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Intel says CEO Pat Gelsinger retired and left its board on December 1, and names CFO David Zinsner and Client Computing Group GM Michelle Holthaus as co-CEOs — Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company's board of directors.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel's board gave CEO Pat Gelsinger the option to retire or be removed after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn the company around — - Gelsinger was given the option to retire or be removed — Company's CFO and product CEO will serve as interim leaders
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches Data Transfer Terminal to let customers upload their data to AWS Cloud by plugging in their storage devices at a set of physical locations — At its re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, Amazon on Sunday announced a somewhat unusual new service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is weighing an ads model, but plans to be “thoughtful”; sources and LinkedIn analysis: OpenAI hired Meta and Google ad talent — ChatGPT maker hires advertising talent from big tech rivals — OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
ChatGPT refuses to state some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling bug; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue — Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend …
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in nearly $50M in earnings — - RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup acquired by Nike in 2021, is shutting down, according to an announcement on Monday.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches by “After date,” “Before date,” and “From profile” — Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches …
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| Bloomberg: |
Super Micro says an external review found no evidence of wrongdoing, and plans to hire a new CFO, chief compliance officer, and general counsel; SMCI jumps 28%+ — - Co seeks new CFO, chief compliance officer and general counsel — Firm's auditor had resigned, citing transparency concerns| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, gives an “early preview” of its first project, an AI system that can generate game-like, 3D scenes from an image — World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled its first project: an AI system …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US adds new HBM chip transfer restrictions for China, the fourth attempt in three years to curb China, and adds 140 Chinese companies to its trade blacklist — Export of memory chips used in AI applications is restricted, but delayed announcement gives Chinese companies chance to stock up
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| Bloomberg: |
Toronto-based AI chip designer Tenstorrent raised a $700M Series D from Jeff Bezos, Samsung, and more at a ~$2.6B valuation and claims nearly $150M in contracts — - Jim Keller's Tenstorrent designs chips and systems for AI jobs — Samsung and LG also among investors in Series D round| Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
Twitch creator Kai Cenat completed a “subathon”, streaming 24 hours a day for 30 days, breaking Twitch's subscriber record with ~727,700 subscribers in November — Creator Kai Cenat broke the record for the highest subscriber count on Amazon's Twitch during a non-stop live stream for the entire month of November.| Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
OpenWrt releases the $89+ OpenWrt One router, a “hacker-friendly device” with open-source firmware, two Ethernet ports, three USB ports, and dual-band Wi-Fi 6 — This ‘Unbrickable’ router should never fail you. … The group worked together to draft the specifications for this router …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
CoinGecko: Ripple-linked XRP's market cap passes $137B to become the third-largest cryptocurrency, up from less than $30B on November 5 when Donald Trump won — - The cryptocurrency gained as much as 15% Monday to hit $2.50 — Since the US election it has added over $100 billion in valueSponsor Posts
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