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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023 — As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch …
More: The Guardian, Simon Willison's Weblog, ZDNet, GIGAZINE, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, Voicebot.ai, The Algorithmic Bridge, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @mistralai, @perplexity_ai, @altryne, @thom_wolf, @basedbeffjezos, @jmorgan, @sophiamyang, @andersonbcdefg, @denisyarats, @togethercompute, @bindureddy, @nearcyan, @itsandrewgao, @reach_vb, @awnihannun, @mervenoyann, @anjneymidha, @carrigmat, @mistralai, @jiayq, @aravsrinivas, @reach_vb, and @danielhanchen. Forums: Hacker News
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
The US SEC sends decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap a Wells notice warning that the agency intends to bring an enforcement action against the company — The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Uniswap on Wednesday that it intends to bring an enforcement action against the company …
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| Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: |
Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training generative AI models to disclose all of the copyrighted work they used to do so — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would require companies using copyrighted material to train …
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips for AI training, and says MTIA v1 and the new chips are both now in production — Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster.
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LinkedIn: Albert Fong, Ash Jhaveri, Mikael Strandlund, Neeraj Agrawal, Dan Rabinovitsj, Tanmay Zargar, Ajit Mathews, and Santosh Janardhan
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apple sends threat notifications to individuals in 92 countries, warning them that their iPhone may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks — Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to make Magic Editor and other AI editing tools, previously limited to Pixel phones and paid users, available to all Google Photos users for free — Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited …
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| Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: |
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness — He found a field rich with deep, unanswered questions that were mathematical at heart.
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| Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese companies — - Leaders look to cooperate on developing emerging technology — Kishida touts benefits of Japan's investments in the US
More: The White House, Microsoft, The Seattle Times, CryptoSlate, GeekWire, Cryptopolitan, Chain Store Age, Hindustan Times, Benzinga, Mobile World Live, Bloomberg Law, and NVIDIA. Bluesky: @theonlyjdb.bsky.social
| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012 — The Motion Picture Association said it will work with Congress to enact an anti-piracy law similar to legislation that failed …
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Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social. X: @artsjournalnews. Forums: r/Piracy, r/animepiracy, r/movies, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million …
Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of AI technology — The CEO met with officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of artificial intelligence.
More: Benzinga, The Information, and PYMNTS.com
| Granth Vanaik / Reuters: |
Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables — Google will invest $1 billion to improve digital connectivity between the U.S. and Japan through two new subsea cables … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international markets, to focus on its India expansion ahead of an IPO — Indian ride-hailing giant Ola is shutting down its operations in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, six years after expanding … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more “art than a science”, often omitting costs of putting Starlink satellites in orbit to make numbers look better to investors — SpaceX celebrates the satellite business as a money-making venture fueling a quest to launch rockets and reach Mars.
More: Astranis, SpaceNews, TechCrunch, PCMag, and Sherwood News
X: @kielporter, @deitaone, @kenkirtland17, and @edludlow
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