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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
AWS announces AI foundation model enhancements to its automated speech recognition service Transcribe, now supporting 100+ languages, and to Personalize and Lex — Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a range of new artificial intelligence service capabilities that are enhanced using foundation models.
More: The Verge, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services, InfoWorld, and Bloomberg. Forums: r/technews
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon One Enterprise in preview, allowing US businesses use its palm-scanning tech as an authentication tool to let employees into the office — - Amazon is introducing a version of its palm-scanning technology for businesses. — The company is pitching the service …
More: Amazon, TechCrunch, Tech Monitor, MSPoweruser, GeekWire, Help Net Security, and SiliconANGLE
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
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| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Many local US police departments are fearmongering by issuing warnings on the privacy risk of the iPhone's NameDrop feature, used to wirelessly share contacts — Some police departments have said the new iPhone feature is risky. Don't worry about it.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
How OpenAI's leadership chaos points to lingering governance issues and could affect its business prospects ahead of fundraising at an $86B valuation — Also Binance's guilty plea and Finnish electricity prices. — OpenAI — Ten days ago OpenAI was worth $86 billion.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: OpenAI's board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and never got any letter warning about Q* — A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman's happy ending — On the surface, the OpenAI team that showed …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, the US, Ukraine, and other countries arrest members of a ransomware group in Ukraine linked to attacks on organizations in 71 countries — In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is investigating an issue caused by Google Drive's desktop app, after users' reports in recent days that some of their files have disappeared — Over the past few days, quite a few Google Drive users have noticed files go missing, and now Google is confirming that it is looking …
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| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high cost of delays, AI and risk, d/acc, centralization, and more — Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: fast-fashion giant Shein confidentially files for a US IPO, potentially in 2024, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley as underwriters — The Chinese company was valued at $66 billion earlier this year — Shein, the China-founded online fashion company that won …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $42B in 2023, down from $85B in 2022; just seven unicorns are expected in 2023, vs. 48 in 2022 and 108 in 2021 — The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events — continues to persist …
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| Dan Robinson / The Register: |
Omdia: Meta and Microsoft are expected to receive 150K Nvidia H100 GPUs each by the end of 2023, three times as many as Google, Amazon, or Oracle — Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up — Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20 percent on last year, despite revenue growing.
More: Tom's Hardware and SiliconANGLE
| Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: |
FTX investors sue MLB, Formula 1, and the Mercedes Formula 1 team, accusing them of aiding FTX's fraud, broadening a class-action suit against 24+ celebrities — - FTX investors say leagues allegedly aided $11 billion fraud — Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 racing team also named in lawsuit
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| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
SenseTime's shares fell as much as 9.7% in Hong Kong, after a short seller accused the AI company of inflating its revenue; SenseTime refutes the allegations — - Report is ‘without merit’, Shanghai-based AI developer says — Company is building a ChatGPT-like conversation bot for China| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Big names like Kelsey Hightower pull out of the DevTernity conference after allegations its founder made fake profiles of female speakers to boost diversity — The founder of a software developer conference has been accused of creating fake female speakers to bolster diversity numbers …
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Finland-based Varjo launches the XR-4, a $3,990 mixed reality headset aimed at businesses, touting a 120-degree field of view, 4K displays, and more — Varjo just announced the XR-4 series, its latest range of ultra high end PC-based headsets for enterprise and governments.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Oxford Internet Institute study of 2M+ people's internet use: no “smoking gun” for widespread mental health harms, contradicting the “popular ideas” of risks — No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers| Kellen / Droid Life: |
YouTube rolls out Playables, which lets users play games on mobile and desktop with no need to download, for Premium users, available until March 28, 2024 — YouTube Premium's benefits expanded this holiday week with the addition of Playables into the app.
More: Hindustan Times, Ghacks, The Verge, TweakTown, Pocket-lint, Android Central, Android Headlines, and Phandroid. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$10.7B, narrowly beating est., and net income up nearly 3x to ~$507M, boosted by strong Chinese travel demand — - Growth will fall this quarter because of weather, dining-out — Meituan aims to offset those shifts with the help of marketing
More: Tech in Asia and Meituan
| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to ~$9.6B vs. ~$7.7B est., and net income up 47%, after grabbing Shein users; PDD jumps 15%+ — PDD Holdings Inc.'s revenue beat expectations, almost doubling after the company behind hit shopping app Temu ramped up discounts …
More: PDD Holdings and Pandaily
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea announces new smart sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, available in H1 2024 for under $10 — Ikea's push to democratize the smart home continues with the introduction of three new Zigbee sensors that won't break the bank.
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