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Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month — Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily …
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AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely — It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I've ever needed to write here at AnandTech.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel explores options after a 50%+ stock drop YTD, including splitting its product and foundry units and potentially scrapping some factory projects — - Once-dominant chipmaker looks to longtime bankers for help — Possible moves could include split of product, foundry units
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors — Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider participating in round that would value AI start-up at over $100bn
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tencent and NetEase reconsider or scale back Japanese game studio investments, after yielding few hit games and the Chinese market staged a comeback — - China's biggest game publishers are rethinking expansion plans — ‘Wukong’ success also encouraged looking domestically for hits
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| New York Times: |
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta — The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app's approach to privacy and security.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media — The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf … | Chainalysis: |
Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates pig butchering and other scams, has processed $49B+ in crypto transactions since 2021 — Sensitive content warning — This article will touch on topics of criminal activity that readers may find distressing, including Child Sexual Abuse Material.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned” of CSAM — LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations — A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome to target organizations with the goal … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections — Google is gearing up for the upcoming U.S. presidential election by rolling out safeguards for more of its generative AI products.| Financial Times: |
Telegram's 2023 financials: $342.5M revenue, 40% of which came from crypto-related line items, and $108M operating loss; it had holdings of ~$400M in Toncoin — Pavel Durov's company has been coining it in — Pavel Durov's arrest in France for allegedly failing to control criminal content on Telegram … | Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk's statements were “aspirational” — Investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars investing in the cryptocurrency faulted Musk for promoting …
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