AWS says “the underlying DNS issue” is mitigated and most “operations are succeeding normally” after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still “impacted”
The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.
Counterpoint: iPhone 17 models outsold the iPhone 16 by 14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales nearly doubled over the 16 in China
Apple Inc.'s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity.
Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading “falsehoods” that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of “unauthorized actions”
Chipmaker Nexperia has accused its ousted chief executive officer of spreading “falsehoods” …
SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets on October 19, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date
About 1,400 have been decommissioned. … On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets …
Oura launches a redesigned app with a new feature showing a weekly overview of stress management and says it's working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study
The company is launching a study that uses ring data to detect ‘early signs of hypertension.’
Evernorth, a digital asset treasury backed by Ripple, says it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger with a blank check company and expects to raise $1B+
Evernorth, a new crypto venture backed by digital asset firm Ripple, said on Monday it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger …
A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China, alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution
A group of 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed a complaint with China's market regulator on Monday, a lawyer representing the group said …
Q&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Trump, fame, Apple's and Google's “wrong decision” to remove ICEBlock, and more
Mere months ago, New York's mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.”
Opera Neon hands-on: the $20-per-month agentic AI browser can take over users' browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI bots can be confusing and unreliable
Neon is three AI tools dressed up as one, with a $20-per-month subscription attached. … The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser …
A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z general partner and JD Vance's friend, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech
Katherine Boyle, an influential venture capitalist who is a friend of the vice president, thinks the country's path forward …
OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical professionals, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after a $210M Series B in July
The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.
Tech companies' data center building spree is hurting communities globally; Synergy: nearly 60% of the 1,244 largest data centers as of June were outside the US
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.
X plans a Handle Marketplace to let Premium+ and Premium Business subscribers search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles range from $2,500 to $1M+
Explore inactive 𝕏 handles Available to Full Access Premium Businesses. Paulo Vargas / Digital Trends : You'll soon be able to buy that dormant X handle you've had your eye on Bella Javier Liamzon / T...
An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more
Jimmy Wales https://www.nytimes.com/... Bluesky: Yonette Joseph / @sugarcane99 : Jimmy Wales on Elon Musk's attacks on Wikipedia: — “I don't think he has the power he thinks he has, or that a lot of...
Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency
Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company's artificial intelligence technology …
X is “testing a new link experience” that opens links without fully covering an X post, letting users see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS
to make it easier for your followers to engage with your post while browsing links. For creators, a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser...
Ariel Emanuel's new company MARI acquires NYC- and London-based theater ticketing app TodayTix from PE firm Great Hill; TodayTix sells ~10M tickets per year
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The UK CMA says Getty Images and Shutterstock's $3.7B merger raises competition concerns and gives the companies until October 27 to make a plan to address them
Ian Walker / Wall Street Journal :
CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers
Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure …
Adobe launches AI Foundry, a program that helps enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP
not just tweak it Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily : Adobe Launches Company-Specific Generative AI Models Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch : Adobe launches a foundry service that builds custom ge...
How luxury brands' stiffest competition is coming from secondhand online resellers like The RealReal and Fashionphile, driven by Gen Z and millennial consumers
Carol Ryan / Wall Street Journal : X: @contrariancurse , @michaelmiraflor , and @buccocapital X: @contrariancurse : A cool thing about high luxury goods is that TCO decreases at the very highest end ...
How China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies like Magnequench, and more
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Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20s required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters
up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192 ACM Digital Library : Aegaeon: Effective GPU Pooling for Concurrent LLM Serving on the Market Rounak Jain / Benzinga : Alibaba Cloud's New ...
London-based CoMind, which develops a non-invasive brain monitoring device with Lidar-like tech, raised $60M led by Plural, taking its total funding to $102.5M
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Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is “top of our list” when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI
“People say, ‘This smells like a bubble,’” but they're not asking: 'What about legacy businesses that could be massively disrupted?'" he said. …
A profile of Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove, as AI-driven demand for data storage pushes the company's stock to record highs, reaching a $30B market cap
he's not only brilliant but one of the most genuine and grounded people I've ever met. …
A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned €64M+ in bitcoin over eight years
a knife, bought with the same email address used to rent the suspicious servers discovered by investigators, and a pair of plane tickets he had bought for his parents — on.ft.com/4hhtmGd
Q&A with Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz on Facebook, starting Asana, SaaS companies, enterprise AI, the “empty seat problem”, AI modesty, AI safety, and more
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OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference
How about... everybody? — OpenAI alone has proposed a total of 26 gigawatts of new AI infrastructure *in just the next 4 years*. Total cost: Around a *trillion* dollars. — (gift link) — www.wsj...
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