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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
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LinkedIn: Gianluca Varisco, Anne-Laure Giret, Achintya Singhal, Iman Ghanizada, and Ryon Haness
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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LinkedIn: David Smith and Aaron Rimmer
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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LinkedIn: Nenshad Bardoliwalla and Amin Vahdat
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/beeper, and Beehaw
| 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.
More: arXiv.org, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, and Spyglass
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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| 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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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers found an exposed Azure server with Microsoft staff credentials used to access internal systems; Microsoft was told February 6 and fixed on March 5 — Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly users of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% — The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche. Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier this year …
More: Piper Sandler, AppleInsider, Piper Sandler, CNBC, and MacDailyNews
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
WPP announces a collaboration with Google, integrating Gemini AI tools with WPP data to create scripts, product images, and more for ad clients like Coca-Cola — The groundbreaking partnership implies Google's robots could begin creating ads for world-leading brands like Coca-Cola. — Chat with SearchBot| 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 …
More: YouTube Official Blog, Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, Chain Store Age, and NewsBytes. LinkedIn: Pablo Maroñas
| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
NetEase says it is working with Microsoft to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the partnership in January 2023 — Chinese video games giant NetEase (9999.HK) said it is working with Microsoft (MSFT.O) to bring popular games including …
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X: @deantak, @florian4gamers, @blizzard_ent, @byjoshye, and @xboxp3
Forums: r/hearthstone, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/MMORPG, and r/Overwatch
| Vinod Khosla / Financial Times: |
The US is right to target TikTok and prevent a foreign adversary from controlling a platform to deploy “persuasive AI” that can manipulate US citizens and more — Chinese control of a powerful ‘persuasive AI’ tool cannot be tolerated — The writer is the founder of Khosla Ventures| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Investment platform Linqto plans to go public via a SPAC merger with Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition at a ~$700M valuation in a deal expected to close in H2 — Investment platform Linqto has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) …
More: Private Equity Investing and DealFlow's SPAC News
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple assembled $14B of iPhones in India last fiscal year, doubling production YoY, with the company now making as much as 14% of its iPhones in India — - It now assembles about 1 in 7 of its iPhones from India — That ramp-up suggests an accelerating shift from China
More: Reuters, PhoneArena, Hindustan Times, and ANI News
| Grace Sharkey / FreightWaves: |
Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M — The company recently added partnerships with Averitt and Cheema Freightlines — · — Platform Science …
More: DC Velocity, Platform Science, and socalTECH
X: @codybarbo, @truckersnapnews, @platformscience, @jakemedwell, @fredmgrier, and @8vc. LinkedIn: Wesley Friedman
| New York Times: |
How TSMC is transforming the Japanese farm town of Kikuyo into a key node in Asia's chip supply chain, backed by billions of dollars from Japan's government — Taiwan's semiconductor giant, TSMC, is quickly remaking a farm town in Japan into Asia's next hub of chip manufacturing with enormous government support.| 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.
More: Cruise Self Driving Cars, The Robot Report, The Last Driver License Holder, The Verge, NBC News, Tech Xplore, ZDNet, CNBC, GovTech, Inc.com, Benzinga, and Bloomberg
X: @meghanbobrowsky and @aniccia
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Copenhagen-based Reshape, whose AI-powered robotic imaging system helps track visual changes in lab experiments, raised a $20M Series A led by Astanor Ventures — Danish startup grabs $20M in funding to bring more engineering to biology — A Danish startup wants to help R&D teams automate lab experiments … | Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to $18.5B and expects revenue to grow at least 20% in 2024, reversing 2023's slight decline, and budgets capex of $28B-$32B — That outperformance lends weight to expectations that the world's most valuable chipmaker will return to solid growth this year …
More: TSMC
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