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A look at the sprawling network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place for SV leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a central role — THE SCOOP — Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful — Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company.
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors — Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
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| Prachi Verma / The Economic Times: |
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100K in the country while demand is projected to hit ~200K by 2026 — India is grappling with a critical shortage of agentic AI professionals as demand surges, driven by the shift towards sophisticated AI agents capable … | Furquan Ameen / Rest of World: |
Experts say that India is behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent — India's government urges the private sector to take the lead in tech innovation, while industry experts say it's complicated.
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Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100 — Superpower rivalry over semiconductors heats up despite Washington's attempts to block Beijing| Samm Sacks / Bloomberg: |
Huawei's recovery shows the limits of US policies aimed at restricting China, and how those policies can backfire, spurring Chinese firms to innovate and grow — The US banned Huawei. Now it's a bigger threat than ever. — In May 2019, the US Department of Commerce added China's Huawei Technologies Co … | Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at the rise of “pure play” bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market is paying far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself is — Twenty One, Trumpcoin dinner, KKR empathy, carry on co-investments and quantitative analysis of hockey. — Project Mystery| CBS Mornings on YouTube: |
Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation — Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often called a “godfather of artificial intelligence,” spoke with Brook Silva-Braga … | Owen Carry / Know Your Meme: |
4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack on April 14 that led to emails of its lead administrators, called “janitors”, being leaked — 4chan is officially back online today. — The imageboard site had been down for 10 days, ever since a hack …
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| Anjli Raval / Financial Times: |
A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B — Jill Popelka has tried to strengthen the cyber company's operations and cast off the shadow of early backer Mike Lynch| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
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