Sources: Nvidia told suppliers like Amkor and Samsung to halt H20 chip production after China urged local tech firms to avoid H20 over alleged security concerns
Nvidia has told some of its component suppliers to suspend production work related to the H20, its chip tailor-made for the Chinese market …
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in talks with China over H20 security concerns, is hopeful for a resolution, and reiterates that the H20 has no “security backdoors”
Nikkei Asia :
Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services
Google has struck a major cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk talked to Mark Zuckerberg in February about backing a $97.4B OpenAI bid, but neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed a letter of intent
Tesla billionaire made offer for ChatGPT maker's core business in February — Elon Musk attempted to enlist Mark Zuckerberg …
NYC grants Waymo its first permit, which extends through late September, to test up to eight of its autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn
Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. — The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit …
Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, which critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on phones and tablets from next month
A Russian state-backed messenger application called MAX, a rival to WhatsApp that critics say could be used to track users …
China's Shanghai index hit a decade high on August 22, driven by gains in local chipmakers Cambricon and Hygon, after Nvidia reportedly halts H20 production
Bloomberg :
Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro plans, and considering Ethereum or Solana over a private blockchain after the US passed the Genius Act
Concern over competitiveness raises possibility of digital currency using public rather than private blockchain
Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports
As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google.
Sources: Meta has poached Frank Chu, an Apple exec who led AI teams focused on cloud infrastructure, training and search, despite Meta's plans to slow hiring
Meta Platforms Inc. is hiring another key Apple Inc. artificial intelligence executive, even as the social networking company prepares …
OpenAI sets up a legal entity and plans to open its first office in India after launching ChatGPT Go, its cheapest plan, in the country on August 19
ChatGPT parent OpenAI will open its first India office in New Delhi later this year, deepening its push in its second-largest market by user numbers.
Vivo demos Vivo Vision, its first MR headset, which looks like an Apple Vision Pro clone but is ~40% lighter with micro-OLED displays, and could cost ~$1,400
But for now, it's just an in-store demo, not a product. — Details here: www.uploadvr.com/vivo-vision- ... David Heaney / @heaney555 : As always, if you want serious coverage of VR/MR/AR, read Upload...
Y Combinator filed an amicus brief in support of Epic Games in their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, calling App Store fees “a punitive tax on innovation”
It's been a busy news day for the Epic Games vs. Apple case. Startup accelerator (and Epic Games' biggest investor) …
Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent
an official report confirms that Gemini consumes per query: — 0.24 Wh of energy (~9 seconds of TV) — 0.03 g of CO2 equivalent — 0.26 ml of water (about 5 drops) — blog: cloud.google.com/blog/prod...
OpenAI says its Chief People Officer Julia Villagra will leave on August 22; Villagra joined in February 2024 and was promoted to the role in March 2024
OpenAI's chief people officer, Julia Villagra, is leaving the company on Friday, the company confirmed to Reuters.
A look at the invite-only iOS and Android apps for Digg, which now operates similarly to Reddit, with links with a lot of “diggs” moving up the feed
Digg has launched its new mobile apps for iOS and Android. I tried the new iOS app out, and it's bare-bones but promising. Bluesky: @jaypeters.net Bluesky: Jay Peters / @jaypeters.net : I tried out t...
Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to improve “websites and physical sites”; sources say he's tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to lead it
Powell's last speech: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to give … Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Florida man orders beautification of America after gold-plating the White House Mallory Wi...
Email: TikTok plans to lay off several hundred UK trust and safety staff in the UK and Asia, citing “technological advances” such as LLMs in content moderation
www.ft.com/content/d277...
X removes the ability for free-tier developers to like posts and follow users via its API to “protect the platform from spam, bots, and manipulative activities”
In an effort to cut down on abuse and fake engagement, Elon Musk's X is removing access to two key features of its developer API for those on the free plan.
Google will provide Gemini for Government to US federal agencies at $0.47 per agency through 2026; OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their products for $1/year
Launches ‘Gemini For Government’ AI At Less Than $0.50 Per Unit Craig Hale / TechRadar : Google has an all-new Gemini AI service built specially for the US Government Jean Leon / Android Headlines : G...
Filing: OnlyFans gross revenue hit $7.2B in FY ending Nov. 2024, up from $6.6B YoY, and paid $5.8B to creators, up from $5.3B; creator accounts grew 13% to 4.6M
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times :
Sources: the Trump admin plans to reallocate $2B+ from CHIPS Act to fund critical minerals projects, aiming to cut US reliance on China for key resources
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.22B, Enterprise revenue up 7% to $730.7M, vs. $716.7M est., raises FY 2026 forecast above est.; ZM jumps 6%+ after hours
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Tesla plans to roll out in-car voice assistant features powered by DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao in China; Tesla vehicles in the US use Grok
Tesla Inc. plans to introduce in-car voice assistant functions powered by Deepseek and Bytedance Ltd.'s Doubao artificial intelligence as it aims …
Source: the Trump administration considers taking equity stakes in CHIPS Act recipients but not in firms that are increasing US investment, like TSMC and Micron
Wall Street Journal :
Clothing subscription service Rent the Runway gives up around 86% ownership to three lenders in exchange for $240M+ in debt relief and $20M in fresh financing
Bloomberg :
DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and is customized to work with next-gen Chinese-made AI chips, after unveiling it on August 19
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 Tobias Mann / The Register : DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Hugging Face : DeepSeek-V3.1 ...
Source: Snap is considering raising outside money to fund Spectacles development or spinning off Spectacles, to compete with deeper-pocketed rivals like Meta
For nearly as long as Evan Spiegel has run Snap Inc., his big bet has been on Spectacles, the company's augmented reality glasses. LinkedIn: Jemima McEvoy LinkedIn: Jemima McEvoy : Very proud to have ...
Google expands AI Mode to 180 countries and territories in English, following the US, the UK, and India, and plans to add more languages and regions “soon”
and it's rolling out worldwide Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Google Expands AI Mode in Search to Over 180 New Countries Tushar Mehta / Android Authority : Google Search can now present real-time table bo...
The DOJ says it will no longer target developers who create decentralized crypto platforms without criminal intent, as part of a regulatory retreat on crypto
Chris Prentice / Reuters :
Anthropic says it worked with the US National Nuclear Security Administration on a classifier to block concerning chats, like those on building nuclear reactors
Morgan Chalfant / Semafor :
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $10B, significantly above the previously reported $5B, due to strong investor demand
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @hunterwalk.com : i dont want to be up in anyone's bag, but i think Mike Krieger might make more money from being a non-founder at Anthropic than he did being a found...
a16z hires Anne Neuberger, formerly a senior cybersecurity official in the Biden White House, as a senior adviser to work on “American Dynamism, AI, and cyber”
Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg :
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