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September 12, 2023, 12:10 PM

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New York Times:
A live blog of the US et al v. Google trial, which starts today, as the DOJ prepares to argue the company illegally protected its internet search monopoly  —  Here is the latest on the Google antitrust trial.  Opening statements are underway in a major antitrust case against Google …
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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.
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.
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
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
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 …
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
Financial Times:
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.
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.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
As some supposedly “leaked” Harry Styles songs are being sold on Discord, fans and AI-analysis companies struggle to determine if the clips are AI-generated  —  Dozens of unreleased Harry Styles songs have leaked on underground Discords in the last month.  The fandom can't decide if they're real or AI-generated.
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