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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on how internet traffic surge during COVID helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, internet balkanization, more — I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt.| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are keeping the Bitcoin they produce while an increasing number of companies are spending more on AI data centers — - Shares of firms keeping tokens they mint are lagging Bitcoin — Best performers are spending on developing AI data centers
More: The Crypto Times, CoinGape, and Disruption Banking
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How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions — Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists can't get enough.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only — Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company's first open-source multimodal language model capable …
More: Meta, The Indian Express, Cryptopolitan, MarkTechPost, and Reuters
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| Marah Eakin / Wired: |
Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short — Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools … | K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg: |
DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it a Chinese military company, says the DOD didn't engage on the issue for over 16 months — - US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
More: The Verge, Reuters, Politico, Engadget, DroneXL.co, Wccftech, DroneDJ, WinBuzzer, Fox Business, and The Japan Times
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
01.ai, DeepSeek, and other Chinese companies are reducing costs to create AI models by focusing on smaller training data sets, as they deal with export controls — 01.ai, Alibaba and ByteDance have cut ‘inference’ costs despite Washington curbs on accessing cutting-edge chips| Financial Times: |
Fuji Soft's board decided to keep backing KKR's ~$4B buyout offer despite Bain's $4.2B bid, in a rare battle between PE titans over a Japanese software company — Private equity titans cause a stir in the country, with a rare battle over Japanese software company| Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini — The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future — [Editor's Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant's past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.
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| The Verge: |
A judge grants Google a temporary stay on the Epic ruling while Google appeals, which means Google might not have to change Play Store practices for years — Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle. Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause …
More: Google, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, NewsBytes, Android Authority, Android Police, Neowin, Thurrott, MediaPost, PhoneArena, CNET, and BNN Bloomberg
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract — The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and …
More: Pivot to AI, HotHardware, Stefan Bohacek, Hindustan Times, Flipboard, WinBuzzer, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Spyglass, New York Times, GeekWire, New York Post, Gizchina.com, Benzinga, Thurrott, The Decoder, The Verge, MLex Market Insight, New York Times, NewsBytes, MakeUseOf, and Wall Street Journal
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| Reuters: |
Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models — Mira Murati, former chief technology officer at OpenAI, is raising funds from venture capitalists for her new AI startup, according to sources familiar with the matter.Sponsor Posts
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