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Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M — Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or may do so, after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
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AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled after a failed coup at OpenAI, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent — Failed coups, as seen at OpenAI, often accelerate the thing that they were trying to prevent — Over the past week, OpenAI's board went through four CEOs in five days.
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Satya Nadella and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott were instrumental to reinstating Sam Altman atop OpenAI, which a source says was the ideal outcome for Microsoft — Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella made a huge bet on the world's hottest AI company. After it nearly blew up on him … | Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia told Chinese customers it's delaying the launch of H20, the most powerful of three AI chips it designed to comply with US rules, until Q1 2024 — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has told customers in China it is delaying the launch of a new artificial intelligence chip it designed to comply …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
China's Sunway unveils new CPUs with a maximum FP64 throughput of 13.8 TFLOPS, which could let China build high-performance supercomputers despite US sanctions — China continues to advance supercomputing technologies despite U.S. sanctions. — Earlier this year, the National Supercomputing Center … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
After users complained about seeing a fullscreen pop-up ad in Assassin's Creed Odyssey on both Xbox and PlayStation, Ubisoft blames a “technical error” — Ubisoft is blaming an unspecified “technical error” for a fullscreen pop-up ad that appeared in Assassin's Creed Odyssey this week.
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An investigation identifies four secret bitcoin mining facilities in Bhutan, built using $220M in chips imported from China between 2021 and 2022 — Dozens of shipping containers lie hidden behind a hillside south of Thimphu, the Himalayan capital of Bhutan, one of the world's most isolated nations.
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| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
FOIA docs: Prashant Bhardwaj, hired in March as the US OCC's first officer to police fintech firms, lied about his work history; OCC quietly replaced Bhardwaj — In March, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—the powerful federal banking regulator—tapped Prashant Kumar Bhardwaj …
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| Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: |
Analysis: Nvidia was the world's biggest chip company by revenue in Q3, with revenue of $18.12B, vs. TSMC's $17.28B, Intel's $14.16B, and Samsung's $12.52B — The green team has made incredible gains in 2023. — Nvidia has swung from fourth to first place in an assessment of chip industry revenue published today.| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
TikTok-funded report: TikTok users are much likelier to pay for a music streamer than the average consumer and spend more on concerts than the average listener — - Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — TikTok has commissioned research firm Luminate for a new report analysing its impact on music.| Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol: |
Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers a co-branded credit card and an app to turn daily expenses into travel rewards, raised a $23M Series A — The company will use the funds to add more financial services to the platform, including personal loans and insurance, and also hire more talent in product and tech development areas| Yashraj Sharma / Wired: |
Ahead of elections in India in December and 2024, political parties are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters while dodging media interviews — Major political parties in India are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters, paying for reach and dodging tough questions.
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