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Google unveils ARM-based Axion chips for AI, claiming they have up to 30% better performance over the top ARM rivals, coming to Google Cloud customers in 2024 — Tech giant develops new chips to cut reliance on outside vendors as the AI arms race intensifies
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LinkedIn: Partha Ranganathan, Stephen Bates, Maruthy Vedam, and Gianluca Varisco. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveils AI updates: corporate Gemini users can “ground” responses in reliable sources, Search as a Gemini answer source, and more — The company unveiled updates to its AI offerings at its annual cloud conference — Google unveiled a host …
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LinkedIn: Iman Ghanizada and Ryon Haness
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google details Workspace updates: Gmail's “instant polish” to turn rough notes into emails, tabs in Docs, Gemini in Chat, “Translate for me” in Meet, and more — Besides Vids, Google Workspace is getting a slew of new features and Gemini capabilities at Cloud Next 2024.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google announces Vids, an app to help companies and consumers make collaborative, shareable video, powered by Gemini, launching in public beta in summer 2024 — For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky will become Automattic's head of messaging — - Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join — Beeper briefly brought Apple's iMessage to Android devices
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts Gaudi 3, set for Q3 mass production, claiming up to 1.7x the training performance, 50% more inference, and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia's H100 — GPUs fall the wayside as Intel goes all-in on Gaudi for AI. — Intel made a slew of announcements during its Vision 2024 event today …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens — Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers found an exposed Azure server with credentials used by Microsoft staff to access internal systems; Microsoft was told Feb. 6 and secured it March 5 — Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet.
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Monad Labs, which is building a Layer 1 blockchain to rival Ethereum and Solana, raised $225M led by Paradigm and plans to launch its mainnet by the end of 2024 — With crypto markets roaring back, different blockchains are jockeying to become the solution that hoovers up demand in the next wave …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Cruise resumes manually driving its vehicles without autonomous systems engaged to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix — General Motors' Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds shopping features, including creator-curated product lists for users to browse called Shopping Collections and a hub with info on commission rates — YouTube announced on Tuesday that it's launching new Shopping features that allow creators to curate shoppable collections … | Wall Street Journal: |
An investigation finds a shadowy supply chain for Starlink terminals to US foes in Russia and Sudan via Africa, Asia, and the UAE; SpaceX has not shut them off — The satellite-internet devices are helping Russian fighters in Ukraine and paramilitary forces in Sudan; SpaceX hasn't shut them off
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
In some US schools, boys have used AI “nudification” apps to create and share deepfakes of clothed female classmates, leading to varying district responses — After boys at Francesca Mani's high school fabricated and shared explicit images of girls last year, she and her mother … | Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: the US plans to award Samsung $6B+ next week to build four chip facilities in Taylor, Texas, including a $17B plant, as part of the $52.7B CHIPS Act — The Biden administration plans to announce it is awarding more than $6 billion to South Korea's Samsung (005930.KS) …
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| Naoki Watanabe / Nikkei Asia: |
Microsoft plans to invest $2.9B in data centers in Japan by 2025, its biggest investment in the country, and will add advanced AI chips at two existing sites — Move comes in response to push for ‘data sovereignty’ among governments — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Microsoft will invest $2.9 billion …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
In London, Meta execs downplayed the negative impact of AI on elections, touted open-source AI, and confirmed Llama's next version will arrive by next month — - AI not used on “systemic basis” to subvert elections: Clegg — Political deepfakes on the rise as voters head to polls
More: ZDNet, The Guardian, The Independent, Seeking Alpha, Telegraph, The Mirror, TechCrunch, and The Information
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Alethea, whose ML service monitors online chatter to help companies detect disinformation, raised a $20M Series B by GV, bringing its total raised to $34M — Puck has acquired Artelligence, a Substack newsletter about the global art market authored by veteran art director and journalist Marion Maneker … | Washington Post: |
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