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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies” — Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla's chip deals, and diverted “12k of shipped H100 GPUs” from Tesla to X — Elon Musk claims he can grow Tesla into “a leader in AI & robotics,” an ambition that he's said will require a lot …
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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Elon Musk says Tesla will likely spend $3B to $4B on Nvidia hardware in 2024 and that half of its formerly noted $10B AI-related capex will be on internal spend — Tesla (TSLA.O) will likely spend between $3 billion and $4 billion on purchases of chip company Nvidia's (NVDA.O) hardware this year … | Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebs like CNN, Sony, and Paris Hilton, are being hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM — The compromised accounts include CNN and Paris Hilton — and all users have to do to be hacked is open a DM.
More: Wired, The Record, Gizmodo, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, New York Post, Tuko.co.ke, The Verge, Tom's Guide, and BGR
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel unveils its Lunar Lake laptop chips, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU, 50% faster integrated GPU, and NPU with up to 48 TOPS of AI performance — Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available “soon” for $70 — As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.| Reuters: |
TSMC Chair C.C. Wei says the company has talked with customers about moving its plants off Taiwan as China tensions mount, but such a move would be impossible — Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW), whose major clients include Nvidia and Apple, said on Tuesday it had held talks …
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Source: Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450M from Nvidia, Salesforce, Cisco, and others and is looking to raise more in the same round at a $5B valuation — Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Salesforce Ventures …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Avail, a modular blockchain project building “rollup-centric infrastructure”, raised a $43M Series A, after raising a $27M seed in February 2024 — - Avail has raised $43 million in a Series A round — bringing its total funding to $75 million.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks says it will acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and more, for over $1B — Data analytics software maker Databricks said in a statement on Tuesday that it's acquiring Tabular, a startup that helps optimize data stored in the cloud.
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta rolls out an update to “significantly” reduce the Quest 3's passthrough distortion and warping, an experimental wrist-mounted menu button option, and more — The Quest v66 update “significantly” reduces Quest 3's passthrough distortion and warping, according to Meta.
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| Kelly Phillips Erb / Forbes: |
Washington DC's AG says Michael Saylor and his company MicroStrategy will pay $40M to settle a tax suit, calling it “the largest income tax recovery” ever in DC — Michael Saylor and his company, MicroStrategy, will pay $40 million to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of the city's False Claims Act and tax laws.
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: E*Trade is weighing kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its site over GameStop stock manipulation concerns; GME is up 60%+ since Gill reappeared — Morgan Stanley's trading platform discusses concerns about possible manipulation in GameStop — E*Trade is considering telling …
More: Reuters, Ars Technica, Quartz, The Crypto Times, Semafor, Coinspeaker, Protos, Barron's Online, Blockworks, Blockonomi, Proactive, and Inside Bitcoins
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Forums: r/news, r/etrade, r/Teddy, r/technology, r/gme_meltdown, and Slashdot
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple was in talks in 2023 to debut Apple TV+ in China via a deal with China Mobile, which would make TV+ the only US video streaming service in China — Apple was in talks last year to launch its Apple TV+ video streaming service in China via a deal with China Mobile … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
GetWhy, a market research AI company that was founded in 2011 as UserTribe and extracts insights from video interviews, raised a $34.5M Series A — GetWhy, a consumer research tech company that helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI … | Sourasis Bose / Reuters: |
Apollo Global agrees to buy 49% equity interest in a joint venture related to Intel's Fab 34 under construction in Leixlip, Ireland — Apollo Global Management's (APO.N) affiliates will provide $11 billion to Intel (INTC.O) to buy 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity related …
More: Bloomberg, Benzinga, Investing.com, Intel Corporation, and Yahoo Finance
X: @dalygavin and @kristinaparts
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $921M, vs. $905M est., forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, lifts its FY 2025 outlook; CRWD jumps 6%+ after hours — Cybersecurity company boosts its forecast — Better-than-expected results from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. initially met a shrug … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Palmer Luckey unveils the $199 ModRetro Chromatic, a take on the Nintendo Game Boy, with USB-C video out and a 1,000+ nits custom screen, shipping this holiday — It's true. There's photo evidence — and today, he's revealing his own take on the ultimate cartridge-playing Nintendo Game Boy, one that you can actually buy for $199.
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X: @palmerluckey, @palmerluckey, @martinmoorejr, @nickbaum, @modretrohub, @palmerluckey, @palmerluckey, @modretrohub, and @nivdror
Forums: Hacker News, r/GME, r/SBCGaming, and r/Superstonk
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HPE Q2: revenue up 3% YoY to $7.2B, vs. $6.82B est., Server revenue up 18% YoY to $3.87B, helped by availability of Nvidia AI chips; HPE jumps 10%+ after hours — - Company gives a revenue forecast that tops analysts' estimates — Server business helped by availability of Nvidia AI chips
More: Benzinga, Reuters, Barron's Online, Constellation Research, and HPE
X: @thetranscript_ and @thetranscript_
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Filing: FTX argues it should pay the IRS a $200M priority tax claim and a $685M subordinated claim; IRS had said FTX owed $44B in taxes then revised to $24B — - FTX argued in bankruptcy court that it owes significantly less than the IRS claimed. — FTX is not responsible …
More: The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Blockonomi, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and crypto.news
| Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land: |
BrightEdge: Google's AI Overviews now shows in less than 15% of search queries but on 63% of health care-related queries, more than any other industry category — Google's AI Overviews now appear less than 15% of the time, according to a new analysis. — Google's AI Overviews … | Forbes: |
Google's chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, plans to depart the tech giant after 13 years; Matthew Bye, director of competition law, also plans to leave — Keith Enright is leaving Google after 13 years as the tech giant restructures its privacy and compliance teams.Sponsor Posts
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