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Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process — Google today announced a new open standard, called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product — Tech giant moves to gain an edge in race to monetise popular AI tools — Google is introducing new personalised advertising … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population — Wing, the Alphabet-owned company that delivers groceries, over-the-counter medicine, and hot lattes, is expanding its partnership …
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed — If you're one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue.
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Despite projections of memory shortages for PCs and phones, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, mindful of past downcycles — Sandisk, Western Digital, Seagate and Micron need to keep undershooting demand — The world needs a lot more memory chips and hard drives.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest chip debuts, as the memory chip maker faces US and South Korean curbs — As AI demand drives prices up, CXMT overcomes Washington's curbs to vie with Micron and South Korean leaders| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings — - Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare to expand AI use in regulated medical industries. — Claude for Healthcare offers HIPAA-ready tools … | Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002, and is known as a customer emissary and Musk translator — Shotwell has an expansive role at the rocket and satellite company, helping to foster its rise. With an IPO looming, the toughest stretch may still lie ahead.
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| Bloomberg: |
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content — Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk's Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban the artificial intelligence system over its generation of sexual content.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints — Some of China's most prominent figures in generative artificial intelligence warned that the Asian nation is unlikely to eclipse the US in the global AI race anytime soon.
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| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services — Naver targets countries reluctant to use American and Chinese cloud systems out of security concerns| Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters: |
Qatar and UAE will join the Pax Silica coalition on January 12 and 15, respectively, expanding the US-led effort to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains — Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will soon join a U.S.-led initiative to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains … | Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: |
ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan — - ATG cofounders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran raised $15 million to build an AI wealth strategist. — Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan led ATG's latest round.
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| John Reynolds / Tech.eu: |
Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind — Tucuvi was co-founded by Maria Gonzalez, whose mother passed away after a reported hospital administration error.Sponsor Posts
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