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| Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog: |
Google introduces two Gemma variants: CodeGemma to help with code completion, and RecurrentGemma to provide researchers faster inference at higher batch sizes — In February we announced Gemma, our family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
More: Google Cloud Blog, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, Fierce Network, The Register, and SD Times
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple assembled $14B of iPhones in India in the last fiscal year, doubling production YoY; Apple now makes as many 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
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| 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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| 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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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in its API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling — As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is the nexus of modern software development that sits atop tech platforms …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, aider, AI News, Benzinga, Analytics India Magazine, ZDNet, and The Decoder
| 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 … | 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.
More: The Verge, Business Today, and Neowin
| 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 …
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| 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
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| Bloomberg: |
In a lengthy memo on Alibaba's internal forum, Jack Ma voiced support for the company during its turbulent restructuring, saying Alibaba is on the right path — - The co-founder endorses company mission in latest missive — Ma sounded more upbeat than when he first spoke up in November
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance's EBITDA rose 60% YoY in 2023 to $40B and its sales rose from $80B to $120B, the first time ByteDance surpassed Tencent in revenue and profit — - Revenue at TikTok owner also grew substantially in 2023 — Company's US business is being challenged by lawmakers
More: The Information, South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Proactive
| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
The FCC says all but the smallest ISPs must now publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, ending an eight year battle between ISPs and the FCC — Starting on Wednesday, all but the smallest ISPs will be required to publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, the regulator announced.
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| Reuters: |
Aloha Browser says its EU users jumped 250% in March 2024 after the DMA came into effect; Vivaldi, Ecosia, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Opera also saw growth — Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet's Google … | 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: |
| 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
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| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Investment platform Linqto plans to go public via SPAC with Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition at a ~$700M valuation, in a deal expected to close in H2 2024 — 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
| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Rakuten Kobo announces its first color e-readers, the $220 Kobo Libra Colour and the $150 Kobo Clara Colour, available for preorder now and shipping on April 30 — Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Guesty, a platform for accommodation managers to manage Airbnbs and more, raised $130M, sources say at a $900M valuation, after raising a $170M Series E in 2022 — Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world. Now, to underscore that surge …
More: Globes Online, PhocusWire, Guesty, hoteltechnologynews.com, and ctech
| 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.| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
A US official says SpaceX's Pentagon contract to deploy terminals in Ukraine between June 2023 and May 2024 is worth $23M; the deal may not be renewed — - Elon Musk had voiced unease about Starlink's use in Ukraine — Defense Department had declined to disclose size of contract
More: Ars Technica, DigiTimes, Engadget, and Business Insider
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