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Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU — - Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how the company's early decisions led to its AI boom, why Nvidia's ubiquity will not be easy to replicate, and more — Nvidia's chips sparked the AI revolution. Now it's in the business of putting the technology to work in an array of industries.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on many staff from his Inflection AI startup — Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head … | Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users generate 3D video from a text or image prompt — Stability AI is growing its generative AI model portfolio today with the release of Stable Video 3D (SV3D).
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU DMA hearing: a Meta lawyer says Meta offered to cut its EU monthly subscription for Facebook and Instagram from €9.99 to €5.99 to address regulatory concerns — Meta Platforms (META.O) has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to 5.99 euros …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Solana memecoin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have mistakenly “burned” tokens set for an airdrop — “This is not a joke I really f****d up and im really sorry. Was a simple mindless misclick when I was in the process of burning the the lp," the developer said| Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: |
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, which lets up to six Steam users share their PC games, manage parental controls, and more, meant to replace Family Sharing — Share your Steam games with up to five others in a Steam Family. — What you need to know — Valve is introducing …
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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Reddit says Nokia on March 18 accused the company of infringing some of its patents, and is evaluating Nokia's claims ahead of its planned IPO this week — Nokia Technologies, the company's licensing business, sent Reddit a letter on Monday with the claims, and Reddit is evaluating them, according to a filing made Tuesday.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at Playtron, which raised a $10M seed to build a Linux-based, platform-agnostic gaming OS to replace Windows or SteamOS, starting with handheld consoles — The former CEO of Cyanogen has a plan for a platform-agnostic gaming operating system.
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| Jamie Grierson / The Guardian: |
The UK sentences a man to 66 weeks in prison for cyberflashing, under the Online Safety Act, the first such conviction since the OSA took effect on January 31 — Nicholas Hawkes, 39, from Essex, convicted under new Online Safety Act after sending images of genitals| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based online shopping rewards app ShopBack cuts 195 jobs, or 24% of its staff, to become self-sustainable; ShopBack raised a $200M Series F in 2022 — ShopBack, an online shopping rewards app backed by Temasek Holdings Pte, is cutting about a quarter of its workforce as it retreats from the buy-now-pay-later space.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: senior DOJ officials plan to hold closed-door Senate briefings on March 19 and 20 to advance a TikTok divestiture, as opposed to an outright US ban — - DOJ wants senators to pass a bill forcing TikTok sale — Effort is part of broader DoJ push on data-security measures
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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind debuts TacticAI, a prototype AI soccer tactician built alongside Premier League club Liverpool, using geometric deep learning on 7K corner kicks — Human experts prefer TacticAI's suggested positional improvements at corner kicks — Google DeepMind has developed …
More: MIT Technology Review, The Verge, RTL Today, Google DeepMind, and Wired
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers, raised a $100M Series B led by Uber at a $750M valuation, up from $550M in August 2023 — Moove, an African mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers, has raised $100 million …
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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Asus Zenbook Duo review: a sleek design, gorgeous displays, and solid battery life, but pricier than a clamshell and Windows 11 isn't optimized for two screens — You get a ton of extra utility for not that much more money or bulk. — Senior Writer, Reviews
More: PCWorld
| Financial Times: |
Airbus ends talks with Atos on a deal worth up to €1.8B for its big data and security unit, imperiling efforts by Atos to avoid going into debt restructuring — Decision adds pressure on indebted French IT services company — Airbus has walked away from talks with Atos over a potential deal …
More: The Register, Bloomberg, and SecurityWeek
| Kalkidan Yibeltal / BBC: |
Ethiopia's central bank says “a glitch” let Commercial Bank clients withdraw more cash than was in their account for hours; local media says $40M+ was withdrawn — Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank is scrambling to recoup large sums of money withdrawn by customers after a “systems glitch”.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC and Intel suppliers have delayed building plants in Arizona, citing surging construction costs, labor shortages, and weak local chipmaker demand — At least 5 chemical makers slow expansion as industry awaits CHIPS Act funds — Rebuilding America's chip supply chain is shaping …
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