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Sources: US officials are investigating Chinese router maker TP-Link, which has an estimated 65% US market share, and could ban the sale of its routers in 2025 — TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks — U.S. authorities are investigating whether …
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| Melissa Quinn / CBS News: |
SCOTUS says it will hear a challenge on January 10 to a new law that could lead to a TikTok ban in the US, ahead of the law taking effect on January 19 — Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will take up a challenge to a new law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI rolls out a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging it via WhatsApp globally — OpenAI on Wednesday rolled out a new way to talk to its viral chatbot: 1-800-CHATGPT. — By dialing the U.S. number (1-800-242-8478) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon recently pushed back RTO dates for some staff in Austin, Dallas, and Phoenix by as much as four months, citing a lack of office space — - Company is struggling to find space in at least seven cities — Start dates are being pushed back as much as four months
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, GeekWire, CNBC, TechSpot, TechRadar, and Nashville Business Journal
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Flipboard launches Surf, an app to create custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, in beta on iOS, Android, and iPadOS — Fourteen years ago, when the iPad was new and bursting with unfulfilled promise, an app called Flipboard debuted.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
After a rough year, Intel says its $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU, which received near-universal praise from reviewers, has already sold out in most retailers — While we haven't managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub makes its Copilot free in VS Code, with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023 — Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Data center operator Vultr raised $333M led by LuminArx, with participation from AMD and others, at a $3.5B valuation, its first outside funding round — AMD's investment is part of how the chip giant plans to make a dent in the artificial intelligence chip market dominated by Nvidia
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| Google DeepMind: |
Google introduces FACTS Grounding benchmark for evaluating the factuality of LLMs, and announces a leaderboard that ranks Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental on top — Our comprehensive benchmark and online leaderboard offer a much-needed measure of how accurately LLMs ground their responses …
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| Bloomberg: |
SandboxAQ, which aims to apply quantum tech and techniques to AI, raised $300M from Alger, Yann LeCun, and others at a $5.6B valuation to recruit more engineers — - Former Alphabet division focuses on quantum and AI tech — CEO Jack Hidary staffing up with more Ph.D.s and engineers
More: PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Invezz, HPCwire, The Quantum Insider, and VC News Daily
LinkedIn: Suzannah Radack, Christina Gavrishov, and JB Norcott
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has halted work on a project to build an iPhone hardware subscription service, which had been in development since around 2022 — - Much-delayed program had been in development since around 2022 — Company also shut down Pay Later offering earlier this year| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
A look at Microsoft's risky Xbox strategy, where exclusives are the exception; sources say Microsoft is working on cross-platform Xbox interface Project Rainway — Microsoft's strategy has Xbox's core fans upset about the future of console hardware. Today, we're going to analyze the strategy …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's commerce minister says that Shein will operate in India purely as a tech partner, with Reliance Retail having full ownership and control of operations — Shein must surrender all data of Indian customers and control of its local operations to its partner, Reliance Retail …
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| Financial Times: |
Omdia estimates Microsoft bought 485K of Nvidia's Hopper GPUs in 2024, ByteDance and Tencent bought ~230K each, Meta bought 225K, and Tesla/xAI bought ~200K — OpenAI's biggest backer buys nearly half a million GPUs this year in global race to build artificial intelligence systems| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Microsoft Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI Sarah Bird on generative AI, its impact on work, Copilots, OpenAI, AGI, AI agents, bias, and more — Chief product officer of ‘responsible AI’ says the focus needs to be on augmenting — not replicating — human capabilities
More: Financial Times
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
MobiKwik's shares surged as much as 82% on their trading debut, after the Indian digital payments firm, which claims to have 161M users, raised $69M in its IPO — Shares in digital payments firm MobiKwik surged 82% to ₹507.5 ($6) on their first day of trading, as the Indian fintech company …
More: The Economic Times, India Today, Times Now, The Indian Express, Times of India, Inc42 Media, Reuters, and Tech in Asia. X: @bseindia
| Financial Times: |
Kioxia's shares rose 6%+ on its first day of trading in Tokyo, giving the chipmaker a ~$5.2B market cap; a group led by Bain had paid $18B for Kioxia in 2018 — Private equity group finally floats Japanese flash memory provider at a valuation far below what it paid in 2018
More: Reuters, Agence France-Presse, The Japan Times, CNBC, and Bloomberg
| Ben Sherry / Inc: |
A profile of Tyler Denk, co-founder of newsletter platform Beehiiv, which raised a $33M Series B in April 2024 and generates $1.6M to $1.75M in monthly revenue — Tyler Denk has cultivated a brash online persona while building Beehiiv into a buzzy newsletter platform. Both are lucrative.| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
eMarketer expects Instagram to hit $32B in US ad revenue in 2025, or 50% of Meta's ad sales; filings: Instagram was ~30% of Meta's global business in early 2022 — - Video-sharing app estimated to reach $32 billion in ad revenue — Instagram users spend majority of their time watching videos
More: PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, TipRanks Financial, Invezz, Wall Street Pit, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
A look at Huawei subsidiary Yinwang, which sells hardware and software to carmakers, has a $16B valuation, and more than doubled its revenue to ~$655M in 2023 — Group best known for telecoms believes it can build a lucrative business in a changing car industry
More: Semafor and Huawei Central
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a $249 compact AI development board that promises 67 TOPS, compared to 40 TOPS of the $499 last-gen kit — The Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit will be available later this month and comes with 8GB of RAM.
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. X: @trungtphan, @rohanpaul_ai, @wordgrammer, @kimmonismus, @billykyle, @richardgrundy, @brianroemmele, and @nvidiarobotics
Forums: Hacker News, r/ollama, r/nvidia, r/hardware, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon unveils new packaging for its Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV products, including removing plastic, less paper and ink, and using more recycled fibers — Some boxes delivered by Amazon will have the same look on the inside as they do on the outside as devices from the company are being packaged …
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