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Sources: the US DOJ may file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple that targets the company's strategies to protect the dominance of the iPhone as soon as H1 2024 — Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used …
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development's pace will keep accelerating, and more — The “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI” shows that the scientific community has no consensus on the risks and opportunities of AI …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Incase partners with Microsoft to sell PC accessories, which Microsoft discontinued in 2023; new products include ones that Microsoft designed but never shipped — Microsoft surprised everyone last year by deciding to discontinue its range of popular mice, keyboards, and PC accessories.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A developer finds that Google seems to be working on Bard Advanced, an upgraded version of Bard that will be available through a Google One paid subscription — Google appears to be working on an upgraded version of Bard called “Bard Advanced” that will be available through a paid subscription …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Microsoft executive Dee Templeton has joined OpenAI's board as a nonvoting observer, as part of a broader boardroom overhaul after Altman's brief ouster — - Templeton has already begun attending board meetings — Appointment is part of broader boardroom overhaul at OpenAI| TechCrunch: |
Uber is testing Uber Flex, a flexible pricing service that lets riders pick a fare of their choice that will be shared with nearby drivers, in 12+ Indian cities — Uber has quietly been testing a flexible pricing service in more than a dozen cities in India, a move that could help it expand …
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| Alex Ebert / Bloomberg Law: |
Merck settles its cyberattack insurance dispute with insurers over denying coverage for NotPetya losses due to “Warlike Action”; the amount was not disclosed — Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. struck an 11th-hour settlement with insurers Wednesday, evading …
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| Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: |
Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut — - Robosense, a Chinese developer of laser imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors for self-driving cars, announced January that it had raised HK$985.12 million … | The Verge: |
What to expect at CES 2024: laptops with Intel's new Core Ultra chips, TVs with AI processing, AI-powered smart home devices and appliances, and more — No single event of the year delivers more tech news than CES. The annual trade show is the starting point for each year in tech …
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| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
China's newly created National Data Administration unveils a three-year action plan to boost the country's economy by growing its data sector by 20% every year — China's newly established data administration, an agency created by Beijing to make data an effective production factor … | Kotaro Hosokawa / Nikkei Asia: |
SK Hynix was second behind Samsung Electronics in the Korea Exchange's market cap ranking at the end of 2023, with its market cap rising 89% to ~$78B in 2023 — Battery-related company valuations fall as EV sales lag expectations — SK Hynix produced the biggest jump in market cap among … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Data from the Department of Labor shows the US IT sector grew by only 700 jobs over 2023, down from 267,000 jobs added in 2022, despite the AI boom — Despite business and investor hype around generative AI last year, information-technology hiring slumped as companies laid off workers and sought to cut costsSponsor Posts
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