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Amazon Devices & Services SVP David Limp, who oversees Alexa, Echo, and other products, plans to leave the company later in 2023; a successor hasn't been named — David Limp's retirement will be latest departure from e-commerce giant's leadership under CEO Andy Jassy
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix begins a “limited beta test” of its cloud-streamed games on the web, TVs, and streaming devices from Roku, LG, Amazon, and more, in Canada and the UK — Netflix is kicking off the first public tests of its cloud-streamed games. … In a blog post, Netflix VP …
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| Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone: |
A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today — Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along — T — IMNIT GEBRU DIDN'T set out to work in AI.
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| Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press: |
Amazon rolls out generative AI summaries of product reviews to a subset of US mobile users across a “broad” range of products after testing them earlier in 2023 — Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews for customers.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia bought 3,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs and the UAE purchased thousands of Nvidia GPUs; Nvidia expects to ship ~550K of H100 GPUs globally in 2023 — Gulf nations acquire thousands of GPUs amid global shortage of semiconductors needed to build large language models| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
In an amended indictment, the US DOJ alleges SBF used money he stole from FTX customers to make $100M+ in political campaign donations before the 2022 midterms — Sam Bankman-Fried used money he stole from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange to make more than $100 million …
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the Biden administration urges SCOTUS to review key parts of Florida's and Texas' laws meant to restrict how social media companies can moderate content — - Biden administration urges review of laws in Texas, Florida — Filing largely backs social media challenges to state laws| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Crypto custody service Prime Trust and some of its affiliates file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing liabilities between $100M-$500M and assets $50M-$100M — - Prime Trust and some of its affiliates have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company said today.
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Coinbase launches the Stand with Crypto Alliance, a US advocacy organization meant to mobilize the crypto community before Congress votes on key legislation — - Coinbase launched the “Stand with Crypto Alliance” on Monday, which it says is “crypto's first true grassroots movement that will be organized onchain.”
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Source: CoinDesk lays off 20 people, or 45%, of its editorial team as its parent company, Digital Currency Group, pursues the outlet's sale — - Crypto media company CoinDesk has reduced its workforce as parent company DCG's plans to bring in strategic investors.
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Bluesky: @lopatto.bsky.social. X: @laurashin, @nikhileshde, and @christinenews. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How a scam tied to ad firm CPABuild hosts malicious PDFs, indexed by search engines, on hacked .gov, .org, and .edu sites, often luring Fortnite or Roblox users — The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
PayPal names Intuit SVP Alex Chriss as its CEO, replacing longtime CEO Dan Schulman on September 27; the board cited Chriss' work acquiring Mailchimp for $12B — - Alex Chriss, the executive who runs the small business and self-employed group at Intuit, is the new CEO of PayPal, members of PayPal's board announced Monday.Sponsor Posts
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Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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Larry Ellison's Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI's Biggest Gamble
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