Bitcoin dropped below $50,000, its lowest level since February 2024 and down 17% since August 3, and ether dropped 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet
Cryptocurrencies tumbled amid a global market sell-off spurred by recession fears. — The price of bitcoin sank more than 14% …
Sources: OpenAI developed a watermarking method for detecting text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but its launch has been mired in internal debates
Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years
CrowdStrike says Delta CEO Ed Bastian failed to respond to an assistance offer from CEO George Kurtz; CrowdStrike hopes Delta will “agree to work cooperatively”
The allegation, in a letter Sunday from attorneys for the technology firm, builds upon CrowdStrike's claim last week …
AI chip startup Groq raised a $640M Series D led by BlackRock at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1B after raising $300M in 2021, and adds an Intel executive as COO
Cisco and Samsung invested in the $640 million deal — Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. has raised $640 million in new funding …
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working
Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …
Elon Musk revives his OpenAI lawsuit, filing a complaint in California to allege that OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman breached OpenAI's founding contract
The Tesla chief executive has renewed claims that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good.
Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft stocks led a tech stock sell-off amid US recession fears; AAPL drops 5%, NVDA drops 7%+, and MSFT drops 3%+
Apple (AAPL.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) led a sell-off in technology stocks on Monday as U.S. recession fears and Berkshire Hathaway's …
Silicon Valley's Trump supporters are making the same mistake as all powerful people who back authoritarians: they can't control him, and he won't keep promises
The financiers who support him have made the same error as all powerful people who back authoritarians — The writer is senior adviser, Sequoia Heritage
The European Commission says TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw and not replace TikTok Lite's “Task and Reward Programme” in the EU to comply with the DSA
and it never will be ⏳🧠 We have obtained the permanent withdrawal of #TikTokLite “rewards"program, which could have had very addictive consequences. The #DSA effect in full swing 🇪🇺 [image] @eu_commis...
Investor letter: Elliott Management says megacap tech stocks, particularly Nvidia, were in “bubble land”, and AI is “overhyped” and “not ready for prime time”
Hedge fund tells clients many supposed applications of the technology are ‘never going to actually work’
Sources: Samsung plans to bring some Galaxy AI features to select mid-range smartphones as well, including the Galaxy A35 and Galaxy A55 which launched in 2024
We have some exciting information to share, especially for Galaxy A phone users hoping to get their hands on some Galaxy AI action.
The UK says “there's no justification” for Elon Musk saying that “civil war is inevitable”, and calls on social media companies to moderate misinformation more
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Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised a $1B early-stage fund and a $4B late-stage fund, its largest-ever pair, after backing OpenAI in 2023
The fundraising reflects optimism over artificial intelligence despite the startup sector's broader struggles
Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1
- Insured losses estimated between $300 million and $1.5 billion — The days-long outage took a $5.4 billion toll on Fortune 500
Samsung Galaxy Watch7 review: upgraded chip and sensor, comfortable to wear, and nice circular design, but middling battery life and AI health updates are meh
Victoria Song / The Verge :
An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on laughing at the memes about him, rebranding Facebook as Meta, learning from the mobile era, Llama, his hobbies, and more
Now in his 40s, Meta's CEO says he's more comfortable in the spotlight but just as focused on breaking his company's reliance on Apple.
An analysis of AI chats in English: 21% of people use chatbots for creative writing, 18% for homework help, 17% for search, 15% for work, and 7% for coding
Washington Post :
Thoughts on new Apple Intelligence features, which do not yet live up to the excitement, Apple's design team leadership reshuffle, and Apple's Q3 earnings
Savvy Wealth, a digital wealth management service for financial advisors and clients, raised a $26.5M Series A led by Canvas, taking its total funding to $33M+
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune :
A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc
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A Google DeepMind research scientist details some LLM use cases and argues LLMs are not overhyped and should be judged on what they can do, not what they can't
I don't think that “AI” models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. — Yes, it's true that any new technology will attract the grifters. And it is definitely true that many compa...
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous vehicles and some Chinese wireless communications hardware in US cars
David Shepardson / Reuters :
Infineon reports Q3 revenue down 9.5% YoY to €3.7B, below €3.79B est., and €2.11B in automotive chip sales, down from €2.13B in Q3 2023; IFX is down 18% in 2024
Bloomberg :
An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some military-tied Chinese organizations have bought restricted chips
Music streaming has exited its high-growth era, as big streaming services pick up fewer new subscribers, causing revenue shortfalls for music labels
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
Chinese state media: a state-owned company launched its first batch of internet satellites meant to rival Starlink, as part of its plans for 15K+ LEO satellites
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters :
After failing to win concessions, ~6,500 unionized Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea, who declared an indefinite strike in July, returned to work
Jin Yu Young / New York Times :
A look at the flurry of so-called Zoom rallies supporting the campaign to elect Kamala Harris; one Zoom call reportedly attracted 190K people and raised $4M
Mynt, the parent company of Philippines-based e-wallet GCash, more than doubled its valuation to $5B after investments from Ayala and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial
Rishav Chatterjee / Reuters :
Sources: Chinese generative AI startup Moonshot raised $300M+ at a $3.3B valuation from Tencent, Alibaba, and others, after raising $1B in February 2024
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Despite a weak earnings report, corporations are still buying from Intel, which continues to dominate market share for non-AI computing workloads on servers
Wall Street Journal :
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