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Apple says it's using Amazon's Trainium and Graviton chips to serve search services and is evaluating if Trainium2 chips can be used to pretrain its AI models — Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and will evaluate …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS unveils Nova models for Bedrock, including Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier for text generation, and Canvas for image generation and Reel for video generation — At its re:Invent conference on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, announced a new family … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility — At its re:Invent conference, Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
FTC bans location data providers Gravy Analytics and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data tied to sensitive locations and more — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry …
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The CFPB proposes limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach discovered in April 2024 — In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The FBI and CISA give US telcos best practices to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain on their networks — - Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, with servers remaining on until June 3, 2025, and plans to cut ~277 people from the production team — Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025, but the game will no longer be offered for download, and player registration will be closed.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces the general availability of its Trainium2 chips, and EC2 Trn2 UltraServers, which feature 64 Trainium2 chips, and slates Trainium3 for late 2025 — At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs).| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Nick Clegg says Mark Zuckerberg is keen to play “an active role” in Trump admin tech policy debates and Meta “overdid it a bit” when moderating pandemic content — Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Vodka maker Stoli says an August 2024 ransomware attack contributed to the bankruptcy filing of its US arm, amid its ongoing issues with the Russian government — A ransomware attack on the multinational Stoli Group in August helped push two of the vodka-maker's U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy, the company's CEO said last week.
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| Timothy Gardner / Reuters: |
Meta is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers, as it plans to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of new US nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s — Meta (META.O) said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Walmart closes its $2.3B cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio, saying the deal will let it offer new ways for advertisers to reach customers via Walmart Connect — Walmart announced the completion of its $2.3 billion all-cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio, a move by the retailing giant to expand its advertising business.
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| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
Celsius Network founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky pleaded guilty in a US court to commodities fraud and a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the price of CEL — Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, said on Tuesday he intends to plead guilty to two counts of fraud.| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI hires its first CMO, Kate Rouch, who joined Coinbase in August 2021 to lead global marketing and PR and previously spent 11+ years at Meta as a VP — OpenAI has hired its first chief marketing officer, nabbing Kate Rouch from crypto company Coinbase.
More: Ad Age, PYMNTS.com, TestingCatalog, and The Information
X: @kate_rouch, @kate_rouch, and @davidmarcus
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Internal docs: in early 2021, Google's lawyers, policy team, and more worried that its $1.2B Project Nimbus deal with Israel may enable human rights violations — The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel's military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
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