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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% — SPEC says Intel's Xeon processors were using a compiler that artificially inflated the results of its industrial benchmark by as much as 9%.
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| 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, Cryptopolitan, Forbes, Tech Xplore, and The Hill
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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 … | 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
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more — Figma has a billion dollars and big plans for expansion as it emerges from the acquisition with its ‘foot on the gas.’ — Happy Friday.
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| 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, Monumental, TNW, FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, The Robot Report, and TechCrunch
| 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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| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
Sources: FISA's Section 702 bill was shelved over a rule that would end the government's ability to pay US firms for information rather than serving a warrant — A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of an effort to block legislation …
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| 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
More: The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, Mashable, The Decoder, and PCMag
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| Washington Post: |
How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023 — After a decade of building the future, tech's new guard is going back to the American past — spurring a funding frenzy in defense technology
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Despite Google and OpenAI's promises, Gemini and ChatGPT appear to have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinfo for the 2024 US presidential election — Google and OpenAI's chatbots have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinformation for the 2024 presidential election.| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk says his companies “have probably done more to undermine Russia than anything” and calls accusations that he is a Vladimir Putin apologist “absurd” — Billionaire maintains his companies are doing the most to undermine the Kremlin — Absurd.
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