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| Financial Times: |
The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years — Preliminary agreement under US Chips Act also includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states
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X: @sama, @secraimondo, @intelpolicy, @intelpolicy, @realmemes6, @commercegov, and @firstadopter. Forums: Hacker News
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
After its OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and most Inflection staff continues its strategy of developing ties with the most prominent names in AI — Satya Nadella's appointment of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing ties with fledging AI companies
More: The Information, Business Post, ITPro, Tech Startups, Business Insider, Bloomberg, New York Times, Fast Company, Cybernews.com, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, BusinessCloud, Windows Report, NewsBytes, The Hindu, Silicon Republic, Business Today, Ars Technica, The Economic Times, News18, Mobile World Live, and iTnews. X: @carnage4life
| Inflection: |
Inflection AI names Sean White as CEO and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure, after co-founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman depart for Microsoft AI — From day one at Inflection, we've been driven by a simple mission: to create a personal intelligence for everyone.
More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Android Headlines, and Runtime
Threads: @jjackyliang. X: @reidhoffman, @mhbergen, @basedalexandoor, @willdepue, @wagieeacc, @cis_female, @krishnanrohit, @krishnanrohit, @paulroetzer, @inflectionai, @inflectionai, @inflectionai, and @kylebrussell. LinkedIn: Allie K. Miller
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
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Threads: @daveleebbg. X: @joefenton, @laurengoode, @alewkowycz, @zck, @amitfulay, and @0interestrates
LinkedIn: Mazen Abou Najm, Kevin Tupper, and Adam Brewer
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Business Insider: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during the summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model — - OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld's stats this week — The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game's previous record …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Glassdoor users complain after the service added their real names to their profiles without their consent; Glassdoor cross-populates data between its services — Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews …
More: Wired and Engadget
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Mastodon: @200ok@mastodon.social, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @josh@josh.tel, @cammerman@mstdn.social, and @eff@mastodon.social
Forums: r/UKJobs, r/antiwork, r/privacy, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle turning on fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse — Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, FediForum on YouTube, Android Central, Android Police, and ZDNet
Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries and is potentially linked to I-Soon — A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
More: Trend Micro, SecurityWeek, Dark Reading, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, Metacurity, The Record, The Stack, SC Media, and GovInfoSecurity.com
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X: @trendmicrorsrch, @thehellu, and @virusbtn
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets over content links and using articles to train its AI tech, after a €500M fine in 2021 — - Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation
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X: @bcoeure, @bcoeure, and @samuelstolton
| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
France is seeking “a national solution” to protect IT giant Atos, which manages nuclear data and cybersecurity, after Airbus talks failed; ATO.PA fell 20%+ — The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.
More: Atos, Reuters, CIO.com, Silicon Republic, Tech Monitor, Bloomberg, The Register, Dark Reading, and Financial Times
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper — They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the White House is considering blacklisting some Huawei-linked Chinese chip companies, after the Mate 60 Pro from August 2023 used an advanced 7nm chip — - Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holdings to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin — - Purchase were made with proceeds from a convertible note sale … The enterprise software maker, whose corporate strategy includes buying …
More: CCN.com, CoinJournal, CryptoGlobe, Reuters, and ZyCrypto
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager warns Apple over its Core Technology Fee, saying the EU plans to investigate, and Meta over its planned subscription fees — EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday warned Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) on their new fees for their services …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Spyglass, WinBuzzer, iMore, Daring Fireball, The Motley Fool, Daring Fireball, and Supercharged
| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
How Sweet Baby, a small video game narrative development company, became the focus of Gamergate 2.0, a harassment campaign against “forced” diversity in gaming — A group of gamers has mobilized a harassment campaign against a story consultant company, marginalized developers …
More: IGN. Mastodon: @mrcopilot@mstdn.social. X: @domaindead, @stevie_mat, @kahliefadams, @cheryllynneaton, @alyssa_merc, @easbygames, @taylorcocke, and @xoelleslow. Forums: r/saltierthankrayt
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU Commission rules, set to be adopted as soon as next week, will fine X, TikTok, and other big platforms over lax election AI content moderation — Social media platforms including X and TikTok will face fines for failing to tackle disinformation| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$21.6B, vs. ~$21.8B est., a ~$3.8B net income, vs. ~$4.6B est., and plans a $12.8B+ stock buyback, as gaming sales slow — - Revenue growth in the quarter was its slowest in a year — Tencent joins tech rivals in ramping up shareholder returns
More: Tencent, Tech in Asia, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Variety, and Proactive
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs that offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more — When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Toronto-based PocketHealth, which helps 775 health care providers exchange images covering 1.5M patients to cut costs, raised a $33M Series B led by Round13 — - It raised $33 million in a round led by Round13 Capital — It aims to personalize health care through the use of AI
More: FinSMEs, TechCrunch, PocketHealth, and The Logic
| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations — Google is training Gemini on health data, and it's creating a new AI model for the Fitbit app that can give advice tailored to your needs.
More: The Keyword, Thurrott, Yahoo Finance, Android Authority, Android Central, Digital Trends, Cybernews.com, 9to5Google, Silicon Republic, Mashable, MSPoweruser, MobileSyrup, NewsBytes, The Crypto Times, arXiv.org, CNET on YouTube, Bloomberg, TheStreet, Fierce Healthcare, Engadget, TechRadar, The Keyword, eClinicalMedicine, PYMNTS.com, The Keyword, CNET, and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @google, @amycchou, @katieelink, @ashleycapoot, @berci, @stephenpfohl, @liamgmccoy, @hcolelewis, @ashleycapoot, @googlehealth, @googlehealth, @googleorg, and @thekaransinghal. LinkedIn: Aashima Gupta
| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google's Pixel 8a will have a 6.1" 120Hz OLED display at 1,400 nits, a Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a — The Pixel 8a's major upgrades will make it even more competitive, but raise further questions over the vanilla Pixel 8.| Bloomberg: |
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