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November 27, 2023, 11:35 AM

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Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
AWS announces the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a $195 compact computer, adapted from the Fire TV Cube, to let workers access cloud-based virtual desktops  —  Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a compact computer that workers can use to access cloud-based virtual desktops.
Reuters:
The US, the UK, and more than a dozen other countries release joint guidelines for AI system development, including creating systems that are “secure by design”  —  The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described …
Josh Ye / Reuters:
ByteDance plans to “restructure” its gaming business; sources say ByteDance will wind down its Nuverse gaming brand and retreat from mainstream video games  —  TikTok maker ByteDance is set to internally announce on Monday the winding down of its Nuverse gaming brand and full retreat …
Wall Street Journal:
Instagram served salacious Reels, including risqué videos, next to big brand ads to test accounts that follow only young gymnasts, cheerleaders, and influencers  —  Content served to WSJ test accounts included risqué footage of kids, overtly sexual adult videos and ads from major brands
Stephen Witt / New Yorker:
A profile of Jensen Huang, the Taiwan-born, US-educated Nvidia founder, who started the company in 1993, and a look at Nvidia's rise, built on GPUs and CUDA  —  The company's C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip.  Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
An interview with Binance CEO Richard Teng on helping the exchange become a conventional financial company, previous “missteps”, his background, and more  —  Richard Teng sits in an oak-colored conference room wearing a blue suit that, with his neatly-cropped salt-and-pepper …
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon data and sources: Amazon shipped 5.2B US packages in 2022, more than UPS, after passing FedEx in 2020; Amazon delivered 4.8B items ahead of Thanksgiving  —  Amazon is eclipsing both carriers, and the gap is growing  —  Amazon.com has grabbed the crown of biggest delivery business in the U.S. …
Chloe Cornish / Financial Times:
New York Times:
Sources: US officials issued warnings over Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42's work with Chinese companies, including Huawei; the CIA profiled G42 CEO Peng Xiao  —  American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats.

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