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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/Columbus, r/technology, r/technology, r/technews, r/Ohio, r/wallstreetbets, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google €250M for not keeping its 2022 pledge on fair deals with media outlets, including training Gemini on articles without notifying publishers — - Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation
More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, TNW, The Crypto Times, Silicon UK, The Guardian, Reuters, UPI, Crypto Briefing, OODA Loop, CoinGape, The Verge, Businessday NG, Associated Press, The State, Forbes, New York Times, Nairametrics, Windows Report, CoinXposure, Cryptopolitan, Legit.ng, Silicon Republic, Google fined €250M, and Autorité de la concurrence
Forums: r/technology and r/ArtistHate
| 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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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
More: The Register, The Information, The Indian Express, Business Today, MSPoweruser, Ben's Bites, Voicebot.ai, Silicon Republic, Spyglass, TechCrunch, Forbes, The Official Microsoft Blog, and Inflection
Threads: @pkedrosky. X: @laurengoode, @alexrkonrad, @garymarcus, @pitdesi, @pmarca, @amir, @benioff, @elonmusk, @alexrkonrad, @mikeisaac, @mindthelongterm, and @shiringhaffary
| 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.
More: Mashable, Inc.com, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, KnowTechie, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, Gizchina, Android Authority, Tech.co, Benzinga, and Lex Fridman on YouTube
Threads: @sanjaykmenon1, @parkerortolani, @technicallymims, and @kalihays1. X: @keithdsouza. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/singularity, r/artificial, r/ChatGPT, and Slashdot
| 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: Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, iMore, MacRumors, Spyglass, Daring Fireball, Supercharged, and Daring Fireball
Threads: @timothybucksf and @documentingmeta
| 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 …
More: Stardew Valley, SteamDB, Polygon, Kotaku, Dexerto, Destructoid, GamesRadar, PC Gamer, Game World Observer, TheGamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Eurogamer.net, Game Rant, TechRadar, Eurogamer.net, IGN, Polygon, IGN, and Kotaku
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
A commit in Ethereum Foundation's GitHub repository shows the foundation has received a voluntary and confidential enquiry from an unspecified state authority — - The Ethereum Foundation has received a voluntary and confidential inquiry from an unspecified state authority, according to the foundation's GitHub repository.| 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.
Threads: @vthallam. X: @amasad, @aravsrinivas, @mgalle, @ylecun, @ylecun, @stevenlevy, @jsmarr, @sandraupson, @hkanji, and @webbarr. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 …
More: New York Post, Wired, Mashable, and Engadget
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X: @eff, @dosnostalgic, @lenubienne, @laughingcorvus, and @davidgerard
LinkedIn: Howard Holton, Ray Everett, and Stephanie Lucas
Forums: Hacker News, Blind, r/UKJobs, r/antiwork, r/privacy, r/technology, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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, 9to5Mac, FediForum on YouTube, Fortune, Android Central, and Android Police
Forums: r/technology, r/fediverse, and Beehaw
| 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
| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder raised $700M from NEA, GV, and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B, and aims to open nearly 100 NYC locations — Company plans to open nearly 100 restaurant locations around New York City area over next two years
More: LinkedIn and The Information
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS 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.| 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.
More: Reuters, CIO.com, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, The Register, and Financial Times
| Forbes: |
Sources: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told staff last week that Robin Rombach and his team of researchers who helped develop Stable Diffusion, have resigned — Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.
More: Sifted. Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @kenrickcai and @kylebrussell
Forums: Hacker News and r/StableDiffusion
| 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
More: The Register, The Information, TechRadar, South China Morning Post, CCN.com, and Benzinga
Forums: r/Android and r/Economics
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright laws, 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 … | Niamh Rowe / Fortune: |
Morph, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technologies, raised a $19M seed led by DragonFly Capital — Morph, a layer-2 Ethereum Virtual Machine, today announced a $19 million seed round led by DragonFly Capital.
More: The Block, Morph, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and NFTgators
X: @cecilia_hsueh, @morphl2, and @morphl2
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India appoints the government-run Press Information Bureau's fact checking unit to monitor and fact check government-related content on social media — In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media …
More: The Economic Times, CNBC-TV18, Inc42 Media, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Livemint, and The Indian Express. Bluesky: @chirag.bsky.social
| 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
| 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 BetaKit
| Bloomberg: |
After damage to four major African subsea internet cables, telecoms are rerouting traffic via Brazil or overland cables; repairs could take three to five weeks — - Subsea cable repairs expected to take at least three weeks — Cables off western coast may have been damaged in landslide| 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: @cristinacriddle, @alexvoica, @isamutlib, and @dom_hallas
| 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, and CryptoGlobe
| Brian Westover / PCMag: |
Lenovo updates its $1,239+ ThinkPad X13, available as a laptop or a 2-in-1, and $999+ ThinkPad L-series, adding a 16" model, powered by an Intel or an AMD chip — The Lenovo ThinkPad family grows with new X- and L-series laptops, this time built around AI-enabled silicon from both AMD and Intel.
More: ZDNet, XDA Developers, Lenovo StoryHub, TechPowerUp, MSPoweruser, and Notebookcheck
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