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Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU — - Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces NIM, a microservices software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments — At its GTC conference, Nvidia today announced Nvidia NIM, a new software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia unveils Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, and Jetson Thor, a computer designed for testing humanoid robot software — It's tough to argue with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang when he notes, “Building foundation models for general humanoid robots … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt — Stability AI is growing its generative AI model portfolio today with the release of Stable Video 3D (SV3D).
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Solana memecoin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have “burned” tokens set aside for an airdrop — “This is not a joke I really f****d up and im really sorry. Was a simple mindless misclick when I was in the process of burning the the lp," the developer said
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| Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: |
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more — Share your Steam games with up to five others in a Steam Family. — What you need to know — Valve is introducing the Steam Families feature …
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| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on the OpenAI board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
At an EU DMA hearing, a Meta lawyer says the company has offered to cut its EU subscription fee from €9.99 to €5.99 per month after discussions with regulators — Meta Platforms (META.O) has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to 5.99 euros …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at Playtron, which raised a $10M seed to build a Linux-based, platform-agnostic gaming OS to replace Windows or SteamOS, starting with handheld consoles — The former CEO of Cyanogen has a plan for a platform-agnostic gaming operating system.
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based online shopping rewards app ShopBack cuts 195 jobs, or 24% of its staff, to become self-sustainable; ShopBack raised a $200M Series E in 2022 — ShopBack, an online shopping rewards app backed by Temasek Holdings Pte, is cutting about a quarter of its workforce as it retreats from the buy-now-pay-later space.
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Sources: senior DOJ officials plan to hold closed-door Senate briefings on March 19 and 20 to advance a TikTok divestiture, as opposed to an outright US ban — - DOJ wants senators to pass a bill forcing TikTok sale — Effort is part of broader DoJ push on data-security measures| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers, raised a $100M Series B led by Uber at a $750M valuation, up from $550M in August 2023 — Moove, an African mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers, has raised $100 million … | Casey Hall / Reuters: |
Source: Ant CEO and Chair Eric Jing says Han Xinyi will become Ant Group president and some units plan to set up their own boards to operate more independently — Han Xinyi will become president of China's Ant Group (688688.SS) and some units of the financial technology company will set …
More: South China Morning Post
| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Reddit says Nokia accused the company of infringing some of its patents, and is evaluating Nokia's claims, ahead of its planned IPO this week — Nokia Technologies, the company's licensing business, sent Reddit a letter on Monday with the claims, and Reddit is evaluating them, according to a filing made Tuesday.
More: Reuters
| Kalkidan Yibeltal / BBC: |
Ethiopia's central bank says “a glitch” let Commercial Bank customers withdraw more cash than was in the account for hours; local media says $40M+ was withdrawn — Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank is scrambling to recoup large sums of money withdrawn by customers after a “systems glitch”.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC and Intel suppliers have delayed construction of facilities in Arizona, citing surging construction costs, a labor shortage, and weak local demand — At least 5 chemical makers slow expansion as industry awaits CHIPS Act funds — Rebuilding America's chip supply chain …
More: Tom's Hardware and Benzinga
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
On the first day of his trial, US prosecutors portray Mike Lynch as “a controlling, dominating, intimidating boss” and “driving force behind [a] massive fraud” — UK tech entrepreneur finally faces a US jury after years of legal wrangling
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Unity's 2024 Gaming Report: the number of multiplatform games rose 40% since 2021, in-app ad revenue rose 26.7% YoY, 62% of studios are using AI, and more — Game engine maker Unity published a report today that sheds light on the gaming industry's response to economic challenges …
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Forums: r/gamingnews and r/Games
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Q&A with Lila Tretikov, who just joined NEA as a partner and head of AI strategy; Tretikov was previously Microsoft's deputy CTO and Wikimedia Foundation CEO — “God is in the details,” reads one of Stephen Sondheim's rules of writing. — Sondheim was a lyricist, but it's a rule I believe is broadly applicable.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team — Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu Nayak as lead of search quality and ranking. Cathy Edwards is moving to the Long-term Bets team.| Just Lunning / New York Times: |
Hollywood actors like Megan Fox, Idris Elba, and Keanu Reeves are leaping into video games, a once stigmatized medium now seen as a unique platform for stories — Onscreen stars have increasingly been going virtual. Jodie Comer and David Harbour are making their video game debuts in a remake …
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