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September 11, 2023, 4:00 AM
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Associated Press:
Research: ChatGPT uses an estimated 500ml of water for every five to 50 prompts; Microsoft disclosed the company's water use spiked 34% YoY in 2022, Google 20%  —  The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.  But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
An expected high-end iPhone price increase and features like iPhone 15 Pro Max's periscope lens show Apple is getting more aggressive with its premium strategy  —  Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 15 on Tuesday, alongside updated watches and AirPods.  And once again, the company …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta plans to begin training an LLM in Q1 2024 on its own infrastructure that it hopes will be roughly as capable as OpenAI's GPT-4  —  Parent of Facebook and Instagram wants artificial-intelligence system to be as capable as OpenAI's most advanced model  —  Platforms is setting its sights on OpenAI.
Max Tani / Semafor:
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users suggests X is throttling posts linking to the NYT, with “weekly average shares per article” down ~75% from July's peak  —  X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users' access to The New York Times.
Molly White / Web3 is Going Just Great:
Vitalik Buterin's X account was hacked to promote a crypto scam, leading to an estimated $650K+ of assets being stolen; the tweet was deleted within 20 minutes  —  The Twitter account belonging to Vitalik Buterin, inventor and effective leader of the Ethereum project, was hacked to promote a crypto scam.
Brenda Goh / Reuters:
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group CEO Daniel Zhang steps down, after assuming the role in June 2023; Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu becomes the unit's acting chair and CEO  —  China's Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Sunday that Daniel Zhang will step down from its cloud business, in a surprise move …
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Dennis Austin, PowerPoint's principal developer who continued to lead the presentation software's team until he retired in 1996, died on September 1 at age 76  —  The program was the digital successor of the overhead projector.  It became one of the most ubiquitous and scorned programs of modern office life.
Financial Times:
How cybercriminals in Turkey teamed up with Russian émigré hackers to steal and sell tens of millions of credit card numbers, passwords, “hot” cookies, and more  —  Émigré hackers fleeing Putin's military conscription prompts surge in activity involving stolen financial data
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021  —  The grocery-delivery company aims for $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion, down from $39 billion in 2021.

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Lili Bayer / The Guardian:
Some Slovakian ministers and political allies of Prime Minister Robert Fico blame the media for the attempt on Fico's life

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube

Financial Times:
A look at the competing Paramount bids from David Ellison's Skydance, backed by RedBird and KKR, and Apollo and Sony, a fight over surviving the streaming era

More News

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes
Reuters:
Sources: US chipmakers and companies, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Google, plan to attend a September 11 meeting in Hanoi as Biden visits to boost ties

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Walter Isaacson / CNBC:
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips
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