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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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Forums: r/inthenews, r/TheLib, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Benedict Evans / Financial Times: |
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.| Wall Street Journal: |
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 … | 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 … | 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 …
More: Wccftech, MarketWatch, TechSpot, Investor's Business Daily, Coinspeaker, Tom's Hardware, Network World, Cryptopolitan, KNSD-TV, Neowin, CNBC, CoinGape, and ChinaTechNews.com
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Forums: r/news, r/AMD_Stock, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Kevin O'Reilly / iFixit News: |
A side-by-side teardown of the Steam Deck OLED and Lenovo Legion Go: both are designed to be repaired by users; Steam Deck OLED scores 9/10 and Legion Go 7/10 — The holiday gaming season has brought us two cutting-edge handheld gaming devices. In one corner, we have the upstart Legion Go …
More: XDA Developers, Engadget, iFixit on YouTube, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, SamMobile, SlashGear, and CNET. X: @ifixit
| Forbes: |
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.
More: Coinmonks, CryptoSlate, CoinGeek, and Cryptonews
| 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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Mastodon: @DominikDammer@mastodon …. X: @assassinscreed, @paultassi, @tomwarren, @datnofact, @levie, @tomwarren, and @puredeadgaming
Forums: Hacker News, r/xboxone, r/gamernews, r/technology, and r/XboxSeriesX
| 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 …
More: Fintech Business Weekly and Finextra
X: @pitdesi, @iankar_, @chloez_chloez, @michaelroddan, and @natebecker
| 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.
More: Dexerto, Business Today, Cryptopolitan, BGR, Financial Times, and ReHack
X: @wired and @yashjournals
| 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 areasSponsor Posts
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