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Sources: Apple is winding down Project Titan, its decade-long effort to make an electric car; Apple plans to move some impacted staff to generative AI projects — - Executives tell staff to end work on endeavor known as Titan — Employees on some car teams will move to Apple's AI division
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Memo: Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Gemini's problematic responses around race “completely unacceptable” and vows to make structural changes to fix the problem — The Scoop — Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company's Gemini controversy Tuesday evening …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where parent company Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools — Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge …
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| Christopher Zara / Fast Company: |
Klarna claims its ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot handles two-thirds of all customer service chats and “is doing the equivalent work” of 700 full-time human agents — Klarna is bullish on bots. — One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now …
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung launches 36GB 12H HBM3E DRAM for AI, slated for mass production in H1 2024, with 50%+ more peak bandwidth and capacity compared to its previous HBM gen — Samsung announced late on Monday the completion of the development of its 12-Hi 36 GB HBM3E memory stacks …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Filing: Nintendo sues the makers of Switch emulator Yuzu in US federal court, alleging it is designed to circumvent Nintendo's encryption and facilitates piracy — If you've ever seen a Steam Deck playing a Legend of Zelda game, chances are you were seeing the Yuzu emulator at work.
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| Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police: |
Google appears to globally roll out “glanceable directions while navigating” on Maps, which shows real-time ETA and turn-by-turn directions on the lock screen — The changes are rolling out across devices and regions — Glanceable directions feature on Google Maps provides real …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
President Biden signs an EO that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans' personal data like geolocation to “countries of concern”, including China and Russia — The bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be off-limits to “countries of concern.”
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Sources: Meta plans to launch Llama 3 in July, as it tries to overcome a perceived problem that Llama 2 is too “safe” with its answers about contentious topics — As Google grapples with the backlash over the historically inaccurate responses on its Gemini chatbot, Meta Platforms is dealing with a related issue.| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Telegram launches an ad revenue sharing system for channel owners in nearly 100 countries, with a 50/50 split with channel owners, paid out in toncoin — - Telegram is introducing ad revenue sharing and will pay out rewards using toncoin on the TON blockchain. — It will be splitting ad revenue 50:50 with channel owners.
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| Financial Times: |
A detailed look at the modern chip manufacturing process, involving more than a thousand precisely controlled steps to create a single integrated circuit — After coming up against the limits of physics, scientists are rethinking chip architecture like never before
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple met with DOJ Assistant AG Jonathan Kanter last week in a final bid to avoid an antitrust suit, which is expected to be filed by the end of March — - Representatives for iPhone maker met with top officials — Antitrust agency has been probing company since 2019
More: 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Reuters, and Wall Street Journal
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Thrasio, which raised $3B+ in equity and debt to acquire third-party Amazon sellers, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and secures $90M in emergency funding — Thrasio, the U.S. start-up that raised billions of dollars and popularized the concept of e-commerce aggregation …
More: Bloomberg, Axios, Thrasio Restructuring Site, PR Newswire, and Reuters
| Byron Tau / Wired: |
A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people — Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.”| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe and some investors agreed to buy $1B+ of current and ex-employees' shares, valuing it at $65B, up from $50B in 2023, but down from $95B in 2021 — The fintech giant's employees will get a chance to cash out over $1 billion of stock.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$4.9B and net income down 48% YoY to ~$366M, as chatbot Ernie, which has 100M+ users, began to augment its ads business — - China's AI leader managed to sustain growth last quarter — Baidu joins a crowded roster of tech giants seeking AI riches| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's two leading streamers, JioCinema and Disney+Hotstar, to merge after Reliance, its portfolio company Viacom18, and Disney merge their businesses in India — Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney are merging their media businesses in India, creating the largest media entity in the South Asian market.
More: Reuters, The Information, Bloomberg, Axios, Deadline, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Business Wire, and Business Today
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Filing: Applied Materials discloses “multiple subpoenas” as recently as February from US agencies, including the SEC, about the company's Chinese business — - The inquiries underscore Washington's efforts to curb chips — Chip gear makers are riding surging demand from China| Crunchbase News: |
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