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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Apple updates the $999+ 13" and $1,199+ 15" MacBook Air with an M4, offering a 10-core CPU and an 8-core GPU, and a blue color option, shipping from March 12 — Upgrades at a lower cost. I'll take it. … Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option …
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Forums: r/MacOS, r/gadgets, r/hardware, r/mac, and r/apple
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple updates the Mac Studio with an M4 Max for $1,999+ and an M3 Ultra for $3,999+, with up to 32 cores, including 24 performance cores, shipping from March 12 — Two generations of Apple silicon, one computer. — After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
After announcing the M3 Ultra, Apple says not every M chip generation will get an Ultra tier, suggesting the company will skip the M4 Ultra — It could explain why we're getting an M3 Ultra this deep into the M4 rollout. — Apple's first Mac Studio refresh in nearly two years is a welcome update …
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Apple debuts the M3 Ultra, built from two 3nm M3 Max chips, with Thunderbolt 5, an UltraFusion packaging architecture, an 80-core GPU, and up to 512GB of memory — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. … Apple has a new powerhouse computer ready to go.
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| Jack Greenberg / YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube debuts an $8/month Premium Lite tier in the US, offering most videos ad-free and music with ads, and plans to launch in Thailand, Germany, and Australia — Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US. Premium Lite gives viewers a new …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are relaunching Digg, after acquiring the site from Money Group for an undisclosed sum — Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out an experimental AI Mode in Google Search, designed to let users ask complex, multi-part questions, to Google One AI Premium subscribers — Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI's ChatGPT Search.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT — Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
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| Financial Times: |
Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe deployment of AI, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice” — Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs — The Justice Department claims 10 alleged hackers and two eChinese government officials took part in a wave of cyberattacks around … | The Information: |
Source: OpenAI told some investors about plans for new agents: $2,000/month for knowledge work, a $10K/month for coding, and $20K/month for PhD-level research — OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue.
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says China-linked hacking group Silk Typhoon was targeting remote management tools and cloud apps to steal data keys in the US and abroad in late 2024 — - ‘Silk Typhoon’ group previously blamed in Treasury breach — Attackers hunting for details on US policy, investigations| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting an emotional connection to the voice assistant — In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
While addressing Congress, President Trump calls to “get rid” of the $52B CHIPS and Science Act and use the leftover amount to “reduce debt or any other reason” — President Donald Trump called for an end to a landmark $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that's spurred …
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| Wired: |
Human Security: 1M+ Android TV streaming boxes, tablets, projectors, and car infotainment systems are infected with malware that conscripts them into a botnet — New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems … | Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC NFTs, says the US SEC closed its investigation into the startup without taking enforcement action and that “NFTs are not securities” — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club … | Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
Amazon announces an “AI-aided dubbing” pilot program on Prime Video, starting with dubbing in English and Latin American Spanish on 12 movies and series — To start, AI dubbing will only occur in English and Latin American Spanish. — In an effort to make movies and TV shows …
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, Reuters, and Quartz
| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA clears Microsoft's $13B OpenAI investment in 2023, ending 14 months of uncertainty over the deal, but says “Microsoft did acquire material influence” — - The 2023 deal did not result in change of control over OpenAI — CMA's decision comes after 14 months of scrutiny of the tie-up| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
After Qualcomm unveiled its X85 modem, CEO Cristiano Amon says it creates a “huge delta” in performance over Apple and is “the first modem that has so much AI” — Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC its latest modem will create a big distance in performance versus Apple … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website, including pledges to research AI discrimination and share info on managing AI risks — Anthropic has quietly removed from its website several voluntary commitments the company made in conjunction with the Biden Administration …
X: @chriscundy and @safetychanges
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: 16GB of VRAM, FSR 4, and lower power draw than prior Radeon cards, but no AMD reference design and they are bulky cards — Nvidia's dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market …
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| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more — This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following … | Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Nintendo wins a final victory over French file-sharing company Dstorage; European file-sharing companies must now remove illegal game copies when Nintendo asks — File-sharing site beaten after long-running battle. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Avride partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for autonomous ride-hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs this year — The autonomous vehicle operator is aiming to build 100 driverless Ioniq 5s this year.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Bolt says Ryan Breslow had been reinstated as CEO with the board's “unanimous approval”; Justin Grooms, interim CEO since last March, will serve as president — Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday.| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the cited sourcing wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom or a classroom, and the political labels can be confusing — The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Italy is having growing doubts about closing a €1.5B deal with Starlink in light of the US pullback from commitments to European security — The Italian government is having growing doubts about closing a €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) deal with Elon Musk's Starlink in light … Sponsor Posts
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