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The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years — Preliminary agreement under US Chips Act also includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states
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| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
After its OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and most Inflection staff continues its strategy of developing ties with the most prominent names in AI — Satya Nadella's appointment of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing ties with fledging AI companies
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Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during the summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model — - OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld's stats this week — The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game's previous record … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager warns Apple over its Core Technology Fee, saying the EU plans to investigate, and Meta over its planned subscription fees — EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday warned Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) on their new fees for their services …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Glassdoor users complain after the service added their real names to their profiles without their consent; Glassdoor cross-populates data between its services — Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews …
More: Wired and Engadget
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle turning on fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse — Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, FediForum on YouTube, Android Central, and Android Police
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets, including training Gemini on articles without telling publishers or France's regulator — - Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries and is potentially linked to I-Soon — A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper — They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
France is seeking “a national solution” to protect IT giant Atos, which manages nuclear data and cybersecurity, after Airbus talks failed; ATO.PA fell 20%+ — The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.
More: Atos, Reuters, CIO.com, Silicon Republic, Tech Monitor, Bloomberg, The Register, Dark Reading, and Financial Times
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright laws, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more — When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app and a beta Android app in March 2023 — - The Android app of Robinhood's crypto wallet has officially launched. — Last month, Robinhood said its crypto revenue jumped 10% year over year to $43 million in Q4 of 2023.| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
How Sweet Baby, a small video game narrative development company, became the focus of Gamergate 2.0, a harassment campaign against “forced” diversity in gaming — A group of gamers has mobilized a harassment campaign against a story consultant company, marginalized developers …
More: IGN. Mastodon: @mrcopilot@mstdn.social. X: @domaindead, @stevie_mat, @kahliefadams, @cheryllynneaton, @alyssa_merc, @easbygames, @taylorcocke, and @xoelleslow. Forums: r/saltierthankrayt
| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder raised $700M from NEA, GV, and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B, and aims to open nearly 100 NYC locations — Company plans to open nearly 100 restaurant locations around New York City area over next two years
More: LinkedIn and The Information
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the White House is considering blacklisting some Huawei-linked Chinese chip companies, after the Mate 60 Pro from August 2023 used an advanced 7nm chip — - Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India appoints the government-run Press Information Bureau's fact checking unit to monitor and fact check government-related content on social media — In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Toronto-based PocketHealth, which helps 775 health care providers exchange images covering 1.5M patients to cut costs, raised a $33M Series B led by Round13 — - It raised $33 million in a round led by Round13 Capital — It aims to personalize health care through the use of AI
More: FinSMEs, TechCrunch, PocketHealth, and The Logic
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU Commission rules, set to be adopted as soon as next week, will fine X, TikTok, and other big platforms over lax moderation of AI election content — Social media platforms including X and TikTok will face fines for failing to tackle disinformation
More: Verdict
| Forbes: |
Sources: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told staff last week that Robin Rombach and other researchers, the key creators of Stable Diffusion, have resigned — Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Canada and the UAE have lobbied leading AI startups based in Europe, including Aleph Alpha, Synthesia, and Stability AI, to move their headquarters — Canada and UAE lobby companies amid global competition over developing cutting-edge technology — Leading European …
More: Cointelegraph. Mastodon: @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social. X: @isamutlib, @dom_hallas, @cristinacriddle, and @alexvoica
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