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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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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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| 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.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, now fundamental to LLMs, 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.| 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 …
Mastodon: @mrcopilot@mstdn.social. X: @domaindead, @stevie_mat, @kahliefadams, @cheryllynneaton, @alyssa_merc, @easbygames, @taylorcocke, and @xoelleslow. Forums: r/saltierthankrayt
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden admin is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese chip firms linked to Huawei, after the company used an advanced 7nm chip in Mate 60 Pro — - Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security| 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.
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| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google's Pixel 8a will have a 6.1" 120Hz OLED display at 1,400 nits, a Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a — The Pixel 8a's major upgrades will make it even more competitive, but raise further questions over the vanilla Pixel 8.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$21.6B, vs. ~$21.8B est., a ~$3.8B net income, vs. ~$4.6B est., and plans a $12.8B+ stock buyback, as gaming sales slow — - Revenue growth in the quarter was its slowest in a year — Tencent joins tech rivals in ramping up shareholder returns
More: Reuters, South China Morning Post, Proactive, Variety, and Tencent
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Canada and the UAE have lobbied leading European and UK AI startups, 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 …
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| 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 … | 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
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