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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple around €500M for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify — Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
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| Michael Crider / PCWorld: |
SPEC invalidates 2,600 benchmark results for some Intel Xeon CPUs, saying their compiler artificially inflated the results of its benchmark by as much as 9% — Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation.
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
A Florida court filing accuses the Bahamas-based Deltec Bank of giving Alameda Research a short-term line of credit worth billions of dollars to buy Tether — - Deltec is alleged to have provided a short-term line of credit — Court documents suggest a tighter web than previously known
More: Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, and CoinGape
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the UK, the US, and other allies are working to provide Ukraine with thousands of new AI-enabled drones that could swarm Russian targets simultaneously — - Technology could help Ukraine overwhelm some Russian targets — Germany's Scholz calls on EU allies to increase Ukraine aid
More: US Department of Justice, The Record, New York Times, and The Hill
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An interview with Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, co-founders of conversational AI startup Sierra, on using several AI models at once, building AI agents, and more — Sierra hopes every company will use its empathetic AI chatbots for customer interactions. — I might have inadvertently … | Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content — - Social media firm agrees $60 million deal with AI company — Reddit advised to seek at least $5 billion IPO valuation
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| Telegraph: |
Sources: UK chip designer Graphcore explores a sale to foreign owners in a deal that could be worth $500M+; rumored buyers include OpenAI, SoftBank, and Arm — Graphcore in talks with major tech companies after struggling to cash in on AI boom — The British microchip champion Graphcore … | Jessica Traynor / The Guardian: |
A look at the data center economy of Ireland, which had 82 data centers in 2023, amid concerns about rolling blackouts due to pressure on the electrical grid — Datacentres are part of Ireland's vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity.
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams — The trillion-dollar chipmaker has done over two dozen deals, through its Nventures investing arm and corporate development team.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's reversal on RCS wasn't forced by the EU, but likely by China, whose government began codifying in 2023 a requirement for new 5G devices to support RCS — The European Commission, earlier this week: … We've had pretty obvious hints since early September that iMessage and Bing …
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, Supercharged, 9to5Google, iClarified, Forbes, and 9to5Mac
| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI completed a deal valuing the startup at $80B or more, planning to let employees cash out their shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital — The A.I. start-up's valuation tripled in less than 10 months. — OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco … | Can Emir / Interesting Engineering: |
Amsterdam-based Monumental, which is developing AI-powered bricklaying robots, emerges from stealth and raised $25M co-led by Plural and Hummingbird — Monumental, a trailblazing robotics startup, has raised $25 million in funding co-led by Plural and Hummingbird.
More: Fortune, TechCrunch, Monumental, TNW, FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, and The Robot Report. LinkedIn: Salar al Khafaji
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