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| 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 …
More: The Guardian, Simon Willison's Weblog, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, GIGAZINE, MarkTechPost, MSPoweruser, Voicebot.ai, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @mistralai, @jmorgan, @perplexity_ai, @altryne, @thom_wolf, @basedbeffjezos, @sophiamyang, @andersonbcdefg, @denisyarats, @togethercompute, @bindureddy, @nearcyan, @itsandrewgao, @reach_vb, @awnihannun, @mervenoyann, @anjneymidha, @carrigmat, @mistralai, @jiayq, @aravsrinivas, @reach_vb, and @danielhanchen. Forums: Hacker News
| 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, Bloomberg, The Information, The Next Platform, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, New.blicio.us, Maginative, The Decoder, Android Headlines, MarkTechPost, Quartz, Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, Tech Startups, Unite.AI, PYMNTS.com, Barron's Online, DatacenterDynamics, The Register, and Constellation Research
Threads: @paul_rietschka and @paul_rietschka
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LinkedIn: Mikael Strandlund, 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, Forbes, GSMArena.com, TechRadar, BetaNews, Phandroid, BGR, SamNews 24, PetaPixel, Patently Apple, Droid Life, Digital Trends, How-To Geek, Android Headlines, ZDNet, CNBC, PCWorld, SamMobile, Trusted Reviews, Stuff, 9to5Google, Maginative, Android Central, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, PhoneArena, The Indian Express, 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 …
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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 …
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| 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: Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
| 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, SpaceNews, PCMag, TechCrunch, and Sherwood News
X: @kielporter, @deitaone, @kenkirtland17, and @edludlow
Forums: r/SpaceXLounge and r/RealTesla
| 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: @potus, @thogar, @googlefiber, @paulwinfree, @fcc, @davidshepardson, and @fcc
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and r/cordcutters
| 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
More: The White House, The Seattle Times, CryptoSlate, GeekWire, Cryptopolitan, Chain Store Age, and Hindustan Times. Bluesky: @theonlyjdb.bsky.social
| 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 — He found a field rich with deep, unanswered questions that were mathematical at heart.
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X: @theofficialacm, @michalfeldman9, @prfsanjeevarora, @tarunchitra, @dana_peer, @michael_nielsen, @theofficialacm, @gregbodwin, @yudapearl, @pmddomingos, @rinekev, @crypto_carsten, @zeyuanallenzhu, @tim_roughgarden, @arindamkhan, @dsivakumar, @acm_ceo, @princetongrad, @maxaifer, @princetonalumni, @risteski_a, @princeton, and @huckbennett. LinkedIn: Eric Horvitz. Forums: Hacker News
| 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, PCMag, TechHive, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, and Business Post
Forums: r/homeassistant and Slashdot
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million …
Forums: Hacker News
| 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| 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 … | 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: @michaelroddan, @mvpeers, @coryweinberg, @theinformation, and @senpaterson
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