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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
AWS says “the underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated” and most “operations are succeeding normally now” after a major US-EAST-1 outage from 3:11AM ET — The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear. … Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: iPhone 17 models outsold the iPhone 16 by 14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales nearly doubled over the 16 in China — Apple Inc.'s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity.
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| Bloomberg: |
Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading “falsehoods” that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of “unauthorized actions” — Chipmaker Nexperia has accused its ousted chief executive officer of spreading “falsehoods” … | New York Times: |
Tech companies' data center building spree is hurting communities globally; Synergy: nearly 60% of the 1,244 largest data centers as of June were outside the US — As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.| Carol Ryan / Wall Street Journal: |
How luxury brands' stiffest competition is coming from secondhand online resellers like The RealReal and Fashionphile, driven by Gen Z and millennial consumers — Sales of secondhand luxury goods are growing faster than in brands' own stores — For luxury brands trying to win back shoppers … | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical professionals, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after a $210M Series B in July — The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
X is “testing a new link experience” that opens links without fully covering an X post, letting users see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS — It comes in response to creators' complaints about the reach of posts containing links.
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| Julia Black / New York Times: |
A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z general partner and JD Vance's friend, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech — Katherine Boyle, an influential venture capitalist who is a friend of the vice president, thinks the country's path forward …
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| Reuters: |
A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China, alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution — A group of 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed a complaint with China's market regulator on Monday, a lawyer representing the group said …
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| The Verge: |
Opera Neon hands-on: the $20-per-month agentic AI browser can take over users' browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI bots can be confusing and unreliable — Neon is three AI tools dressed up as one, with a $20-per-month subscription attached. … The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser …
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
X plans a Handle Marketplace to let Premium+ and Premium Business subscribers search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles range from $2,500 to $1M+ — Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable. … Handles are going to be broken up into two broad categories.
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Bluesky: @blindtubemares, @simonpegg, @stevenjcbuckley, @generalboles, and @snugbucket. Mastodon: @igb@mastodon.hccp.org
| Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20s required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters — The new Aegaeon system can serve dozens of large language models using a fraction of the GPUs previously required, potentially reshaping AI workloads
More: Tom's Hardware, ACM Digital Library, and Benzinga
X: @qubitium and @globalsenate
Forums: Hacker News, r/baba, and r/NvidiaStock
| Webb Wright / ZDNET: |
Adobe launches AI Foundry, a new program to help enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP — ZDNET's key takeaways — Adobe assures its new AI model service is copyright-safe. — Foundry models leverage Firefly and are trained on brands' IP.
More: Investor's Business Daily, TechCrunch, and The AI Economy
| Ian Walker / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA says Getty Images and Shutterstock's $3.7B merger causes competition concerns and gives the companies until October 27 to offer plan to address them — The regulator says it will refer the deal for further investigation if the companies don't provide an acceptable undertaking to address concerns
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