The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese and Russian software and hardware in internet connected vehicles in US; the software ban would begin in 2027
The Biden administration fears Beijing could collect data on American drivers or hack into cars
Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5
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The FBI arrests and charges two people in Miami over a conspiracy to steal and launder 4,100+ BTC, worth $230M+; ZachXBT says they targeted a Genesis creditor
Two suspects were arrested in Miami this week and charged with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency using crypto exchanges and mixing services.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress” and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.”
Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel
- Investment firm said to offer equity-like deal for chipmaker — Move comes as rival Qualcomm makes approach about takeover … The alternative asset manager has indicated …
Legacy carmakers struggle to keep pace as the focus shifts from engines to computing power; only Ford, GM, and BMW are in Gartner's digital performance top 10
Legacy carmakers have struggled to keep pace as the focus has turned from the engine to computing power
Telegram will provide users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities after valid legal requests, changing its terms of service to deter criminal activity
- Telegram to provide user data in response to legal requests — Durov faces charges in France for crimes committed on his app
Similarweb: daily X users in the UK fell from 8M in May 2023 to 5.6M now, with 33%+ of the fall coming after the summer riots; US DAUs fell by ~20% in that time
The great migration from Elon Musk's X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo
In an event that raised $27M, Kamala Harris vowed to help grow investments in “AI and digital assets”, her first comments on crypto as the presidential nominee
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The US and India announce plans for a new chip plant in India, producing infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon carbide chips, as Narendra Modi visits the US
- Plant to manufacture chips including infrared, gallium nitride — Narendra Modi is visiting the US for the annual Quad summit
Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots
“The path we're on isn't sustainable,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells WIRED, in reference to rampant AI scraping. Here's his plan to course-correct.
TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US
TikTok announced on Monday that its redesigned “Subscription” monetization offering is rolling out to eligible creators in select regions …
Sonos staff and report: technical debt was partly responsible for the app debacle, and Sonos lacked urgency in fixing it; sources: a reorganization caused chaos
Ignoring “tech debt,” disregarding employee warnings and cutting costs combined to create a crisis that the high-end audio company is still struggling to recover from. Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash ...
Sources: TSMC and Samsung executives have visited the UAE and are considering building UAE-funded chip factories; TSMC denies any new international expansion
Wall Street Journal :
A look at Bot Farm Corporation, a Siberia-based operation that raked in millions of dollars by deploying advanced poker-playing AI across gambling sites
Kit Chellel / Bloomberg :
A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who now oversees a new team of thousands to develop AI products for an Alexa upgrade and other businesses
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Sources: Xiaomi asked India to recall its report that found the company and Walmart's Flipkart breached competition laws, saying it contains commercial secrets
Aditya Kalra / Reuters :
Israel Innovation Authority: since October 7, Israeli tech companies have raised $9B, third behind Silicon Valley and NYC; tech is 16% of Israel's employment
Steven Scheer / Reuters :
An analysis shows that at least 26 US states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications
Ivana Saric / Axios :
Mumbai-based Qure.AI, which uses AI to help identify and manage critical diseases at 3K+ imaging sites, raised a $65M Series D led by Lightspeed and 360 ONE
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Samsung plans to invest $1.8B to build a factory in northern Vietnam to make OLED displays for cars and tech equipment; Samsung has invested $22.4B in Vietnam
Phuong Nguyen / Reuters :
A profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which has 100K+ data labeling contractors, as he looks to expand to higher-margin AI tools to sustain growth
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal : X: @natolambert , @morqon , @william_fitz , @garybasin , and @deliprao X: Nathan Lambert / @natolambert : Confirmation of one of my points of analysis for the futur...
AI copilots are evolving into AI agents designed to take actions on behalf of users, as business software companies experiment with ways to sell generative AI
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A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving force of French AI and ByteDance's newest board member, who believes Europe should pursue homegrown AI
can he do the same in Europe? Bluesky: Jan Jęcz / @jeczjan.bsky.social : “Social media algorithms should be proxies for national ideologies” is a wild take [embedded post]
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