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Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook — The chipmaker is delaying one of its biggest events, which was slated for September and expected to include more details about upcoming processors.
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| The Guardian: |
UK PM Keir Starmer says ministers will review the Online Safety Act, after London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was “not fit for purpose” following far-right riots — Move comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan said role of misinformation in unrest showed law was unfit for purpose
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 — X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.
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OpenAI reveals details of GPT-4o's safety testing, including concerns that its anthropomorphic voice may make some users emotionally attached to their chatbot — The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards” the DMA's “fundamental requirements”; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with a 15% junk fee — Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI now lets ChatGPT free users to generate up to two images per day using DALL-E 3, after launching DALL-E 3 to ChatGPT Plus subscribers in October 2023 — OpenAI is going to let users of ChatGPT's free tier make up to two images per day with its DALL-E 3 model, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Financial Times: |
Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in the past month vs. 500M in 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation — Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques| Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details a microcode patch, available through BIOS updates, to address the elevated voltage issues that were damaging some of its 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs — You need to install a BIOS update to ensure that your Raptor Lake CPU is not frying itself. — For the first time … | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
DevRev, which develops AI tools to improve the efficiency of employees on support, product, and engineering teams, raised $100M at a $1.15B valuation — - The corporate software developer raised $100 million — Nutanix co-founder Dheeraj Pandey co-founded and leads DevRev| Reuters: |
Sources: Cisco plans a second round of layoffs this year, affecting as many or slightly more than the 4,000 laid off in February — Cisco (CSCO.O) will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus to higher-growth areas …
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| Washington Post: |
The Google monopoly ruling dealt a blow to one of Big Tech's main arguments against regulation: that 19th-century antitrust laws can't address tech innovation — The first big tech-sector anti-monopoly ruling in a generation challenges the idea that the internet era has outgrown U.S. antitrust law.
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants — The Chips Program Office is tasked with overseeing one of the most ambitious manufacturing comebacks in US history| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Amazon partners with TikTok and Pinterest to let users buy items from Amazon ads without leaving the social media apps, expanding on deals with Meta and Snap — Amazon's e-commerce business is huge but slow-growing, while shopping on social media has been taking off.
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| Alan Crawford / Bloomberg: |
A look at EU auto chipmakers' deepening engagement with China as sales suffer in the West; McKinsey: the automotive chips market will be worth $150B by 2030 — - Latest earnings show China's EV growth as a rare bright spot — Beijing's push for tech independence threatens foreign sales
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode — Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer … Sponsor Posts
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