Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane
Self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed Winston Churchill ‘was the villain of Second World War’ and that millions …
Intel should spin off its foundry business, and the US government should subsidize cutting-edge chipmaking in the US via purchase guarantees for US-made chips
The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government …
A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even before the ban; Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media with 40M+ users, while X had an estimated 22M users
The platform formerly known as Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media, fueling nationwide protests in 2013 and propelling Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Forums: Hacker News , r/Twitter , and...
Researchers detail a side channel attack, which requires ~$11K worth of equipment and can be used to clone all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7
Sophisticated attack breaks security assurances of the most popular FIDO key. — The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token …
Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1B from a16z, Sequoia, DST, and others, sources say at a $5B valuation
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash …
Ubisoft's stock fell 10%+ to an almost 10-year low in the past two days, giving it a market cap of €1.99B, following the lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws
Ubisoft stock prices have tanked by over 10% in the past two days following a lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws.
SpaceX says it's complying with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order to block Starlink access to X in Brazil, after the country froze some of its assets
Lula just introduced him to hammerhead sharks. — Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/... Bluesky: Clemens Vasters / @clem...
Sources: Intel's contract manufacturing business has suffered a setback after tests with chipmaker Broadcom using Intel's advanced 18A chipmaking process failed
Intel's (INTC.O) contract manufacturing business has suffered a setback after tests with chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) failed …
Qualcomm announces its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will ship in new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 laptops, available for $899 each
Today, the company's announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that'll retail for $899 each.
Sources: the US DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and others, seeking evidence that Nvidia violated antitrust laws by making it harder to switch suppliers and more
- Department also sent subpoenas to third parties in case — Nvidia has built a dominant position in AI computing
Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The independent board said the phrase has ‘multiple meanings’ and is important to political speech on Instagram and Facebook.
In July 29 comments to the UK CMA, Microsoft says Apple's App Review Guidelines changes aren't enough for it to operate a native Xbox Cloud Gaming app for iOS
Earlier this year Apple started opening up its App Store to game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now …
Elon Musk's attacks on Kamala Harris, including AI-generated images that lack scrutiny from Community Notes, show how he has turned X into a pro-Trump machine
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Spotify expands daylist, a free personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on listening habits, globally and adds support for 14 languages
Spotify is launching daylist globally. It's a personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on your listening habits.
Sources: a16z shut its Miami office in May 2024 because staff weren't using it enough; VC funding to Miami-based startups has flagged since 2022's crypto rout
When Andreessen Horowitz opened an outpost in Miami Beach, the $43 billion venture capital giant bolstered the region's ambitions of becoming a tropical tech mecca.
Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price
Anthropic is launching a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, catered towards enterprise customers that want more administrative controls and increased security.
Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 chips will support Copilot+ AI features from November 2024, expanding from Qualcomm exclusivity
A software update will bring features like Live Captions, Cocreator in Paint and Windows Studio Effects.
The Biden administration's big bet on Intel to lead a US chipmaking revival is in trouble as Intel struggles to hit milestones to get CHIPS Act grants and loans
with no guarantee of when, or if, that money will be disbursed 🧵& free link: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Pranav S. / @pranavenstein : Why, Bloomberg, why? This is a <2x increase in debt over 5 years...
A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's ARM Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not run
Qualcomm-Arm processor chips have compatibility problems with ‘Fortnite’ and other titles — The latest Windows personal computers …
Microsoft announces a Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2 event on September 16 at 8:00 AM PT, where it is expected to announce a Copilot rebrand and new features
Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.”
Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refunds for its FPS game Concord, which launched as a $40 PS5 and PC title on August 23 after years of development
8yrs in game development. 2 weeks of availability. Priced at $40, this AAA title made only $30,000 on PC sales & never reached 700 users online. — And with that, Sony Playstation is refunding the ...
The UK CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of Inflection's team doesn't cause competition concerns, and won't pursue an investigation, but calls the deal a merger
Good news for Microsoft: The U.K.'s antitrust regulator says that the tech titan's high-profile acquihire of the team behind AI startup Inflection …
The Atlantic Council researchers detail how spyware vendors are skirting restrictions by renaming, starting new companies, or by changing legal jurisdictions
International efforts to rein in online surveillance tools are being systematically skirted, researchers say.
Letter: Evan Spiegel tries to rally Snap's employees amid a ~45% YTD stock drop and says Snap plans to test two new ad formats in the chat inbox and on Snap Map
- Snap's stock is down almost 50% on ad business struggles — Social media app will begin testing new advertising formats
X launches a new TV app “on several app stores” in beta, as part of an effort to court advertisers, creators, and partners around a “video-first platform”
Years ago, Twitter tried but eventually walked away from building TV apps after getting a lukewarm reception.
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI models for Japanese speakers, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux, with Nvidia participating
(Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. has joined a $100 million-plus funding round for Tokyo startup Sakana AI, one of the larger investments …
Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, is a DeFi lending service with four members who worked on Dough Finance, a similar app hacked in July
The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up the weak security of the Border Gateway Protocol, which has long been vulnerable to route hijacking
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People who got access to OpenAI's SearchGPT say it struggles with some shopping and local queries, and sometimes presents untrue or hallucinated information
OpenAI's search tool shows promise but lacks Google's specialized functions and can suffer from hallucinations. Bluesky: @adnan.social Bluesky: Adnan / @adnan.social : I am impressed how well Arc Sear...
Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in market value, the biggest single-day drop for a US company, as investors soften their optimism about AI
more pain may be in store Financial Express : Nvidia takes major hit: Loses $279 billion in market value as shares drop 9.5 per cent The Economic Times : Nvidia sheds $279 billion in market cap: reaso...
Blackstone agrees to acquire Australian data center operator AirTrunk in a deal valuing the company at around $16.1B
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Filing: Lyft plans to sell some of its bike and scooter business and cut 1% of staff as it struggles to turn profitable; Lyft ended 2023 with nearly 3,000 staff
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Ireland's DPC ends court proceedings against X after it agreed to limit its use of personal data collected from EU users to train its AI on a permanent basis
Ride-hailing company GoTo plans to close its Gojek brand in Vietnam, to focus on reaching profitability in its main operations in Indonesia and Singapore
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg :
Alibaba will let shoppers check out via Tencent's WeChat Pay on its Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms, as Chinese government crackdown on Alibaba ends
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Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs have been meeting with investors to advance a deal to spend tens of billions to build infrastructure for AI in the US
starting with 10s of billions of $$ in spending in the US, sources tell @shiringhaffary and @mackhawk https://www.bloomberg.com/... Forums: r/singularity : Altman Infrastructure Plan Aims to Spend Ten...
You.com, an AI-powered search engine, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $99M, and launches “multiplayer AI” features for team collaboration
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Financial analysis: Reed O'Connor, a Texas federal judge overseeing X v. Media Matters, has at least three potential connections with Elon Musk-related entities
and a system that barely seems to notice, let alone care. https://www.lawdork.com/...
Robinhood launches a new feature in the UK to let retail investors lend stocks they own to interested borrowers, in a bid to grow its international footprint
@Techmeme https://techhub.social/...
Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans and was co-founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, launches in London, its first city outside Sweden
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Cortex, which sells an internal development portal for teams making software, raised $60M from Sequoia, Stripe's co-founders, and others, at a $470M valuation
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
Palo Alto Networks says it closed a $500M deal to buy IBM's QRadar cloud security software assets, and plans to migrate customers to Palo Alto's Cortex XSIAM
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg :
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