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AMD unveils four new Zen 5 architecture-based Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs, set to launch in July 2024, claiming 16% more instructions per cycle over Zen 4 — During AMD's Computex 2024 kick-off keynote, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, officially unveiled and announced the company's next generation of Ryzen processors.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD says its fifth-gen EPYC Turin 3nm data center chips will launch in H2 2024, based on its Zen 5 architecture and featuring up to 192 cores and 384 threads — 192 cores, 385 threads, socket compatibility. What's not to like? — AMD Lisa Su announced during her Computex 2024 keynote … | CRN: |
AMD sets a yearly data center GPU release cycle starting with the Instinct MI325X, slated for later in 2024 and with a 30% higher throughput than Nvidia's H200 — The chip designer says the Instinct MI325X data center GPU will best Nvidia's H200 in memory capacity, memory bandwidth … | Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games — The PlayStation VR2's PC adapter is now official. Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Spotify plans to raise US prices: Premium from $10.99 to $11.99 per month, Duo from $14.99 to $16.99, and Family from $16.99 to $19.99, after a July 2023 hike — A year after Spotify first increased the price of Spotify Premium in the US, it's happening again.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Antenna: Spotify users are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services in the US, with a ~2% monthly churn rate, similar to Netflix — Its customers are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services. — Good afternoon from Chicago … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed” — The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.
More: The Verge, X, Variety, International Business Times, and AI News
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
An internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes the company made — Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
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Sources and filings detail Sam Altman's investment portfolio; Altman and his venture funds have invested in 400+ companies, and his holdings are worth $2.8B+ — Many companies backed by CEO do business with the ChatGPT maker and benefit from the AI boom driven by the blockbuster startup, raising questions of conflicts
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more — Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.| Reuters: |
Microsoft plans to invest ~$3.2B to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Sweden over two years and to train 250K Swedes with AI skills over three years — Microsoft (MSFT.O) will invest 33.7 billion Swedish crowns ($3.21 billion) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos Ace review: the $449 headphones are stylish and comfortable with good sound and ANC, but can't be grouped with Sonos speakers and TV Audio Swap is glitchy — The first headphones from Sonos deliver on comfort, sound, and more — with a unique TV Audio Swap feature that's very convenient (when it works).| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Monzo alters its financial year and reports FY 2024 revenue of £880M, 9.7M customers, £11.2B in deposits, and a pretax profit of £15.4M, vs. a loss in FY 2023 — - British digital bank now has almost 10 million customers — Monzo is opening a new office in Ireland to grow in the EU
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