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Waymo resumes its robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout, and says most trips finished before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over — Alphabet-owned Waymo has resumed its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after a temporary pause during blackouts …
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A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more — Is GPU vs TPU the CISC vs RISC contest of the modern era? … All of a sudden, everyone is talking - and writing - about Google's TPUs (Tensor Processing Units).
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Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma — Two prevailing narratives have driven markets recently. The first is that Nvidia Corp.'s moat is eroding primarily thanks … | Bloomberg: |
Filings: Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax report 2024 revenue of $44.4M and $30.5M, respectively, as both prepare for Hong Kong IPOs in the coming weeks — Chinese OpenAI contenders MiniMax and Zhipu AI offered the first look into their business models and profit prospects in listing filings …
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Paramount says Larry Ellison “agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4B” for its WBD bid, after WBD's board raised concerns about the offer — Paramount Skydance on Monday guaranteed the backing of billionaire Larry Ellison in an amended offer for Warner Bros. Discovery …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin shipping its H200 chips to China before mid-February 2026 and expects initial shipments to be ~40,000 to 80,000 H200 units — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has told Chinese clients it aims to start shipping its second-most powerful AI chips to China before the Lunar … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them — I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.
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| Financial Times: |
Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal — Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Some US schools are deploying AI surveillance tech like facial recognition and listening devices; critics say there is little evidence they make school safer — Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices.| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms — A day before Instagram's new integration for Amazon Fire smart TVs was set to roll out, Adam Mosseri, who runs the platform for Meta …
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| Mitchell Peters / Billboard: |
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files — The breach allegedly includes 86 million audio files.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more — When iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Sunday, it marked the end of an era for one of America's most beloved robotics companies.| Chris Wack / Wall Street Journal: |
Instacart says it is ending all item price tests effective immediately, and won't charge different prices for the same items, after a report into the practice — Company says retailers will no longer be able to use Eversight technology to run item price tests on Instacart
More: Engadget and The Economic Times
| Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 — Uber Technologies Inc. said it's teaming up with Baidu Inc. to trial driverless taxis in the UK, following the lead of American self-driving … Sponsor Posts
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