President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut
President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency
but will Beijing want them? Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : China to restrict access to Nvidia's advanced H200 chips — as Trump looks to lift export curbs: report Maximilian Schr...
Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern
One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …
OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo
4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...
OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo
OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$31B, beating ~$30.9B est., a ~$3.8B net income, up from a ~$3B loss in Q2 2022, and calls off its cloud spinoff
- The decision marks a dramatic reversal on a signature move — Alibaba's historic six-way restructuring is now in doubt
A look at Vietnam's plans to make Ho Chi Minh City a startup hub; report: Vietnam drew a record $2.6B in VC funding across 233 deals in 2021, up from $700M YoY
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Some Chinese students are using remote access apps to cheat on TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and other US entry exams, fueled by the introduction of at-home testing
Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Tweets: @scholars_stage , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , and @baldingsworld Tweets: T. Greer / @scholars_stage : The stories I could tell https://resto...
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship
Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
Source: in Q1 2022, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48M and accounting for over 4% of Twitter's revenue that quarter
now he's worried about ‘tyranny’ if Apple deplatforms him The Verge : Elon's pretend naiveté about Apple and the App Store is very funny. Barron's Online : Elon Musk Takes on Apple...
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel”
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …
Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms
Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …
Peiter Zatko's allegations offer details on Twitter's misinformation policies and failures, including accepting a QAnon proponent into its Birdwatch program
A document from whistleblower Peiter Zatko that details the company's failings in policing misinformation shows what happens when a business model fails Tweets: @markseibel , @bald...
In a letter to nine GOP senators, TikTok says China-based employees who clear internal security protocols can access certain information on TikTok's US users
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :
Sources: China plans to end its regulatory crackdown on the country's Big Tech companies and give internet platforms a bigger role to boost its ailing economy
Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post :
Google Play removes dozens of Android apps, including Muslim prayer apps with 10M+ downloads, after researchers find malware tied to a US defense contractor
Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show
The FCC revokes China Unicom's authorization to operate in the US, granted ~20 years ago, citing national security; Unicom can still offer data center services
The FCC revokes China Unicom's authorization to operate in the US, granted ~20 years ago, citing national security; Unicom can still offer data center services
Reuters : Source: Federal Communications … .
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
The chip industry faces a recruitment gap, as plans for new fabs in the US will require an estimated 70K to 90K more workers by 2025 compared to 2020 levels
Stephanie Yang / Wall Street Journal :