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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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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 … | 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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Google details Workspace updates: Gmail's “Help me write” voice input and “instant polish”, Docs tabs, Sheets tables, Gemini in Chat, Meet translation, and more — Besides Vids, Google Workspace is getting a slew of new features and Gemini capabilities at Cloud Next 2024.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Pro in public preview on Vertex AI, offering support for up to 1M tokens, and says the model will power new features in Code Assist — Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google's most capable generative AI model, is now available in public preview on Vertex AI, Google's enterprise-focused AI development platform.
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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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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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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts its Gaudi 3 AI chips, set for Q3 mass production, saying they offer up to 1.7x the training performance and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia H100s — Intel announced its new Gaudi 3 AI processors at its Vision 2024 event, claiming they offer up to 1.7X the training performance … | 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 … | 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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| 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) … | 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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| Washington Post: |
How OpenAI is preparing to fight lawsuits, investigations, and legislation: growing its staff from 200 in 2022 to ~1,000, hiring ~24 in-house lawyers, and more — The company has hired more than two dozen in-house lawyers and adopted a new Washington playbook
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's role in protecting free speech online, operating in war zones, moderation, never doing layoffs, and more — What free speech, war zones, and Aristotle have to do with internet infrastructure. … Today, I'm talking with Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince.| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is set for summer 2024 — Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eBay adds an AI-powered “shop the look” feature to its iOS app, with personalized recommendations for users that have viewed 10+ fashion items in six months — EBay on Tuesday launched a new generative AI-powered feature to appeal to fashion enthusiasts: a “shop the look” … | Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Symbolica, which develops foundation models offering an alternative to the transformer AI architecture, raised a $31M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — - Artificial intelligence startup Symbolica, which develops foundation models to compete with ChatGPT creator OpenAI …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
The Internet Archive is hosting the new Aruba Collection, which contains 101,376 items from Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions — By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding …
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Interviews with 12+ former and current employees: ByteDance faces a backlash from its US TikTok staff over large tax bills on stock shares that they cannot sell — Current and former employees of video app's Chinese parent ByteDance in outcry over stock award liabilitiesSponsor Posts
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