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Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks — Also: Company ramps up work on turning AirPods into a health device.
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Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP — Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has recently become singularly obsessed with how to build the next Nvidia and wants competitive AI chips ready to ship by 2026 — The billionaire SoftBank founder promises to invest $100 billion in the US as part of a sweeping redemption plan.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January — Consortium likely to include Elon Musk's SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says AI spending frenzy will continue until the decade's end, and downplays an Intel bid, saying he had his “hands very full” in AI chips — CEO said Big Tech groups are ‘investing full tilt’ as US chipmaker soars to more than $1tn valuation
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A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor — We've long understood that people are the engine that powers open source. Prior research has found different ways to measure the value … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers — A recent visit to the company's overhauled drone delivery program in Arizona left me impressed by the drones, but skeptical that the public will welcome them.| Bloomberg: |
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime — Disney and Netflix are expanding in the popular Japanese cartoon genre — At first glance, Sony Group Corp.'s $1.2 billion acquisition …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency — But there's a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data.
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| Esha Dey / Bloomberg: |
Tesla's shares are up 73% since Election Day, as several analysts see the Trump administration easing rules for self-driving tech, benefiting Tesla's ambitions — - Stock was down 2% before election, gains 73% since Trump's win — ‘Hard to imagine an upside’ from here: Wisdomtree's Gannatti
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing — Investment, more than export controls, will keep the U.S. ahead of Beijing, Commerce secretary says
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| Bloomberg: |
Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region — - While global tech expands in the region, its startups languish — Its homegrown tech industry risks falling behind in AI| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems — Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short words are represented by a single token …
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