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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia said newly announced RTX AI PC laptops from Asus and MSI will have up to GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs and “systems-on-a-chip with Windows 11 AI PC capabilities” — Nvidia and AMD are gearing up to launch gaming laptops that include the AI Copilot Plus features that Microsoft just announced for Qualcomm-powered laptops.
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to upgrade its AI accelerators annually, and announces a Blackwell Ultra chip for 2025 and a next-gen Rubin AI platform for 2026 that will use HBM4 — - CEO Jensen Huang reveals plans for annual upgrade cycle — Company details plans for Blackwell Ultra and subsequent chips
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In a demo, Nvidia shows its G-Assist AI chatbot that could guide users through PC games based on voice queries, configure optimal settings, and more — When Nvidia first announced G-Assist it was an April Fools' prank in 2017 that joked about an AI assistant being able to help you play …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Jensen Huang said at Computex that Asus, Pegatron, Wistron, and others will deliver cloud, on-prem, embedded, and edge AI systems using Nvidia Blackwell GPUs — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex that the world's top computer manufacturers today are unveiling Nvidia Blackwell …
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| Politico: |
Donald Trump joins TikTok, which he tried to ban during his presidency; a TikTok official claims the app has a 2:1 ratio of pro-Trump versus pro-Biden content — Trump's joining of TikTok is a major win for the embattled app that's fighting for its existence in Washington.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others — AI search platform Perplexity is launching a new feature called Pages that will generate a customizable webpage based on user prompts.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at the $799 ROG Ally X, shipping July 22: 24GB RAM, 80 watt-hour battery that doesn't feel heavy, better and lighter joysticks, and more — $799 for twice the battery, twice the storage, and loads of small improvements. … When Valve introduced the Steam Deck OLED, I called it “everything the original should have been.”
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| Nathaniel Popper / Bloomberg: |
An excerpt from the book The Trolls of Wall Street, which details how r/WallStreetBets fueled a movement that turned millions of young Americans into investors — An excerpt from Nathaniel Popper's forthcoming The Trolls of Wall Street. — By the end of 2011, Jaime Rogozinski, 29, had fallen into a rut.
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| Rest of World: |
A look at activist groups' efforts to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from building more data centers in Chile, amid a drought expected to last until 2040 — Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Filing: Ticketmaster confirms “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database”, after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale — Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, confirmed it found “unauthorized activity” within a cloud database …
More: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., GB News, TechCrunch, TIME, NPR, Security Affairs, The Hill, WKBN-TV, Variety, The Verge, nltimes.nl, New York Times, Deadline, and Axios
Threads: @hunterwalk. X: @joetidy, @joetidy, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox. LinkedIn: Or Shoshani. Forums: r/technews
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
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X: @gossithedog, @evisdrenova, @troyhunt, @rockhudsonrock, and @arkadiyt
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/business, r/worldnews, and r/Music
| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
More: BBC, BleepingComputer, Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Mirror, Metro.co.uk, Security Affairs, DeviceSecurity.io, The Daily Hodl, The Guardian, and ITPro
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
How TikTok influencers helped a self-published author sell 1M+ copies of her book, including ~700K on the TikTok shop, showing how TikTok changed book marketing — Keila Shaheen's “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Content creators are amassing audiences of thousands on Twitch by covering political news and raising funds for Palestinians, as other platforms eschew politics — Dozens of content creators are leveraging the live streaming app to raise funds for Palestinians, circumventing political content bans on other platforms.Sponsor Posts
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