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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 …
More: Right to Warn, Platformer, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, COMPUTEX TAIPEI on YouTube, Wired, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Associated Press, CNBC, MacRumors, Benzinga, InformationWeek, Transformer, CoinXposure, Axios, CoinGape, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, Quartz, Marcus on AI, Futurism, Proactive, WinBuzzer, Android Authority, New York Post, The Decoder, The Verge, San Francisco Examiner, TIME, Channel NewsAsia, Engadget, and Daring Fireball
Threads: @brianstelter. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @jachiam0, @dwarkesh_sp, @labenz, @neelnanda5, @dkokotajlo67142, @jacobhhilton, @neelnanda5, @robbensinger, @dkokotajlo67142, @d_m_ziegler, @andrewcurran_, @jachiam0, @dkokotajlo67142, @kevinroose, @jacobhhilton, @d_m_ziegler, @dkokotajlo67142, @dkokotajlo67142, @stefanfschubert, @dkokotajlo67142, and @tolgabilge_
LinkedIn: Karl Haller and Matthew Small
Forums: r/technews and r/artificial
| 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 …
More: The Information, The Verge, Bloomberg, The Crypto Times, The Hill, Investing.com, Cointelegraph, International Business Times, Reuters, Quartz, Electrek, Chain Store Age, Business Insider, Wccftech, Proactive, Yahoo Finance, Business Times, autoevolution, CoinGape, DatacenterDynamics, and Ars Technica
Threads: @eshumarneedi, @lorakolodny, @bgrahamdisciple, @shorty_ocelot, @dankim312, @gwestr, @9six7, @bgrahamdisciple, @lorakolodny, @kbode, @vantazach, @gwestr, @gwestr, @vantazach, @lorakolodny, @firerock31, @tweet_removed, @bgrahamdisciple, and @esg.hound. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebs like CNN, Sony, and Paris Hilton, are being 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.| Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
AT&T says an outage is preventing many customers from completing calls between carriers, but 911 calls are going through; Verizon customers also report issues — A nationwide AT&T outage is once again leaving some customers in the dark on Tuesday. — In a statement sent to CNN …
More: The Verge, WRIC-TV, The Register, Android Police, CNET, Gizmodo, NBC News, MacRumors, and ABC News
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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.
More: Wall Street Journal, Runtime, Databricks, Tabular, Bloomberg, iTnews, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, FinSMEs, Supervised, Constellation Research, Datanami, TechCrunch, and AIM
X: @tabulario, @databricks, @jaminball, and @ericnewcomer
LinkedIn: Cliff G. and Tomer Shiran
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Avail, a modular blockchain project building “rollup-centric infrastructure”, raised a $43M Series A, after raising a $27M seed in February 2024 — - Avail has raised $43 million in a Series A round — bringing its total funding to $75 million.
More: Avail, New.blicio.us, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, NFTgators, CoinDesk, and Fortune
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cisco introduces new AI products and services, including its Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters in partnership with Nvidia, and announces a $1B AI investment fund — Cisco Systems Inc. is doubling down on its artificial intelligence push with a host of new AI-powered products and services, plus various other initiatives focused on AI.
More: Cisco, Times of India, VentureBeat, New.blicio.us, Cisco Investments, Cisco, Seeking Alpha, Cisco, Cisco, Cisco, Light Reading, Proactive, VAST Data, Network World, Data Center Knowledge, Fierce Network, Blocks and Files, Reuters, NVIDIA, Channel Futures, CRN, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Cisco Blogs, TechRepublic, Converge! Network Digest, and ComputerWeekly.com
| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations and one of Linda Yaccarino's most trusted advisers, is leaving the company — X Corp. Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino's right-hand man and head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the matter.| 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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| 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 …
More: iMore, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, AppleInsider, and Benzinga
| 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.
More: Engadget, Meta, The Verge, CNET, Digital Trends, Engadget, UploadVR, ZDNet, and Meta
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Filing: FTX argues it should pay the IRS a $200M priority tax claim and a $685M subordinated claim; IRS had said FTX owed $44B in taxes then revised it to $24B — - FTX argued in bankruptcy court that it owes significantly less than the IRS claimed. — FTX is not responsible …
More: The Crypto Times, crypto.news, CoinGape, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, and CryptoSlate
| Emilia Terzon / ABC: |
Australia's privacy regulator sues Medibank over an October 2022 data breach, accusing the health insurer of failing to protect the data of 9.7M customers — Health insurance giant Medibank is facing a maximum fine theoretically in the trillions of dollars after the Australian Information …
More: Sydney Morning Herald, iTnews, Reuters, OAIC, and Hospital + Healthcare
X: @carlykind_, @jeremy_kirk, @oaicgov, and @christinayiotis
| Sourasis Bose / Reuters: |
Apollo Global agrees to buy 49% equity interest for $11B in a joint venture related to Intel's Fab 34 under construction in Leixlip, Ireland — Apollo Global Management's (APO.N) affiliates will provide $11 billion to Intel (INTC.O) to buy 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity related …
More: CRN, Barron's Online, Irish Independent, Invezz, Irish Examiner, Investing.com, and Intel Corporation
| 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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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @tomwarren, @vadimyuryev, @jonmasters, @stevesi, @mniehaus, @benbajarin, @tomwarren, @benbajarin, @firstadopter, @vadimyuryev, @mobile_dom, @aschilling, @davealtavilla, and @vadimyuryev. LinkedIn: Michelle Johnston Holthaus
Forums: Hacker News, r/intel, and r/hardware
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
More: Investor's Business Daily, Taipei Times, Inc.com, Yahoo Finance, Quartz, The Tape Drive …, TechSpot, TechRadar, Hackster.io, HPCwire, Digital Trends, News.ng, Benzinga, Laptop Mag, and VentureBeat
X: @stockmktnewz and @jimcramer
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
How billionaire investors of the internet era are fighting to determine whether AI's future will be one of concentrated safety, or of unfettered advancement — Billionaire investors of the internet era are now locked in a war of words and influence to determine whether AI's future …
X: @twobitidiot, @bgurley, @sarthakgh, and @ylecun
| 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: ZDNet, Wired, Android Authority, Search Engine Journal, and BrightEdge. LinkedIn: Danny Goodwin
| 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.
More: Raspberry Pi, The Register, ExtremeTech, Liliputing, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, Hackster.io, Android Headlines, and Neowin
Mastodon: @chikim@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Senthil Nayagam and Gordon Hollingworth. Forums: r/raspberry_pi
| 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 …
More: Decrypt, Reuters, Fortune, Ars Technica, Quartz, Semafor, Protos, The Crypto Times, Blockworks, and Coinspeaker
X: @theroaringkitty, @citronresearch, @mr_derivatives, @kittytrcker, @samro, @peterrhann1, @mattzeitlin, @howardlindzon, @moreproteinbars, @douglaskarr, @aosipovich, @thestalwart, @dlauer, @sgodofsk, and @deepdishenjoyer
Forums: r/news, r/etrade, r/Teddy, r/technology, r/gme_meltdown, and Slashdot
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
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