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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant that starts at $20/user/month and competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft's Copilot, and others — Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/Qult_Headquarters
| About Amazon: |
AWS unveils Graviton4, with 50% more cores, 75% more memory bandwidth, and up to 30% more performance than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for up to 4x faster training — AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, and r/singularity
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans to exit its Goldman Sachs contract in 12 to 15 months, ending their consumer partnership, including for credit card and savings accounts — Tech giant proposed exiting contract in about 12-to-15 months — Apple is pulling the plug on its credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music Replay, which lets users look back at their listening history like top songs and artists in 2023, arrives but is still no match for Spotify Wrapped — Apple's year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it's still no match for Spotify's personalized look back at your year in music.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
In a now-deleted Nov. 28 tweet and on Nov. 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016 — The far-right theory motivated a gunman to fire multiple rounds inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in 2016.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea announces new smart home sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, on sale 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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| Rest of World: |
A look at Foxconn's struggles to manufacture the iPhone 15 in India, contending with language barriers, labor disputes, regulatory hurdles, and more — Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders. — • SUNGUVARCHATRAM, INDIA
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Pika, which builds AI tools for generating and editing videos, raised $55M, including a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed, after emerging from stealth in May 2023 — The generative AI hype hasn't died down yet. — Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Adalytics: Google ads appear on many compromising sites that make up its Search Partners network; Google attacks Adalytics but says it'll review its findings — Adtech report exposes brand safety and ad fraud risks lurking in the Google Search Partners network...
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, Norway, 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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Forums: r/worldnews and r/InfoSecNews
| Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic: |
Substack and Telegram searches reveal “scores” of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack's 17K+ total; 16+ display Nazi symbols — The newsletter platform's lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high costs 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 … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's revamped board doesn't plan to offer a seat to Microsoft and other outside investors, a sign that it will prioritize safety ahead of returns — OpenAI's revamped board of directors doesn't plan to include representatives from outside investors, according to a person familiar with the situation.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google says a first-of-its-kind geothermal energy project, to power its data centers with clean energy in partnership with Fervo, is up and running in Nevada — A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now up and running in Nevada, where it will help power Google's data centers with clean energy.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Futurology
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces a plan to start listing London's famed black cabs in early 2024, despite objections from the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association trade group — Uber notched another win in its effort to win over the beleaguered taxi industry, announcing a plan to start listing London's famed black cabbies in its app.| Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision — The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found Adobe's planned $20 billion acquisition … | Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $786M, vs. $777M est., ARR up 35% YoY to $3.15B, and net income of $26.7M, vs. a net loss of $55M a year ago — CEO calls out ‘increased win rates and record pipeline’ — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. exceeded expectations with its latest quarterly results Tuesday …
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Dell signs a $150M deal with Imbue, which raised $200M in September, to provide the AI startup with computing hardware to develop AI systems and advanced models — Dell has been telling investors its server business is poised to benefit from AI uses. — Dell Technologies Inc. has landed …
More: San Francisco Business Times and Dell Technologies
X: @dellservers, @imbue_ai, and @shiringhaffary
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Oxford Internet Institute study of 2M+ people's internet use: no “smoking gun” for widespread mental health harms, opposing the idea that some are more at risk — No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers
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| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
HPE reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $7.4B, including Compute down 31% YoY to $2.6B, HPC & AI up 37% YoY to $1.2B, and Intelligent Edge up 41% YoY to $1.4B — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. dipped slightly in extended trading Tuesday after the computing giant reported quarterly results …
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