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Google says it had a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap — Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip …
More: Nature, New Scientist, LiveScience, Financial Times, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, The Keyword, Semafor, BBC, Cosmos, Quanta Magazine, The Debrief, and XDA Developers. Forums: Hacker News
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers, which lets select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English — As more AI companies gobble up Reddit's data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own.
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| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: the State Administration for Market Regulation opened an anti-monopoly investigation into Nvidia tied to its Mellanox acquisition in 2020 — - Probe from the market regulator is looking into Mellanox deal — Nvidia shares dropped in early trading after the announcement
More: Axios, eeNews Europe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Register, TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, CTech, The Information, Yahoo Finance, Financial Times, Channel Futures, Business Insider, Taipei Times, Proactive, Forbes, NBC News, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, South China Morning Post, TechPowerUp, Channel NewsAsia, Nikkei Asia, Fast Company, American Journal …, Benzinga, TipRanks Financial, Invezz, Anadolu Ajansı …, Tech in Asia, Quartz, New York Times, BNN Bloomberg, Sharecast, SHINE, ABC7, Daily Sabah, NewsBytes, Deccan Herald, Barron's Online, and Semafor
| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Intel's problems, starting with 2016's 10nm node: 7/11 board members have no chip experience, most CEO options are worse than Pat Gelsinger, and more — Intel's board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death.
More: Fabricated Knowledge, Thurrott, Stratechery, and The Register
Bluesky: @paularmstrongtbd. X: @doggycapital, @dylan522p, @basedjensen, @_fabknowledge_, @rnaudbertrand, @kyleichan, @benthompson, @pgelsinger, @pgelsinger, @_fabknowledge_, @rodolfor, @qcapital2020, @_fabknowledge_, @metacriticcap, and @jordanschnyc. LinkedIn: Durgesh Mishra. Forums: r/hardware
| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe and no camera or display ports — Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard — Tom's Hardware Verdict … When the Raspberry Pi 400 was released …
More: Raspberry Pi, TechCrunch, The Verge, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Engadget, Thurrott, Liliputing, Notebookcheck, Level 2 Jeff on YouTube, The Register, Level 2 Jeff on YouTube, CNX Software, 9to5Linux, Hackster.io, Phoronix, Neowin, and Tao of Mac
Mastodon: @0atman@mastodon.social. X: @raspberry_pi, @geerlingguy, @geerlingguy, @geerlingguy, and @pimoroni
Forums: Hacker News and r/raspberry_pi
| Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: |
Researchers: Meta let 25 Facebook Pages run 4,100+ ads attacking Romania's pro-EU candidate and promoting far-right figures, with 199M+ views since August 2024 — - Political ads promoted far-right figures including Georgescu — Network of Facebook pages shared similar, polarizing messaging
More: CheckFirst, Metacurity, Le Monde, CheckFirst, Romania Insider, Financial Times, and BusinessLIVE
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on AGI, Copilot, AI agents, the OpenAI deal, joining Microsoft in March 2024, managing ~10K staff, DeepMind, and more — The company's new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, and when superintelligence might actually arrive.| Evgeny Morozov / Boston Review: |
A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among just a few companies, and utopian questions over an alternative vision for AI — Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where's the utopian vision for what it could be?
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Bluesky: @markanthonyneal, @davidakin, @sanlambert, @pettter, and @jathansadowski.com
| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS can review it and the Trump admin can decide its position — TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give the US Supreme Court a chance to review.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
WaveForms, which aims to create AI assistants that pick up on emotional cues from verbal interactions, raised a $40M seed from a16z at a $200M valuation — WaveForms wants to help people have better spoken conversations with machines. — A lead researcher behind OpenAI's voice assistant …
More: TechCrunch and Fortune
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A look at Grand Theft Auto VI, set for release in 2025 after Rockstar started development in 2018, as Rockstar tries to improve its culture after the 2022 hack — Expectations are dangerously high for the first GTA in more than a decade. — Grand Theft Auto VI isn't just going to be the biggest video game of 2025.| David Belson / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare 2024 report: global internet traffic grew 17.2% in 2024, Google remained the top service, global traffic from Starlink grew 3.3x in 2024, and more — The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year …
More: PCMag, Advanced Television, Business Insider, and SiliconANGLE
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