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A look at Apple's OpenAI deal before WWDC; sources say Apple plans to offer AI features as an opt-in service, and is working on two LLM-powered robotic devices — An OpenAI agreement is due to be announced at the Apple's developer conference next week. — When a 23-year-old Sam Altman took …
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| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner says he was fired in April 2024 for writing a memo to the board over concerns about OpenAI's security practices — Leopold Aschenbrenner also said he was interrogated about his team's “loyalty to the company” — Leopold Aschenbrenner …
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| Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 per month to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price hike for US subscribers — Monthly Tier 1 memberships will go up by $1 in July. — Twitch is joining Spotify, Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll … | Bloomberg: |
How a series of hacks, including a recent ransomware attack, show the challenges facing the UK's NHS, which employs 1.7M workers and cares for 68M UK residents — - Health care is the most-targeted industry for cyber extortion — Latest attack targeted a “life-critical” supplier to UK's NHS
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| Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: |
In a letter, 16 Republican lawmakers accused Nigeria of taking Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan “hostage” and urged President Biden to help secure his release — US lawmakers accused Nigeria of taking a Binance Holdings Ltd. executive “hostage” and urged President Joe Biden to help secure his release.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple plans to fix another Screen Time bug that lets kids visit X-rated websites; two researchers say they reported the bug to Apple in March and August 2021 — Apple's Screen Time continues to be marred by bugs that let its youngest users circumvent parental controls
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| Joseph Cox / Wired: |
An excerpt from the book Dark Wire, which details how the biggest FBI sting operation ran the Anøm encrypted phone network to catch criminals like “Microsoft” — When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners' hands.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Australia's eSafety commissioner ends the legal action asking X to remove a video of a clergyman's stabbing; Musk labelled the action an assault on free speech — Australia's eSafety commissioner has ended legal action that aimed to compel social network X to take down a video depicting …
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| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
ASML CFO Roger Dassen told analysts that TSMC and Intel will get its €350M high-NA EUV machines by the end of 2024; the machines can print 8nm lines on chips — - TSMC has previously said ASML's new machine is too expensive — Intel has already received its first high-NA EUV machine| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO — Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $1.5 billion.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
A profile of cloud GPU provider CoreWeave, which plans to spend $2.2B to build three European data centers in 2024 and repurpose some Core Scientific facilities — CoreWeave benefits from jump in AI chip demand and eyes UK and Europe expansion — An upstart challenger to cloud computing giants Amazon …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Asana unveils “AI teammates”, a new feature in beta for select customers to help manage projects and tasks, ahead of general availability later in 2024 — When the tech industry describes AI's role in its products, it hardly chooses language at random.
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| Bloomberg: |
NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027 — - New facility begins construction in second half of 2024 — Region poised to benefit from drive to diversify from China
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations and one of Linda Yaccarino's closest advisers, is leaving; his style rubbed colleagues the wrong way — X Corp. Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino's right-hand man and head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tobiko, which offers a dbt-compatible data transformation service to help teams manage data, raised a $4.5M seed and $17.3M Series A led by Theory Ventures — Data transformation startup Tobiko may not be a household name yet, but you may have seen co-founder and CEO Tyson Mao on …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Taiwan and South Korea are using chip know-how, willpower, and supply networks to stay ahead of the US, offering lower costs and faster construction times — The companies and governments have know-how, willpower and supply networks that likely surpass America's big push back into chip production
More: Huawei Central and Livemint
| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules that a class action lawsuit against Google over allegations of abusing its dominance in digital ads can proceed — London judges ruled a class action lawsuit to proceed against Google potentially seeking billions of pounds in damages over allegations … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Singapore-based Nium, a B2B cross-border payments infrastructure provider, raised $50M at a $1.4B valuation, down from $2B in 2022, as the firm eyes a 2025 IPO — AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Financial technology startup Nium told CNBC Wednesday it raised $50 million in new funds from investors …
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| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: some Chinese AI chip companies, including MetaX and Enflame, are submitting less powerful GPU designs to TSMC to comply with US sanctions — Some Chinese AI chip companies are now designing less powerful processors to retain access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) … | Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power — The East African country's identity card system has become integral to banking, voting — and targeting critics| Justin Ling / Wired: |
YouTube, the only major US platform available in Russia, has become a primary source of entertainment for many Russians, making a ban tricky for the Kremlin — YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It's become “indispensable” to everyday people, making a ban tricky.Sponsor Posts
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