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Elon Musk says X plans to launch two new premium tiers: a lower cost tier with all features, but no reduction in ads, and a more expensive tier with no ads — Elon Musk today said that X (formerly Twitter) is going to soon launch two new premium tiers, confirming previous reports and code sightings.
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| Willa Rowe / Inverse: |
Doug Bowser on how Nintendo Account may help Switch transition to the next generation, Nintendo's approach to game development, why Nintendo has no union, more — Video game consoles come and go, but the Nintendo Switch is forever. At least, that's how it sometimes seems.
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| Davide Castelvecchi / Nature: |
IBM researchers unveil a “brain-inspired” NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory and consumes vastly less power — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — A brain-inspired computer chip …
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| The Irish Times: |
Google, Meta, Intel, Siemens and others pull out from this year's Web Summit, after its CEO Paddy Cosgrave accused Israel of war crimes — Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing — Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become the latest tech giants …
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| New York Times: |
News publishers scramble to adjust to declining referral traffic, as Meta, X, and even Google become less dependable at amplifying and supporting journalism — News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Chris Cox on Meta's plans to incorporate AI into its products, making AI chatbots with personality, like Snoop Dogg playing a dungeon master, and more — Chief Product Officer Chris Cox on the ways artificial intelligence can improve group chats and why Meta is creating AI chatbots with personalities
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia Research announces Eureka, an AI agent powered by GPT-4 that autonomously writes reward algorithms to teach robots to perform complex skills like a human — Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent, called Eureka, that is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and can autonomously teach robots complex skills.
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors — Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
AMD unveils the Radeon RX 7900M, a rival to Nvidia's RTX 4080 and the first laptop GPU to use a chiplet design, available in Dell's new Alienware m18 laptop — It will debut in the new Alienware m18, launching today. — AMD is setting its sights on Nvidia's RTX 4080 mobile GPU with the Radeon RX 7900M … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta releases Habitat 3.0, a simulator that supports robots and humanoid avatars for collaboration, and HomeRobot, a home robot hardware and software platform — Researchers from Meta Platforms Inc.'s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research team said today they're releasing … | Alexander Lee / Digiday: |
Holding company GameSquare acquires FaZe Clan, valuing the Texas-based esports company at ~$16M, down from a $725M market cap at its SPAC merger in July 2022 — FaZe Clan's billion-dollar journey has taken an unexpected — but perhaps inevitable — turn. Burned by controversy and facing …
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| New York Times: |
A look at Cameo's peak during the pandemic and subsequent fall due to its trouble recruiting big stars, CEO Steven Galanis' unfocused management style, and more — A start-up that offers fans a way to buy personalized videos from celebrities was supercharged by pandemic boredom and venture capital.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Cybersecurity company Okta closes down 11.5% after saying a hacker had accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed some client files — - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files. — Shares fell 11% on the news.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino, who became the stablecoin operator's unofficial frontman on social media and has been appointed as CEO from December 2023 — - Stablecoin firm plans for real-time reserves data from 2024 — USDT's circulation has continued to grow during crypto crisisSponsor Posts
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