPhones for at least five years, less than the seven years guaranteed by Samsung and Google. — •
Sources detail how Apple fell behind in the AI race: its AI team failing to collaborate with product teams, a lack of access to computing resources, and more
For those who saw them, the demonstrations inside Apple increase earlier this decade of a revamped Siri offered a showcase …
Carl Pei says smartphones will be the main AI form factor of the future, but the UX needs to be redefined, and Phone (3) will be Nothing's first true AI phone
Nothing CEO Carl Pei just published a video in which he makes two big claims: that smartphones are in fact the AI gadget of the future …
eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of “unacceptably high fees”, starting on August 17
- Online marketplace calls Amex fees ‘unacceptably high’ — Change to take effect Aug. 17; Amex defends its fees
TSMC's Taiwan-listed shares hit a new record high after its US-listed stock closed up 5%+ on June 5, following major TSMC customer Nvidia's shares rallying
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal :
Core Scientific rejects CoreWeave's $5.75-per-share buyout offer from June 4, worth $1B+, saying the deal significantly undervalues the company
The board of Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's offer to buy the miner for $5.75 per share. — Core Scientific (CORZ) …
Several London hospitals face major disruptions after a June 3 ransomware attack on Synnovis, which provides blood transfusion and other services to the NHS
According to Metro, the incident has impacted transplant surgeries and blood transfusion centers. — https://metro.co.uk/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : You're going to see some...
ASML's stock jumped 8.1% on June 5 to reach a ~€377B market cap, passing fashion conglomerate LVMH for the first time; only Novo Nordisk is worth more in Europe
Bloomberg :
A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics
ASML makes some of the most advanced chip-making machines. It must balance Western demands to curb China's access while keeping a foothold in a key market.
Google rolls out its Gemini-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM to 200+ new countries, including Brazil and the UK, and adds Slides and web URLs as sources
Google on Thursday said it is rolling out NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking assistant, to over 200 new countries …
Mistral introduces AI model customization options, including an SDK for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers, and small data center nodes
French AI startup Mistral is introducing new AI model customization options, including paid plans, to let developers and enterprises fine-tune …
Discord adds new monetization features for developers and plans to halve the 30% platform fee for the first $1M in cumulative gross sales, from June 6
Discord is introducing new tools and monetization features that aim to make it easier for app developers to make money by selling premium perks via storefronts on the platform.
The Greater Memphis Chamber says xAI plans to develop a new facility in Memphis to house a supercomputer and could receive tax breaks and other incentives
xAI — is building an AI supercomputer at the former Electrolux site in Memphis. https://dailymemphian.com/... By @samhardiman Steve Cohen / @repcohen : Like I always say, Memphis has a ton of momentum...
Duolingo deletes LGBTQ+ references in Russia after being warned by the country's communications regulator that the content is classed as “extremism”
Google acquires software virtualization company Cameyo to deeply integrate virtualized Windows app support into ChromeOS, after a partnership in April 2023
Paxos International, a UAE-based affiliate of Paxos, launches Lift Dollar, or USDL, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar that will pay a ~5% yield to holders
YouTube plans to restrict some content pertaining to the real use of guns from viewers under 18 starting on June 18, a year after a watchdog group report
Ikea plans to hire 10 people to run its virtual Roblox store, including to help pick out furniture and serve meatballs in the Bistro, and will pay £13.50/hour
They hope the virtual store encourages kids to want to work at Ikea — https://www.thegamer.com/... X: @yevp : ... amazing?!
Coinbase-backed advocacy group Stand with Crypto passes 1M members after targeting voters in swing states, including ~24K members in Georgia and 16K+ in Arizona
especially in battleground states — want to get elected, they'll need to listen.”... [image]
Investigation: 22M+ flight coordinates show how the US' first police drone program, in Chula Vista, California, impacts residents and raises privacy concerns
In Chula Vista—based on analysis of more than 22.3 million coordinates from flight paths—police drones subject poorer residents to more surveillance and the drones are used to respond to minor potenti...
Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model that generates up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A look at Eric Schmidt's White Stork, which sources say is poaching employees from Apple, SpaceX, Google, and more to build AI-enabled military drones
With a widening roster of high profile talent poached from Apple, SpaceX and Google, the former Google CEO is piloting his drones in Menlo Park and Ukraine.
Amazon's robotaxi unit Zoox plans to start testing its autonomous vehicles this summer in Austin and Miami, the company's fourth and fifth public testing cities
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Sources: ByteDance has been renting Nvidia's GPUs from Oracle to bypass US sanctions; China Telecom and other Chinese companies are using the same loophole
The U.S. government forbids Nvidia from selling some of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips to customers in China. X: @amir X: Amir Efrati / @amir : America: you can't buy our Nvidia chips...
Slack launches Slack Lists, a new feature for paid users to integrate project and task management into the app, including helping to structure conversations
and save you stress and money while you're at it Matthew Finnegan / Computerworld : Slack's new ‘lists’ help track and manage work projects
Amazon acquires key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player; a source says the deal values the streamer at <$100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Brazil-based Kanastra, which supplies back-office technology for asset-backed securities funds, raised a $21M Series A led by Kaszek, following a $13M seed
Daniel Cancel / Bloomberg :
A look back at Sam Altman's career, starting as Loopt CEO before moving to YC and founding OpenAI in 2015, as many former allies now view his charm as duplicity
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg :
Tektonic AI, which wants to build generative AI agents for automating business operations, raised a $10M seed led by Point72 Ventures and Madrona Ventures
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
An analysis finds 90K+ images of popular anime characters on generative AI image sharing sites; ~2.5K images had multiple similarities to the original artwork
Nikkei Asia :
Wix unveils an AI-powered app builder that creates iOS and Android apps from descriptions provided by users in a chat, coming to its $99/month Branded App plan
Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on lessons from IBM, working with TSMC, the AMD turnaround, AI, competing with Nvidia, the gaming and PC markets, Zen chips, and more
Ben Thompson / Stratechery :
A look at Gurbaksh Chahal's now-shuttered site BNN Breaking, which former staff say was mostly an AI content farm; Microsoft licensed BNN content for MSN.com
New York Times : Bluesky: @aaron.bsky.team . X: @kashhill and @structstories See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Aaron Rodericks / @aaron.bsky.team : I cannot begin to describe the headaches we used to have...
Crypto miners are trying to ride the AI boom by converting data centers to rent out to AI companies or by selling computing power directly to AI clients
David Pan / Bloomberg :
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