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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips for AI training, and says MTIA v1 and the new chips are both now in production — Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster.
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LinkedIn: Ash Jhaveri, Tanmay Zargar, Dan Rabinovitsj, Santosh Janardhan, Neeraj Agrawal, and Ajit Mathews
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to make Magic Editor and other AI editing tools, previously limited to Pixel phones and paid users, available to all Google Photos users for free — Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
The US SEC sends decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap a Wells notice warning that the agency intends to bring an enforcement action against the company — The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Uniswap on Wednesday that it intends to bring an enforcement action against the company …
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023 — As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch …
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| Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: |
Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training generative AI models to disclose all of the copyrighted work they used to do so — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would require companies using copyrighted material to train …
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
The FCC says all but the smallest ISPs must now publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all their plans, ending an eight-year battle between ISPs and the agency — Starting on Wednesday, all but the smallest ISPs will be required to publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, the regulator announced.
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple assembled $14B worth of iPhones in India in the past fiscal year, doubling production YoY; Apple now makes as much as 14% of its iPhones in India — - It now assembles about 1 in 7 of its iPhones from India — That ramp-up suggests an accelerating shift from China| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more “art than a science”, often omitting costs of putting Starlink satellites in orbit to make numbers look better to investors — SpaceX celebrates the satellite business as a money-making venture fueling a quest to launch rockets and reach Mars.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it will stop paying developers to create Alexa apps and giving free AWS credits on June 30, 2024; developers can keep monetizing their apps via IAPs — - End of program scraps key element of effort to build app store — Google killed third-party apps for its Assistant in 2022
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of AI technology — The CEO met with officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of artificial intelligence.
More: The Information
| Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: |
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness — All topics … Newsletter — Get Quanta Magazine delivered to your inbox — Recent newsletters
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| Reuters: |
Aloha Browser says its EU users jumped 250% in March 2024 after the DMA came into effect; Vivaldi, Ecosia, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Opera also saw user growth — Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet's Google …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google's Cloud Next keynote was by far its most impressive presentation in the AI era, not least because the company put forward its infrastructure advantages — It was impossible to miss the leading message at yesterday's Google Cloud Next keynote: Google has the best infrastructure for AI.
More: Constellation Research and Beyond Search
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| Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog: |
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce — Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was last valued at $5 billion in April 2022 … | Granth Vanaik / Reuters: |
Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables — Google will invest $1 billion to improve digital connectivity between the U.S. and Japan through two new subsea cables …
More: SiliconANGLE and Google Cloud Blog
| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance misled the Central Bank of Ireland in early 2023, after HSBC shut down the company's bank accounts following a money laundering probe — In early 2023, Irish banking regulators contacted ByteDance with a pointed question: Why was the Chinese internet giant and parent company … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance's EBITDA rose ~60% YoY in 2023 to $40B+ and its sales rose from $80B to nearly $120B, passing Tencent's revenue and profit for the first time — - Revenue at TikTok owner also grew substantially in 2023 — Company's US business is being challenged by lawmakers| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Marketers complain about ad performance issues on Meta's platforms over the past few months, saying ad campaign costs are up significantly while sales are down — Marketers on Facebook and Instagram notice glitches, higher prices and poorer returns on the once-reliable network
More: Search Engine Land and HBR.org
| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Rakuten Kobo announces its first color e-readers, the $220 Kobo Libra Colour and the $150 Kobo Clara Colour, available for preorder now and shipping on April 30 — Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe updates Frame.io, adding new workflow and tagging capabilities for project management, in beta for Free and Pro customers on the web, iOS, and iPadOS — Adobe has introduced the latest version of Frame.io, overhauling the cloud-based media collaboration service with oodles of new workflow …
More: ZDNet, TechCircle, and Frame.io Insider
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Ukraine deemed US startups' drones glitchy and pricey, and turned to cheaper Chinese drones; PitchBook: ~300 US drone startups have raised ~$2.5B since 2022 — Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China
More: Defense One, DroneDJ, Forbes, and Livemint
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