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| Financial Times: |
The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years — Preliminary agreement under US Chips Act also includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states
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X: @sama, @secraimondo, @intelpolicy, @intelpolicy, @realmemes6, @commercegov, and @firstadopter. Forums: Hacker News
| Business Insider: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during the summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model — - OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld's stats this week — The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game's previous record …
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| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
After its OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and most Inflection staff continues its strategy of developing ties with the most prominent names in AI — Satya Nadella's appointment of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing ties with fledging AI companies
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X: @thestalwart and @carnage4life
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Glassdoor users complain after the service added their real names to their profiles without their consent; Glassdoor cross-populates data between its services — Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager warns Apple over its Core Technology Fee, saying the EU plans to investigate, and Meta over its planned subscription fees — EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday warned Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) on their new fees for their services …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Spyglass, WinBuzzer, iMore, Daring Fireball, The Motley Fool, Daring Fireball, Supercharged, and AppleInsider
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle turning on fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse — Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
More: Engadget, FediForum on YouTube, 9to5Mac, Android Central, Android Police, and ZDNet
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries and is potentially linked to I-Soon — A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
More: Trend Micro, SecurityWeek, Dark Reading, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, Metacurity, The Record, The Stack, SC Media, and GovInfoSecurity.com
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X: @trendmicrorsrch, @thehellu, and @virusbtn
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper — They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets over content links and using articles to train its AI tech, after a €500M fine in 2021 — - Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation
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X: @bcoeure, @bcoeure, and @samuelstolton
| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
France is seeking “a national solution” to protect IT giant Atos, which manages nuclear data and cybersecurity, after Airbus talks failed; ATO.PA fell 20%+ — The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app and a beta Android app in March 2023 — - The Android app of Robinhood's crypto wallet has officially launched. — Last month, Robinhood said its crypto revenue jumped 10% year over year to $43 million in Q4 of 2023.
More: Robinhood Newsroom, crypto.news, Finance Magnates, Milk Road, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, and CoinJournal
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs that offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more — When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's … | Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holdings to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin — - Purchase were made with proceeds from a convertible note sale … The enterprise software maker, whose corporate strategy includes buying …
More: CCN.com, CoinJournal, CryptoGlobe, Reuters, ZyCrypto, and MicroStrategy
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the White House is considering blacklisting some Huawei-linked Chinese chip companies, after the Mate 60 Pro from August 2023 used an advanced 7nm chip — - Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
How Sweet Baby, a small video game narrative development company, became the focus of Gamergate 2.0, a harassment campaign against “forced” diversity in gaming — A group of gamers has mobilized a harassment campaign against a story consultant company, marginalized developers …
More: IGN. Mastodon: @mrcopilot@mstdn.social. X: @domaindead, @stevie_mat, @kahliefadams, @cheryllynneaton, @alyssa_merc, @easbygames, @taylorcocke, and @xoelleslow. Forums: r/saltierthankrayt
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU Commission rules, set to be adopted as soon as next week, will fine X, TikTok, and other big platforms over lax moderation of AI election content — Social media platforms including X and TikTok will face fines for failing to tackle disinformation
More: Verdict
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Toronto-based PocketHealth, which helps 775 health care providers exchange images covering 1.5M patients to cut costs, raised a $33M Series B led by Round13 — - It raised $33 million in a round led by Round13 Capital — It aims to personalize health care through the use of AI
More: FinSMEs, TechCrunch, PocketHealth, and The Logic
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Canada and the UAE have lobbied leading AI startups based in Europe, including Aleph Alpha, Synthesia, and Stability AI, to move their headquarters — Canada and UAE lobby companies amid global competition over developing cutting-edge technology — Leading European …
More: Cointelegraph. Mastodon: @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social. X: @isamutlib, @dom_hallas, @cristinacriddle, and @alexvoica
| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations — Google is training Gemini on health data, and it's creating a new AI model for the Fitbit app that can give advice tailored to your needs.
More: The Keyword, Thurrott, Yahoo Finance, Android Authority, Android Central, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Cybernews.com, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Silicon Republic, MobileSyrup, NewsBytes, The Crypto Times, arXiv.org, CNET on YouTube, Bloomberg, TheStreet, Fierce Healthcare, Engadget, TechRadar, The Keyword, eClinicalMedicine, PYMNTS.com, The Keyword, CNET, and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @google, @amycchou, @katieelink, @ashleycapoot, @berci, @stephenpfohl, @liamgmccoy, @hcolelewis, @ashleycapoot, @googlehealth, @googlehealth, @googleorg, and @thekaransinghal. LinkedIn: Aashima Gupta
| Bloomberg: |
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