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January 17, 2023, 6:20 AM

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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft makes its Azure OpenAI Service, announced in 2021, broadly available, giving users access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and ChatGPT “soon”  —  Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI's viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service …
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated  —  The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication.  Now, a reckoning is coming
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Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:
An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia's CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google's TensorFlow, and more  —  Over the last decade, the landscape of machine learning software development has undergone significant changes.
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks  —  Cohen first contacted the Chinese e-commerce giant's board in August to say he saw the company's shares as undervalued
Charles Hymas / Telegraph:
The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs  —  Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, which could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra  —  Just a couple of weeks ahead of the full launch, Samsung just officially announced the 200MP camera that will make its debut in the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

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