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Sources: in a first, Apple plans to make the India-built iPhone 15 available in the country and some other regions on the global sales debut day — - Devices from India to debut at same time as China-made ones — IPhone 15 marks a milestone for India's electronics ambitions| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Investor video: Arm CEO Rene Haas outlines a pivot toward complex design work on specific products, a “purpose-built approach” to address the needs of clients — - SoftBank-owned chip designer has shifted its strategy — Arm stock offering is set to get underway later this week
More: Reuters, Financial Times, CNBC, MacDailyNews, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, and Silicon Valley Business …
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An in-depth look at how Google's Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language — Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM.
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a home screen Shop button that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K+ sellers — The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app's users in the U.S., hoping to add a major new revenue stream.
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, TikTok, Reuters, and ChannelX
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on 25 years of Google, competition in AI, ChatGPT in Bing, DeepMind and Google Brain, AI chips, staff's bureaucracy complaints, and more — The tech giant is 25 years old. In a chatbot war. On trial for antitrust. But its CEO says Google is good for 25 more.
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| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support — In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Tests show Threads' new search function blocks words like “sex”, “gore”, and “vaccines”; Meta admits “covid” is a blocked term but declines to disclose others — Public health experts expressed anger with the platform's moderation policies …
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MGM Resorts says a “cybersecurity issue” that began on Sunday is affecting some casino and hotel computer systems at the company's properties across the US — A “cybersecurity issue” led to the shutdown of some casino and hotel computer systems at MGM Resorts International properties across …
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| Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: |
The Internet Archive appeals a US judge's decision in March 2023 favoring publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Salesforce announces Einstein Copilot, an AI chatbot for its apps, launching via pilot later in fall, part of its new Einstein 1 Platform — Salesforce Inc. today rolled out an artificial intelligence conversational copilot assistant for its applications that can assist users …
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Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging support — Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4 — Intel has revealed its newest iteration of the Thunderbolt technology.
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies — Thierry Breton is a proponent of more regulation — and rules that boost EU companies. … The 68-year-old Frenchman was suppressing a smile …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that helps match female drivers with female passengers; riders can still match with men when no women are available — The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers. — Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing …
More: TechCrunch, NBC News, Bloomberg, Fast Company, The Rideshare Guy, and Lyft
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won an art competition, despite Adobe Photoshop alterations and 624+ text prompt revisions — The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence …
More: U.S. Copyright Office, Silicon Republic, Ars Technica, and Digital Music News
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces a service that lets its 2M merchants deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses, rolling out broadly later in 2023 — - Service brings inventory to stores instead of shoppers' homes … Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service …
More: GeekWire, About Amazon, and Amazon
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel agrees to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC, valuing IMS at $4.3B, and will retain majority ownership of the standalone subsidiary — Intel has agreed to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC for $430 million at a valuation of $4.3 billion.Sponsor Posts
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