Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+
- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.
Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027”
1,028,294 viewsStreamed live 6 hours ago — Lady: “I want two drinks” … Gabe Lerman / Pivot to AI : Elon's double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trust us, bro. Ryan Brow...
Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store
Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox mobile app on Android to allow US users to purchase and then play Xbox games on their mobile devices next month.
AMD launches its Instinct MI325X GPU to compete with Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell chips and says production will start in 2024, but doesn't disclose its pricing
AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia's data center graphics processors, known as GPUs.
Steam now tells its users that they're buying a license, not a game, ahead of a California law that forces companies to do so when customers “buy” digital media
The company appears to be getting ahead of a California law going into force next year.
A look at Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump campaign contacted X to prevent the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier
Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.
ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 in trust and safety; sources: 700+ were laid off
KUALA LUMPUR — ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, confirmed on Friday that it will be laying off hundreds …
A review of Submerged, Apple's first scripted short film shot in Immersive Video for the Vision Pro: technologically impressive, but an isolating experience
this could change the way we watch movies Tess Ryan / MakeUseOf : Will a 15-Minute Film Make You Buy an Apple Vision Pro? The Company Thinks So Neil Cybart / Above Avalon : Apple Releases First Script...
Faulty court filing redactions show TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for teenagers despite internal research validating concerns
For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers.
AMD debuts its 5th Gen Epyc data center chips, codenamed Turin, with up to 192 cores, clock speeds up to 5GHz, and double-digit gains in instructions per clock
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Report: 47% of traditional hedge funds have crypto investments, up from 29% in 2023; amongst the funds that invested in crypto, 33% plan to invest more in 2024
- That's up from 29% last year, per new AIMA and PwC report — Many traditional hedge funds are active in crypto derivatives
Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the last week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking
In letters to AT&T, Verizon and Lumen, lawmakers ask about proposed measures the companies will take to protect U.S. wiretap systems X: @dnvolz and @dnvolz . LinkedIn: Dustin Volz X: Dustin Volz / @dn...
A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the last 12 months, up 81.4% YoY
Humans have automated tasks for centuries. Now, AI companies see a path to profit in harnessing our love of efficiency, and they've got a name for their solution: agents. Threads: @kylie.robison . Ma...
Apple opens an applied research laboratory in Shenzhen; Chinese state media says it will become the company's “most extensive” lab outside the US
The new facility in the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong tech cooperation zone is one of several Apple research centres in China
Uniswap Labs unveils Unichain, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built on Optimism tech, to enable faster, cheaper transactions and better liquidity across chains
Uniswap will launch an Ethereum layer-2 network called Unichain in an effort to cut fees, boost liquidity, and more.
The UK appoints Darktrace co-founder Poppy Gustafsson, who left last month before Thoma Bravo's £4.3B takeover of the cybersecurity firm, as investment minister
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Stripe reintegrates crypto payments in the US, letting users pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, after disabling the feature in 2018
Accept stablecoin payments that settle as fiat in your Stripe balance. Siamak Masnavi / CryptoGlobe : Stripe Now Allows Business to Easily Accept USDC Payments on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon Coinped...
The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” as part of an investigation into crypto price manipulation
Talk about rolling up your sleeves and getting into the arena 👏 — Innovative indeed. … Forums: Hacker News : The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services
But There's a Plot Twist! Philip Elmer‑DeWitt : Apple's cozy relationship with Amazon just got cozier Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Amazon and Apple Strike Deal to Bring Apple TV+ to Prime Vi...
CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months
CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday that it has a new $650 million credit line to expand its business and data center ...
A profile of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who has crafted a strategy to stop China from unseating the US as the world's tech superpower
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : X: @mcfaul , @anderscorr , @wiredscience , @issielapowsky , @benbrodydc , and @issielapowsky . LinkedIn: Shannon Brandao Forums: r/neoliberal , r/mlscaling , r/technews , and...
The US and the UK announce an agreement to keep children safer online, including plans to set up an online safety working group to share evidence and expertise
A look at the possible outcomes of the Google Search antitrust trial, including the very likely scenario that Google's default search engine deals won't survive
“Where we think it really harms our ability to innovate on behalf of our users …
Sources detail Meta's work on an Orion consumer version that could be built within two years, plans to bring Orion wristband tech to its other devices, and more
Some developers say OpenAI's GPT Store is a mixed bag, with revenue sharing reserved for a tiny number of GPT creators in an invite-only pilot program in the US
Lauren Goode / Wired :
PayPal launches PayPal Ads, meant to help US marketers tap into data about the billions of transactions across PayPal's platforms, including Venmo and Honey
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, PayPal is going to start selling ads across PayPal, Honey, and Venmo in the US. … Dr. Mark Grether : Many thanks to Lara O'Reilly of Business Insider for ...
Relyance AI, which helps companies comply with data privacy regulations, raised a $32.1M Series B led by Thomvest, bringing its total funding to ~$59M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, up from $2.6B in 2022; losses grew to $1.3B, up from $512M YoY; ByteDance set aside $1B for EU fines
Iain Martin / Forbes : X: @_iainmartin X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Bytedance has set aside the ten-figure sum to pay regulatory fines in Europe while facing a barrage of investigations and lawsui...
Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more than 4.4M patients and 10K clinics globally, raised a $100M Series F led by Georgian
Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech :
LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the past year; it launched the marketplace in October 2021
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: Pittsburgh-based Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe doctors' conversations with their patients, raised $250M at a $2.5B pre-money valuation
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