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April 11, 2024, 1:15 AM

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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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
Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine:
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Huawei is building a vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai and has already hired numerous engineers who have worked for ASML, TSMC, and others  —  China tech company spending billions, snapping up talent in battle against U.S. crackdown  —  TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies …
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.

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