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A look at Apple's work on its in-house modem chip, set to replace Qualcomm's, which may debut in select models in 2025, with the full rollout taking a few years — Apple's move to drop Qualcomm modem chips won't have a payoff at the outset, but it could set the stage for bigger things later.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
X says it is closing its operations in Brazil, claiming a judge threatened “arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders”; X still remains available — X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it's ending operations in Brazil …
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| Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: |
How Worldcoin is building its World ID identity system, trying to assuage government and privacy activists' concerns about its iris scanning tech and data usage — More than a dozen jurisdictions have either suspended the project's operations or looked into its data processing| Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: |
Since 2018, Roblox has grown rapidly and consistently and now has an estimated average of 80M+ daily and 380M+ monthly users, over 2x that of Steam or Minecraft — Everyone knows Roblox is huge. But as COVID receded into memory, Roblox shifted from “new” to “familiar,” … | Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Arize AI: 56% of Fortune 500 companies cited AI as a “risk factor” in their recent annual reports, up from 9% in 2022; 86% of software firms cited AI as a risk — Study finds more than half of Fortune 500 groups cited new technology as a potential hazard in their latest annual reports| Financial Times: |
South Korea's plan to introduce tablets with AI features in schools faces backlash from parents and academics concerned about children's overexposure to devices — South Korea's plan to introduce artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks in schools has provoked a backlash from parents …
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| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
FOI documents: data center water consumption in Virginia, home to the world's largest cluster of data centers, hit 1.85B+ gallons in 2023, up from 1.13B in 2019 — Usage has increased by almost two-thirds since 2019 in the world's largest concentration of computing infrastructure| Edward Helmore / The Guardian: |
Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters — Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps
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| Representative Nancy Pelosi: |
Nancy Pelosi issues a statement in opposition to California's AI safety bill, saying it is “well-intentioned but ill-informed” and “more harmful than helpful” — San Francisco - Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement in opposition to California Senate Bill 1047:
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
South Korean AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon agree to merge; Rebellions has raised $225M+, and Sapeon's shareholders include SK Telecom and SK Hynix — South Korean artificial-intelligence chip makers Rebellions Inc and Sapeon Korea Inc have signed a definitive merger agreement, the privately held companies said on Sunday.| Marilen Martin / Bloomberg: |
A survey of 2,012 people in Germany finds ~50% wouldn't use the digital euro over privacy fears; the European Central Bank will decide on a rollout in late 2025 — - ECB officals to decide on rollout by end of next year — Half of people in Germany can't imagine using e-euro
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| Jeremy Stern / Tablet: |
A profile of Palmer Luckey, who sold Oculus to Facebook, was fired after donating to a pro-Trump troll group, and now imagines a new age of warfare at Anduril — The facts of Palmer Luckey's life are so uniquely bizarre—combining elements of fantasy with lunacy and also world-altering change …
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