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FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related 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 on Tuesday …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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 pre-train its AI models — Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and will evaluate … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS announces Project Rainier, a cluster that will contain “hundreds of thousands” of Trainium2 chips, slated for 2025 and to be used by Anthropic — The company's megacluster of chips for artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic will be among the world's largest, it said … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces general availability of Trainium2 chips, and EC2 Trn2 UltraServers, which feature 64 Trainium2 chips; Trainium3 is slated for 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).| 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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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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AWS launches Automated Reasoning checks to combat AI hallucinations, and Model Distillation, a tool to transfer the capabilities of a large model to a small one — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, is launching a new tool to combat hallucinations — that is, scenarios where an AI model behaves unreliably.| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel starts shortlisting a handful of CEO candidates, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan, who left in August 2024 after clashing with Gelsinger — Intel (INTC.O) has started shortlisting a handful of candidates, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan …
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China bans shipments to the US of several “dual-use” minerals and metals used in chipmaking and military applications, in a retaliation to new US chips curbs — Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries — China has banned shipments to the US of several …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
An email and documents reveal Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't subject to Google's general ToS, but an “adjusted” ToS drafted by Google and Israel — When questioned about its controversial cloud computing contract with the Israeli government …
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| John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times: |
The NCSC says the UK faces a “widening gap” in its ability to fight cyber threats, and “severe” incidents handled by the agency tripled to 12 in the past year — Number of incidents at top end of scale of severity tripled last year, including attack that took down London hospitals| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says third-party services like Zoom will soon be able to integrate Amazon Q Business into their services, and Q Developer gets a wide range of updates — A year ago, AWS announced Q, its AI assistant platform for business users and developers. Q Developer is getting a wide range of updates today and so is Q Business.
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German defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection — Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
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