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Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 265% YoY to $22.1B, vs. $20.62B est., Data Center revenue up 409% to $18.4B, Q1 revenue forecast above estimates; NVDA jumps 10%+ — - Nvidia reported earnings after the bell that beat Wall Street expectations for earnings and sales, and said revenue during …
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LinkedIn: Simon Bush and Subhan Ali
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers warn that hackers are exploiting ConnectWise's remote access tool via a flaw “embarrassingly easy” to exploit; ConnectWise has confirmed the attacks — “I can't sugarcoat it — this shit is bad," said Huntress' CEO — Security experts are warning that a high-risk vulnerability …
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| Washington Post: |
Leaked files offer a detailed look at a Chinese state-linked hacking group carrying out cyber intrusions against governments, companies, and infrastructure — A trove of leaked documents from a Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing's intelligence and military groups are carrying …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
The US FDA warns the agency has not “authorized, cleared, or approved any smartwatch or smart ring” that claims to measure blood glucose levels non-invasively — The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not want consumers to purchase or use smart watches …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel's Direct Connect announcements: IFS rebranded to Intel Foundry, fab roadmap including 18A-P, 14A, Hybrid Bonding, five nodes in four years, and more — 5 nodes in 4 years. This is what Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger promised Intel's customers, investors, and the world at large back in 2021 …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B, open-source AI models that let developers more freely use the research that went into Gemini, its flagship closed-source model — Google has released Gemma 2B and 7B, a pair of open-source AI models that let developers use the research that went into its flagship Gemini more freely.
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LinkedIn: Crispin Velez Villazon, Emil Protalinski, Bill Jia, Kevin Buehler, Fernando Mattoso Lemos, Tuan Nguyen, Ph.D, and Kristina Behr
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Apple unveils PQ3, a post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage built on the Kyber algorithm, launching in iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, and macOS 14.4 in March — Useful quantum computers aren't a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage.
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LinkedIn: Philip Intallura Ph.D, Emil Protalinski, and David Thompson
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| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Google says the company is working to fix Gemini's “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions”, after some users complained about them — Controversy is swirling around Google's generative AI tool Gemini as some users complain that its historical depictions are not accurate.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
BuzzFeed sells Complex, acquired for $300M in 2021, to livestream shopping platform Ntwrk for $108.6M; BuzzFeed plans to lay off 16% of its workforce — - The Wall Street Journal reported that BuzzFeed is also looking to possibly sell its social media food brand Tasty.| Reuters: |
Taiwanese chip firms are moving to Japan as the China decoupling accelerates, with at least nine setting up shop or expanding operations over the past two years — Japan's efforts to rebuild its semiconductor industry are getting a shot in the arm as more and more Taiwanese chip companies expand here …
More: Benzinga
| Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google plans to start assembling the Pixel 8 Pro in southern India in Q2 2024, followed by production of the Pixel 8 in northern India in H2 2024 — Search engine giant joins Apple, Samsung in tapping big South Asian market — Google will prepare a production line … | The Information: |
Sources: Sequoia has picked partner Andrew Reed to replace Matthew Miller on Klarna's board; Miller led a failed effort to remove Michael Moritz as board chair — Sequoia Capital has picked partner Andrew Reed to replace Matthew Miller on the board of ‘buy now, pay later’ company Klarna, according to people familiar with the matter.| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Over 700 people, including AI experts and executives, sign an open letter calling for more regulation of deepfakes, such as by criminalizing deepfake child porn — Artificial intelligence experts and industry executives, including one of the technology's trailblazers Yoshua Bengio …
More: OpenLetter.net, Silicon UK, Music Times, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, and The Hill
| Bloomberg: |
A profile of NetChoice, whose revenue jumped from $3M+ in 2020 to $34M in 2022, as the group prepares to fight for the tech industry before SCOTUS in February — - Justices to weigh challenges over Florida, Texas laws — NetChoice sees surge in funding from technology titans| Reuters: |
Sources: Reddit has inked a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search giant's AI models; source: the contract is worth ~$60M a year — Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google (GOOGL.O) to make its content available for training …
More: The Verge, Benzinga, Cryptopolitan, and Wall Street Journal
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon's $180 Echo Hub review: fast and interactive widgets, supports Zigbee, Thread, and Matter, but laggy touchscreen and some features need a subscription — Amazon's new control panel makes using an Alexa-powered smart home as easy as flipping a light switch (only better, trust me).| Financial Times: |
How Bristol-based Hargreaves Lansdown became the UK's largest DIY investment platform, with 1.8M clients and £134B in assets, as new rivals weaken its dominance — The UK's largest DIY investment platform faces competition from challengers who claim to have lower costs and better technology| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Orkes, which provides a microservices orchestration platform for developers, raised a $20M Series A led by Nexus, taking its total funding to $29.3M — Back in 2016, Netflix open-sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it.| Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, who might be the biggest individual funder of AI education and research, having pledged $500M+ to the effort — The private-equity billionaire has donated more than half a billion dollars for AI education and research
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Walmart's PhonePe debuts its Indus Appstore for consumers, with over 200K apps; the Android app store is available as an app that users will have to sideload — Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are among the top brands whose apps are listed on the Indian fintech PhonePe's Indus Appstore … | The Information: |
Source: Magic, which recently raised $117M and says its AI coding assistant has a larger context window than rivals', may have made an AI reasoning breakthrough — Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and his investment partner, Daniel Gross, raised eyebrows last week by writing a $100 million check to Magic …
More: Maginative, Voicebot.ai, San Francisco Business Times, and Pulse 2.0
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