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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies” — Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Nvidia staff emails: Elon Musk gave Tesla shareholders an exaggerated picture of Tesla's chip deals, and diverted “12k of shipped H100 GPUs” from Tesla to X — Elon Musk claims he can grow Tesla into “a leader in AI & robotics,” an ambition that he's said will require a lot …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel unveils its Lunar Lake laptop chips, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU, 50% faster integrated GPU, and NPU with up to 48 TOPS of AI performance — Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
At Computex, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger takes a direct shot at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's claim that traditional CPUs like Intel's are running out of steam in AI — - Gelsinger says Jensen Huang is wrong about end of Moore's Law — Intel has struggled to keep up as chip industry evolves
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebrities like CNN and Paris Hilton, are getting hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM — The compromised accounts include CNN and Paris Hilton — and all users have to do to be hacked is open a DM.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available “soon” for $70 — As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Source: Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450M from Nvidia, Salesforce, Cisco, and others and is looking to raise more in the same round at a $5B valuation — Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Salesforce Ventures … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta rolls out an update to “significantly” reduce the Quest 3's passthrough distortion and warping, an experimental wrist-mounted menu button option, and more — The Quest v66 update “significantly” reduces Quest 3's passthrough distortion and warping, according to Meta.| Reuters: |
TSMC Chair C.C. Wei says the company has talked with customers about moving its plants off Taiwan as China tensions mount, but such a move would be impossible — Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW), whose major clients include Nvidia and Apple, said on Tuesday it had held talks …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks says it will acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and more, for over $1B — Data analytics software maker Databricks said in a statement on Tuesday that it's acquiring Tabular, a startup that helps optimize data stored in the cloud.
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: E*Trade is weighing kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its site over GameStop stock manipulation concerns; GME is up 60%+ since Gill reappeared — Morgan Stanley's trading platform discusses concerns about possible manipulation in GameStop — E*Trade is considering telling …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
GetWhy, a market research AI company that was founded in 2011 as UserTribe and extracts insights from video interviews, raised a $34.5M Series A — GetWhy, a consumer research tech company that helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple was in talks in 2023 to debut Apple TV+ in China via a deal with China Mobile, which would make TV+ the only US video streaming service in China — Apple was in talks last year to launch its Apple TV+ video streaming service in China via a deal with China Mobile … | Forbes: |
Google's chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, plans to depart the tech giant after 13 years; Matthew Bye, director of competition law, also plans to leave — Keith Enright is leaving Google after 13 years as the tech giant restructures its privacy and compliance teams.| Parker Hall / Wired: |
An interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on the Ace headphones, the controversial ground-up app redesign, expanding beyond speakers, and more — CEO Patrick Spence sits down with WIRED to explain just how the company will reach beyond speakers to rule every part of your aural existence.
More: What Hi-Fi?, The Ambient, The Verge, and Lifewire
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Palmer Luckey unveils the $199 ModRetro Chromatic, a take on the Nintendo Game Boy, with USB-C video out and a 1,000+ nits custom screen, shipping this holiday — It's true. There's photo evidence — and today, he's revealing his own take on the ultimate cartridge-playing Nintendo Game Boy, one that you can actually buy for $199.
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| Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: |
UAE AI Minister Omar Sultan Al Olama says the country is seeking a “marriage” with the US over AI, starting with the Microsoft-G42 deal, to reshape its economy — Gulf state's AI minister says recent investment deal between Microsoft and G42 is part of strategy to reshape its economy
More: PYMNTS.com and Benzinga
| Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land: |
BrightEdge: Google's AI Overviews now shows in less than 15% of search queries but on 63% of health care-related queries, more than any other industry category — Google's AI Overviews now appear less than 15% of the time, according to a new analysis. — Google's AI Overviews …
More: Android Authority, Wired, Search Engine Journal, and BrightEdge
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI fixed two separate outages that impacted ChatGPT for multiple hours, starting at around 12:20am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23 — OpenAI has fixed an issue that caused a ChatGPT outage for several hours on Tuesday. The company said it is monitoring results at 12:21 AM PDT.
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X: @invincible39 and @dudejlebowski
| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
How China's chip industry is aiming for self-sufficiency and cutting down on US tools; SEMI estimates China represented 33% of all chip equipment sales in 2023 — Hit by Washington's export controls, China's domestic chip industry strives for self-sufficiency
More: Nikkei Asia and Inc42 Media
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Shutterstock CEO Paul Hennessy says the company made $104M in revenue in 2023 licensing to AI companies; OpenAI inked a six-year deal with Shutterstock in 2023 — - Reka AI is latest customer to announced deal with Shutterstock — OpenAI, Meta, among others using Shutterstock images for AI| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Austria-based Storyblok, which offers a headless CMS, raised an $80M Series C led by Brighton Park, after a $47M Series B in May 2022, and reports 200K+ users — If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: Print and traditional media first got augmented by websites …
More: SiliconANGLE, Silicon Canals, AIN.Capital, Tech Funding News, FinSMEs, VC News Daily, and Tech.eu
| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
Analysis: China's internet had 3.9M websites in 2023, down ~27% from 2017; Chinese-language websites are 1.3% of the global total, down 70% from 4.3% in 2013 — The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.Sponsor Posts
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