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Sources: in a first, Apple is working with China's BYD to move iPad product development to Vietnam, with test production set to begin around mid-February 2024 — China's BYD helps American giant with shift to alternative tech hubs — Vietnam is emerging as an increasingly important production hub …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple and its suppliers aim to make 50M+ iPhones annually in India in two to three years, which would account for a quarter of global iPhone production — Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tata plans to build one of India's largest iPhone plants, employing 50,000 workers within two years, and expects operations to begin in 12-18 months — - New plant would speed up Apple's diversification beyond China — Tata wants more Apple business after buying one iPhone factory| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Google's video demo of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts — The tech giant's latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that's been out for eight months.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at Meta's technical issues when developing E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features — Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and UK governments jointly accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a wide-ranging, global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in British elections — The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
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| Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
A researcher says a years-old Bluetooth authentication flaw lets attackers inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands on Apple, Android, and some Linux devices — Issue has been around since at least 2012 — A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple … | Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA is considering whether Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership should be called in for a merger probe, and asks for comments from interested parties — - CMA seeking views on whether the relationship should be probed — Move is less than two months since watchdog cleared Activision
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Mobile network companies have backed themselves into a corner by racing to roll out 5G, taking on piles of debt with few returns to show for their investments — Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found …
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Grok responses Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor feels forced and try-hard — Fine. Let's talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers find adding pleas to a prompt that tell its Claude 2 model not to be biased could reduce discrimination based on race, gender, and more — The problem of alignment is an important one when you're setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches the Gemini Pro-powered NotebookLM, demoed at I/O 2023 as an “AI-first notebook” that pulls information from users' documents, in the US — At I/O 2023 in May, Google demoed an “AI-first notebook” that was originally called Project Tailwind.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon sues an “international fraud organization” for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from the company through a series of refund scams — - Shoppers took gaming consoles, smartphones, tires and gold — Scammers live in US, five other countries, according to suit| Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: |
A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B — Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers — The biggest UK mobile phone operators …
More: The Guardian, Light Reading, and Bloomberg
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify says CFO Paul Vogel plans to leave on March 31, 2024, and launches a search for a successor; Daniel Ek wants a CFO “with a different mix of experiences” — Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will leave the company next year and that it has launched a search to find a replacement.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A US federal judge rules Binance founder Changpeng Zhao cannot return to the UAE before his sentencing, set for February 2024, after his release on a $175M bond — Zhao pleaded guilty to a federal charge last month. — Register Now — Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao …
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| Financial Times: |
Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 plans to cut ties with Chinese hardware suppliers in favor of US counterparts, saying “we cannot work with both sides” — Abu Dhabi-backed G42 says it ‘cannot work with both sides’ and retain access to American-made AI chipsSponsor Posts
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