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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips for AI training, and says MTIA v1 and the new chips are both now in production — Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster.
More: Meta, Meta, Reuters, The Information, Bloomberg, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, MSPoweruser, New.blicio.us, Maginative, The Decoder, DatacenterDynamics, MarkTechPost, Quartz, Cryptopolitan, Barron's Online, Tech Startups, Unite.AI, and Constellation Research
Threads: @paul_rietschka and @paul_rietschka
X: @mikeyanderson, @benbajarin, @iancutress, @aiatmeta, @isidentical, @soumithchintala, @iancutress, @rao_hacker_one, @iamadifuchs, @squashbionic, @thetechbrother, @__tinygrad__, and @aiatmeta
LinkedIn: Albert Fong, Tanmay Zargar, Dan Rabinovitsj, Ash Jhaveri, Santosh Janardhan, Neeraj Agrawal, and Ajit Mathews
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to make Magic Editor and other AI editing tools, previously limited to Pixel phones and paid users, available to all Google Photos users for free — Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited …
More: The Keyword, Android Authority, The Verge, Engadget, BetaNews, Patently Apple, Forbes, Phandroid, TechRadar, CNBC, BGR, SamNews 24, PhoneArena, PetaPixel, Droid Life, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, How-To Geek, Android Headlines, ZDNet, PCWorld, SamMobile, Trusted Reviews, Stuff, 9to5Google, Maginative, Android Central, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, and PiunikaWeb
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
The US SEC sends decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap a Wells notice warning that the agency intends to bring an enforcement action against the company — The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Uniswap on Wednesday that it intends to bring an enforcement action against the company …
More: Uniswap Protocol, CoinDesk, DL News, Reuters, Bloomberg, Cryptonews, Decrypt, The Block, CoinGape, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Insider, Milk Road, Blockworks, The Crypto Times, and CryptoSlate
X: @haydenzadams, @uniswap, @richardheartwin, @bantg, @prestonjbyrne, @valkenburgh, @viktorbunin, @mdudas, @0x_charlemagne, @campbelljaustin, @mattomattik, @jessepollak, @alice_comfy, @jasonyanowitz, @daancrypto, @functi0nzer0, @euler_mab, @functi0nzer0, @functi0nzer0, @_jikim, @ammori, @alexkozak, @matthewstoller, @iampaulgrewal, @mclader, @iamdcinvestor, @ryansadams, @jolieyang, @uniswap, @lucmatheson, @uniswap, @uniswap, @koeppelmann, @derivatives_ape, @adamscochran, @erikvoorhees, @adamscochran, @danrobinson, @awice, @0xmarcb, @adamscochran, @iamnomad, @katherineykwu, @adamscochran, @milesjennings, @iamdcinvestor, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @asvanevik, @ryansadams, @ammori, @poppunkonchain, @udiwertheimer, @thevulturetrade, @usv, @fintechfrank, and @jeffjohnroberts. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023 — As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch …
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| Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: |
Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training generative AI models to disclose all of the copyrighted work they used to do so — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would require companies using copyrighted material to train …
More: The Guardian, Congressman Adam Schiff, Engadget, The Verge, Billboard, Music Ally, Benzinga, Decrypt, Fast Company, TweakTown, PetaPixel, The Register, Gizmodo, and Deadline
| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
The FCC says all but the smallest ISPs must now publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all their plans, ending an eight-year battle between ISPs and the agency — 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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X: @paulwinfree, @googlefiber, @fcc, @fcc, @potus, @thogar, and @davidshepardson
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and r/cordcutters
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more “art than a science”, often omitting costs of putting Starlink satellites in orbit to make numbers look better to investors — SpaceX celebrates the satellite business as a money-making venture fueling a quest to launch rockets and reach Mars.
More: Astranis, PCMag, TechCrunch, and SpaceNews
X: @kielporter, @deitaone, @kenkirtland17, and @edludlow
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it will stop paying developers to create Alexa apps and giving free AWS credits on June 30, 2024; developers can keep monetizing their apps via IAPs — - End of program scraps key element of effort to build app store — Google killed third-party apps for its Assistant in 2022
More: ZDNet, TechHive, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, and Business Post
Forums: r/homeassistant and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of AI technology — The CEO met with officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of artificial intelligence.
More: PYMNTS.com and The Information
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple assembled $14B worth of iPhones in India in the past fiscal year, doubling production YoY; Apple now makes 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| Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: |
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness — All topics … Newsletter — Get Quanta Magazine delivered to your inbox — Recent newsletters
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X: @michalfeldman9, @prfsanjeevarora, @michael_nielsen, @pmddomingos, @arindamkhan, @tarunchitra, @gregbodwin, @yudapearl, @crypto_carsten, @zeyuanallenzhu, @dsivakumar, @risteski_a, @theofficialacm, @dana_peer, @tim_roughgarden, @acm_ceo, @huckbennett, @theofficialacm, @princetongrad, @maxaifer, @princetonalumni, @princeton, and @rinekev. LinkedIn: Eric Horvitz. Forums: Hacker News
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google's Cloud Next keynote was by far its most impressive presentation in the AI era, not least because the company put forward its infrastructure advantages — It was impossible to miss the leading message at yesterday's Google Cloud Next keynote: Google has the best infrastructure for AI.
More: Constellation Research and Beyond Search
Threads: @fredericl. X: @dynamicwebpaige, @scobleizer, @patrickmoorhead, @minimaxir, @stratechery, @levie, and @quinnypig. LinkedIn: Achintya Singhal
| Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog: |
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X: @nvidiaaidev, @jeffdean, @_philschmid, @clmt, @fchollet, and @samuelmlsmith
LinkedIn: Megan Risdal and Amin Vahdat
| 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 user 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 …
More: Ars Technica, OSnews, TechCrunch, Six Colors, and Supercharged
Mastodon: @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social. X: @iconredesign, @ispeedtest0s, @rasmus_kleis, and @florian4gamers
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce — Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was last valued at $5 billion in April 2022 … | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content” — The change, they say, has significantly affected creators who are Black, female, disabled and LGBTQ| Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese companies — - Leaders look to cooperate on developing emerging technology — Kishida touts benefits of Japan's investments in the US| Granth Vanaik / Reuters: |
Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables — Google will invest $1 billion to improve digital connectivity between the U.S. and Japan through two new subsea cables … | Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance misled the Central Bank of Ireland in early 2023, after HSBC shut down the company's bank accounts following a money laundering probe — In early 2023, Irish banking regulators contacted ByteDance with a pointed question: Why was the Chinese internet giant and parent company …
More: Irish Independent. X: @senpaterson, @michaelroddan, @mvpeers, @coryweinberg, and @theinformation
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance's EBITDA rose ~60% YoY in 2023 to $40B+ and its sales rose from $80B to nearly $120B, passing Tencent's revenue and profit for the first time — - Revenue at TikTok owner also grew substantially in 2023 — Company's US business is being challenged by lawmakers| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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