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Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1B from a16z, Sequoia, DST, and others, sources say at a $5B valuation — Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash …
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's contract manufacturing business has suffered a setback after tests with chipmaker Broadcom using Intel's advanced 18A chipmaking process failed — Intel's (INTC.O) contract manufacturing business has suffered a setback after tests with chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) failed … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Intel should spin off its foundry business, and the US government should subsidize cutting-edge chipmaking in the US via purchase guarantees for US-made chips — The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government …
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| Rhian Lubin / The Independent: |
Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane — Self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed Winston Churchill ‘was the villain of Second World War’ and that millions …
More: Newsweek, Inc.com, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and Haaretz
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a side-channel attack, which requires ~$11K worth of equipment and can be used to clone all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7 — Sophisticated attack breaks security assurances of the most popular FIDO key. — The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token …
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| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Ubisoft's stock fell 10%+ to an almost 10-year low in the past two days, giving it a market cap of €1.99B, following the lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws — Ubisoft stock prices have tanked by over 10% in the past two days following a lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws.
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| Anna J Kaiser / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a16z shut its Miami office in May 2024 because staff weren't using it enough; VC funding to Miami-based startups has flagged since 2022's crypto rout — When Andreessen Horowitz opened an outpost in Miami Beach, the $43 billion venture capital giant bolstered the region's ambitions of becoming a tropical tech mecca.
More: The Information, San Francisco Business Times, and crypto.news
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — The independent board said the phrase has ‘multiple meanings’ and is important to political speech on Instagram and Facebook.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands daylist, a free personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on listening habits, globally and adds support for 14 languages — Spotify is launching daylist globally. It's a personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on your listening habits.
More: Spotify, Cybernews.com, Android Authority, Music Ally, MacRumors, Mashable, MakeUseOf, and Axios. LinkedIn: Gautam Talwar
| Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 chips will support Copilot+ AI features from November 2024, expanding from Qualcomm exclusivity — A software update will bring features like Live Captions, Cocreator in Paint and Windows Studio Effects.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will ship in new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 laptops, available for $899 each — Today, the company's announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that'll retail for $899 each.
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| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US court grants X a preliminary injunction against California's AB 587, which requires disclosure of moderation policies, reversing a lower court decision — Search by Topic — X Corp. convinced a federal appeals court that a California law requiring social media companies to disclose … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2 event on September 16 at 8:00 AM PT, where it is expected to announce a Copilot rebrand and new features — Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.”
More: The Information, Engadget, Digital Trends, Thurrott, Neowin, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In July 29 comments to the UK CMA, Microsoft says Apple's App Review Guidelines changes aren't enough for it to operate a native Xbox Cloud Gaming app for iOS — Earlier this year Apple started opening up its App Store to game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
The Atlantic Council researchers detail how spyware vendors are skirting restrictions by renaming, starting new companies, or by changing legal jurisdictions — International efforts to rein in online surveillance tools are being systematically skirted, researchers say.| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
The UK CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of Inflection's team doesn't cause competition concerns, and won't pursue an investigation, but calls the deal a merger — Good news for Microsoft: The U.K.'s antitrust regulator says that the tech titan's high-profile acquihire of the team behind AI startup Inflection …
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X debuts a beta TV app “on several app stores”, like for Amazon Fire TV and Google TV, to court advertisers, creators, and partners to a “video-first platform” — Years ago, Twitter tried but eventually walked away from building TV apps after getting a lukewarm reception.
More: Social Media Today, TechSpot, Streaming Better, PhoneArena, MakeUseOf, and Android Headlines
| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's ARM Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not run — Qualcomm-Arm processor chips have compatibility problems with ‘Fortnite’ and other titles — The latest Windows personal computers …
More: AppleInsider, ExpressVPN Blog, TechRadar, Fortune, The Ankler, Neowin, BetaNews, WinBuzzer, Sam Lover, Thurrott, Spyglass, and MacRumors
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Forums: r/macgaming and MacRumors Forums
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens, higher rate limits, and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price — Anthropic is launching a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, catered towards enterprise customers …
More: Inc.com, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Fast Company, CNBC, Constellation Research, CIO Dive, and AIM
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ sent subpoenas to Nvidia and others, seeking evidence that Nvidia violated antitrust laws by making it harder to switch suppliers and more — - Department also sent subpoenas to third parties in case — Nvidia has built a dominant position in AI computing
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| Min Jeong Lee / BNN Bloomberg: |
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI models for Japanese speakers, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux, with Nvidia participating — (Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. has joined a $100 million-plus funding round for Tokyo startup Sakana AI, one of the larger investments …
More: VentureBeat, Sakana AI, TelecomTV, Cointelegraph, The Hindu, AIM, and Nikkei Asia. X: @hardmaru
| Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: |
Netflix struggles to reduce its productions' carbon footprint, with more emissions in 2022 vs. 2019, partly because it doesn't own any equipment or studio space — Virgin River is using batteries and Bridgerton is testing out hydrogen, but the company's overall emissions reduction progress has been marginal.| Washington Post: |
People who got access to OpenAI's SearchGPT say it struggles with some shopping and local queries, and sometimes presents untrue or hallucinated information — OpenAI's search tool shows promise but lacks Google's specialized functions and can suffer from hallucinations.
Bluesky: @adnan.social
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Letter: Evan Spiegel tries to rally Snap's employees amid a ~45% YTD stock drop and says Snap plans to test two new ad formats in the chat inbox and on Snap Map — - Snap's stock is down almost 50% on ad business struggles — Social media app will begin testing new advertising formats
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