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Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant that starts at $20/user/month and competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft's Copilot, and others — Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
More: CNBC, About Amazon, VentureBeat, Unite.AI, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Forbes, GeekWire, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Unsupervised Learning, Search Engine Journal, ITPro, TechEBlog, Neowin, Wired, New.blicio.us, Constellation Research, and WRAL TechWire
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @forevernever.bsky.social
X: @ajassy, @mattmcilwain, @tunguz, @danyay, @scobleizer, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, and @quinnypig. Forums: Hacker News
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AWS unveils Graviton4, with 50% more cores, 75% more memory bandwidth, and up to 30% more performance than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for up to 4x faster training — AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/hardware
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Guardrails in preview, a tool to help companies implement safeguards for LLMs, available for foundation models and Agents on Amazon Bedrock — We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
More: ZDNet, Bloomberg, CoinGeek, ServeTheHome, Analytics India Magazine, Reuters, NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services, and NVIDIA
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea announces new smart home sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, on sale in H1 2024 for under $10 — Ikea's push to democratize the smart home continues with the introduction of three new Zigbee sensors that won't break the bank.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/tradfri, and r/homeassistant
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, Norway, the US, Ukraine, and other countries arrest members of a ransomware group in Ukraine linked to attacks on organizations in 71 countries — In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members …
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X: @rik_ferguson, @europol, and @imposecost
Forums: r/InfoSecNews and r/worldnews
| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high costs of delays, AI and risk, d/acc, centralization, and more — Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Pika, a startup building AI tools for generating and editing videos, raised $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, after emerging from stealth six months ago — The generative AI hype hasn't died down yet. — Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit …
More: VentureBeat, FinSMEs, PetaPixel, The Decoder, New.blicio.us, Forbes, and POCIT. Telling the stories …
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| Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision — The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found Adobe's planned $20 billion acquisition … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
In a now-deleted Nov. 28 tweet and on Nov. 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016 — The far-right theory motivated a gunman to fire multiple rounds inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in 2016.
More: The Hill, Gizmodo, The Messenger, and VICE
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google says a first-of-its-kind geothermal energy project, to power its data centers with clean energy in partnership with Fervo, is up and running in Nevada — A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now up and running in Nevada, where it will help power Google's data centers with clean energy.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music Replay, which lets users look back at their music listening habits from the past year, arrives but is still no match for Spotify Wrapped — Apple's year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it's still no match for Spotify's personalized look back at your year in music.| Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic: |
Substack and Telegram searches reveal “scores” of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack's 17K+ total; 16+ display Nazi symbols — The newsletter platform's lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.
Threads: @anildash and @carnage4life. Mastodon: @CdnCurmudgeon@mastodon.social
X: @blackamazon, @yappelbaum, @egavactip, and @william_wgordon
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2023, down from $85B in 2022; just seven unicorns are expected in 2023, vs. 48 in 2022 and 108 in 2021 — The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events — continues to persist … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Oxford Internet Institute study of 2M+ people's internet use: no “smoking gun” for widespread mental health harms, opposing the idea that some are more at risk — No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's revamped board doesn't plan to include representatives from outside investors such as Microsoft, Thrive Capital, and Sequoia Capital — OpenAI's revamped board of directors doesn't plan to include representatives from outside investors, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
More: The Guardian, Business Insider, Livemint, and Platformer
Threads: @technicallymims and @ezraklein
| Washington Post: |
How a post office in the tiny town of Bemidji, Minnesota, was overwhelmed by Amazon packages, which staff were told to prioritize, causing chaos — BEMIDJI, Minn. — When Delbert Mikelson's mail started showing up late — and sometimes not showing up at all — he blamed it on the opening of deer season.
More: Ars Technica and Senator Tina Smith
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $786M, vs. $777M est., ARR up 35% YoY to $3.15B, and net income of $26.7M, vs. a net loss of $55M a year ago — CEO calls out ‘increased win rates and record pipeline’ — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. exceeded expectations with its latest quarterly results Tuesday …
| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Many local US police departments are fearmongering by warning about the privacy risk of the iPhone's NameDrop tool, which is used to wirelessly share contacts — Some police departments have said the new iPhone feature is risky. Don't worry about it.
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| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
A profile of Curtis Priem, an Nvidia co-founder and its first CTO, who holds almost 200 patents, sold his stock years ago, and donated $275M to his alma mater — If Curtis Priem, Nvidia's first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he'd be the 16th richest person in America.Sponsor Posts
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