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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
More: Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Politico, CityAM, Amwal Al Ghad, The Straits Times, Supercharged, iMore, The Economic Times, and Channel NewsAsia
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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| 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.
More: Tom's Hardware, Phoronix, TechSpot, ServeTheHome, and ServeTheHome
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Forums: r/technology and r/LinusTechTips
| 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
| 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.
X: @alexvoica, @alexrkonrad, @hkanji, and @richardjnieva
| 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 … | 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.
Mastodon: @TeamMidwest@glammr.us, @icing@chaos.social, @jbond@mastodon.social, and @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
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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 … | 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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| 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
| 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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| 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.| 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
Mastodon: @nitashatiku@mastodon.social. X: @g_delta753, @edwardmehr, @sunofjackson, @landsmanwayne, @aphysicist, @adoricko, and @filarons. LinkedIn: William Schlickenmaier
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