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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Intel unveils its Lunar Lake laptop chips, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU, 50% faster integrated GPU, and NPU with up to 48 TOPS of AI performance  —  Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
At Computex, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger takes a direct shot at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's claim that traditional CPUs like Intel's are running out of steam in AI
Reuters:
Intel says a standard AI kit featuring its Gaudi 2 chips, introduced in 2022, will cost $65K, and a Gaudi 3 kit, unveiled in April 2024, will cost $125K
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Intel announces Xeon 6 data center chips for AI: series 6700 with 144 efficient and 86 performance cores, and 6900 with 288 efficient and 128 performance cores
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: E*Trade is considering kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its service over stock manipulation concerns; GameStop jumped 60% since Gill reappeared  —  Morgan Stanley's trading platform discusses concerns about possible manipulation in GameStop
Emilia David / The Verge:
Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available “soon” for $70  —  As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Palmer Luckey unveils the $199 ModRetro Chromatic, a take on the Nintendo Game Boy, with USB-C video out and a 1,000+ nits custom screen, shipping this holiday  —  It's true.  There's photo evidence — and today, he's revealing his own take on the ultimate cartridge-playing Nintendo Game Boy, one that you can actually buy for $199.
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers  —  - Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say.  — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A group of nine current and former OpenAI staff, and two Google DeepMind staff, blow the whistle on what they say is a culture of recklessness and secrecy  —  Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees …
Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming:
Sources and leaked documents detail YouTube's gaming leak culture, as some staff watch non-public videos and leak info; YouTube has investigated multiple staff  —  According to a report from 404 Media, which has allegedly obtained an internal Google database tracking six years of potential privacy …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A leaked internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes Google made
Reuters:
TSMC Chair C.C. Wei says the company has held talks with customers over moving its plants off Taiwan as China tensions mount but such a move would be impossible  —  Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW), whose major clients include Nvidia and Apple, said on Tuesday it had held talks …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube  —  Instagram confirmed it's testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media.
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Coinbase donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake Super PAC; Fairshake raised ~$161M for the 2024 US election, including $25M each from a16z and Ripple  —  Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake …
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Samsung sues Oura, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Galaxy Ring, expected to launch in the US “in or around August”, doesn't infringe on Oura's patents  —  Samsung isn't waiting around for Oura to file any patent claims over its forthcoming smart ring.
RT Watson / The Block:
Filing: Dapper Labs, maker of NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs, settles a class action lawsuit for $4M over allegations of selling unregistered securities  —  - Dapper Labs, the creator of the NBA Top Shot Moments NFT collection, said it had settled a class-action lawsuit which alleged the company had violated securities laws.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI fixes a ChatGPT issue that caused a major outage for 2.5 hours, starting at around 12:20am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23  —  OpenAI has fixed an issue that caused a ChatGPT outage for several hours on Tuesday.  The company said it is monitoring results at 12:21 AM PDT.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Shutterstock CEO Paul Hennessy says the company's licensing business with AI companies made $104M in revenue in 2023  —  - Reka AI is latest customer to announced deal with Shutterstock  — OpenAI, Meta, among others using Shutterstock images for AI

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How Paramount's David Ellison deployed financial backing and political lobbying, including his well-connected chief legal adviser, to beat Netflix and win WBD

CNN:
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