Apple announces M1, the first Apple silicon SoC for Macs, with 5nm process, 16B transistors, 8-core CPU, up to 8-core GPU, and a 16-core neural engine
unless Apple creates speed differences. Mustapha Hamoui / @beirutspring : Disappointed that Apple didn't visually differentiate silicon macs from their intel predecessors... It could have been a small...
Data from the US Census Bureau on 583,000 businesses in 2018 shows AI adoption is slow: 8.9% use AI in any form, 2.8% use ML, and 2.5% use voice recognition
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @nxthompson , @quinnypig , @erikbryn , and @paul_scharre Tweets: @nxthompson : It may seem like AI is all the rage. In fact, only around 9% of US companies use any kind ...
Ohio-based Branch Insurance, whose tech helps customers bundle home and auto insurance online by just providing name and address, raises $24M Series A
Katy Smith / Columbus CEO : Tweets: @quinnypig and @joshconstine Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : Congratulations to @joeemison and the rest of the team at Branch Insurance. “Branch Insurance...
Amazon says it spent $4.38M on US lobbying in Q2, a record for the company, which faces increasing antitrust scrutiny; filings show Facebook spent $4.83M in Q2
Bloomberg : Tweets: @quinnypig Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : The weirdest thing to me is how inexpensive lobbying really is. I mean... this is “acquihire a failed 5-person startup” territo...
Google has open sourced Tsunami, a vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks consisting of thousands of internet-connected systems and servers
Google says Tsunami is an extensible network scanner for detecting high-severity vulnerabilities with as little false-positives as possible. Tweets: @quinnypig Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig :...
Sources: Palantir is preparing to register an S-1 filing confidentially, with plans to go public in the coming weeks and start trading as early as fall
Palantir Technologies Inc., the secretive big-data firm, plans to file to go public in the coming weeks and could start trading as early as the fall … Tweets: @william_fitz , @mdudas , @wolfmetric , @...
Profile of Bret Arsenault, Microsoft's CISO, who is working on an ambitious project to make its 150K+ employees ditch their passwords by early next year
Bret Arsenault doesn't like cheese. — But for Microsoft's chief information security officer, a distaste for dairy produce isn't born … Tweets: @karynelevy , @protocol , @williamslauram , @quinnypig...