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| Michael Crider / PCWorld: |
SPEC invalidates 2,600 benchmark results for some Intel Xeon CPUs, saying their compiler artificially inflated the results of its benchmark by as much as 9% — SPEC says Intel's Xeon processors were using a compiler that artificially inflated the results of its industrial benchmark by as much as 9%.
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| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content — - Social media firm agrees $60 million deal with AI company — Reddit advised to seek at least $5 billion IPO valuation
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the UK, the US, and other allies are working to provide Ukraine with thousands of new AI-enabled drones that could swarm Russian targets simultaneously — - Technology could help Ukraine overwhelm some Russian targets — Germany's Scholz calls on EU allies to increase Ukraine aid
More: US Department of Justice, Forbes, Tech Xplore, New York Times, and The Hill
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more — Figma has a billion dollars and big plans for expansion as it emerges from the acquisition with its ‘foot on the gas.’ — Happy Friday.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI completed a deal valuing the startup at $80B or more, planning to let employees cash out their shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital — The A.I. start-up's valuation tripled in less than 10 months. — OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco …
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| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
Sources: FISA's Section 702 bill was shelved over a rule that would end the government's ability to pay US firms for information rather than serving a warrant — A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of an effort to block legislation …
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| Telegraph: |
Sources: UK chip designer Graphcore explores a sale to foreign owners in a deal that could be worth $500M+; rumoured buyers include OpenAI, SoftBank, and Arm — Graphcore in talks with major tech companies after struggling to cash in on AI boom — The British microchip champion Graphcore … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's reversal on RCS wasn't forced by the EU, but likely by China, whose government began codifying in 2023 a requirement for new 5G devices to support RCS — We've had pretty obvious hints since early September that iMessage and Bing would be considered exempt from “gatekeeper” status, and thus exempt from the DMA.
More: 9to5Google, iClarified, Forbes, and 9to5Mac
| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Despite Google and OpenAI's promises, Gemini and ChatGPT appear to have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinfo for the 2024 US presidential election — Google and OpenAI's chatbots have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinformation for the 2024 presidential election.
More: XDA Developers, The Decoder, Trak.in, and Engadget
| Washington Post: |
How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023 — After a decade of building the future, tech's new guard is going back to the American past — spurring a funding frenzy in defense technology
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sources: Nintendo told game publishers the Switch 2's launch is delayed from late 2024 to Q1 2025; source: Nintendo needs more time to prepare its own games — That's according to Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe, who claims in a new OX do Controle video that he received the information from five separate sources.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google releases Android 15's first developer preview, with updates related to Android's Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, the camera experience, and more — Our first official glimpse of Android 15 is here. It includes a lot of under-the-hood tweaks to strengthen communication between hardware …
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