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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant that starts at $20/user/month and competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft's Copilot, and others — Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/Qult_Headquarters
| About Amazon: |
AWS unveils Graviton4, with 50% more cores, 75% more memory bandwidth, and up to 30% more performance than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for up to 4x faster training — AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, and r/singularity
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, NBC 7 San Diego, ZDNet, TechPowerUp, NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services, CoinGeek, iPhone in Canada Blog, and NVIDIA
| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans to exit its Goldman Sachs contract in 12 to 15 months, ending their consumer partnership, including for credit card and savings accounts — Tech giant proposed exiting contract in about 12-to-15 months — Apple is pulling the plug on its credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs …
More: MacRumors, Financial Times, Macworld, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, The Information, AppleInsider, The Hill, The Verge, Daring Fireball, CNBC, Reuters, Digital Trends, Stock Market News, Mashable, iClarified, Zee Business, iPhone in Canada Blog, Invezz, American Banker, MarketWatch, and BGR
Mastodon: @counternotions@mastodon …. X: @imethandevries, @tailosivetech, @kobeissiletter, @protosphinx, @pitdesi, @t3dotgg, @andrewjclare, @lukemiani, @kifleswing, @mbrkhrdt, @brandonbutch, @maxwinebach, @snazzylabs, @pitdesi, @apollozac, @kirillzubovsky, @caro_milanesi, @brandonbutch, @maxwinebach, @rsgnl, @katebevan, and @sdw
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music Replay, which lets users look back at their listening history like top songs and artists in 2023, arrives but is still no match for Spotify Wrapped — Apple's year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it's still no match for Spotify's personalized look back at your year in music.
More: Apple, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, Engadget, Appleosophy, Pocket-lint, The Apple Post, Digital Trends, PCMag, Music Business Worldwide, CrackBerry, Dexerto, Trusted Reviews, The Verge, Stuff, BGR, AppleInsider News, and Music Ally
X: @zachgilyard, @bzamayo, and @nicolewboyce
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
In a now-deleted Nov. 28 tweet and on Nov. 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016 — The far-right theory motivated a gunman to fire multiple rounds inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in 2016.
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Forums: r/Twitter and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Rest of World: |
A look at Foxconn's struggles to manufacture the iPhone 15 in India, contending with language barriers, labor disputes, regulatory hurdles, and more — Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders. — • SUNGUVARCHATRAM, INDIA
More: The Economic Times, TechCrunch, DevX, The Verge, India Today, Deccan Herald, Supercharged, Business Today, PhoneArena, Hindustan Times, kuwaittimes, CNBC, and Reuters
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea announces new smart home sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, on sale in H1 2024 for under $10 — Ikea's push to democratize the smart home continues with the introduction of three new Zigbee sensors that won't break the bank.
More: IKEA, Engadget, Tom's Guide, TechHive, Android Headlines, Gizmodo, TechRadar, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, and Thurrott
Forums: Hacker News, r/homeassistant, and r/tradfri
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Adalytics: Google ads appear on many compromising sites that make up its Search Partners network; Google attacks Adalytics but says it'll review its findings — Adtech report exposes brand safety and ad fraud risks lurking in the Google Search Partners network...
More: Adalytics, The Register, Search Engine Land, Politico, Adweek, Digiday, Ad Age, AdExchanger, Financial Times, and VideoWeek
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Pika, which builds AI tools for generating and editing videos, raised $55M, including a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed, after emerging from stealth in May 2023 — The generative AI hype hasn't died down yet. — Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit …
More: VentureBeat, Decrypt, The Information, Pika, New.blicio.us, POCIT. Telling the stories …, The Decoder, PetaPixel, and Forbes
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| Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic: |
Substack and Telegram searches reveal scores of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters on Substack; over 16 displayed overt Nazi symbols — The newsletter platform's lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's revamped board doesn't plan to offer a seat to Microsoft and other outside investors, a sign that it will prioritize safety ahead of returns — OpenAI's revamped board of directors doesn't plan to include representatives from outside investors, according to a person familiar with the situation.| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high costs of delays, AI and risk, d/acc, centralization, and more — Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser …
More: Inside Bitcoins, Unchained Crypto, CoinDesk, Not Boring by Packy McCormick, CCN.com, CryptoPotato, and Bitcoin Insider
Forums: Hacker News and r/slatestarcodex
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, Norway, the US, Ukraine, and other countries arrest members of a ransomware group in Ukraine linked to attacks on organizations in 71 countries — In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members …
More: Europol, Eurojust, Euractiv, SiliconANGLE, Stack Diary, Dexerto, SecurityWeek, Security Boulevard, CyberScoop, Metacurity, The Record, The Register, and Security Affairs
Forums: r/worldnews and r/InfoSecNews
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google says a first-of-its-kind geothermal energy project, to power its data centers with clean energy in partnership with Fervo, is up and running in Nevada — A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now up and running in Nevada, where it will help power Google's data centers with clean energy.
More: The Keyword, Gizmodo, Wired, ExtremeTech, Engadget, International Business Times, DatacenterDynamics, Associated Press, and The Messenger
X: @ionyad, @sundarpichai, and @benserrurier
Forums: Hacker News and r/Futurology
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces a plan to start listing London's famed black cabs in early 2024, despite objections from the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association trade group — Uber notched another win in its effort to win over the beleaguered taxi industry, announcing a plan to start listing London's famed black cabbies in its app.| Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision — The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found Adobe's planned $20 billion acquisition … | Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $786M, vs. $777M est., ARR up 35% YoY to $3.15B, and net income of $26.7M, vs. a net loss of $55M a year ago — CEO calls out ‘increased win rates and record pipeline’ — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. exceeded expectations with its latest quarterly results Tuesday …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, CrowdStrike, Barron's Online, and SiliconANGLE
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Dell signs a $150M deal with Imbue, which raised $200M in September, to provide the AI startup with computing hardware to develop AI systems and advanced models — Dell has been telling investors its server business is poised to benefit from AI uses. — Dell Technologies Inc. has landed …
More: San Francisco Business Times and Dell Technologies
X: @dellservers, @imbue_ai, and @shiringhaffary
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Oxford Internet Institute study of 2M+ people's internet use: no “smoking gun” for widespread mental health harms, opposing the idea that some are more at risk — No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers
More: Sage Journals, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, ox.ac.uk, Fortune, CoinDesk, PCMag, and TechSpot
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| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
HPE reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $7.4B, including Compute down 31% YoY to $2.6B, HPC & AI up 37% YoY to $1.2B, and Intelligent Edge up 41% YoY to $1.4B — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. dipped slightly in extended trading Tuesday after the computing giant reported quarterly results …
More: SiliconANGLE, HPE, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Constellation Research
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