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Google announces Gemini, a new AI model with three tiers, Ultra, Pro, and Nano, and plans a paid version in 2024; Google says Gemini beats GPT-4 on some tests — Starting today, Gemini is running on Bard and Google's Pixel 8 Pro phones. The company says it blows OpenAI out of the water.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google updates Bard to use its new Gemini Pro model, the middle tier of the Gemini series, and says its the “biggest and best upgrade yet” and can match ChatGPT — While OpenAI's ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to add Gemini Nano, its native, local-first LLM, to Pixel 8 Pro, powering auto-summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply, ahead of an Android launch — Gemini may be the biggest, most powerful large language model, or LLM, Google has ever developed, but it's better suited to running in data centers than on your phone.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces its new Cloud TPU v5p, an updated version of its Cloud TPU v5e, consisting of 8,960 chips; Google trained Gemini on the new custom chips — Google today announced the launch of its new Gemini large language model (LLM) and with that, the company also launched its new Cloud TPU v5p … | Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple was prevented by the “federal government” from sharing details on governments' push notifications spying, and will now share info after Ron Wyden's letter — Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.
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| Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat: |
Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024, saying the country was “prohibitively expensive” to operate in despite working to reduce costs — Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU leans toward excluding iMessage from DMA rules due to not being popular enough among business users, part of an investigation ending in February — - EU tentatively finds it doesn't warrant being covered by DMA — New antitrust law imposes raft of Big Tech dos and don'ts
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft plans to offer three additional years of monthly Windows 10 security updates, paid for annually, after the OS' end-of-support date on October 14, 2025 — Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7. — Windows 10's end-of-support date is October 14, 2025.
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| Reuters: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has been “working very closely with the US government” to create products that comply with US curbs on high-end chip exports to China — SINGAPORE, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) will continue to develop a new set of products that comply … | Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to add its “Help me write” AI tool to Chrome, appearing in autofill popups when typing text, expanding on Google Messages, Gmail, Docs, and Keep — Over the past few months, Google has been steadily introducing AI tools to its many apps and services.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to cut seller fees on clothing items under $15 to 5% in January 2024 and $15 to $20 items to 10%, down from 17%, in a bid to compete with Shein — Amazon.com Inc. is sharply cutting fees for merchants selling clothing priced below $20, a sign it's hunkering down for a price war with Chinese fast-fashion upstart Shein.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify from China — Tech giant wants suppliers to build key component in India as part of broader effort to diversify supply chain
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| Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: |
The internet enabled mass surveillance, and AI will enable mass spying, once limited by human labor, by making troves of data searchable and understandable — Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide …
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase updates Wallet, available in 170+ countries, to let users send crypto on platforms where they can share a link, including email, social, and messaging — Recipients need to download a Coinbase Wallet to receive the funds, but the crypto exchange says they've simplified the process for less tech-savvy users.| Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel publishes and then removes “Core Truths”, which directly criticizes AMD's “snake oil” for using its older Zen 2 architecture in new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs — Look in the mirror Intel — Intel recently published a new playbook titled “Core Truths” …
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
SAG-AFTRA members ratify the union's three-year contract with studios after 78% voted in favor; some members remain dissatisfied with the deal's AI protections — The SAG-AFTRA vote formally ends six months of labor strife, though some members were not happy about the contract's artificial intelligence protections.| TIME: |
Interviews with Sam Altman and 20+ people in his circle reveal a complicated portrait of being brilliant but slippery, as Time names him CEO of the Year 2023 — It was a strange Thanksgiving for Sam Altman. Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family.| Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: ByteDance offers to buy back up to $5B of shares from existing investors at ~$160 per share, putting the company's valuation at $268B, down ~10% YoY — Beijing-based ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is offering to buy back up to US$5 billion worth of shares from existing investors …
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
San Diego-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple plans to shutter its US business, laying off ~150, or 75% of its US staff, and move its business to China — Self-driving trucking company will continue to operate out of China — Self-driving trucking company TuSimple Holdings …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Source: VC firm OpenView laid off most of its staff and does not plan to make new investments, after several partners recently left the firm — OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm that has backed enterprise software firms such as Calendly and Expensify …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok releases its 2023 list of top videos and trends, again showing how disparate users' individual experiences are on the app and how siloed its content is — It's the most wonderful time of the year: when TikTok publishes its annual roundup of the biggest hits, and I get to see what everyone else … | Wall Street Journal: |
New Mexico sues Meta, alleging the company let Facebook and Instagram “become a marketplace for predators in search of children”, and blames Mark Zuckerberg — State investigators' test accounts with AI-generated photos were deluged with sexual propositions and adult sex content … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
UK carrier EE launches broadband TV platform EE TV, to replace the BT TV service, partnering with Apple to offer an Apple TV 4K with a custom EE remote control — EE TV, a new broadband TV platform from EE, today launched as a BT TV replacement service in the UK, offering subscribers …
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| Financial Times: |
Binance CEO Richard Teng refuses to disclose the location of the company's global headquarters, maintaining a stance taken by former CEO Changpeng Zhao — Richard Teng maintains stance on that information held before crypto exchange pleaded guilty to US charges last month
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