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| 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 …
More: TheGamer, Game Rant, Game File, TweakTown, Pure Xbox, Gameranx, Kotaku, KitGuru, Pure Xbox, Video Games Chronicle, Forbes, Metro.co.uk, and 80 Level
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @danielrubino.com
| 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.
More: NVIDIA on YouTube, NVIDIA, Business Today, NVIDIA, VideoCardz.com, The Indian Express, MySmartPrice, CNX Software, NewsBytes, The Register, Interesting Engineering, The Verge, HotHardware, Analytics India Magazine, and Phoronix
X: @trungtphan, @kimmonismus, @rohanpaul_ai, @billykyle, @wordgrammer, @richardgrundy, @nvidiarobotics, and @brianroemmele
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/nvidia, r/hardware, r/ollama, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds o1 to its API, but only for certain developers to start, announces new versions of GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini as part of its Realtime API, and more — OpenAI is bringing o1, its “reasoning” AI model, to its API — but only for certain developers, to start.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates Apple Maps on the web to add support for Look Around, which is Apple's version of Google Street View — Apple in June introduced a beta version of Apple Maps on the web, allowing users of other platforms such as Windows PCs to access its map service directly from a web browser.
More: T3, Business Standard, MacRumors, Mashable, MakeUseOf, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Neowin, PhoneArena, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Verge, and NewsBytes
Threads: @thatchriscarley and @thatchriscarley
| Ernie Smith / Tedium: |
Bluesky using domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don't offer enough social proof for the average person — An apparent extortion scheme involving famous writers and entrepreneurs lit up Bluesky the other night. It raises some important questions … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce says it will hire 2,000 people to sell AI agent software, a month after saying it would hire 1,000 for the task and two years after laying off 7,000+ — Salesforce will hire 2,000 people to sell artificial intelligence software to clients, CEO Marc Benioff said on Tuesday …
More: Salesforce, Tech Monitor, Quartz, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, Analytics India Magazine, The Information, Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, and TechCrunch
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Myles McCormick / Financial Times: |
The NERC, overseen by the FERC, warns soaring US electricity demand from data centers to power AI could strain US and Canadian grids, risking blackouts — Surging demand from tech sector could overwhelm generation capacity, report says — North America's electricity grid faces …
More: 9to5Mac, The Guardian, Reuters, NERC, NERC, NERC, Energy Connects, NERC on YouTube, America's Electric …, financialpost, and Bloomberg
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Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| 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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
CAA partners with YouTube to help CAA clients identify and remove AI-generated content that features their likeness, with a wider rollout planned in early 2025 — In what's being touted as the first partnership of its kind, CAA is collaborating with YouTube on a program promising to let actors … | Wall Street Journal: |
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 … | 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 …
More: Kaggle, WinBuzzer, Kaggle, Kaggle, Google, and The Decoder
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Forums: r/singularity and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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” … | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Bureau, which offers tools to prevent user identity fraud, raised a $30M Series B led by Sorenson Capital, a source says at a ~$150M valuation — Cybersecurity startup Bureau has secured $30 million in a funding round led by Sorenson Capital to expand its presence in new markets, it said on Wednesday.
More: The Economic Times, VCCircle, Moneycontrol, and YourStory.com
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The US ITC says smartphones made by Lenovo's Motorola infringe on Ericsson's 5G patents, which could lead to an import ban; a final ruling is set for April 2025 — The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday that smartphones made by Lenovo's (0992.HK) Motorola Mobility infringe patents owned … | Bloomberg: |
Analysis: as uncertainty looms over Japan's China-dependent chipmaking stocks, Sony, Nintendo, and Capcom have seen double-digit returns since Trump's victory — Japanese gaming stocks are emerging as unlikely winners from Donald Trump's election, as tech investors seek less exposure … | 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: Huawei Central, Semafor, and TechNode
| Yvonne Lau / Rest of World: |
Experts say national security and immigration policies could deprive US companies of AI talent from China, which had 47% of the top AI researchers in 2022 — The West may lose out in the talent race amid U.S. national security and immigration hurdles — The U.S. and China … | 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, Bloomberg, and DigiTimes
| Financial Times: |
A profile of 114-year-old Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, whose market cap recently hit $100B after becoming an industrial software and hardware provider — New chief executive takes over streamlined conglomerate with most of its revenues and employees overseas
More: Forbes
| Sky News: |
The UK Gambling Commission blocks eight illegal casinos using Roblox to lure children into online gambling, following a news investigation into the casinos — A Sky News investigation has found a network of illegal casinos allowing children to gamble using their accounts on the hugely popular children's game Roblox.
More: The Sun, Sky News on YouTube, Sky News on YouTube, TMCnet, Dexerto, and GamesIndustry.biz
| 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.| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Game emulator Delta adds an in-app link to pay outside of the App Store, via Patreon, likely the first US app to use Apple's External Purchase Link Entitlement — Delta, the MacStories Selects App of the Year, received an important update today that allows users of the game emulator to support …
More: 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and The Verge
Bluesky: @viticci.macstories.net. Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. Threads: @rileytestut, @altstoreio, @rileytestut, @rileytestut, and @rileytestut
X: @iryantldr and @altstoreio
| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
Masayoshi Son's $100B AI investment pledge to Trump would require a massive fundraising effort, new debt, or selling some of SoftBank's holdings to raise cash — Following through will require some combination of a massive fundraising effort, new debt or selling chunks of his company's holdings to raise cashSponsor Posts
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Zoho People in 2025: A year in review — As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
Zoho People in 2025: A year in review — As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
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